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Physics Colloquia

November, 11/07/2009
Events and times subject to change

November 12, 2009 Thursday 4:00 PM 
Meyer 122
Physics Colloquia (colloquia)


Robert Austin
Princeton University

TBA



November 19, 2009 Thursday 4:00 PM 
Meyer 122
Physics Colloquia (colloquia)


Denton Ebel
American Museum of Natural History

Physical Processes in the Early Solar System: Evidence from Space Rocks

Physical processes active in the protoplanetary disk included gravitational instabilities (spiral waves), magnetorotational instabilities, meridional transport, vertical turbulent mixing, radiative transfer. Some temporal and spatial combination of such processes drove stellar accretion and planet formation in our (and other) solar system. Constraints on physical-chemical models are provided by the phenomenology of chondritic meteorites, interplanetary dust particles, and cometary materials (rocks), coupled with observations of young stellar disks (light). This evidence, recent results, current conundrums, and the status of 3D magnetohydrodynamic models of protoplanetary disks will be discussed.


December 3, 2009 Thursday 4:00 PM 
Meyer 122
Physics Colloquia (colloquia)


James Carpenter

TBA



December 10, 2009 Thursday 4:00 PM 
Meyer 122
Physics Colloquia (colloquia)


Sal Torquato
Princeton University

TBA



February 4, 2010 Thursday 4:00 PM 
Meyer 122
Physics Colloquia (colloquia)


Matias Zaldarriaga
IAS

TBA



February 25, 2010 Thursday 4:00 PM 
Meyer 122
Physics Colloquia (colloquia)


Jerry Gollub
Haverford College

TBA



March 4, 2010 Thursday 4:00 PM 
Meyer 122
Physics Colloquia (colloquia)


Adam Burrows
Princeton University

TBA



March 11, 2010 Thursday 4:00 PM 
Meyer 122
Physics Colloquia (colloquia)


Janet Conrad
MIT

TBA



April 1, 2010 Thursday 4:00 PM 
Meyer 122
Physics Colloquia (colloquia)


Jennifer Lewis
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

TBA



April 8, 2010 Thursday 4:00 PM 
Meyer 122
Physics Colloquia (colloquia)


Meg Urry
Yale University

TBA



April 22, 2010 Thursday 4:00 PM 
Meyer 122
Physics Colloquia (colloquia)


Alex Filippenko
UC Berkeley

TBA