Astronomy Colloquium

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Wednesday, January 4, 2012
4:00 pm
Cahill Center, Hameetman Auditorium

Astronomy Colloquium

What the #*!$ is dark matter? One astrophysicist's perspective
Annika Peter, UC Irvine
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
3:30 pm
William T. Golden Auditorium, 813 Santa Barbara Street

Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series

TBD
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
4:00 pm
Cahill Center, Hameetman Auditorium

Astronomy Colloquium

Emission Mechanism of Gamma-Ray Bursts
Andrei Beloborodov, Columbia University
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
3:30 pm
William T. Golden Auditorium, 813 Santa Barbara Street

Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series

Molecular Gas and Star Formation in Early-Type Galaxies
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
4:00 pm
Cahill Center, Hameetman Auditorium

Astronomy Colloquium

Galaxies Viewed as Collections of Individual Stars
Julianne Dalcanton, University of Washington
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
3:30 pm
William T. Golden Auditorium, 813 Santa Barbara Street

Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series

Wednesday, February 1, 2012
4:00 pm
Cahill Center, Hameetman Auditorium

Astronomy Colloquium

Planet Formation at Wide Separations
Ruth Murray-Clay, Harvard CfA
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
3:30 pm
William T. Golden Auditorium, 813 Santa Barbara Street

Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series

TBD
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
4:00 pm
Cahill Center, Hameetman Auditorium

Astronomy Colloquium

The Nova Outburst: An Evolving Paradigm?
Robert Williams, STScI
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
3:30 pm
William T. Golden Auditorium, 813 Santa Barbara Street

Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series

TBD
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
4:00 pm
Cahill Center, Hameetman Auditorium

Astronomy Colloquium

The First Stars and Galaxies
Volker Bromm, University of Texas
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
3:30 pm
William T. Golden Auditorium, 813 Santa Barbara Street

Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series

"Microwave and Submm Emission from Interstellar Dust"
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
4:00 pm
Cahill Center, Hameetman Auditorium

Astronomy Colloquium

Inflows, outflows, and the physics of galaxy formation
Claude-André Faucher-Giguère , UC Berkeley
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
3:30 pm
William T. Golden Auditorium, 813 Santa Barbara Street

Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series

"Probing the Dark Side of Galaxy formation with Absorption"
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
4:00 pm
Cahill Center, Hameetman Auditorium

Astronomy Colloquium

The Galaxy-Halo Connection Across Mass and Time
Risa Wechsler, KIPAC/Stanford
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
3:30 pm
William T. Golden Auditorium, 813 Santa Barbara Street

Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series

"The Science of Datacubes"
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
4:00 pm
Cahill Center, Hameetman Auditorium

Astronomy Colloquium

Watching a Little Gas Cloud on its Way into the Galactic Supermassive Black Hole
Andreas Burkert, LMU Munich
Monday, March 12, 2012
7:30 pm
Huntington Library

Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series

Size Does Matter! Massive Cluster of Galaxies and the Structure of the Universe"
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
4:00 pm
Cahill Center, Hameetman Auditorium

Astronomy Colloquium

Kepler and the RR Lyrae stars
Katrien Kolenberg, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, USA & KU Leuven, Belgium
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
3:30 pm
William T. Golden Auditorium, 813 Santa Barbara Street

Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series

"An Ultraviolet Perspective on Old Stellar Populations"
Monday, March 26, 2012
7:30 pm
Huntington Library

Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series

"Bright Galaxies, Dark Universe, Part I: The Dawn of Galaxies"
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
3:30 pm
William T. Golden Auditorium, 813 Santa Barbara Street

Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series

"Gas and the Galaxy "Main Sequence" Scaling Relation: What Have We Learned?"
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
4:00 pm
Cahill Center, Hameetman Auditorium

Astronomy Colloquium

Core-Collapse Supernova Theory 78 Years after Baade & Zwicky 1934 -- Where we stand and where we are heading.
Christian Ott, Caltech
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
3:30 pm
William T. Golden Auditorium, 813 Santa Barbara Street

Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series

WISE
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
4:00 pm
Cahill Center, Hameetman Auditorium

Astronomy Colloquium

Nuclear Physics at Two Kiloparsecs with Millisecond Pulsars
Scott Ransom, NRAO
Monday, April 16, 2012
7:30 pm
Huntington Library

Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series

"Cognitive Astrophysics: A View from Nowhere"
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
4:00 pm
Cahill Center, Hameetman Auditorium

Astronomy Colloquium

Ultra-faint Dwarfs, Dark Matter and Galaxy Formation
Beth Willman, Harverford
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
3:30 pm
William T. Golden Auditorium, 813 Santa Barbara Street

Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series

"Star Formation in Extended Disk Galaxies"
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
4:00 pm
Cahill Center, Hameetman Auditorium

Astronomy Colloquium

Water in space: from interstellar clouds to planet-forming disks (14th Annual Greenstein Lecturer)
Ewine van Dishoeck, Leiden Observatory, The Netherlands & Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching
Monday, April 30, 2012
7:30 pm
Huntington Library

Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series

"Bright Galaxies, Dark Universe Part II: Adulthood to Retirement"
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
3:30 pm
William T. Golden Auditorium, 813 Santa Barbara Street

Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series

TBD
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
4:00 pm
Cahill Center, Hameetman Auditorium

Astronomy Colloquium

Hot on the Trail of Warm Planets Around Cool Stars
John Johnson, Caltech
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
3:30 pm
William T. Golden Auditorium, 813 Santa Barbara Street

Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series

TBD
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
4:00 pm
Cahill Center, Hameetman Auditorium

Astronomy Colloquium

Herschel view on star formation: from local star forming regions to the most distant galaxies
Laurent Vigroux, IAP Director/Kingsley Visitor
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
3:30 pm
William T. Golden Auditorium, 813 Santa Barbara Street

Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series

TBD
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
4:00 pm
Cahill Center, Hameetman Auditorium

Astronomy Colloquium

The 11 Gyr Evolution of Star-forming galaxies: the HiZELS/H-alpha view
David Sobral, Leiden Observatory
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
3:30 pm
William T. Golden Auditorium, 813 Santa Barbara Street

Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series

TBD
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
4:00 pm
Cahill Center, Hameetman Auditorium

Astronomy Colloquium

Early Results from the Cluster Lensing And Supernova survey with Hubble (CLASH)
Marc Postman, STScI
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
3:30 pm
William T. Golden Auditorium, 813 Santa Barbara Street

Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series

"Galaxy Evolution at Large N and Low SNR"
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
4:00 pm
Cahill Center, Hameetman Auditorium

Astronomy Colloquium

Radiative-transfer Modeling of Supernova Spectra and Light Curves. Application to Massive-star Explosions.
Luc Dessart, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille, France
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
3:30 pm
William T. Golden Auditorium, 813 Santa Barbara Street

Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series

Cancelled
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
4:00 pm
Cahill Center, Hameetman Auditorium

Astronomy Colloquium

Supernova Forensics
Alicia Soderberg, Harvard
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
3:30 pm
William T. Golden Auditorium, 813 Santa Barbara Street

Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series

"Heavy-Element Enrichment in the Early Universe Observed with FIRE."
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
3:30 pm
William T. Golden Auditorium, 813 Santa Barbara Street

Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series

TBA
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
4:00 pm
William T. Golden Auditorium, 813 Santa Barbara Street

Astronomy Colloquium

The Future of the Sloan Digital Sky Survery
Michael Blanton, Prof., New York University
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
4:00 pm
Cahill Center, Hameetman Auditorium

Astronomy Colloquium

Have We Converged on an Understanding of the Dense Matter Equation of State?
James Lattimer, SUNY/Caltech Kingsley Visitor
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
4:00 pm
William T. Golden Auditorium, 813 Santa Barbara Street

Astronomy Colloquium

Empirical Laws of Galactic Rotation
Stacy McGaugh, University of Maryland
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
4:00 pm
Cahill Center, Hameetman Auditorium

Astronomy Colloquium

From the IMF to the S-Process in Early-Type Galaxies
Charlie Conroy, UCSC
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
4:00 pm
William T. Golden Auditorium, 813 Santa Barbara Street

Astronomy Colloquium

Topic to be Announced
Sara Ellison, Prof., University of Victoria
Sara Ellison
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
4:00 pm
Cahill Center, Hameetman Auditorium

Astronomy Colloquium

Black Hole Spin, Accretion, and Jets
Ramesh Narayan, Harvard
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
4:00 pm
Cahill Center, Hameetman Auditorium

Astronomy Colloquium

Under Our Very Noses: A Surprise from the Asteroid Belt
David Jewitt, UCLA
Monday, October 29, 2012
4:00 pm
William T. Golden Auditorium, 813 Santa Barbara Street

Astronomy Colloquium

Topic to be Announced
Gaspar Bakos, Prof., Princeton Univ.
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
4:00 pm
Cahill Center, Hameetman Auditorium

Astronomy Colloquium

Planetary System Architectures from Kepler
Daniel Fabrycky, University of Chicago
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
4:00 pm
William T. Golden Auditorium, 813 Santa Barbara Street

Astronomy Colloquium

QUIET
Anthony Readhead, Prof., Caltech
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
4:00 pm
Cahill Center, Hameetman Auditorium

Astronomy Colloquium

The Mega-maser Cosmology Project
Fred Lo, NRAO
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
4:00 pm
Cahill Center, Hameetman Auditorium

Astronomy Colloquium

Hearing and seeing the violent universe
Samaya Nissanke, Caltech
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
4:00 pm
William T. Golden Auditorium, 813 Santa Barbara Street

Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series

Gas and Dust in the Intergalactic Space
Brice Menard, Prof., Johns Hopkins University
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
4:00 pm
Cahill Center, Hameetman Auditorium

Astronomy Colloquium

Divining the Climate of Exoplanets
Nick Cowan, Northwestern
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
4:00 pm
William T. Golden Auditorium, 813 Santa Barbara Street

Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series

TBA
Matt Bradford, Dr., JPL/Caltech
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
4:00 pm
Cahill Center, Hameetman Auditorium

Astronomy Colloquium

What Goes on Near Black Holes? First Results from NuSTAR
Fiona Harrison, Caltech
Thursday, December 6, 2012
4:00 pm
William T. Golden Auditorium, 813 Santa Barbara Street

Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series

TBA
Rebecca Bernstein, Prof., UCO/Lick Observatory
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
4:00 pm
William T. Golden Auditorium, 813 Santa Barbara Street

Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series

TBA
Joseph Lazio, Dr., JPL
Thursday, December 13, 2012
4:00 pm
William T. Golden Auditorium, 813 Santa Barbara Street

Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series

TBA
Kevin Bundy, Prof., IPMU