<div dir="ltr"><p style="color:rgb(14,16,26);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">Hi Physics and Astronomy Grads,</span></p><p style="color:rgb(14,16,26);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p style="color:rgb(14,16,26);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">No Physics & Astronomy Student Seminar (PASS) this week. Last week we had a good crowd for Mehrdad's exoplanet + dark matter talk.</span></p><p style="color:rgb(14,16,26);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p style="color:rgb(14,16,26);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">The next one will be </span><strong style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">on 2/22 (Wed) at 4 pm</span></strong><span style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">. Chris Cain (PI: Anson D'Aloisio) will talk to us about his recent research.</span></p><p style="color:rgb(14,16,26);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p style="color:rgb(14,16,26);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">Confirmed schedule for the Winter quarter are</span></p><p style="color:rgb(14,16,26);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">2/22 (Wed): Chris Cain               (Astro Theory)</span></p><p style="color:rgb(14,16,26);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">3/1   (Wed): Robert Dawson       (Condensed Matter)<br></span></p><p style="color:rgb(14,16,26);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">3/8   (Wed): Archana Aravindan (Astro Observation)<br></span></p><p style="color:rgb(14,16,26);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">3/15 (Wed): Wenjun Chang        (Astro Observation)</span></p><p style="color:rgb(14,16,26);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p style="color:rgb(14,16,26);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><b>If you'd like to present your work next week (2/15), please do let me know! We have one spot open next week.</b></p><p style="color:rgb(14,16,26);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">To suggest new speakers, please go </span><span style="color:rgb(74,110,224);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xR325pj7zc9jlHSRb7UKDPtRwLuL3hKGxTIeBxi38wo/edit?usp=sharing" style="color:rgb(74,110,224);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></p><p style="color:rgb(14,16,26);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></span></p><p style="color:rgb(14,16,26);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">Best,</p><font color="#888888"><p style="color:rgb(14,16,26);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">Ming-Feng</span></p><p></p><br></font></div>