Colloquium Schedule -- Astronomy

In LGRT 1033 at 4:15 pm (tea at 4:00 pm) unless noted otherwise.

Fall 2004

Date

Speaker

Institution

Title

 9/16/04

Mike Blanton

NYU

Extremely low luminosity galaxies in the field

 9/23/04

Brice Menard

IAS, Princeton
Lensing by absorber systems

 9/28/04*

Bryan Penprase

Pomona College

Nebular Diagnostics of HII regions in M83, NGC300, and the Antenna Galaxies: Getting Spectral Information from Images

 10/7/04

David Weinberg

Ohio-State

What Can We Learn From Galaxy Clustering?

10/14/04

Xiaohu Yang

UMass

Linking galaxies to dark matter halos

10/21/04

Uros Seljak

Princeton
Observational cosmology as a probe of fundamental physics
10/26/04*
Frank van den Bosch
ETH, Zurich
Lighting up the dark matter

10/28/04

David Hogg

NYU

Galaxy formation events at low redshift

 11/4/04

Barry McKernan

Maryland
The search for the hot missing matter

11/11/04

Veterans day

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11/18/04

Pepi  Fabbiano

CfA

X-ray observations of galaxy mergers with Chandra

11/25/04

Thanksgiving

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 12/2/04

Jiasheng Huang

CfA

Spitzer IRAC GTO programs

 12/9/04

Ken Rines

Yale

The Infall Regions of Galaxy Clusters                      

12/16/04

Abraham Loeb

Harvard

Mapping Cosmic Hydrogen In the Infant Universe



(T) = tentatively scheduled

*    Note that this one is on Tuesday

Colloquium Schedule -- Astronomy -- Spring 2005

Colloquium Schedule -- Astronomy

In LGRT 1033 at 4:15 pm (tea at 4:00 pm) unless noted otherwise.

(T) = tentatively scheduled

Spring 2005


2/10/05 Dan McIntosh          
  UMass                                          
                                                                                                                                  Evolution of Spheroid-dominated Galaxies Over the Last Half of Cosmic History
2/17/05
Ari Maller
UMass
How the Galaxy got its Mass and Other Just So Stories
2/24/05
Arend Sluis
UMass
Galactic dynamics and planetary nebulae
3/3/05 Pete Schloerb
UMass
The Large Millimeter Telescope
3/10/05
Mark Heyer
UMass
Gas dynamics in star-forming regions
3/17/05
Spring Recess                          


3/24/05
Yangsen Yao                                   
UMass
Warm-hot Gas in and Around the Milky Way: X-ray Absorption Line Diagnostics
3/31/05
Aracil Bastien
UMass
Multiple Line of Sight to Study the Absorber Systems
4/7/05
Andew Baker
NRAO/Maryland
Millimeter Observations of High-Redshift Galaxies
4/14/05
Mark Fardal
UMass
Interpreting the Giant Stellar Stream in M31
4/21/05
no  colloquium  
Monday  schedule      
                                                                                                             
4/28/05 
Douglas Whittet
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Interstellar Dust and Astrobiology: Overview and Current Research
5/5/05          
Sarbani  Basu  
 Yale
Some recent results in helio and asteroseismology
5/12/05
Jessica Rosenberg
 CfA
Gas, Galaxies, and Star Formation: Low-z Constraints on Galaxy
Evolution
5/13/05
Eric Linder
Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory
Shedding Light on the Dark Universe