Our normal colloquium time is Fridays at 3:15 in BX102 with refreshments at 3:00pm in the Astronomy Conference Room (ASTR 119).

Craig DeForest Boulder, Colorado
IMAGING THE SOLAR WIND FROM SUN TO EARTH
January 18 with local host James McAteer
Mark Marley NASA Ames
Exoplanets and Brown Dwarfs
January 25 with local host Jason Jackiewicz
Markus J. Aschwanden Lockheed Martin, Advanced Technology Center, Palo Alto, CA
Solar Physics
February 8 with local host James McAteer
Michael Kirk NMSU
THE ANATOMY OF CHROMOSPHERIC FLARES AND ASSOCIATED EPHEMERAL BRIGHTENINGS
February 15
Chas Miller NMSU
Characterizing Surface Properties and Volatile Distributions for Three Primitive Solar System Bodies
February 22
F. Van de Voort UC Berkeley, Leiden University
Feeding galaxies and their gaseous haloes.
March 1 with local host Chris Churchill
Tim Beers NOAO, Tucson
Carbon-Enhanced Metal-Poor Stars: Probes of Nucleosynthesis from the First Generation of Stars in the Universe
March 15 with local host Young Sun Lee
Aliz Derekas Konkoly Observatory, Budapest, Hungary
HD181068: A Unique Triply-Eclipsing Triple System in the KEPLER Field
March 22 with local host Karen Kinemuchi
Ryan Hamilton NMSU
Herschel Observations of Cataclysmic Variables
April 4
Maria Patterson NMSU
Properties of Star Formation and the Interstellar Medium in Galaxy Outskirts
April 5
Kyle Uckert NMSU
The Implementation and Analysis of Several Techniques for In Situ Astrobiology Investigations.
April 12
Candace Gray NMSU
Coronal Mass Ejections And Their Effect On The Venusian Nightglow
April 19
Tamara McDunn Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Topics in Martian Atmospheric Dynamics
April 26

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