STScI and JHU Summer Postdoc Talks

June - Aug 2008
Wednesdays at 3:30-4:30pm

Bahcall Auditorium
Muller Building*


Below is the schedule for this year's Summer Postdoc Talk series, which this year will involve both Institute and JHU postdocs.

We still have  a number of slots available; please email Will (clarkson@stsci.edu) and/or Aaron (aarong@stsci.edu) if you would like to take advantage of this opportunity to share your work with your colleagues.

Date Speaker Title Slot Length
June 11 Asaf Pe'er (STScI) Open Questions in the Study of Gamma-Ray Bursts 1h
June 18 David Radburn-Smith (STScI) Disk Truncations: Probing Galaxy Formation at the Limits 0.5h
slot available 0.5h
June 25 Benne Holwerda (STScI) Distribution and Evolution of Dust Extinction in Spiral Galaxies 0.5h
Jeremy Schnittman (JHU) Electromagnetic Signatures of Black Hole Mergers 0.5h
July 02 slot available 0.5h
slot available 0.5h
July 09 Michele Trenti (STScI) Population III Stars 1h
July 16 Aaron Grocholski (STScI) The distance to NGC 1569 via Deep HST/ACS photometry 0.5h
July 23 Chris Burke (STScI) The XO Transit Survey: Finding Transiting Extrasolar Planets 1h
July 30   slot available 0.5h

Slot available
0.5h
Aug 06 Susan Benecchi (STScI) Rotational Variability of Transneptunian Binaries 1h
Aug 13 Mike Santos (STScI)
The Varied Fates of z~2 Star-Forming Galaxies 0.5h
slot available 0.5h
Aug 20 Will Clarkson (STScI) Stellar proper motions in the Bulge with HST 0.5h
slot available 0.5h
Aug 27 Nathaniel Paust (STScI) The Global Present Day Mass Functions of Galactic Globular Clusters 0.5h
slot available 0.5h


* if construction forces us out of Muller, we have booked Bloomberg 462 as a backup.