Each week we discuss a current research topic in the field of Astronomy. Below is the list of speakers and topics for the Spring 2004 semester. Follow the provided links to a paper related to the presentation.

We meet every Friday at 1pm in Phillips 258, except for the third Friday of every month, when we have Astrophysics Seminar.

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SEPTEMBER SCHEDULE of SPEAKERS

Date	Speaker	Topic
September 7	Brian Pohl	Probing the origins of the Canis Major Overdensity
September 14	Miles Blanton	Extragalactic Radio Sources and the WMAP Cold Spot
September 28	Jesse Miner	A Wide-field Survey of Two Z~0.5 Galaxy Clusters: Identifying the Physical Processes Responsible for the Observed Transformation of Spirals into S0s

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OCTOBER SCHEDULE of SPEAKERS

Date	Speaker	Topic
October 5	Haw Cheng	The fraction of binary systems in the core of thirteen low-density Galactic globular clusters
October 12	Brad Barlow	A giant planet orbiting the `extreme horizontal branch' star V391 Pegasi

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NOVEMBER SCHEDULE of SPEAKERS

Date	Speaker	Topic
November 2	Bart Dunlap	Verifying the Cosmological Utility of Type Ia Supernovae: Implications of a Dispersion in the Ultraviolet Spectra
November 9	Leslie Prochaska	I will present a summary of results presented at the October 2007 conference, "Formation and Evolution of Galaxy Disks". Concepts include properties of nearby disks, outskirts and environment, accretion onto disks, mergers, secular evolution, and disk formation in a hierarchical universe.
November 30	Bayard Stringer

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