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 2008 Seminars

• January 16:
  Margaret Mixener (STScI)
  "Spitzer Survey of the Large Magellanic Cloud, Surveying the Agents of a Galaxy's Evolution (SAGE)"
  Host: Gary Bernstein
   
• January 23: Departmental Colloquium (Rittenhouse Lecture: Mike Brown)
   
• January 30:
  Daisuke Nagai (Caltech)
  "Clusters of Galaxies as Cosmological Probes"
  Host: Masao Sako
   
• February 4: (Monday)
  Darren Croton (UC Berkeley)
  "Modeling galaxy formation in the era of large-scale galaxy surveys"
  Host: Mariangela Bernardi
   
• February 6:
  No Seminar
   
• February 13:
  Yoram Lithwick (CITA/U Toronoto)
  "Dynamics of Protoplanetary Disks: Vortices and Turbulence"
  Host: Gary Bernstein
   
• February 18: (Monday)
  Adam Lidz (Harvard)
  "Deciphering the Nature of Hydrogen Reionization"
  Host: Ravi Sheth
   
• February 20: Departmental Colloquium (Robert Ecke)
   
• February 25: (Monday)
  Niayesh Afshordi (Perimeter Institute)
  "Physics Beyond the Horizon"
  Host: Mark Devlin
   
• February 27:
  Rachel Bean (Cornell)
  "Cosmological tests of general inflation models: going beyond slow-roll"
  Host: Bhuvnesh Jain
   
• March 5:
  Bruce Bassett (SAAO)
  "Twists in the Tail of Dark Energy"
  Host: Masao Sako
   
• March 19: Departmental Colloquium (Walter Kohn)
   
• April 2:
  Mike Fall (STScI/IAS)
  "The Life Cycles of Star Clusters"
  Host: Bhuvnesh Jain
   
• April 9:
  Marilena LoVerde (Columbia)
  "Observations Through a Lumpy Universe"
  Host: Bhuvnesh Jain
   
• April 16: Departmental Colloquium (Selove Lecture)
   
• April 23:
  Francesco Shankar (Ohio State)
  "Constraining the evolution of Super-Massive Black Holes and their Hosts"
  Host: Mariangela Bernardi