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 * ~ **Week 1** ||~   ||~ Feb 13-17 ||~ Conference: ||~ First Light and Faintest Dwarfs: Extreme Probes of the Cold Dark Matter Paradigm ||~   ||


 * ~ **Week 2** ||~ __Time__ ||~ __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Mon, Feb 20 ||  ||   || //TBA// || //Holiday-No Scheduled Events// || Presidents' Day ||
 * Tue, Feb 21 || 10:00am || Small Auditorium || **All participants** || //Organizational Meeting// || All welcome! ||
 * Tue, Feb 21 || 12:30pm || Small Seminar || Chris Pfrommer ||  || informal talk ||
 * Wed, Feb 22 || 11:00am || Founders Room ||  || informal coffee discussion ||   ||
 * Thu, Feb 23 || 04:00pm || LCOGT || Anyone || Seminar talk || See email (***) below ||

largest cosmic telescopes team up to study the first galaxies || Seminar ||
 * ~ **Week 3** ||~ __Time__ ||~ __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Mon, Feb 27 || 12:15pm || Small Auditorium || Risa Wechsler || Tiny galaxies and the Small-Scale Structure of Dark Matter || Blackboard Lunch Seminar, All welcome. ||
 * Tue, Feb 28 || 12.30pm || Small Seminar || Stacy McGaugh || TBD || Brown Bag Lunch Talks ||
 * Wed, Feb 29 || 11.00 || Founders Room || McGaugh&Gnedin || TBD || Coffee Talk Discussion ||
 * Thu, Mar 01 || 03.30pm || small auditorium || Marusa Bradac || The world's largest optical telescope and the universe's
 * Thu, Mar 01 || 11.00 || Founders Room || Carlos Vera || Issues on the "too big too fail" problem. (working title) || Coffee Talk Discussion ||
 * Fri, Mar 02 || 11.00 || Founders Room || Oleg Gnedin || Issues on the mass of the MW (working title) || Coffee Talk Discussion ||


 * ~ **Week 4** ||~ __Time__ ||~ __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Mon, Mar 5 || 11.00 || Founders Room || Simona Vegetti || Issues in detecting substructures with lensing || Coffee Talk Discussion ||
 * Tues, Mar 6 || 12:30pm || Small Seminar || Marcelo Alvarez || Radiative Feedback on Low Mass Galaxies during Reionization || Brown Bag Lunch Talk ||
 * Wed, Mar 7 || 11.00am || Founders Room || Stefania Salvadori || First Stars and First Galaxies ||  ||
 * Thurs, Mar 8 || 11.00 || Founders Room || Fassnact & Treu || Lensing time delays || Coffee Talk Discussion ||
 * Thur, Mar 8 || 3:30pm || small auditorium || Nitya Kallivayalil || The Magellanic Clouds and Stream: Galactic Accretion in Action || Seminar ||
 * Fri, Mar 09 || 12:30pm || Founders Room || Michele Trenti || First galaxies and reionization: what we observe versus what we simulate ||  ||
 * Fri, Mar 09 || all day ||  || UCSB astroday || [] ||   ||


 * ~ **Week 5** ||~ __Time__ ||~ __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Mon, Mar 12 || 11.00 || Founders Room || Owen Parry || TBD ||  ||
 * Tue, Mar 13 || 12:30pm || Small Seminar Room || Marla Geha || The absence of quenched dwarf galaxies in the field. || Brown Bag Lunch Talk ||
 * Wed, Mar 14 || 11.00am || Founders Room || Leon Koopmans || The theory and strength of flux and surface brightness anomalies to detect substructure ||  ||
 * Thu, Mar 15 || 11.00am || Founders Room || Ben Mazin || Detector Technology || On popular request ||
 * Thu, Mar 15 || 3:30 pm || Small Auditorium || Allyson Brooks || Observable consequences of core creation in dwarfs || Seminar ||
 * Fri, Mar 16 || 11.00am || Founders Room || Mike Kuhlen || TBD ||  ||

