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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.


Sep 4
  • Ed Olszewski, Steward Observatory
    A 500 pc halo surrounding the globular cluster NGC 1851
  • Pat Knezek, NOAO
    WIYN's Exciting New Science Capabilities: WHIRC, An Upgraded Bench, and the One Degree Image
Sep 11
  • Matthew Povich, Penn State Univ
    A Multiwavelength Study of M17: Implications for the Galactic Star Formation Rate
  • Lucy Ziurys, Steward Observatory
    Unusual Chemical Complexity in the Circumstellar Ejecta of the Supergiant VY Canis Majoris
Sep 18
  • Timothy John Rodigas, Steward Obs.
    Which Radial Velocity Exoplanets Have Undetected Outer Companions?
  • Yun-Kyeong Sheen, Yonsei University / NOAO
    Post-merger signatures of red-sequence galaxies in galaxy clusters at z~0.1: A glimpse from the UV-optical data
Sep 25
  • Matthew Walker, Cambridge
    Milky Way Satellites: From the Faint to the Ultra-Faint
  • Ramin Skibba, Steward Obs.
    Disentangling the Environmental Dependence of Galaxy Morphology and Color
Oct 2
  • William Waller, Tufts University
    The Galactic Ecosystems Research and Mentorship (GERM) Initiative
  • Mark Giampapa, NSO
    Results from recent VLT observations of M67 solar-type stars
Oct 9
  • Eric Nielsen, Steward Observatory
    A Uniform Analysis of 118 Stars with High-Contrast Imaging: Long Period Extrasolar Giant Planets are Rare around Sun-like Stars
  • Jarita Holbrook, Univ. of Arizona
    "Behavioral Astronomy" and Astronomers
Oct 16
  • Knox Long, STScI
    The Chandra ACIS Survey of M33: X-ray, Optical and Radio Properties of the Supernova Remnants
  • Ed Prather, Steward Observatory
    Understanding the variables that correlate to learning in Astro 101 - Results from a study involving more than 30 colleges in the US
Oct 23
  • Matt Penn, NSO
    Will Sunspots Disappear in 2015
  • Pascale Hibon, Arizona State Univ.
    The Search for High Redshift (z~7-8) Galaxies using Narrow-Band Imaging
Oct 30
  • Mike Belton, NOAO
    Active Interiors in Cometary Nuclei and a New Mechanism for Cometary Jets
  • Ken Hinkle, NOAO
    The Stellar Undead
Nov 6
  • Ryan Quadri, Leiden
    Tracing the Star Formation-Density Relation to High Redshift
  • Jayhan Kartaltepe, NOAO
    The Multiwavelength Properties of 70 micron Selected Luminous Infrared Galaxies
  • Steward Rm N305
Nov 13
  • Julie Comerford, UC Berkeley
    Inspiralling Supermassive Black Holes as Tracers of Galaxy Mergers
  • Steve Howell, NOAO
    The NASA Kepler Mission - An Update
Nov 20
  • Jill Bechtold, Steward Obs.
    High Redshift Quasar Host galaxies observed with Magellan and Gemini-N
  • Tolga Guver, Steward Observatory
    TBA
  • Steward Rm N305
Nov 27
  • NO TALKS this WEEK
Dec 4
  • Luisa Rebull, SSC
    New Members of Taurus found with Spitzer
  • Eiichi Egami, Steward Obs.
    TBA
Dec 11
  • Chun Ly, UCLA
    TBA
  • David Silva, NOAO
    TBA
Dec 18
  • Shannon Patel, Lick Obs
    TBA
  • Juan Jose Downes, CIDA
    TBA

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