Colloquium Schedule -- Astronomy

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

Fall 2002

Date

Speaker

Institution

Title

8/27/02

Tony Wong

Australia Telescope National Facility

Comparing the CO and HI Distributions in Nearby Spiral Galaxies at High Resolution

9/12/02

Robert Brandenberger

Brown University

Inflationary Cosmology: Progress and Problems

9/19/02

Neal Katz

Univ. Massachusetts

Galaxy formation: Some Problems and Some Answers

9/26/02

Parviz Ghavamian

Rutgers University

Using Optical Spectra of Young Supernova Remnants to Study the Physics of Collisionless Shocks

10/3/02

Ake Hjalmarson

Onsala Space Observatory

New Astronomy with Odin

10/10/02

Kurt Adelberger

Harvard University

Galaxies and Intergalactic Matter at High Redshift

10/17/02

Martina Wiedner

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Submillimeter observations of Arp220 and the expanded Sub-Millimeter Array

10/24/02

Andrew Lange

Caltech

The Cosmic Microwave Background: Progress and Prospects

10/31/02

Shardha Jogee

Space Telescope Institute

Structure, Activity, and Evolution of Disk Galaxies

11/7/02

Yu Gao

Univ. of Massachusetts

Dense Molecular Gas and Global Star Formation in Galaxies

11/14/02

Jim Jackson

Boston University

The Boston University-FCRAO Milky Way Galactic Ring Survey

11/21/02

Peter Schloerb

Univ. of Massachusetts

Sub-AU structure of Circumstellar Material around Young Stellar Objects

11/28/03

Thanksgiving

Everywhere in the US


12/5/02

Ramesh Narayan

Harvard University

Hot Gas in Galaxy Clusters (postponed)

12/12/02

John Huchra

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

New Map of the Nearby Universe: The 2MASS Redshift Survey



Spring 2003

Date

Speaker

Institution

Title

1/30/03

Dan Logan

UMass

Development of SPEED: A Frequency Selective Bolometric Camera (Student Presentation)

2/6/03

Jacco Vink

Columbia University

Magnetic fields and particle acceleration in Cas A

2/13/03

John Gaustad

Swarthmore College

SHASSA: The Southern H-Alpha Sky Survey Atlas

2/20/03

Scott Burles

MIT

Deuterium, Big-Bang Nucleosynthesis and the Baryon Density

2/27/03

Irena Stojimirovic

UMass

Parsec-Scale Molecular Outflows from YSOs (Student Presentation)

3/6/03

Ramesh Narayan

Harvard University

Hot Gas in Galaxy Clusters (postponed)

3/13/03

Mark Claussen

NRAO

VLBA Observations of the Birth, Life, and Death of Stars

3/20/03

Elias Brinks

INAOE

Tidal Dwarf Galaxies: New from Old

3/27/03

Laura Grego

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics & Union of Concerned Scientists

Cosmological Parameter Measurements from Galaxy Cluster Observations

4/3/03

Eric Linder

Berkeley Lab

Dark Energy and Wide Field Astronomy with SNAP

4/10/03

Eric Gawiser

Yale University

The First Measurement of Star Formation Rates in Damped Lyman alpha Systems

4/17/03

Richard French

Wellsley College

Saturn's Rings on the Eve of the CASSINI Mission

4/24/03

Ramesh Narayan

Harvard University

Hot Gas in Galaxy Clusters

5/1/03

Steve Strom

National Optical Astronomy Observatory

Science with a Giant Segmented Mirror Telescope

5/8/03

Steve Meyer

University of Chicago

Results from the First Year of Observations of the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Satellite

5/15/03

Alyssa Goodman

Harvard University

The COMPLETE Survey of Star Forming Regions

(T) = tentatively scheduled

(last modified on 1/30/03)