{"id":1704,"date":"2019-02-14T11:19:33","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T16:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/iar\/?page_id=1704"},"modified":"2019-02-14T11:19:33","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T16:19:33","slug":"fall-semester-2016","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/iar\/events\/previous-seminars\/fall-semester-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall Semester 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/tr>\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/tr>\n\n\n\n\n\n
Date<\/th>\nSpeaker<\/th>\nAffiliation<\/th>\nTopic\/Title<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
9\/12\/16<\/td>\nJulie Skinner<\/td>\nBU IAR<\/td>\nUnderstanding the Solar Neighborhood through a Triptych of Low-Mass Star Populations <\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9\/19\/16<\/td>\nReshmi Mukherjee<\/td>\nColumbia<\/td>\nExploring the Extreme Universe with Gamma-ray Observatories <\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9\/26\/16<\/td>\nMark Vogelsberger<\/td>\nMIT<\/td>\nThe Illustris Simulation and Beyond <\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday<\/strong> 10\/6\/16 @ 4:00pm<\/td>\nWill Grundy<\/td>\nLowell Observatory, Flagstaff, AZ<\/td>\n Location Change: Sargent 101 (635 Comm Ave) <\/strong> <\/em>
\nThe Pluto system through New Horizons’ eyes: Better geology through chemistry
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Tuesday <\/strong>10\/11\/16<\/td>\nJonathan Foster<\/td>\nLegendary Entertainment (Boston)<\/td>\nStar Formation to Making Stars: A Journey from Astronomy to Hollywood Data Science <\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/17\/16<\/td>\nStella Kafka<\/td>\nAAVSO (Cambridge, MA)<\/td>\nThe AAVSO Program: A Resource for Variable Star Research<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/24\/16<\/td>\nJosh Grindlay<\/td>\nCfA<\/td>\nProbing Black Hole Variability on Days Century Timescales <\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/31\/16<\/td>\nRobin Ciardullo<\/td>\nPenn State<\/td>\nHETDEX and the Star-Forming Galaxies of the z ~ 2 Universe <\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/7\/16<\/td>\nOri Fox<\/td>\nSTScI<\/td>\nSupernovae and their Progenitor Systems (or lack thereof) <\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/14\/16<\/td>\nMatthew Evans<\/td>\nMIT<\/td>\n Gravitational Wave Detection with Advanced LIGO <\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/21\/16<\/td>\nNo Seminar<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/28\/16<\/td>\nPhil Muirhead<\/td>\nBU IAR<\/td>\nThe Mysterious Atmospheres of Low-mass Stars, Brown Dwarfs and Cold Jovian (Exo)Planets <\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12\/5\/16<\/td>\nTom Troland<\/td>\nUniversity of Kentucky<\/td>\nThe Role of Magnetic Fields in Star Formation – Zeeman Effect Observations <\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12\/12\/16<\/td>\nMercedes Lopez-Morales<\/td>\nCfA<\/td>\nBreaking Through Exoplanetary Atmospheres <\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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