Colloquia are on Tuesdays (unless otherwise indicated) at 3:30 pm in RLM 15.216B

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Sept. 1st	Ramón J. García López, Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias Abstract "Technology in Astrophysics: The IAC's Experience" (host: David Lambert)
Sept. 10th Thursday	Special Event: Sukanya Chakrabarti, University of California, Berkeley Abstract "Tidal Imprints of Dark Sub-Halos on the Cold Gas in Galaxies" (host: Shardha Jogee)
Sept. 15th	No talk scheduled.
Sept. 22nd	Lisa Prato, Lowell Observatory Abstract "The Youngest Extrasolar Planets" (host: Daniel Jaffe)
Sept. 29th	No talk scheduled.
Oct. 2nd	Special Event: The Texas Planetary Science Symposium (October 2, 2009).
Oct. 6th	No talk scheduled.
Oct. 13th	Mark C. Lewis, Trinity University Abstract "Saturn's Rings: Moonlets, Silicates, and Origins" (host: Sarah Dodson-Robinson)
Oct. 20th	No talk scheduled, to avoid conflict with the Frank N. Bash Symposium 2009 (October 18-20).
Oct. 27th	Kevin L. Luhman, Pennsylvania State University Abstract "The Origin of Brown Dwarfs" (hosts: Gary Hill and Dan Jaffe)
Oct. 27th 7:00 p.m. ACES 2.302	Antoinette de Vaucouleurs Public Lecture Rashid Sunyaev, Max-Planck Institute for AstrophysicsAbstract "The Richness and Beauty of the Physics of Cosmological Recombination" (hosts: Neal Evans)
Oct. 28th Wednesday 3:30 p.m. RLM 15.216B	Antoinette de Vaucouleurs Memorial Lecture Rashid Sunyaev, Max-Planck Institute for AstrophysicsAbstract "Cosmic Microwave Background, Clusters of Galaxies and Cosmology" (hosts: Neal Evans)
Oct. 29th	Special Event: The Texas Cosmology Network Meeting (October 29-30, 2009).
Nov. 3rd	Beatrice M. Tinsley Visiting Professor in Astronomy Eliot Quataert, University of California, BerkeleyAbstract "The Birth of Neutron Stars and Black Holes in Gamma-ray Bursts" (hosts: Pawan Kumar and Milos Milosavljevic)
Nov. 10th	Benjamin Weiner, Steward Observatory, University of Arizona Abstract "Infrared-luminous galaxies and their evolution: what, where, and maybe some of how" (host: Karl Gebhardt)
Nov. 17th	Christian Marois,  NRC Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics Abstract "Imaging Planets Orbiting Other Stars: The HR8799 Multi-Planet System" (host: Sarah Dodson-Robinson)
Nov. 24th	Daisuke Nagai, Yale UniversityAbstract "title: TBA" (hosts: Eiichiro Komatsu and Milos Milosavljevic)
Dec. 1st	Juna A. Kollmeier, Carnegie ObservatoriesAbstract "Probing the Inner and Outer Milky Way" (host: Karl Gebhardt)
	Department of Astronomy Colloquia Schedule for Spring 2010
Jan. 19th	Edo Berger, Harvard UniversityAbstract "Title: TBA" (host: Craig Wheeler)
Jan. 26th	Andrew Blain, California Institute of Technology Abstract "Title: TBA" (host: Milos Milosavljevic)
Feb. 2nd	Jane Rigby, Carnegie Observatories Abstract "Title: TBA" (host: TBA)
Feb. 9th	Ravit Helled, University of California, Los Angeles Abstract "Title: TBA" (host: Sarah Dodson-Robinson)
Feb. 16th	Angela Speck, University of Missouri, Columbia Abstract "Title: TBA" (host: Harriet Dinerstein)
Feb. 23rd	John Johnson, California Institute of TechnologyAbstract "title: TBA" (host: Sarah Dodson-Robinson)
Mar. 2nd	Evgenya Shkolnik, Carnegie Institution Department of Terrestrial MagnetismAbstract "title: TBA" (host: TBD)
Mar. 9th	No talk scheduled, to avoid conflict with the following Conference: The First Stars and Galaxies: Challenges for the Next Decade (March 8-11).
Mar. 15-19	No talk scheduled, to avoid conflict with Spring Break (March 15-19).
Mar. 16th	Dara Norman, National Optical Astronomy ObservatoryAbstract "title: TBA" (ATTEMPTING TO RESCHEDULE)
Mar. 23rd	Suvi Gezari, Johns Hopkins UniversityAbstract "title: TBA" (host: Milos Milosavljevic)
Mar. 30th	Genevieve Graves, University of California, Berkeley Abstract "Title: TBA" (host: TBA)
Apr. 6th	Anders Johansen, Leiden Observatory Abstract "Title: TBA" (hosts: Milos Milosavljevic and Sarah Dodson-Robinson)
Apr. 13th	Beatrice M. Tinsley Visiting Professor in Astronomy Adam Burrows, Princeton UniversityAbstract "title: TBA" (host: tbd)
Apr. 20th	No talk scheduled yet.
Apr. 27th	No talk scheduled yet.
May 4th	Emily Freeland, Texas A&M University Abstract "Title: TBA" (host: TBD)