Star & Planet Formation Discussion Group



Fall 2007

Tuesdays, 1pm, N450 (except where noted; special related talks marked with *)

08/21/07

Open forum

08/28/07

Alan Aversa: A Radio Search for Natal Super-Star Clusters in Nearby Star-Forming Galaxies

09/04/07

Lucy Ziurys: "Following the Carbon from AGB Stars to Planet Surfaces"

09/11/07

Sidney Barnes (Lowell): Main Sequence Star Ages

*09/13/07 (Steward colloquium)

David Charbonneau: The Era of Comparative Exoplanetology"

09/18/07

Open forum

09/25/07

Open forum

*09/28/07 (NOAO FLASH lunch)

Chris Ormel (Kapteyn Institute):

Accretion in Protoplanetary Disks: Sticking Chondrules Together

10/02/07

conference highlights from "Astrophysics in the Next Decade: JWST and concurrent facilities"

10/09/07

Open forum

10/16/07

Open forum

*10/19/07 (NOAO FLASH lunch)

Adam Kraus (Caltech): "Mapping the Shores of the Brown Dwarf Desert"

*10/22/07 (theory colloquium, N210, 4 pm)

Neal Turner (Jet Propolsion Laboratory): "Dead Zones in the Solar Nebula"

10/23/07

meet with Neal Turner

*10/26/07 (NOAO FLASH lunch)

Thayne Currie (CfA): "The Rise and Fall of Debris Disks: MIPS Observations of h and chi Persei and the Evolution of Mid-IR Emission from Planet Formation"

10/30/07

Open forum

11/06/07

B335 discussion

11/13/07

Open forum

11/20/07

Spitzer proposal roundup

11/27/07

Open forum

12/07/07 (11 am, N305)

Andy Gould (OSU): "Microlensing Planet Detections "

12/11/07

conference highlights from "SOFIA's 2020 Vision Workshop I" and

"The Evolving ISM in the Milky Way and Nearby Galaxies"





Spring 2007

Tuesdays, 2pm, N305 (except where noted; special related talks marked with *)

03/06/07

Kevin Flaherty: "Disk Evolution in NGC 2068/2071"

03/13/07

Open forum

03/20/07

Open forum

03/27/07

Open forum

04/03/07

Greg Doppmann: "Placing Protostars on the H-R Diagram using Infrared Spectroscopy"

04/10/07 (N505)

Stephanie Cortes: Grain Growth in the Disk of PDS 66

04/17/07

"From Stars to Planets" presentations

04/24/07 (N550)

Emily Hardegree-Ullman: "How does stellar multiplicity affect early dust evolution in circumstellar disks?"

05/01/07

Open forum

05/08/07 (N550)

Open forum

05/15/07

Open forum

05/22/07

Open forum





Fall 2006

Thursdays, 11am, N305 (except where noted; special related talks marked with *)

08/25/06 (11am, N450)

Angelle Tanner (JPL): "Surveys for Infrared Excesses to Nearby Stars with Spitzer"

Jenny Patience (Caltech): "High Angular Resolution Studies of Circumstellar Disks"

9/01/06 (9:30, N505A)

Stanimir Metchev (UCLA): "HD 203030 B and GQ Lup B: Revealing the Properties of Young Brown Dwarfs"

9/15/06 (11am, N305)

meeting with Neal Evans, discussion on VeLLOs

10/04/06 (4pm, N305)

discussion on molecular cloud extinction with Tracy Huard (CfA) and Remy Indebetouw (UVa)

10/05/06 (2:30, N305)

meeting with Keivan Stassun

*10/06/06 (NOAO FLASH)

Christine Chen (NOAO): "The Dust and Gas around Beta Pictoris"

10/19/06 (11am, N305)

Sean Andrews (IfA): "A Submillimeter View of Protoplanetary Disks"

*10/20/06 (NOAO FLASH)

Cathy Slesnick (Caltech): "A Wide-field Search for Intermediate-age Pre-main Sequence Stars near Taurus and Upper Scorpius

10/26/06 (11am, N305)

Leslie Hebb (St. Andrews): "Searching for Transiting Planets around AU Mic"

11/03/06 (noon, N305)

Marshall Perrin (UC Berkeley): "High Contrast Infrared Imaging and Polarimetry of Dusty Disks around Herbig Ae/Be Stars"

11/16/06

Open forum

11/30/06

Open forum -- link to IMF-related materials

*12/01/06 (NOAO FLASH)

