ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
2001

Princeton University
Department of Astrophysical Sciences
Peyton Hall Auditorium
4:30 p.m.



Refreshments will be served at 4:00 p.m. in the downstairs conference room.

 

Tuesday, February 6 Stephen Kahn
Columbia University
"Results from the XMM Reflection Grating Spectrometer"
Tuesday, February 13 Graduate Student Talks - Session I
Li-Xin Li
"Extracting Energy from Black Holes: The Blandford-Znajek Mechanism and Related Problems"
Kentaro Nagamine
"Generic Predictions of LCDM Hydrodynamical Simulations on Galaxy Formation and Evolution"
Tuesday, February 20 Mordecai-Mark MacLow
American Museum of Natural History
"The Control of Star Formation by Supersonic Turbulence"
Tuesday, February 27 John Stocke
University of Colorado
"Is This the Forest Primeval?: HST Observes the Local Lyman-Alpha Forest"
Tuesday, March 6 Philip R. Jewell
National Radio Astronomy Observatory (Greenbank)
"Sugar in Space and the Search for Biologically Significant Molecules"
Tuesday, March 13 Eric M. Wilcots
University of Wisconsin, Madison
"Extended HI around Galaxies"
Tuesday, March 20

Spring Break - No Colloquium

Tuesday, March 27 David Schlegel
Princeton University
"Constraints on Lambda from Ellipticals Observed with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey"
Tuesday, April 3 Graduate Student Talks - Session II
Leonid Malyshkin
"Thermal Conduction in the Tangled Magnetic Fields in Clusters of Galaxies"
Stuart Wyithe
"Microlensing in The Einstein Cross"
Tuesday, April 10 Edward F. Guinan
Villanova University
"The Cosmic Distance Scale from Eclipsing Binaries in the LMC and M31"
Tuesday, April 17 Geoffrey W. Marcey
University of California, Berkeley
"Planetary Systems:  You Say You Want A Revolution"
Tuesday, April 24 Stephen S. Murray
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
"X-Ray Imaging with Chandra"
Tuesday, May 1 Charles C. Steidel   (Spitzer Lecturer for 2001)
California Institute of Technology
"Baryonic Structure in the z=1-4 Universe"
Tuesday, May 8 Harriet L. Dinerstein
University of Texas, Austin
"The Dark Side of Planetary Nebulae"
Tuesday, May 15 Alan M. Title
Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory
"Results from MDI, TRACE and La Palma:  Evidence for the Emergence, Distribution, and Disappearance of Solar Magnetic Fields"
Tuesday, May 22 Zeljko Ivezic
Princeton University
"Solar System Science with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey"


Last Updated: Friday, April 06, 2001 04:59:53 PM