ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIA - SPRING 2006
ALL TALKS ON TUESDAYS AT 4:15 P.M. IN PEYTON HALL AUDITORIUM
DATE |
SPEAKER |
AFFILIATION |
TITLE |
E-MAIL ADDRESS |
HOST |
COMMENTS |
| Feb 7 | Ralf Bender | Max-Planck-Institut fuer Extraterrestrische Physik | The Triple Nucleus and Supermassive Black Hole of M31 | bender@usm.uni-muenchen.de | Tremaine | ar 2/7 am dep 2/8 |
| Feb 14 | Rob Caldwell | Dartmouth | Dark Energy -- Accelerating Towards the Vacuum | robert.r.caldwell@dartmouth.edu | Lupton | ar 2/14 |
| Feb 21 | Eric Feigelson | Penn State | What are X-rays Telling Us About Star and Planet Formation? | edf@astro.psu.edu | Lupton | ar 2/19, 9pm
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| Feb 28 | Inese Ivans | Carnegie Observatories | Near-UV Observations of Low-Metallicity Stars: New Insights into Neutron-Capture Nucleosynthesis Processes |
iii@ociw.edu | Knapp | ar Feb 27, 6pm |
| Mar 7 | Jim Kasting | Penn State | Gaia Revisited: the Interplay Between Climate and Life on the Early Earth | kasting@geosc.psu.edu | Lupton | |
| Mar 14 | Meg Urry | Yale University | meg.urry@yale.edu | Lupton | ||
| Mar 21 | - Spring Break - |
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| Mar 28 | Gary Bernstein | University of Pennsylvania | Handicapping the Dark Energy Derby | garyb@physics.upenn.edu | Lupton | ar 3/28am dep 3/28pm |
| Apr 4 | Martin Elvis | Harvard-Smithsonian CfA | Quasar Structure and Cosmological Feedback |
elvis@head.cfa.harvard.edu | Lupton | ar 4/3 eve dep 4/5 |
| Apr 11 | Chris Chyba | Princeton University | New Constraints on Europa's Ocean | cchyba@Princeton.EDU | Lupton | |
| Apr 18 | Mauro Giavalisco | STScI | Star Formation at High Redshift | mauro@stsci.edu | Lupton | ar 4/18, 9am dep 4/19, 9an |
| Apr 25 | Ue-Li Pen | CITA | Searching for First Light in the Universe | pen@cita.utoronto.ca | Lupton | |
| May 2 | Francis Halzen (Spitzer Spring Lecturer) |
University of Wisconsin- Madison | High-Energy Neutrino Astronomy: Towards Kilometer-Scale Neutrino Observatories | halzen@pheno.physics.wisc.edu | Tremaine |
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| May 9 | Michael A'Hearn | University of Maryland | ma@astro.umd.edu | Lupton | ar 5/8 eve dep 5/10 am |
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last updated 3 May 2006 by lipman@astro.princeton.edu