Each week we discuss a current research topic in the field of Astronomy. Below is the list of speakers and topics for the Fall 2009 semester. Follow the provided links to a paper related to the presentation or an abstract of the talk.

We meet every Friday at 12pm in Phillips 277, except for when we have Astrophysics Seminar.

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Schedule of Speakers

Date	Speaker(s)	Topic
September 25	Brian Pohl and Bayard Stringer	Observations of multiple populations in star clusters
October 2	Yang Cui	A Brief Introduction to our IFU and its Applications
October 9	Amy Colon JoEllen McBride	The Gas Consumption History to z~4 Warm Molecular Hydrogen in the Galactic Wind of M82
October 30	Katie Eckert and Amanda Moffett	Evolutionary paths to and from the red sequence: Star formation and HI properties of transition galaxies at z~0
November 6	David Stark Bart Dunlap	Comparison of H-alpha and UV Star Formation Rates in the Local Volume: Systematic Discrepancies for Dwarf Galaxies Universality of galactic surface densities within one dark halo scale-length
November 20	Brad Barlow	Time-resolved Spectroscopy and Photometry of the Hot Subdwarf Star CS 1246
December 4	Jack Ng and Wayne Christiansen	A Cosmic Peek at Spacetime Foam

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