Jan 11 -- [AAS]

Jan 18 -- Matthew Knight (UMD): "The Near Sun Comets Seen By SOHO"

Jan 25 -- Natalia Gomez-Perez (DTM): "Mercury's Magnetosphere as seen by MESSENGER" &

               John Debes (DTM): " A Magellan Search Of DAZs for Equivalent Width Variability"

Feb 1 -- Larry Nittler (DTM): "MESSENGER and the geochemistry of Mercury"

Feb 8 -- Journal Club

Feb 15 -- Nancy Grace Roman: "Second Generation Astronomical Satellites and the Great Observatories"

Feb 22 -- Francis O'Donovan (NASA/Goddard): "The Detection and Exploration of Planets from the Trans-atlantic Exoplanet Survey"

Feb 29 -- David O'Brien (Planetary Science Institute): "Terrestrial Planet Formation: New Insights and Outstanding Questions"

Mar 7 -- Jason Steffen (Fermilab): "Extrasolar Planet Detection via Transit Timing Variations"

Mar 14 -- Markos Georganopoulos (UMBC): "The Diffuse Infrared Background: A New Way to Probe It."

Mar 21 -- [Good Friday]

Mar 28 -- Fred Ciesla (DTM): "Modeling Planetesimal Collisions: New Results, Implications, and Wild Speculations"

Apr 4 -- Julie McEnery (NASA/Goddard): "Exploring the Extreme Universe with GLAST"

Apr 11 -- Roeland van der Marel (STScI): "The Dynamics of the Galaxies in the Local Group"

Apr 18 -- Chad Bender (NRL): "Direct spectroscopy of non-transiting exoplanets"

Apr 25 -- Claudia Knez (UMD): "Chemical Evolution of Ice and Gas from Molecular Clouds to Protostars"

May 2 -- Maryam Modjaz (UC Berkeley): "The SN-GRB connection from the SN perspective and their environs"

May 9 -- Chris Burke (STScI): "XO Transiting Planet Survey: Latest Results"

May 16 -- no meeting

May 23 -- no meeting

May 30 -- Alycia Weinberger (DTM): "Results of a bunch of projects on disks and the young stars that sport them"

Jun 6 -- Rachel Osten (UMD): "New Insights into the Physics of Stellar Flares"

Jun 13 -- Marcos Huerta (AAS): "Dr. Huerta, or How I learned to Stop Doing Astronomy and Love Public Policy"

Jun 20 -- Johanna Teske (American University): "Circumstellar Disk Astrochemistry"

Jun 27 -- Alycia Weinberger (DTM): "Tips for Preparing Good Talk Slides"

Sep 7 -- Nancy Grace Roman: "The Early History of Space Astronomy"

Sep 14 -- Prepare to share at least one photo from your summer travels (an observing run, a conference in a tropical resort, your vacation, whatever).

Sep 21 -- Andrej Prsa (Villanova): "Towards fully automatic processing of large eclipsing binary datasets with artificial intelligence"

Sep 28 -- John Debes (DTM): Journal Club discussion of arxiv:0709.0811

Oct 5 -- Warren Brown (CfA): "Hypervelocity Stars Ejected from the Galactic Center"

Oct 12 -- Jason Wright (UC Berkeley): "Characterizing Exoplanetary Systems: The Search for Solar System Analogs"

Oct 19 -- Chris Ormel (Kapteyn Astr. Instit.): "Accretion in protoplanetary disks: sticking chondrules together"

Oct 26 -- John Wisniewski (NASA/Goddard): "Diagnosing Structure in Circumstellar Disks"

Nov 2 -- Jian-Yang Li (UMD): "Mapping the dwarf world - Ceres and Vesta"

Nov 9 -- Cathy Slesnick (DTM): "1-10 Myr-old Low Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs in Nearby Star Forming Regions"

Nov 16 -- Journal Club (bring a recent paper to discuss!)

Nov 23 -- THANKSGIVING

Nov 30 -- Julio Chaname (STScI): "Dark Matter Constraints from (Resolved) Stars in Local Group Galaxies"

Dec 7 -- Tamara Bogdanovic (UMD): "Spin alignment in massive black hole binaries"

Dec 14 -- Jenny Greene (Princeton): "The Mass Function of Local Active Black Holes"