All are welcome to join us on Fridays at 2pm in Phillips 277. Talks include seminars by visiting speakers, discussions of recently published journal articles, and presentations of work in progress by students, postdocs, and faculty. Below is the list of speakers and topics, with links to abstracts or relevant journal articles when available. To sign up, external speakers should contact Sheila Kannappan (sheila@physics.unc.edu) and internal speakers should contact Christina Haig (chaig@email.unc.edu). Talks can be scheduled on faculty meeting days but other days are preferred.

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Schedule of Speakers for Spring 2012

Date	Speaker(s)	Topic(s)
January 20	open	faculty meeting
January 27	open	open
February 3	Carla Frohlich (North Carolina State University)	"Nucelosynthesis beyond iron"
February 10	Ryan Tanner open	TBA open
February 17	Amanda Moffett TBA	"The Origin of Disks and Spheroids in Simulated Galaxies" TBA
February 24	Lisa Winter (University of Colorado, Boulder)	Multi-wavelength Study of Winds Driven by Supermassive Black Holes
March 2	Katie Eckert	research update
March 9	Spring Break	Spring Break
March 16	open	open
March 23	David Stark	Masters Defense
March 30	open	faculty meeting
April 6	holiday	holiday
April 13	JoEllen McBride open	TBA open
April 20	Ricky O'Steen	TBA - Room 258!
May 1 (SPECIAL TIME: 2pm Phillips 258)	Roman Scherbakov (Maryland)	Feeding and accretion in low luminosity AGNs
	Past journal club topics are here and past research seminars are here.