CfAlogo CfA WIS-Chats


  • We have started informal meetings with visiting female colloquium speakers and Women in Science at CfA. These meetings will be a chance for women grad students and postdocs to talk informally with the speaker and ask her about experiences in academia, women's issues such as maternity leave, research topics, applying for jobs, how to solve the two-body problem, or anything along these lines that is of interest. We plan to have light refreshments too!

  • Jessie Christiansen and Stella Offner are organizing these meetings, email Jessie or Stella with ideas and/or questions.

    Schedule of WIS-Chats

    • Monday, Nov. 2, 2009, Classrom - A101, 2:00 pm: Margaret Meixner , Astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute. She is visiting CfA this year. Among her interests, she is the PI of the Spitzer SAGE project mapping the Large Magellanic Cloud.

    • Monday, Oct. 5, 2009, Classrom - A101, 2:00 pm: Feryal Ozel , Associate Professor at the University of Arizona who is visiting CfA this semester.

    • Wednesday, July 1, 2009, Pratt, 3:00 pm: Kate Kirby , ITAMP Co-Director, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory

    • Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2008, Pratt, 5:00 pm: Andrea Dupree , Senior Astrophysicist, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory

    • Friday, May 2, 2008, Phillips Auditorium, 12:00: Crystal Martin , Associate Professor of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara

    • Thursday, November 8, 2007, M-240 (160 Concord) , 1:00 pm: Martha Haynes , Professor, Cornell University, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Lecture for 2007 at CfA.

    • Wednesday, October 24, 2007, Tea Room , 2:45 pm: Penny Sackett, Professor, Australian National University and past Director of Mt. Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatories.

    • Thursday, September 20, 2007, C-34, 2:45 pm: Andrea Ghez, Professor of Astronomy, UCLA. Please note new room and time.