THE PSI SEMINAR SERIES: WEDNESDAYS

3:00pm PSI Tea

3:30pm PSI Seminar

SPRING 2004

PSI seminars will be held at the Planetary Science Institute ( 1700 Ft. Lowell Rd., Suite 106, Tucson)

 
Date Speaker Title
Jan. 21 Tim Jull   -   Geosciences Dept., University of Arizona Terrestrial ages and infall rates of meteorites
28 Mary Bourke   -   Planetary Science Institute Aeolian-fluvial dynamics in central Australia and the Namib Desert
Feb. 4 Michael Meyer   -   Steward Observatory, University of Arizona An Astronomical Search for the Essential Ingredients of Life: The New UofA/NOAO LAPLACE Node of NASA's Astrobiology Institute
11 Hirdy Miyamoto   -   Lunar & Planetary Lab., University of Arizona Numerical simulation of debris flows over sand dunes on Mars
18 Gareth Collins   -   Lunar & Planetary Lab., University of Arizona Numerical Simulations of the South Pole-Aitken Impact
25 John Stansberry   -   Steward Observatory, University of Arizona Early Results from Spitzer Space Telescope
Mar. 3 Ralph Lorenz   -   Lunar & Planetary Lab., University of Arizona Comet-Tail Ejecta Streaks : A Cratering Landform Unique to Titan?
10 Jay Melosh   -   Lunar & Planetary Lab., University of Arizona Shatter cones, pseudotachylites and other impact insults
17     35th LPSC (League City, TX)
24 Rachel Mastrapa   -   Lunar & Planetary Lab., University of Arizona Stability of Amorphous Water Ice on Solar System Bodies: A Key to Thermal History
31 Boris Ivanov   -   Inst. for Dynamics of Geospheres, Russian Academy of Sciences First European Mars Mission: HRSC images Mars in colors and stereo
Apr. 7 Richard Poss   -   Humanities Program and Astronomy Dept., University of Arizona Interpreting Planetary Landscapes in Visual Art
14 Adam Showman   -   Lunar & Planetary Lab., University of Arizona Atmospheric dynamics of the giant planets
21 Natalia Artemieva   -   Inst. for Dynamics of Geospheres, Russian Academy of Sciences Martian meteorites and secondary craters on Mars
28 Gordon "Oz" Osinski   -   Planet Science Institute & Lunar & Planetary Lab. Antarctica: Ice, Mountains, and Meteorites
May 5 Robert Jedicke   -   Inst. for Astronomy, University of Hawaii Space Weathering on Main Belt Asteroids
12 Renu Malhotra   -   Lunar & Planetary Lab., University of Arizona Asteroids, KBOs and other debris in planetary systems
19 Gil Esquerdo   -   Planetary Science Institute The APO-PSI TNO Survey
26 Eric Betterton   -   Atmospheric Sciences Dept., University of Arizona Chemical reactions in frozen solution: A possible pathway for enhanced chemical transformation in freezing systems
June 2 Giuseppe Mitri   -   Intern. Res. School of Planetary Sciences, Universita` d'Annunzio & Univ. of Arizona Thermal evolution and present state of the ice shell of Europa
9 Steve Howell   -   National Optical Astronomy Observatory There's a New Detector in Town !
16 Karl Hibbitts   -   Planetary Science Institute A 'dark secret' of Ganymede revealed
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30 Barbara Cohen   -  Institute of Meteoritics, Univ. of New Mexico Geochemical and Geochronological Testing of the Lunar Cataclysm Hypothesis

FALL 2003

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