CfA Colloquium Schedule Fall 2008

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

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Date	Speaker	Topic	Host
09/04/08	Zeljko Ivezic (University of Washington)	Mapping the Milky Way with SDSS and LSST	Douglas Finkbeiner
09/11/08	Suvi Gezari (Johns Hopkins)	Flares from Starving Beasts: The Tidal Disruption of Stars by Supermassive Black Holes	Martin Elvis
09/18/08	J. Richard Bond (CITA)	Gruber Prize Lecture -- Radcliffe Gymnasium	Charles Alcock
09/25/08	James Evans (University of Puget Sound)		Owen Gingerich
10/02/08	Guinevere Kauffmann (Max-Planck-Institute for Astrophysics)
10/09/08	Donald W. Kurtz (University of Central Lancashire)	Asteroseismology	Dave Latham
10/16/08	()
10/23/08	()
10/30/08	()
11/06/08	TBA ()	100th Anniversary of Henrietta Leavitt's Cepheid Period-Luminosity Relation
11/13/08	()
11/20/08	()
12/04/08	()
12/11/08	Jill Knapp (Princeton University)	Star Formation in the Taurus Dark Clouds

Additional Information
Time:	Tea - 3:30 PM
Time:	Talk - 4:00 PM
Location: Phillips Auditorium, Building D, Center for Astrophysics (unless noted otherwise) [Directions]
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Organizing Committee: Douglas Finkbeiner and Aneta Siemiginowska
Webmaster: Douglas Finkbeiner

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