| DATE | SPEAKER | INSTITUTE | TITLE | HOST |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wed 15 Jan |
Erik Petigura | UC Berkeley / IfA | Prevalence of Earth-size planets orbiting Sun-like stars | Andrew Howard |
| Wed 22 Jan |
Georges Meynet | Geneva Observatory | Massive star evolution along the cosmic history: some puzzles and perspectives | Rolf Kudritzki |
| Wed 29 Jan |
Bo Reipurth | IfA | George Herbig: A Life in Science | Alan Tokunaga |
| Wed 5 Feb |
Nader Haghighipour | IfA | A New Model for the Formation of Terrestrial Planets and the Origin of Mars | Norbert Schorghofer |
| Wed 12 Feb |
William Welsh | San Diego State University | Kepler Circumbinary Planets | Nader Haghighipour |
| Wed 19 Feb |
Michael Cooper | University of California, Irvine | Expanding the Low-Mass Galaxy Frontier | Andrew Howard |
| Thu 27 Feb |
Shri Kulkarni | Caltech | There is more room sideways | Jessica Lu |
| Fri 7 Mar |
Ann Marie Cody | IPAC/Caltech | Dynamic young stars and their disks: a temporal view | Jessica Lu |
| Wed 12 Mar |
Trent Dupuy | Harvard CfA | A Stormy Forecast for the Evolution of Brown Dwarfs | Mike Liu |
| Fri 21 Mar at 2:30pm |
Adam Burgasser | UCSD | 1000+ Cool Spectra: Science, Art and Education with the SpeX Prism Libraries | John Rayner |
| Wed 2 Apr |
Claire Moutou | CFHT / Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille | Exo-Jupiters | Andrew Howard |
| Wed 9 Apr |
Leon Harding | Caltech | CHIMERA - A New Window on The High Speed Universe | Christoph Baranec |
| Wed 16 Apr |
Warren Skidmore | TMT | Thirty Meter Telescope: The Next Generation of Ground Based Optical/Infrared Observatory | Alan Tokunaga |
| Wed 23 Apr |
Roger O'Brient | Caltech | Tickets to the gun show: B-mode cosmology with BICEP1 and BICEP2 | Christoph Baranec |
| Wed 7 May |
Quinn Konopacky | Dunlap Institute University of Toronto |
Orbits and Atmospheres of Directly Imaged Exoplanets | Jessica Lu |
| Thu 15 May |
Eric Becklin | UCLA | Complementary SOFIA and Keck AO Science in Orion Molecular Cloud 1 and The Galactic Center | Gareth Wynn-Williams |
| Wed 21 May |
Stan Metchev | University of Western Ontario | Exoplanetary Worlds: Atmospheres and Architectures | Mike Liu |
| Wed 28 May |
Bringfried Stecklum | Karl Schwarzchild Observatory | Shadows in the Sky - What They May Tell Us | Jonathan Williams |
| Tue 29 July at 1pm |
Doug Simons | CFHT | Current status and future plans for the Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer (MSE) | Guenther Hasinger |
| Wed 30 July |
Bernard Schutz | Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics | Prospects for the first gravitational wave detections and their follow-ups | Guenther Hasinger |