Eric Mamajek (CfA): TBA

12/07/06

Open forum

12/14/06

Open forum





Spring 2006

Mondays, noon, N305 (except where noted; special related talks marked with *)

01/17/06 (11am, N450)

Cathy Slesnick (Caltech): "A Wide-Field Study of Young Brown Dwarfs in Upper Scorpius"

Greg Herczeg (Caltech): "Fluorescent molecular hydrogen emission from diverse environments around T Tauri stars"

03/27/06

Steve Strom & Sidney Wolff: "A discussion on initial conditions"

04/03/06

Initial conditions focus group

*04/10/06 (theory colloq. N210, 4pm)

Jim Stone (Princeton)

04/17/06

Christine Chen: "Spitzer IRS spectroscopy of IRAS-discovered debris disks"

04/24/06

meet with TAP speaker Fred Adams

*04/27/06 (Steward colloquium)

Rachel Akeson (IPAC): "Studying the Inner Disks Around Young Stars with Infrared Interferometry"

*05/04/06 (Steward colloquium)

Frank Shu (UCSD)

05/16/06 (11am, N450)

open discussion on early LBT science

05/23/06 (11am, N450)

"junior scientist" Q&A?





Fall 2005

Fridays, 2:00 pm, N450 (except where noted; special related talks marked with *)

09/09/05

Review of IAU Symposium on astrochemistry

09/23/05

Yancy Shirley: Modeling the Physical Structure of Starless Cores from the SCUBA Archive and Future HHT Follow-up

10/07/05

roundtable with Hal Levison

10/21/05

cancelled

11/04/05

Protostars & Planets V review

11/18/05

James Muzerolle: Spitzer Observations of Transition Disks

12/09/05

open forum; meet with Lynne Hillenbrand

12/16/05

Massimo Marengo (CfA): "A Spitzer View of the epsilon Eridani Planetary System"





Spring 2005

Tuesdays, 2:30 pm, N305 (except where noted; special related talks marked with *)

01/25/05

organization, AAS San Diego review

*02/04/05 (9-4:30, Arizona Inn)

Laplace: planet formation in circumstellar disks

02/22/05

New Spitzer results on debris disks I.

03/01/05

New Spitzer results on debris disks II.

03/15/05

Sachindev S. Shenoy (RPI): “The Taurus Molecular Cloud: Coagulation or Mantle Formation?”

03/22/05

review of Pasadena disks meeting

04/05/05

Erick Young: new views of star formation in NGC 2264

04/19/05

Discussion on the content and lifetime of gas in disks

05/03/05

Christine Chen: Spitzer observations of Sco-Cen

05/17/05

Daniel Apai: Massive Star Formation: The Nearby Star-Forming Region IRAS 09002-4732 and the Intrinsic Binarity Rate







Fall 2004

Tuesdays, 1 pm, N305 (except where noted; special related talks marked with *)

09/07/04

meeting organization

09/21/04

Daniel Apai: “Brown Dwarf Disks: Structure & Evolution”

10/12/04 (N450)

Scott Gaudi (CfA): “Hot Jupiters, Cool Neptunes, and Extrasolar Earths”

*10/15/04 (Friday 12pm)

Russel White (Caltech) - FLASH

10/26/04 (4pm)

open forum – proposals & recent meetings

*10/29/04 (Friday 12pm, NOAO)

Aurora Sicilia-Aguilar (CfA): “Accretion Disks in Cep OB2” [FLASH]

*11/01/04 (Monday 12pm)

Inga Kamp (STScI): “Evolution of Protoplanetary Disks and How to Trace It Observationally” [special TAP lunch]

11/09/04

cancelled

*11/19/04 (Friday 12pm, NOAO)

Stanimir Metchev (Caltech): ``AO Observations of the AU Mic Debris Disk" [FLASH]

Joshua Eisner (Caltech): "Probing Sub-AU Radii of Young Circumstellar Disks"

[FLASH]

11/30/04

preparation for HST and SST proposals, Laplace follow-up, speckle on MMT

12/07/04

Matt Richter (UC Davis): "Mid-IR Spectroscopy of H2 near T Tau"

Yancy Shirley (NRAO): "Probing the Earliest Phases of Low-mass Pre-protostellar Core and Protostar Formation"

12/14/04 (N450)

Fred Walter (SUNY Stony Brook): TBD













IC 1396 Spitzer IRAC (blue, green) and MIPS-24 (red) composite; W. Reach (SSC/Caltech)