| Date | Title | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| August 27, 2008 | Introduction | Faculty/Grad students |
| September 3, 2008 | The nature of the soft X-ray source in DG Tau (Schneider & Schmidt 2008) | Sonali Shukla |
| 11:00 am, Thursday September 4, 2008 |
Searching for HI Clouds in Galaxy Groups | Katie Chynoweth |
| September 10, 2008 | Turbulence-driven Polar Winds from T Tauri Stars Energized by Magnetospheric Accretion (Cranmer 2008) | Alicia Aarnio |
| September 17, 2008 | Black hole masses and accretion states in ULXs (Soria & Kuncic 2008) | Deatrick Foster |
| 11:00 am, Thursday September 18, 2008 |
Probing the Circumstellar Environment of the Young Star DoAr 21 through X-ray and Infrared Observations | Eric Jensen (Swarthmore) |
| September 24, 2008 | Why Are the K Dwarfs in the Pleiades So Blue? (Stauffer et al. 2003) | Phill Cargile |
| October 1, 2008 | Characteristics of the most massive stars in NGC346 in the SMC | Tommy Le Blanc |
| October 8, 2008 | Uncovering Extremely Metal-Poor Stars in the Milky Way’s Ultra-Faint Dwarf Spheroidal Satellite Galaxies (Kirby et al. 2008) | Lauren Palladino |
| 4:00 pm, Thursday October 9, 2008 |
New Vistas in Astronomy Above 1 TeV (1.6 erg) per Particle | John Beacom (Ohio State) |
| October 15, 2008 | Spatially Resolved Molecular Hydrogen Emission in the Inner 200 AU Enviroments of Classical T Tauri Stars (Beck et al. 2008) | Billy Teets |
| October 22, 2008 | How Do Observations of Extrasolar Planets Fit Our Understanding of Planet Formation and Evolution? | Leslie Hebb (Uni. of St. Andrews) |
| 11:00 am, Thursday October 30, 2008 |
Ages for Main Sequence Field Stars Using Gyrochronology | Sydney Barnes (Lowell Obs.) |
| 4:00 pm, Thursday October 30, 2008 |
Big Science from Little Stars: Tracing the Kinematics, Structure and Evolution of the Milky Way with M Dwarfs | Andrew West (MIT) |
| November 5, 2008 | LOOC UP: Locating and observing optical counterparts to gravitational wave bursts (Kanner et al. 2008) | Jennifer Piscionere |
| November 12, 2008 | Modeling the Very Small Scale Clustering of Luminous Red Galaxies | Doug Watson |
| November 19, 2008 | SLoWPoKES: A Catalog of Wide, Low-Mass Binary Systems | Saurav Dhital |
| November 26, 2008 | Thanksgiving | |
| December 3, 2008 | ||
| December 10, 2008 | SDSS III | Faculty |
| December 17, 2008 | ||
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