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Friday Scientific Lunch Talks

Friday Scientific Lunch Talks are held each Friday at 12:00pm in the NOAO-Tucson Main Conference Room at 950 N. Cherry Avenue. Contact Dara Norman (dnorman@noao.edu) if you would like to make a presentation.

Jan 16	John Silverman, Institute of Astronomy, Zurich Co-evolving star formation and AGN activity within the zCOSMOS density field Todd Boroson, NOAO A New Look at SDSS Quasar Spectra
Jan 23	Neil Crighton, University of Durham The Cosmic Web in 3-D: The Galaxy Distribution Around Three Close QSO Sight-lines Kristen Coppin, University of Durham The Cosmic Eye: a gravitationally lensed Lyman-Break Galaxy at z~3
Jan 30	Carles Badenes, Princeton University Type Ia Supernova Remnants and The Persistence of Memory Karin Menendez-Delmestre, OCIW Integral Field Spectroscopy of High-Redshift Submillimeter Galaxies
Feb 6	Stephanie Cortes, Steward Observatory Grain Growth and Structure in Protoplanetary Disks: The Case of the Unusual Classical T Tauri Star, PDS 66 Ji Wang, University of Florida Approaches to Long Term Precise Radial Velocity Measurement
Feb 13	Desika Narayanan, CFA/Harvard The Formation and Evolution of z~2 Submillimeter Galaxies Peter Milne, Steward Observatory Swift UVOT Observations of Supernovae
Feb 20	Yoshiki Matsuoka, University of Tokyo Assembly of Massive Galaxies since z=1 in the UKIDSS Large Area Survey Brian Keeney, University of Colorado Probing the Extent of Starburst Winds: QSO-Galaxy Pairs and the Low-z IGM
Feb 27	No FLASH, Rodeo Day
Mar 6	Ed Prather, Steward Observatory A National Study Assessing the Teaching and Learning of Introductory Astronomy; The Effect of Interactive Instruction Paul Goldsmith, JPL Detection of Molecular Hydrogen Emission in the Taurus Molecular Cloud
Mar 13	Chris Walker, Steward Observatory The Stratospheric THz Observatory (STO): A Long Duration Balloon-Borne Telescope to Survey the Galactic Plane in [CII] and [NII] Jon Trump, Steward Observatory Optically Dull AGN: Obscured or Intrinsically Weak?
Mar 20	Mark Westmoquette, University College, London Spatially-resolved studies of super star cluster feedback in starburst galaxies Audra Baleisis, University of Arizona and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (ETH) "I wish I'd asked that": the culture of giving talks and asking questions in astronomy
Mar 27	Dean Townsley, Steward Observatory Evaluating Systematic Dependencies of Type Ia Supernovae: The Influence of Progenitor Ne22 Content on Dynamics Jay Elias, NOAO Incarnations of GSMT: Possibilities for Public Access to an Extremely Large Telescope
Apr 3	Aleks Diamond-Stanic, Steward Observatory Isotropic Luminosity Indicators in a Complete AGN Sample Yun-Kyeong Sheen, Yonsei University /NOAO Tidal Dwarf Galaxies in Formation around a Post-merger Galaxy, NGC 4922
Apr 10	No FLASH, Spring Day
Apr 17	Caitlin M. Casey, University of Cambridge The Temperature Bias Problem: Working Towards a Complete Sample of ULIRGs at z=1-3 Claire Cramer, CfA Unprecedented Precision: Calibrating Astronomical Spectra with Lasers
Apr 24	Grant Williams, MMT Nearby Gamma-Ray Burst Progenitors: A Spectropolarimetric Survey of Wolf-Rayet Stars in the Local Group Andras Gaspar, Steward Observatory A MIPS Survey of Praesepe and the Decay Trend of Debris Disks
May 1	Kim Herrmann, Lowell Observatory Probing Galactic Disks with Planetary Nebulae Ryuichi Takahashi, Nagoya University Covariance Matrix of the Matter Power Spectrum At Steward, Room N305
May 8	Pat Knezek, NOAO WIYN's Exciting New Science Capabilities: WHIRC, An Upgraded Bench, and the One Degree Image Casey Papovich, Texas A&M Measuring Paschen-Alpha Emission in Galaxies at z~2 with Spitzer At Steward, Room N305
May 15	Harald Kuntschner, ESO Recent results from the SAURON galaxy survey

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