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- SMP 12/21/02 | Peering into the Earth: From Earthquakes to Diamonds | Speaker: Wendy Panero
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- SMP 12/8/12 | Cosmic Rhapsody: From the Echo of the Big Bang to the Orchestration of the Universe | Speaker: Heidi Wu
- SMP 12/1/12 | Gravitational Lensing: Nature's Largest Telescopes | Speaker: Keren Sharon
- SMP 11/10/12 | The Sun as a Star | Speaker: Alicia Aarnio
- SMP 11/3/12 | Volcanoes and Precious Metal Deposits: What is the Connection? | Speaker: Adam Simon
- SMP 10/27/12 | Solar Powering Your House or Saving the World One Electron at a Time | Speaker: Stephen Forrest
- SMP 10/20/12 | How Flexible Bodies Move and Interact in Fluids | Speaker: Silas Alben
- SMP 10/13/12 | The Physics Behind the Music | Speaker: James Liu
- SMP 10/6/12 | The New Particle Discovery at LHC with the ATLAS Experiment | Speaker: Bing Zhou
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- Seminars & Colloquia
Our closest star provides astronomers with a unique opportunity to observe, in high spatial and temporal resolution, the spectacular interaction of hot plasma and magnetic fields which occurs on a daily basis. While we cannot observe these same phenomena in such detail on distant stars, what we do see in solar-type stars at a variety of ages helps us to piece together the history of our Sun and unravel how our solar system came to be. In a mutually beneficial way, solar physics and astrophysics research complement each other well, studies of each serving to fill gaps in our understanding of the other. In this lecture, I will discuss our view of the Sun in time: today's Sun helps us interpret what we observe in stars, and young, solar-type stars give us a glimpse of the solar system in its youth, in the epoch of planet formation.
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