Andrea Ferrara || The Fundamental Metallicity Relation of galaxies || informal coffee discussion ||
 * ~ **Week 6** ||~ __Time__ ||~ __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Mon, Mar 19 || 11.00am || Founders Room ||  || **//Cancelled because of BB lunch talk//**. ||   ||
 * Tue, Mar 20 || 12.30pm || Small Seminar Room || Rachel Somerville || The dwarf conundrum: a bunch of linked problems with global properties of dwarf galaxies in LCDM models || Brown Bag Lunch Talk ||
 * Wed, Mar 21 || 11:00am || Founders Room || Molly Peeples &
 * Thu, Mar 22 || 11.00a.m || Founders Room || Mike Boylan-Kolchin || TBD || informal coffee discussion ||
 * Thu, Mar 22 || 03.30pm || Small Auditorium || Andy Bunker || The luminosity function at high redshift - do dwarfs do all the work? || Seminar ||
 * Fri, Mar 23 || 11.00am || Founders Room || Andrey Kravtsov || Neutral gas distribution in dwarf galaxies || informal coffee discussion ||

Annika Peter || Issues related to SIDM & WDM || informal coffee discussion ||
 * ~ **Week 7** ||~ __Time__ ||~ __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Mon, Mar 26 || 11.00am || Founders Room || Tom Abel, Andrey Kravtsov
 * Tue, Mar 27 || 12.30pm || Small Auditorium || Massimo Ricotti || BHs || Brown Bag Lunch Talk ||
 * Wed, Mar 28 || 11:00am || Founders Room || Continued from Mon. coffee || Issues related to SIDM & WDM || informal coffee discussion ||
 * Thu, Mar 29 || 11.00a.m || Founders Room || Open discussion ||  || informal coffee discussion ||
 * Thu, Mar 29 || 03.30pm || Small Auditorium || Frank vd Bosch || Dark Halo Response and the Stellar IMF || Seminar ||
 * Fri, Mar 30 || 11.00am || Founders Room || Martin Haehnelt || TBD || informal coffee discussion ||


 * ~ **Week 8** ||~ __Time__ ||~ __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Mon, Apr 2 || 11.00am || Founders Room ||  ||   || informal coffee discussion ||
 * Tue, Apr 3 || 11:00am || Founders Room || Andy Bunker || uncertainties in galaxies reionizing the universe || informal coffee discussion ||
 * Wed, Apr 4 || 11:00am || Founders Room || Michael Busha || statistics of satellites || informal coffee discussion ||
 * Thu, Apr 5 || 11.00a.m || Founders Room || informal discussion ||  || informal coffee discussion ||
 * Thu, Apr 6 || 03.30pm || Small Auditorium || Tom Theuns ||  || Seminar ||
 * Fri, Apr 7 || 11.00am || Founders Room || informal discussion ||  || informal coffee discussion ||


 * ~ **Week 9** ||~ __Time__ ||~ __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Mon, Apr 9 || 11.00am || Founders Room || Michael Busha || mass estimates of the milky way || informal coffee discussion ||
 * Tue, Apr 10 || 12:30pm || Small Seminar Room || Andrey Kravtsov || abundance matching and dwarf galaxies || Brown Bag Lunch Talk ||
 * Wed, Apr 11 || 11:00am || Founders Room || informal discussion ||  || informal coffee discussion ||
 * Thu, Apr 12 || 11.00a.m || Founders Room || Anna Nierenberg || evolution of satellites || informal coffee discussion ||
 * Thu, Apr 12 || 03.30pm || Small Auditorium || Tom Abel || Tracing the Dark Matter Sheet through phase space || Seminar ||
 * Fri, Apr 13 || 11.00am || Founders Room || Else Starkenberg ||  || informal coffee discussion ||


 * ~ **Week 10** ||~ __Time__ ||~ __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Mon, Apr 16 || 11.00am || Founders Room || Louie Strigari || LHC constraints on dark matter || informal coffee discussion ||
 * Tue, Apr 17 || 12:30pm || Small Seminar Room || Yu Lu || feedback in low mass galaxies || Brown Bag Lunch Talk ||
 * Wed, Apr 18 || 11:00am || Founders Room || Michael Busha ||  || informal coffee discussion ||
 * Thu, Apr 19 || 11.00a.m || Founders Room || Peter Behroozi ||  || informal coffee discussion ||
 * Thu, Apr 19 || 03.30pm || Small Auditorium || Louie Strigari || Dark Matter Properties from the Faintest Galaxies || Seminar ||
 * Fri, Apr 20 || 11.00am || Founders Room || Peng Oh ||  || informal coffee discussion ||


