PENN Astrophysics Group: Seminars

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Seminars are Wednesdays 4:00pm in DRL A4.

Journal Club meets Fridays 1:00pm in DRL 4E19.
Departmental Colloquia every second Wednesday of each month 4:00pm in DRL A8.

Spring 2007 Seminars

• January 10: Departmental Colloquium
   
• January 24:
  Caleb Scharf (Columbia)
  "Planets, Moons, and Microbes"
  Host: Masao Sako
   
• February 2:
  Vuk Mandic (Caltech) NOTE: this is a Journal Club talk
  "Searching for Stochastic Gravitational-wave Background with LIGO: Results and Implications"
  Host: Mark Devlin
   
• February 7:
  Enzo Pascale (U Toronto)
  "Observational cosmology with sub-orbital experiments"
  Host: Mark Devlin
   
• February 14: Departmental Colloquium
   
• February 16:
  James Aguirre (Colorado) NOTE: this is a Journal Club talk
  "Cosmology with Submillimeter Astronomy"
  Host: Ravi Sheth
   
• February 21:
  Chao-Lin Kuo (Caltech)
  "CMB beyond the acoustic peaks"
  Host: Mark Devlin
   
• February 23:
  Miguel Morales (MIT) NOTE: this is a Journal Club talk
  "Observing the Epoch of Reionization"
  Host: Gary Bernstein
   
• February 28:
  Simon Dicker (Penn)
  "Millimeter Wave Astronomy; ACT, MUSTANG, the CMB, SZ clusters and the future"
  Host: Mark Devlin
   
• March 14: Departmental Colloquium
   
• March 21:
  No Seminar
   
• March 28:
  Andy Becker (U Washington)
  "Supernova Science (and More) from SDSS-II"
  Host: Masao Sako
   
• April 4:
  Arthur Lue (MIT Lincoln Lab)
  "Dark Energy Crisis: Breaking Our Addiction to Cosmic Fuels"
  Host: Bhuvnesh Jain
   
• April 11: Departmental Colloquium
   
• April 15 (Sunday @ 5:30 pm):
  Joel Primack (UCSC)
  "The View from the Center of the Universe"
  Host: Mark Devlin
   
• April 16:
  Joel Primack (UCSC)
  "Galaxy Mergers: Simulations, Observations, and Active Galactic Nuclei"
  Host: Mark Devlin
   
• April 18:
  Michael Strauss (Princeton)
  Host: Bhuvnesh Jain