Solange's list of Astrotalks and Informal Meetings in Pasadena
November 16th - 20th, 2009
When Who What Where
MONDAY:
10:30 Cahill Astro-Coffee Cahill Ahmanson Library
12:00 Valeri Makarov (CalTech) Surface Flows on the Sun, and Implications for RV Detection of Habitable Planets 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 Brendan Meade (Harvard University) Quantifying Fault System Complexity and Rheology at Continental Plate Boundaries GPS Division Seminar
Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall (155 Arms)
4:15 (4:00) Ian Roederer (U Texas) Characterizing the Chemistry of the Milky Way Stellar Halo Astronomy tea talk
Cahill Hameetman Auditorium
TUESDAY:
10:30 Cahill Astro-Coffee Cahill Ahmanson Library
12:15 IR/sub-mm/mm lunch
Lauritsen 469
4:00 Planetary Science Seminar
Salvatori Room (365 So. Mudd)
4:00 (3:30) Carnegie Colloquium Series
William T. Golden Auditorium
WEDNESDAY:
10:30 Cahill Astro-Coffee Cahill Ahmanson Library
12:00 Dimitri Veras Formation, Survival, and Detectability of Planets Beyond 100 AU IPAC Lunch Seminar
IPAC 102
4:00 (3:45) Zeljko Ivezic (U. of Washington) Mapping the Milky Way: from SDSS and 2MASS to LSST and Gaia 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)
2:00 Simon Scheidegger (University of Basel) TBA Theoretical astrophysics and relativity seminar
370 Cahill
4:00 (3:50) Nancy Kiang (GISS) Efficiency of photon energy use for life processes: implications for spectral biosignatures JPL Astrophysics and Exoplanet Science Seminars
JPL Buil. 169, Room 336
4:00 (3:45) M. Zahid Hasan (Princeton University) Topological Insulators : the Observation of Quantum Hall-like Effects without Magnetic Field Physics Research Conference
East Bridge 201 (East Bridge 110)
4:00 (3:30) Thomas Bensby (ESO, Chile) Metallicities and Abundance Ratios in the Galactic Bulge Based on Microlensed Dwarf Stars Carnegie colloquium
Carnegie Auditorium
FRIDAY:
10:30 Cahill Astro-Coffee Cahill Ahmanson Library
12:15 Ian Roederer (Texas) Characterizing the Chemistry of the Milky Way Halo Carnegie Observatories Lunch Talks
Carnegie Conference Room
2:00 Tony Piro (UC Berkeley) Simmering, Exploding, and Imploding 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).