 * ~ **Week 11** ||~ __Time__ ||~ __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Mon, Apr 23 || 11.00am || Founders Room || astro-ph discussion ||  || informal coffee discussion ||
 * Tue, Apr 24 || 12:30pm || Small Seminar Room || Matt McQuinn ||  || Brown Bag Lunch Talk ||
 * Wed, Apr 25 || 11:00am || Founders Room || Noam Libeskind ||  || informal coffee discussion ||
 * Thu, Apr 26 || 11.00a.m || Founders Room || Neal Jackson ||  || informal coffee discussion ||
 * Thu, Apr 27 || 03.30pm || Small Auditorium ||  ||   || Seminar ||
 * Fri, Apr 28 || 11.00am || Founders Room || Sherry Suyu ||  || informal coffee discussion ||

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 * ~ **Week 12** ||~ __Time__ ||~ __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Mon, Apr 30 || 11.00am || Founders Room || Tommaso Treu ||  || informal coffee discussion ||
 * Tue, May 1 || 12:30pm || Small Seminar Room || Crystal Martin || Demographics of Gas Outflows and Inflows at z~1 || Brown Bag Lunch Talk ||
 * Wed, May 2 || 11:00am || Founders Room ||  ||   || informal coffee discussion ||
 * Thu, May 3 || 11.00a.m || Founders Room ||  ||   || informal coffee discussion ||
 * Thu, May 3 || 03.30pm || Small Auditorium ||  ||   || Seminar ||
 * Fri, May 4 || 11.00am || Founders Room ||  ||   || informal coffee discussion ||
 * Fri, May 4 || 11.00am || Founders Room ||  ||   || informal coffee discussion ||


 * Aud=Auditorium, SSR=Small Seminar Room, MSR=Main Seminar Room, FR=Founders' Room, PL=Porthole Lounge**

//(***) LCOGT, the Las Cumbres Global Telescope Network, is a facility located in Goleta, and affiliated with UCSB, working on the creation of a world wide telescope network.// //Every month we host a Science Seminar, and in conjunction with the KITP conference we are proud to present our next seminar://

//Prof. Beth Willman.// //Title: "What is a Galaxy?"// //Thursday February 23rd, 4pm//

//The Seminar will take place at the LCOGT headquarters, less than 2 miles from UCSB campus, and a round trip shuttle ride will be provided. We would also like to invite you to a small reception after the seminar, and a tour of our facilities. Detailed schedule, talk abstract and speaker's bio follow. For more information on our Seminar Series please visit//

//https://secure.lcogt.net/user/fbianco/dev/LCOGT_ScienceSeminarSeries/current.html//

//and for information on LCOGT//

//http://lcogt.net///

//Schedule:// //3:30 and 3:45: pick up @ KITP back entrance// //4:00: Seminar: Prof. Beth Willman - "What is a galaxy?"// //5:00: tour of the LCOGT facilities// //5:30: beer and cheese reception @ LCOGT// //6:00 and 6:15: ride back to KITP//

//Title: "what is a Galaxy?"//

//Abstract//

//In the past five years more than a dozen tiny, dwarf galaxies have been discovered around the Milky Way. Many of these discoveries are 100 times less luminous than any galaxy previously known and a million times less luminous than the Milky Way itself. These objects have made astronomers question the very meaning of the word "galaxy". The advent of wide field, digital sky surveys (in particular the Sloan Digital Sky Survey) facilitated these discoveries, and hint that "ultra-faint" galaxies like the recent discoveries might actually be the most numerous type of galaxies in the Universe. This talk will highlight:// //i. how we can see galaxies that are effectively invisible in images on the sky,// //ii. the brewing controversy on the definition of the term "galaxy", and// //iii. new photometric and spectroscopic studies of and searches for ultra-faint Milky Way satellites.//

//Speaker's Bio://

//Beth Willman, who received her B.A. in astrophysics at Columbia University and a Ph.D. in astronomy at the University of Washington, has been a James Arthur Fellow at the Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics, and a Clay Fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Beth's research focus is Near Field Cosmology. She specializes in searching for and studying the least luminous galaxies in the known Universe. The overarching theme of her research is to use comparisons between theory and observations of the local universe to learn about dark matter and galaxy formation. In particular, Beth investigates whether observations of the Milky Way and the ultra-faint galaxies orbiting it are consistent with the Cold Dark Matter model of the Universe//

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