<br><br><a name="13e6c3900dd8b466_OLE_LINK2" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><span></span>The Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences</span></a><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">
<span style="font-size:14.0pt">Harvard University<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">
<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Dissertation Defense<u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right:.2in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.2in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;text-autospace:none">
<span style="font-size:18.0pt">“On the Thermodynamics of Planetary Impact Events”<b><u></u><u></u></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt">Rick Kraus</span></b><span style="font-size:18.0pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">
<span style="font-size:14.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Friday, May 10, 2013<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">
<span style="font-size:14.0pt">10:00 a.m., Haller Hall<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">
<i><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Refreshments to follow in </span></i><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt">the Student Lounge, Hoffman 4<sup>th</sup> floor<u></u><u></u></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
</div><br><br><br>-- <br>Sarah T. Stewart-Mukhopadhyay<div>Professor of Earth & Planetary Sciences, Harvard University<br>617.863.0423, <a href="http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~planets/sstewart/" target="_blank">www.shock.eps.harvard.edu</a></div>
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