ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIA

Spring 2009

 

 

All talks on Tuesdays at 4:30 p.m. in Peyton Hall Auditorium

 

February 3rd
Eileen Reeves - Princeton


Complete Inventions: The Galilean Telescope and its Rivals

ereeves@Princeton.EDU

Host: Strauss

Arr - 2/3, 3:30pm
Depart - 2/3

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February 10th
Mark Devlin - UPenn


Where Did Half the Starlight in the Universe Go?

devlin@physics.upenn.edu

Host: Rafikov

Arr - 2/10, Morning
Depart - 2/10 After Dinner

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February 17th
Tristan Guillot - Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur


Planets in transit: evolution models, compositions and statistics.

guillot@obs-nice.fr

Host: Goodman

Arr - 2/16 Afternoon
Depart -2/18 Afternoon

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February 24th
Pat Slane - CFA


The Structure and Evolution of Pulsar Wind Nebulae.

slane@cfa.harvard.edu

Host: Spitkovsky

Arr - 2/23 Afternoon
Depart - 2/25 Morning

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March 3rd
Stewart Prager - PPPL

Magnetic Self-Organization in a Laboratory Plasma with Links to Astrophysics

sprager@pppl.gov

Host: Rafikov

Arr - Local
Depart - Local

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March 10th
Chris Mihos - Case Western Reserve


Using Intracluster Light to Probe Galaxy Clusters.

hos@burro.astr.cwru.edu

Host: Strauss

Arr - 3/9 Afternoon
Depart - 3/11 Morning

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March 24th
Chris Reynolds - Maryland


Measurements of black hole spin with X-ray spectroscopy.

chris@astro.umd.edu

Host: Stone

Arr - 3/24 Noon
Depart - 3/25 Morning

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March 31th
Joachim Wambsganss - Heidelberg


Strong Gravitational Lensing as a Universal Tool: Near - Far, Light - Dark, Micro - Macro.

jkw@ari.uni-heidelberg.de

Host: Rafikov

Arr -
Depart -

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April 7th
John Bally - Colorado


Disks, Interactions, and Explosions in Massive Star Formation.

john.bally@colorado.edu

Host: Knapp

Arr - 4/5 Evening
Depart - 4/8 Morning

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April 14th
Andrea Ghez - UCLA


Bringing the Supermassive Black Hole at the Center of Our Galaxy and its Environs into Focus with Laser Guide Star.Adaptive Optics.

ghez@astro.ucla.edu

Host: Bahcall

Arr - 4/13 Evening
Depart -4/15 Morning

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April 21st
Scott Hughes - MIT


Exploiting the two-body problem in general relativity.

sahughes@mit.edu

Host: Spitkovsky

 Arr - 4/20 Late Afternoon
Depart - 4/22 Morning

 

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April 28th
Avi Loeb - Harvard University


Testing Gravity Throughout the Universe and Around Black Holes

aloeb@cfa.harvard.edu

Host: Rafikov

 Arr - 4/27 Afternoon
Depart - 4/28 Evening

 

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May 5th - Spitzer Lecturer
Ewine F. van Dishoeck - Leiden

Title: Evolving protoplanetary disks

ewine@strw.leidenuniv.nl

Arr - 5/4 Morning
Depart - 5/15 Afternoon

 

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May 19th -
Naoki Yoshida - IPMU, University of Tokyo


Formation of primordial stars and blackholes, and where are they now ?

naoki.yoshida@ipmu.jp

 

Host: Turner

 Arr - 5/18 Afternoon
Depart - 5/21 Evening