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Date
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Speaker
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Title
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January | 5 | Xuening Bai (Princeton University) | Magnetorotational-Instability-Driven Accretion in Protoplanetary Disks |
6 | Yingjie Peng (ETH) | A Global Model for Galaxy Evolution: Simplicity and its Consequences |
12 | Leslie Rogers (MIT) | Liquid Water Oceans on Sub-Neptune Exoplanets |
February | 2 | Joanne Cohn (Berkeley) | Galaxy Clusters: beyond spherical cows |
9 | Christoph Mordasini (MPIA Heidelberg) | Planetary Population Synthesis: Comparing Planet Formation Theory and Observation |
16 | Simon Portegies Zwart (Leiden University) | The Astronomical Multipurpose Software Environment and the Ecology of Star Clusters |
23 | Enrico Pajer (Princeton) | A New Window on Primordial Non-Gaussianity |
March | 1 | Tim Merlis (Princeton) | The climate and atmospheric circulation of Earth-like exoplanets |
8 | Dustin Lang (Princeton) | The Tractor: Using Forward Modeling to Measure Objects in Astronomical Images |
15 | Kfir Blum (IAS) | Asymmetric Higgsino Dark Matter |
22 | Stefano Profumo (UCSC) | The Electro-Weak Scale: Key to the Origin of Visible and Dark Matter |
29 | Raphael Flauger (IAS) | Phenomenology of Axion Monodromy Inflation |
April | 5 | Dong Lai (Cornell) | Dynamical Tides in Binaries: Merging White Dwarfs, Kepler KOI-54 and Hot Jupiter Systems |
12 | Jordi Miralda Escude (Barcelona) | Large-scale Structure with the Lyman-Alpha Forest from BOSS |
19 | Doug Lin (UC Santa Cruz) | Origin, Evolution, and Destiny of Close-in Planets |
26 | Zhaohuan Zhu (Princeton) | Planet-disk interaction: from theories to observations |
May | 3 | Helmut Hofer (IAS) | Hamiltonian Dynamics and Symplectic Invariants |
10 | Lucianne Walkowicz (Princeton) | New Light on Stellar Astrophysics with Kepler |
June | 14 | Neal Dalal (UIUC) | Dark Matter Halos |
19 (NOTE: This is a Tuesday.) | Willy Kley (Tuebingen) | Planet-disk interaction and orbital evolution of planets |
21 | Glenn van de Ven (MPIA) | Correlation between black hole masses and bulge luminosities not fundamental |