Spring 2007

• Anna Frebel, University of Texas-Discovering the most metal-poor Galactic halo stars
• Liliya Williams, U. Minn.-Imaging Dark Matter with Gravitational Lensing
• Jeff Hester, Arizona State Univ.-Understanding our Origins: The Birth Environment of  the Sun
• Lee Hartman, Univ. of Michigan-Dynamic Star Formation
• Eric Wilcots, University of Wisconsin-Probing the Baryon Content of Galaxy Groups: A Radio Perspective
• Lisa Randall, Harvard Univ.-Searching for Warped Geometry at the LHC and Beyond
• Sally Oey, Univ. of Michigan-Parameterizing the Massive Star Population and Recent Highlights on Feedback Effects
• Peter Frinchaboy, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison-Dark Matter and Tidal Disruption in the Local Group
• Nuria Calvert, U. Michigan
• Jennifer Johnson, Ohio State

Fall 2006

• Kurtis Williams, University of Texas Austin-Stellar Forensics: What White Dwarfs Tell Us About the Life and Death of Stars
• Angela Olinto, Univ. of Chicago, Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics-A New Era in UHE AstroParticle Physics
• Stuart Mufson, Indiana Univ.-Cosmic Muon Astrophysics with MINOS
• Tammy Smecker-Hane, U of California, Irvine-The Near Infrared Calcium Triplet - A Tool for Investigating the Evolution of M33 and the Leo I and Leo II Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies