Previous speakers

2010

08/18/10 - 02:00 pm - N420
Soeren Larsen, Utrecht University
How accurately can star cluster properties be derived from integrated photometry?

09/02/10 - 11:00 am - N420
Stan Owocki, University of Delaware
Mass Buildup and Rotational Spindown of Massive Star Magnetospheres

09/16/10 - 02:00 pm - N420
John Graham, Johns Hopkins University
An investigation of high metallicity LGRB hosts

09/30/10 - 02:00 pm - N310
Aaron Dotter, STScI
MESA-Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics

Danny Lennon, STScI
The R136 star cluster hosts several stars whose individual masses greatly exceed the accepted 150Msolar stellar mass limit

Aida Wofford, STScI
Predicted UV properties of very metal-poor starburst galaxies

10/14/10
No meeting due to Venice conference

10/28/10 - 01:00 pm - Bahcall auditorium
Jean-Claude Bouret, Goddard Space Flight Center
Ionizing stars and young stellar objects on the borders of H II regions

11/04/10 - 01:00 pm - N420
Alex Fullerton, Space Telescope Science Institute
Observational Evidence for a Correlation Between Macroturbulent Broadening and Line-profile Variations in OB Supergiants

Henry C. Ferguson, Space Telescope Science Institute
The Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey: Constraints on the Lyman Continuum Escape Fraction Distribution of Lyman--Break Galaxies at 3.4<z<4.5

11/11/10 - 03:00 pm - N420
Wagner Marcolino, National Observatory, Rio de Janeiro
Weak Winds of Late-Type O Stars

11/19/10 - 02:00 pm - N420
Jacqueline Fischer, Naval Research Laboratory
Herschel PACS Spectroscopic Signatures of Evolution in Local Ultraluminous Galaxies

11/18/10 - 02:00 pm - N420
Laura Lopez, UCSC
What Drives the Dynamics of Giant HII Regions? A Study of Stellar Feedback in 30 Doradus

12/02/10 - 01:00 pm - N420
Maurice Leutenegger, Goddard Space Flight Center
Modeling of X-ray emission line profiles in O stars

2011

February, 4th, 11:30 - 12:25, N420
Andrea Ahumada, ESO/VISTA, Chile
"Integrated spectroscopy of stellar clusters"

February, 18th, 12:00-13:00, N420 
postponed due to HST deadline

March 4th, 12:00-13:00, N420
Nick Bond (GSFC)
"Probing the stellar populations of 1.5<3.5 galaxies using rest-frame UV and optical morphology"

March 18th, 12:00-13:00, N420
Bethan James (STScI)
"Investigating the Chemical Homogeneity of Low-Metallicity Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxies Using Integral Field Spectroscopy"

April 1st, 12:00-13:00, N420
Danny Lennon, Selma E. de Mink, and Nolan Walborn (all STScI)
"Massive stars in the Tarantula Nebula"

April 15th, 12:00-13:00, N420
Rodrigo Herrera Camus (University of Maryland)
"Dust in the extremely metal poor galaxy I Zw 18"

April 29th, 12:00-13:00, N420
Michael F. Corcoran (GSFC)
"Against the Wind: How Extremely Massive Stars Lose Weight"

May 13th, 12:00-13:00, N420
Leisa Townsley (Penn State)
"Not Your Grandmother's HII Regions: An X-ray Tour of Massive Star-forming Regions"

May 27th, 12:00-13:00, N420
Marta Sewilo
"YSOs identification in the Magellanic Clouds"

June 10th, 12:00-13:00, S322
Charles Proffitt (STScI)
"Observations of Boron Abundances in Rapidly Rotating Early-B Stars"

July 8th, 12:00-13:00, 401 A Lyman Spitzer Boardroom
Jorick Vink (Armagh Observatory)
"The Most Massive Stars in the Universe"

July 22nd, 12:00-13:00, 401 A Lyman Spitzer Boardroom
Selma de Mink, Nolan Walborn, Charles Proffitt, Linda Smith (STScI)
"Highlights of Four Decades of Research on Massive Stars: A Scientific Meeting in the Honour of Anthony F.J. Moffat"

August 5th, 12:00-13:00, 401 A Lyman Spitzer Boardroom
Nino Panagia (STScI)
"Star Formation in 30 Doradus"

August 19th, 12:00-13:00, 401 A Lyman Spitzer Boardroom
Ka-Hei Law (JHU)
"Young, UV-bright Stars Dominate Dust Heating in Star Forming Galaxies"

September 2nd, 12:00-13:00, 401 A Lyman Spitzer Boardroom
Javier Rodriguez (STScI)
"The Star Formation Histories and Evolution of LIRGS and ULIRGS"

Rebecca Martin (STScI)
"Tidal Warping of Be Star Decretion Discs"

September 16th, 12:00-13:00, 401 A Lyman Spitzer Boardroom
Elena Sabbi (STScI)
"Is the young star cluster NGC 376 dissolving in the field of the SMC?"

Claus Leitherer (STScI)
Highlights of IAUS 284, "The spectral energy distribution of galaxies"

September 30th, 12:00-13:00, 401 A Lyman Spitzer Boardroom
Jean-Claude Bouret (GSFC)
"Properties of Galactic early-type O-supergiants: A combined FUV-UV and optical analysis"

October 14th, 12:00-13:00, 401 A Lyman Spitzer Boardroom
Matthew Povich (The Pennsylvania State University)
"The Hunt for Massive Stars Hiding in the Milky Way"

October 28th, 12:00-13:00, 401 A Lyman Spitzer Boardroom
Sanch Borthakur (JHU)
Nature of Starburst in Local Lyman Break Galaxy Analogs

Ching-Wa Yip (JHU)
Extinction in Nebular Luminosities & Star Formation Rate of Disk Galaxies: Inclination Correction

November 18th, 12:00-13:00, 401 A Lyman Spitzer Boardroom
Theodore Gull (GSFC)
Eta Carinae--a demanding mistress