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2009 Colloquium Schedule

For questions or suggestions for speakers, please contact the SwRI colloquium organizers:
Keith Harrison, 720-240-0112 or harrison(at)boulder.swri.edu, or
David Nesvorny, 303-546-0023 or davidn(at)boulder.swri.edu


JANUARY             
                                                               




Tuesday 13th, 11:00 am
Susanne Schwenzer
(Lunar and Planetary Institute)
Impact craters on Noachian Mars: Potential places of hydrothermal activity and clay formation.



Tuesday 27th, 11:00 am Michael Bland (Washington University) The production of Ganymede's magnetic field.






FEBRUARY





Tuesday 3rd, 11:00 am
Andrea Schweitzer (Little Thompson Observatory)
The International Year of Astronomy 2009.



Wednesday 18th, 11:00 am
Hilke Schlichting (Caltech)
Binaries and Small Objects in the Kuiper Belt



Thursday 19th, 4:00 pm
Ken Farley (Caltech)
Late Eocene and late Miocene cosmic dust events: Comet showers, asteroid collisions or lunar impacts?






MARCH





Tuesday 3rd, 10:30 am
Zeljko Ivezic (University of Washington)
Mapping the Solar System: from SDSS to LSST.



Tuesday 17th, 2:00 pm
Nick Schneider (LASP and APS)
No Sodium in Enceladus Vapor Plumes.



Friday 20th, 11:00 am Joseph Masiero (Institute for Astronomy) The Thousand Asteroid Light Curve Survey.






APRIL




Tuesday 7th, 11:00 am
Jack Burns (University of Colorado)
Astrophysics from the Moon.



Friday 17th, 11:00 am
Michelle Kirchoff (Lunar and Planetary Institute)
Geologic and Bombardment Histories of Saturn’s Mid-sized Satellites: Insights from Cratering Records.



Tuesday 21st, 11:00 am
Kirk Johnson (Denver Museum of Nature and Science)
The K-T Boundary in Nonmarine Settings or, What Happens When Impact Ejecta Lands in the Woods.






MAY




Tuesday 5th, 11:00 am
Nilton Renno (University of Michigan)
Physical and Thermodynamical Evidence for Liquid Water on Mars.



Thursday 7th, 11:00 am
Carla Johnson (Waterstone)
Web-based Science Data Applications.



Friday 15th, 11:00 am
Chip Kobulnicky (University of Wyoming)
New Treasures of the Milky Way in the Spitzer GLIMPSE Legacy Survey.



Tuesday 26th, 11:00 am
Mike Skrutskie (University of Virginia)
TBD.






JUNE




POSTPONED, new date to be announced.
Alexis Rodriguez (Planetary Science Institute)
TBD.



Tuesday 16th, 11:00 am
Bill Cooke (Marshall Space Flight Center)
Impacts on the Moon and Fireballs in the Sky: Detecting cm-sized objects in near-Earth space.



Thursday 25, 11:00 am
Clare Parnell (University of St. Andrews)
The Role of Magnetic Null Points in the Solar Atmosphere






JULY




Tuesday 28th, 11:00 am
Sarah Stewart-Mukhopadhyay (Harvard)
Modeling the Morphological Diversity of Impact Craters on Icy Satellites