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SwRI Department of Space Studies

August 2005 - August 2006 Colloquium Schedule

All colloquia are Tuesdays at 11:00 AM unless otherwise noted

For questions or suggestions for speakers, please contact the SwRI colloquium organizers:

Scot Rafkin, 720-240-0116 or srafkin(at)boulder(dot)swri(dot)edu, or
John Spencer, 303-546-9674 or spencer(at)boulder(dot)swri(dot)edu.

AUGUST

 

Fri 19th

Stan Peale (UCSC)

Mercury, MESSENGER, and Radar

R

 

Wed. 24th

Keith Harrison (SwRI)

Hydrology of Early Mars: Aspects of valley network and outflow channel formation

S

 

SEPTEMBER

 

20thPOSTPONED

Brian Enke (SwRI)

Human vs. Robotic Space Exploration

R

 

OCTOBER

 

11th, 10am

Jim Bell (Cornell)

Martian Mountaineering: Recent Results from the Spirit Rover

S

 

Fri 14th, 12pm

Paul Feldman (JHU)

HST Observations of Deep Impact

R

 

25th

Pablo Bauleo (Colo. St. Univ)

The Pierre Auger Cosmic Ray Observatory

R

 

NOVEMBER

 

8th

Doug Robertson (CU)

Survival in the first hours of the Cenozoic

S

DECEMBER

 

Thursday 8th

Brett Gladman (U. British Columbia)

Observational Bias in the Kuiper Belt

S

 

Wednesday 21st

Ralph Lorenz (U. Arizona)

New Results from the Huygens Probe

S

 

FEBRUARY 2006

 

Monday 6th

Stephen Mojzsis (U. Colorado)

Pre-Archaen thermal events on Earth: Vestiges of a battered youth, or excessive growing pains?

S

 

14th

Bill Bottke (SwRI)

Iron meteorites as remnants of planetesimals formed in the terrestrial planet region

S

 

Monday 27th

Dan Scheeres (U. Michigan)

Stability of binary asteroids formed through fission

S

MARCH 2006

 

Monday 13th

Scott McIntosh (SwRI)

Two Sides of the Same Coin: Does the Magnetic Carpet Fill the Energy Reservoir of the Solar Atmosphere

R

 

APRIL 2006

 

Thursday 27th

Amy Barr (Washington University)

Roles of grain size evolution and tidal heating in icy satellite geodynamics

S

 

MAY 2006

 

Postponed

Carl Mitcham (Colorado School of Mines)

The Social Construction of Astronomy

S

 

JUNE 2006

 

5th

Ted Von Hippel (Univ. of Texas)

White Dwarfs, Debris Disks, and the Fate of Planetary Systems

R

 

JULY 2006

 

25th

Mark Lewis (Trinity University)

Impact of Particle Self-Gravity and Size Distributions on Features Around Embedded Moonlets

S

 

Friday 28th

Jack Burns (Univ. Colorado)

Astronomy from the Moon

S

 

AUGUST 2006

 

8th

Brad Dalton (NASA Ames)

The Surface Composition of Europa

S

Last updated on 16th October 2006.