The Salpeter Lectureship Series
The Salpeter Lecture Series was established in 1998 to honor Professor Edwin E. Salpeter, one of the most important astrophysicists of the 20th century. Under the auspices of the lectureship, distinguished astronomers and astrophysicists are invited to visit Cornell for one to two weeks.
2009 SALPETER LECTURER
Gilles Chabrier, ENS Lyon
Astronomy Colloquium: April 23, 2009 (Thursday)
4:30 p.m. 105 Space Sciences Building
"Star, Brown Dwarf Formation and Early Stages of Evolution. Theory of the
Initial Mass Function"
Joint Physics/Astronomy Colloquium: April 27, 2009 (Monday)
4:00 p.m. Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall
"Recent Results in Exoplanet Formation, Structure and Evolution"
Former Salpeter Lecturers:
1999 Sterl
Phinney (CalTech)
2000 Lars
Bildsten
(Univ. California-Berkeley)
2001 Dave Stevenson (CalTech)
2002 John
Carlstrom (Univ. Chicago)
2003 Shri
Kulkarni (CalTech)
2004 Andrea Ghez (UCLA)
2005 Victoria Kaspi (McGill)
2006 Avi Loeb (Harvard)
2007 Jonathan Lunine (Univ. of Arizona)
2008
Alexei Filippenko (Univ. California-Berkeley)
