Astronomy Colloquia 2005

ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIA - SPRING 2005

All talks on Tuesdays @ 4:15 p.m. in Peyton Hall Auditorium

DATE	SPEAKER	AFFILIATION	TITLE (click on title for abstract)	E-MAIL ADDRESS	HOST	COMMENTS
Feb 1	Richard Mushotzky	NASA's GSFC	"The Accretion History of Massive Black Holes"	richard@milkyway.gsfc.nasa.gov	Cen	ar. 2/1 a.m. dep. 2/1 p.m.
Feb 8	Greg Bryan	Columbia University	"Cooking With (Cluster) Gas: Understanding the Formation and Evolution of Galaxy Clusters"	gbryan@astro.columbia.edu	Stone	ar. 2/8 a.m. dep. 2/8 eve
Feb 15	Steve McMillan	Drexel University	"Stellar Collisions and Black Hole Formation in Dense Star Clusters"	steve@kepler.physics.drexel.edu	Goodman	ar. 2/15 a.m. dep. 2/15 eve
Feb 22	Tim Heckman	Johns Hopkins University	"The Co-Evolution of Galaxies and Black Holes: an SDSS Perspective"	heckman@skysrv.pha.jhu.edu	Jenkins	ar. 2/21 eve dep. 2/22 eve
Mar 1	David Merritt	Rochester Institute of Technology	"Dynamics of Galactic Nuclei: Beyond the Million-Body Problem"	david.merritt@rit.edu	Bahcall.	ar. 2/28 eve dep. 3/1 eve
Mar 8	Julianne Dalcanton	University of Washington	"The Early Evolution of Disk Galaxies"	jd@astro.washington.edu	Spergel.	ar. 3/7 a.m. dep. 3/9 a.m.
Mar 15	David Stevenson	Caltech	"Planetary Diversity"	djs@gps.caltech.edu	Turner	ar. 3/14 eve dep. 3/16 a.m.
Mar 22	Nadia Zakamska Simon DeDeo	Princeton University Princeton University	"Obscured quasars from the SDSS: a multi-wavelength study" "Dark Energy: Theories and Questions"	nadia@astro.princeton.edu simon@astro.princeton.edu	Stone
Mar 29	Paul Steinhardt	Princeton University	"Progress and Prospects for the Cyclic Model of the Universe"	steinh@princeton.edu	Ostriker
Apr 5	Peter Goldreich	Institute for Advanced Study	"Planet Formation"	pmg@ias.edu	Draine.
Apr 12	Dimitar Sasselov	CfA, Harvard	"Stars and Planets: more from MOST".	sasselov@cfa.harvard.edu	Tremaine	arr 4/12 dep 4/13
Apr 19	George Efstathiou	Cambridge University	"The detectability of tensor modes from inflation"	gpe@ast.cam.ac.uk	Ostriker.	arr 4/18 dep 4/24
Apr 26	John Bahcall	Institute for Advanced Study	"What's New Under the Sun?"	jnb@ias.edu	Bahcall
May 3	Hans-Walter Rix (Spring Speaker)	Max-Plack-Institut fur Astronomie	"The Build-up of Stellar Mass"	rix@mpia-hd.mpg.de	Tremaine	arr 5/1 dep 5/14
May 10	Feng Dong	Princeton University	"Clusters of Galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey"	feng@astro.princeton.edu	Stone

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