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Past Schedule of WIS-Chats

  • Wednesday, September 10, 2014, Meeting Room B105, 4:15 pm: Eva Grebel , Professor of Astronomy at Heidelberg (Germany) University, and Director, Astronomical Computing Center. She is delivering the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Distinguished Lecture in Astronomy on Sept. 11: Dwarf Galaxies and their Role as Building Blocks.

  • Monday, February 10, 2014, Pratt Conference Room, 3:15 pm: Charles Alcock , Director, Center for Astrophysics This time, we will meet with one of our own. This talk is somewhat of a "first", because we've exclusively had female scientists as WIS-Chat guests so far. Feel free to bring any kind of questions related to job profile, career path, personal insights... Tea and snacks provided! If you have strong feelings about having female vs. female and male guests at the WIS-Chat, please let me know. This WIS-Chat is sort of an experiment; I think that our director can give some valuable insights that most of us postdocs and grad students don't have easy access to, and therefore I chose to deviate from the usually exclusively female line-up.

  • Wednesday, January 22, 2014, ClassRoom (A101), 2:30 pm: Kim McLeod , Professor of Astronomy, Wellesley College. Wellesley is a women's liberal arts college, and Kim's undergraduate research students work on observational projects like the KELT exoplanet network. At the moment, she is spending her research sabbatical here at the CfA.

  • Thursday, September 19, 2012, Tea Room, 11:00 am: Heather Knutson , Assistant Professor of Planetary Science, Caltech. Heather earned her Ph.D. from Harvard in 2009, and will be sharing her experiences in her job search.

  • Thursday, March 1, 2012, Classroom, 5:15 pm: Kathryn Johnston , Associate Professor, Columbia University. Kathryn earned her Ph.D. at University of California Santa Cruz, completed a post-doc at the Institute for Advanced Study, then then joined the faculty at Wesleyan University where she was awarded an NSF Career Grant. She uses both observations and simulations to investigate how galaxies, especially our Local Group form. At the chat she will also discuss some statistics of Women in Science and Engineering. Cookies will be provided.

  • Thursday, February 8, 2012, Tearoom, 10:00 am: Lynne Hillenbrand, Professor, Caltech. Her research focuses on star and planet formation, stellar astrophysics, and observational data analysis from X-ray to millimeter wavelengths. Besides mentoring 20 undergrads, 11 grad students, and 10 post-docs, she has taken an active role in the astronomical community and has served on a number of national advisory and steering committees with a large range of acronyms including the AAAC, NRC, NASA, NSF, AAS, and IAU. The Chat will be shorter and earlier than usual due to the typically crowded schedule on Thursday. Some sort of morning-appropriate food will be provided.

  • Wednesday, November 30, 2011, Classroom, 4:00 pm: Beth Willman , Assistant Professor, Haverford College. Beth received her PhD at the University of Washington and was a Clay Fellow here at the CfA. Beth works on near-field cosmology and has a dwarf galaxy named after her (Willman 1). Cupcakes will be provided!!

  • Monday, October 31, 2011, Classroom, 3:30 pm: Nancy Evans , Smithsonian Scientist. A non-spooky WIS Chat this afternoon. Nancy was an undergraduate at Wellesley College and completed her Ph.D. at the University of Toronto. She has since dedicated many years to studying Cepheids and also serving as science staff of IUE and Chandra. Cupcakes will be provided!!

  • Monday, September 19, 2011, Classroom, 3:00 pm: Lisa Kewley , Professor at the Insitute for Astronomy at the University of Hawaii. Her research interests include galaxy evolution, star formation, AGN and ULIRGs. She has received both the AAS Newton Lacy Pierce Prize and the Annie Jump Cannon Award. Cookies or some other dessert will be provided.

  • Tuesday, February 1, 2011, Classroom, 3:30 pm: Lisa Kaltenegger , Scientist and Group Leader at MPIA in Heidelberg. Lisa finished a postdoc at the CfA in 2009 and now splits her time between MPIA in Heidelberg and Harvard. She works on characterizing exo-planets and exo-moons.

  • Thursday, November 4, 2010, Pratt, 9:45 am: Sara Seager , Ellen Swallow Richards Professor of Planetary Science and a Professor of Physics at MIT. She works on modeling exoplanet atmospheres and interiors.

  • Tuesday, October 12, 2010, Classroom - A101, 1:30 pm: Christine Jones-Forman, Senior Physicist, SAO. Christine works on X-ray observations of galaxies here at the CfA. In 2009 she was awarded the Marcel Grossman Award for her pioneering work in X-ray imaging of galaxy clusters.

  • Monday, April 26, 2010, Classroom - A101, 2:00 pm: Debra Fischer , Professor of Astronomy at Yale and on sabbatical here in Cambridge as a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute. Debra is the Principal Investigator of several programs searching for exoplanets, including the Lick Planet Search, N2K, M2K and CTIO programs.

  • Monday, Feb. 22, 2010, Classroom - A101, 4:00 pm: Alyssa Goodman , Professor of Astronomy at Harvard, and PI of the COMPLETE Survey of Star-Forming Regions. Alyssa also founded Harvard's Initiative in Innovative Computing and served as the Center's Director for several years.

  • Friday, Dec. 11, 2009, Classroom - A101, 11:00 am: Claire Max, Director of the Center for Adaptive Optics, UC Santa Cruz.

  • Monday, Nov. 2, 2009, Classroom - A101, 2:00 pm: Margaret Meixner , Astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute. She is visiting CfA this year. Among her interests, she is the PI of the Spitzer SAGE project mapping the Large Magellanic Cloud.

  • Monday, Oct. 5, 2009, Classrom - A101, 2:00 pm: Feryal Ozel , Associate Professor at the University of Arizona who is visiting CfA this semester.

  • Wednesday, July 1, 2009, Pratt, 3:00 pm: Kate Kirby , ITAMP Co-Director, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory

  • Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2008, Pratt, 5:00 pm: Andrea Dupree , Senior Astrophysicist, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory

  • Friday, May 2, 2008, Phillips Auditorium, 12:00: Crystal Martin , Associate Professor of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara

  • Thursday, November 8, 2007, M-240 (160 Concord) , 1:00 pm: Martha Haynes , Professor, Cornell University, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Lecture for 2007 at CfA.

  • Wednesday, October 24, 2007, Tea Room , 2:45 pm: Penny Sackett, Professor, Australian National University and past Director of Mt. Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatories.

  • Thursday, September 20, 2007, C-34, 2:45 pm: Andrea Ghez, Professor of Astronomy, UCLA. Please note new room and time.

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    Last modified on 9 December 2015.