Astrophysics Seminars
People
Research
Department
Seminars are on Wednesdays at 2:00 pm in DRL A6.
Journal Club meets Fridays 1:00pm in DRL 4E19.
Departmental Colloquia
every second Wednesday of each month 4:00pm in DRL A8.
Spring 2009 Seminars
January 14:
Departmental Colloquium
Steve Ritz
(NASA/GSFC)
January 21:
James Aguirre
(Penn)
"A View of the Universe at the Birth of the First Stars and Galaxies"
January 28:
Eric Jensen
(Swarthmore)
CANCELED
February 4:
Mustafa Amin
(MIT)
"Probing Gravity on Disparate Scales"
Host: BJ
February 11:
Departmental Colloquium
Paul McEuen
(Cornell)
February 18:
Tamas Budavari
(Johns Hopkins)
"Statistical Foundations of Photometric Astronomy"
Host: BJ
February 25: Astrophysics/Particle Cosmology Seminar
Janna Levin
(Barnard)
"A Periodic Table for Black Hole Orbits"
Host: MT
March 4:
Departmental Colloquium
Jim Peebles
(Princeton)
IMPORTANT NOTE: The speaker will also be giving an Astrophysics Seminar at the usual time and location (2 pm in DRL A6) before the Physics Colloquium.
"The cosmology of small-scale structure"
March 11:
Spring Break
March 18:
Eric Jensen
(Swarthmore)
"How quickly do planets form? Studying protoplanetary disk dispersal to constrain planet formation models"
March 25:
Alexander Rudolph
(CSU Pomona)
"A National Study on the Effect of Interactive Learning in the Astro 101 Classroom"
Host: MD
April 1:
Slava Mukhanov
(Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München)
"Vector fields as dark energy"
Host: JK
April 8:
Departmental Colloquium
Art Wolfe
(UC San Diego)
April 15:
Charlie Conroy
(Princeton)
"The Stellar Population Synthesis Technique"
Host: RS
April 23: (NOTE: This seminar is on Thursday at 3:00 pm in room A2)
Laura Greggio
(Observatory of Padova)
"The Progenitors of Type Ia Supernovae"
Host: MB
April 29:
Jeff Newman
(Pitt)
"The Connection of High-z Galaxy Evolution with Environment and AGN Activity"
Host: BJ
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home page.
Past seminars:
Spring 2007
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Fall 2007
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Spring 2008
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Fall 2008
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