Karin Oberg (Univ. of Virginia) will be visiting the CfA on Monday and
Tuesday, February 11-12. She will give the following seminar in Phillips
Auditorium on Monday at 10AM.

Title: Quantifying our Astrochemical Origins

Abstract:
Chemical Imaging and Precision Ice Experiments in the ALMA Era Molecules
are present throughout the Universe in a range of environments. The dense
regions associated with star and planet formation are characterized by a
particularly rich chemistry, due to ice formation on interstellar grains.
These icy grains are intimately linked...

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Douglas Finkbeiner will give a special seminar for the CfA
community on Tuesday, October 16, 2012, at 10:00, in the Phillips
Auditorium.  The title of this talk is "New Approaches to Discovering
Dark Matter."

ABSTRACT:

Most of my group's work in recent years has been related to
discovering the nature of dark matter.  Some projects
involve searches for WIMP signals from astrophysical sources or
direct detection experiments.  In other cases, we have studied the
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Harvard University
Particle Seminar "The Standard Model of nuclear physics"
William Detmold (MIT)
Jefferson Lab, 453
Refreshments in the high energy theory coffee area, 4th floor Jefferson, at 4:00

The Ph.D. colloquium by Andy Friedman will be held on Wednesday, February 22, at 11:00 AM in Phillips Auditorium 

It will also be this week's OIR seminar:

   http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/oir/events/2012spring/lunch20120222.html 

The following day, Thursday morning, at 8:30 AM, Andy will defend his thesis in the Tea Room, P-226.

Talk Title:  CfAIR2: Infrared Observations of ~100 Type Ia Supernovae with PAIRITEL...

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