Solange's list of Astrotalks and Informal Meetings in Pasadena
February 8th - 12th, 2010
When Who What Where
MONDAY:
10:30 Cahill Astro-Coffee Cahill Ahmanson Library
12:00 David Garofalo and David Meier (JPL) The Gap Paradigm for the Cosmological Evolution of Active Galaxies and Quasars JPL Astrophysics and Exoplanet Science Seminars
JPL Buil. 169, Room 336
12:10 Observers meet theorists and make progress(lunch discussion group)
3rd floor Cahill
4:00 Isamu Matsuyama (UC Berkeley) Rotational Stability of Earth and Mars GPS Division Seminar
Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall (155 Arms)
4:15 (4:00) Roderik Overzier (MPA) Extreme Starburst Galaxies at Low and High Redshift Astronomy tea talk
Cahill Hameetman Auditorium
TUESDAY:
10:30 Cahill Astro-Coffee Cahill Ahmanson Library
12:15 IR/sub-mm/mm lunch
Lauritsen 469
12:00 Ti-Pei Li (Tsinghua) Improved CMB map from WMAP data IPAC Lunch Seminar
IPAC 102
4:00 David Paige (UCLA) LRO Diviner Radiometer Observations of the Lunar Polar Regions Planetary Science Seminar
Salvatori Room (365 So. Mudd)
4:00 (3:30) Dominik Riechers (Caltech) The Formation and Gaseous Evolution of Massive Galaxies Back to <1 Billion Years after the Big Bang Carnegie Colloquium Series
William T. Golden Auditorium
WEDNESDAY:
10:30 Cahill Astro-Coffee Cahill Ahmanson Library
12:00 Mike Werner (JPL) Near Earth Objects to the Edge of the Universe: Highlights of Spitzer Science IPAC Lunch Seminar
IPAC 102
4:00 (3:45) Kristen Menou (Columbia) Exoplanetary Atmospheres Astronomy colloquium
Cahill Hameetman Auditorium (Cahill Ahmanson Library) 
THURSDAY:
10:30 Cahill Astro-Coffee Cahill Ahmanson Library
noon SRL Sack Lunch Seminar
Lauritsen 248
2:00 Herschel Journal Club
244 Morrisroe (2nd floor conference room)
4:00 (3:50) Stephen Unwin (JPL) The SIM Lite Astrometric Observatory JPL Astrophysics and Exoplanet Science Seminars
JPL Buil. 169, Room 336
4:00 (3:45) Sheperd Doeleman (Haystack Observatory, MIT) Measuring a Black Hole Event Horizon: Very Long Baseline Interferometry of the Galactic Center Physics Research Conference
East Bridge 201 (East Bridge 110)
FRIDAY:
10:30 Cahill Astro-Coffee Cahill Ahmanson Library
12:15 Carnegie Observatories Lunch Talks
Carnegie Conference Room
2:00 Theoretical astrophysics and relativity seminar
370 Cahill
3:30 JPL Astrophysics Journal Club
JPL Build. 169, Room 336
4:00 Astronomy Journal club
Robinson 106 

Times in brackets are when you should show up if you want to partake of the gastronomical inducements offered by the organizers.

I make no claim that this list is complete and comprehensive.

If there is a talk or event that you'd like me to include here, or if you spot a mistake, please email me with the details (solange at ipac.caltech.edu).