Colloquium Schedule -- Astronomy

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

(T) = tentatively scheduled

Fall 2005


9/08/05 ...          
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No talk - first week of classes
9/15/05
Andreea Font
Wesleyan University
Chemical Abundance Distributions of Galactic Halos and their Satellite Systems in a LamdaCDM Universe
9/22/05
Stephane Courteau
Queen's University
Puzzles in the Structure of Spiral Galaxies
9/29/05 Arlin Crotts
Columbia University
Halo Microlensing in M31
10/6/05
David Schiminovich
Columbia University
Star Formation Histories Now and Then: Ultraviolet Insights from GALEX
10/13/05
Kenneth Sembach
STScI
The Low Redshift Intergalactic Medium - Current Observations and Future Observational Prospects
10/20/05
Chuck Joseph
Rutgers University
Ultraviolet Instrumentation and the Proposed HAWK Long-Duration Balloon Mission
10/27/05
Elliott Horch
UMass-Dartmouth
High Resolution Imaging of Binary Stars with HST and the WIYN Telescope post-Hipparcos
11/03/05
Mark Gurwell
Harvard CfA
When You're Hot, You're Hot, and When You're Not, You're Not: (Sub)Millimeter Studies of Venus and the Pluto/Charon Binary
11/10/05
Greg Bryan
Columbia University
The First Stars in the Universe
11/17/05
Pieter van Dokkum
Yale University
The Recent Assembly of Elliptical Galaxies
11/24/05
Thanksgiving
 
Can't talk, eating...
12/1/05
Michael Stage
UMass-Amherst
Estimating the Rates of Electron Acceleration in Supernova Remnant Shocks using Chandra
12/8/05
Erik Rosolowsky
Harvard CfA
Giant Molecular Clouds Across Galactic Environments
12/15/05
Somak Raychaudhury
University of Birmingham
The Evolution of Galaxies in Groups