May 6
Monday
12:05pm to 1:00pm
Marlar Lounge (37-252)
Special HETG Meeting
"The Interconnection Between an Accreting Black Hole and Its Environment" (Speaker: Susmita Chakravorty, CfA)
May 7
Tuesday
1:30pm
Marlar Lounge (37-252)
lectures/conferences
Astrophysics Colloquium--The Imprint of the First Stars on Dwarf Galaxies (Speaker: John Wise, Georgia Tech)
May 7
Tuesday
4:00pm to 5:00pm
16.68 Modern Space Science and Engineering
Paleomagnetism and Lunar Exploration (Speaker: Ben Weiss, EAPS)
May 8
Wednesday
2:30am
37-212
GRITTS Seminar
Tilt-Free Inertial Sensing Concept and Tilt-Horizontal Coupling Attenuation Experiment (Fabrice Matichard, speaker)
May 8
Wednesday
4:00pm to 5:00pm
NW22 Conference Room
HETG Group Meeting Talk
"A Holistic View of a Black Hole Binary: Bringing Together Spectral, Timing, and Polarization Analysis of Cygnus X-1" (Speaker: Victoria Grinberg, ECAP-Bamberg)
May 9
Thursday
2:00pm
Marlar Lounge (37-252)
The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium
Graphene: a Physicist’s View of the 'Wonder Material' (Speaker: Eva Andrei, Rutgers)
May 9
Thursday
4:00pm
10-250
MKI Journal Club
Speakers: Tom Cooper and Ron Remillard
May 10
Friday
12:00pm

A nearby star is pummeling a companion planet with a barrage of X-rays a hundred thousand times more than the Earth receives from the Sun. Credit: NASA/CXC/NSF/IPAC/2MASS (see the 
