{"id":1699,"date":"2019-02-14T11:17:50","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T16:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/iar\/?page_id=1699"},"modified":"2019-02-14T11:18:05","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T16:18:05","slug":"fall-semester-2017","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/iar\/events\/previous-seminars\/fall-semester-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall Semester 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<table cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"1\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Date<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Title<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Speaker<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Affiliation<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><em>Thursday<\/em> 9\/14<\/td>\n<td><em>Joint Seminar with CSP<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/iar\/files\/2017\/09\/9.14-Conley.pdf\">Exploration, Astrobiology, and Planetary Protection <\/a><\/td>\n<td>Catharine Conley<\/td>\n<td>NASA HQ<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>9\/18<\/td>\n<td><em>Joint Seminar with CSP<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/iar\/files\/2017\/09\/9.18-Urry.pdf\">Equity and Inclusion in STEM: What&#8217;s Stopping Us?<\/a><\/td>\n<td>Meg Urry<\/td>\n<td>Yale<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>9\/25<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"\/iar\/files\/2017\/09\/9.25-Laughlin.pdf\">Poincar\u00e9&#8217;s Legacy: Predictions on Time Scales Ranging from Milliseconds to Billions of Years<\/a><\/td>\n<td>Gregory Laughlin<\/td>\n<td>Yale<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>10\/2<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"\/iar\/files\/2017\/09\/10.2-Maksym.pdf\">Observational Clues of Black Hole Accretion from the Tidal Disruption of Stars <\/a><\/td>\n<td>Peter Maksym<\/td>\n<td>CfA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><em>Tuesday<\/em> 10\/10<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"\/iar\/files\/2017\/09\/10.10-Jorstad.pdf\">Kinematics of Parsec-Scale Jets of Gamma-Ray Blazars within the VLBA-BU-BLAZAR Program <\/a><\/td>\n<td>Svetlana Jorstad<\/td>\n<td>BU<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>10\/16<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"\/iar\/files\/2017\/09\/10.16-Kirkpatrick.pdf\">Dusty Star Forming Galaxies in the Distant Universe<\/a><\/td>\n<td>Allison Kirkpatrick<\/td>\n<td>Yale<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>10\/23<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"\/iar\/files\/2017\/10\/10.23-Whitaker.pdf\">The Cosmic Life Cycle of Massive Galaxies<\/a><\/td>\n<td>Katherine Whitaker<\/td>\n<td>UConn<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>10\/30<br \/>\n<strong> STH B19<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"\/iar\/files\/2017\/10\/10.30-Riess.pdf\">A New Measurement of the Expansion Rate of the Universe, Evidence of New Physics?<\/a><\/td>\n<td>Adam Riess<\/td>\n<td>STSCI<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>11\/6<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"\/iar\/files\/2017\/10\/11.6-Kipping.pdf\">Hunting for Exomoons and other Cool Worlds<\/a><\/td>\n<td>David Kipping<\/td>\n<td>Columbia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>11\/13<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"\/iar\/files\/2017\/10\/11.13-Andrews.pdf\">Observing the Evolution of Solids in Protoplanetary Disks <\/a><\/td>\n<td>Sean Andrews<\/td>\n<td>CfA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>11\/20<\/td>\n<td><strong>**CANCELLED**<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/iar\/files\/2017\/10\/11.20-Mills.pdf\">Journey to the center of the Galaxy: Following Gas Accretion from Hundreds of Parsecs to the Black Hole <\/a><\/td>\n<td>Elisabeth Mills<\/td>\n<td>Boston University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>11\/27<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"\/iar\/files\/2009\/10\/11.27-Steinhardt.pdf\">Is Hierarchical Merging Broken? <\/a><\/td>\n<td>Charles Steinhardt<\/td>\n<td>Niels Bohr Institute<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>12\/4<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"\/iar\/files\/2017\/10\/12.4-Reid.pdf\">Spiral Structure of the Milky Way and other galaxies <\/a><\/td>\n<td>Mark Reid<\/td>\n<td>CfA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>12\/11<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"\/iar\/files\/2017\/10\/12.11-Kalirai.pdf\"> Seeing Galaxies as Collections of Stars <\/a><\/td>\n<td>Jason Kalirai<\/td>\n<td>STScI<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date Title Speaker Affiliation Thursday 9\/14 Joint Seminar with CSP Exploration, Astrobiology, and Planetary Protection Catharine Conley NASA HQ 9\/18 Joint Seminar with CSP Equity and Inclusion in STEM: What&#8217;s Stopping Us? 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