Astronomy Colloquium

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Monday, January 14, 2013
4:00 pm
William T. Golden Auditorium, 813 Santa Barbara Street
TBA
David Weinberg, Prof., Ohio State University
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
4:00 pm
Cahill Center, Hameetman Auditorium
Exploring the Extreme Universe with the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Julie McEnery, GSFC/Maryland
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
4:00 pm
William T. Golden Auditorium, 813 Santa Barbara Street
Dark Matter Detected in the Galactic Center?
Prof. Kevork Abazajian, UC Irvine
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
4:00 pm
Cahill Center, Hameetman Auditorium
Are planetary systems flat?
Scott Tremaine, IAS Princeton
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
4:00 pm
Cahill Center, Hameetman Auditorium
Quantifying High-Redshift Star Formation with Gamma-Ray Bursts - Promises and Perils
Dan Perley, Caltech
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
4:00 pm
William T. Golden Auditorium, 813 Santa Barbara Street
The Influence of Baryons in Interpreting the Cosmological Model
Alyson Brooks, University of Wisconsin
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
4:00 pm
Cahill Center, Hameetman Auditorium
Observing the Unobservable: Tracing Dark Matter Haloes and Galaxy Assembly
Genevieve Graves, Princeton
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
4:00 pm
William T. Golden Auditorium, 813 Santa Barbara Street
From the IMF to the S-Process in Early-Type Galaxies
Charlie Conroy, Prof., UCSC
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
4:00 pm
Cahill Center, Hameetman Auditorium
Observing Galaxy Assembly
Henry Ferguson, STScI
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
4:00 pm
William T. Golden Auditorium, 813 Santa Barbara Street
The Dusty Universe Unveiled by the Herschel Space Observatory
Asantha Cooray, Prof., UC Irvine
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
4:00 pm
Cahill Center, Hameetman Auditorium
Observations of Star-Forming Galaxies in the Reionization Era
Richard Ellis, Caltech
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
4:00 pm
William T. Golden Auditorium, 813 Santa Barbara Street
TBA
Alan Dressler, Dr., Carnegie Observatories
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
4:00 pm
Cahill Center, Hameetman Auditorium
The Bridged Gap: Transients in the Local Universe
Mansi Kasliwal, Carnegie
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
4:00 pm
Cahill Center, Hameetman Auditorium
Exploding stars and Cosmic Acceleration: Better Precision in the Infrared
Robert Kirshner, Harvard
Thursday, March 7, 2013
4:00 pm
William T. Golden Auditorium, 813 Santa Barbara Street
TBA
Lars Hernquist, Prof., Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
4:00 pm
William T. Golden Auditorium, 813 Santa Barbara Street
The James Webb Space Telescope
Dr. John Gardner, NASA GSFC
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
4:00 pm
Cahill Center, Hameetman Auditorium
Massive Stars Across the Cosmos: Engines, Lighthouses, and Laboratories
Emily Levesque, Univ of Colorado
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
4:00 pm
William T. Golden Auditorium, 813 Santa Barbara Street
Extracting Science from Surveys of our Galaxy
Prof. James Binney, University of Oxford
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
4:00 pm
Cahill Center, Hameetman Auditorium
Adventures in High Time Resolution Astrophysics
Stuart Littlefair, Univ of Sheffield
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
4:00 pm
William T. Golden Auditorium, 813 Santa Barbara Street
TBA
Prof. Norm Murray, CITA
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
4:00 pm
Cahill Center, Hameetman Auditorium
Detecting the First Stars at Redshift 20:
Rennan Barkana, Tel Aviv
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
4:00 pm
Cahill Center, Hameetman Auditorium
How the Milky Way Built its Disk
Hans-Walter Rix, MPIA
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
4:00 pm
William T. Golden Auditorium, 813 Santa Barbara Street
New Dimenstions for Stellar Spectroscopy: Reconstructing Chemo-Dynamical Evolution of the Galaxy with Late-Type Stars
Dr. Maria Bergemann, MPA
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
4:00 pm
Cahill Center, Hameetman Auditorium
Redshift Space Distortions of the Galaxy Distribution
Alex Szalay, John Hopkins University
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
4:00 pm
William T. Golden Auditorium, 813 Santa Barbara Street
TBA
Prof. Connie Rockosi, UC Santa Cruz, UCO/Lick Observatory
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
4:00 pm
Cahill Center, Hameetman Auditorium
An Astronomical Time Machine: Light Echoes from Historic Supernovae and Stellar Eruptions
Armin Rest, STScI
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
4:00 pm
William T. Golden Auditorium, 813 Santa Barbara Street
Completing the Inventory of the Outer Solar System
Dr. Scott Sheppard, DTM
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
4:00 pm
Cahill Center, Hameetman Auditorium
The Murchison Widefield Array: the low frequency Precursor for the Square Kilometre Array
Steven Tingay, Curtin Institute, Western Australia
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
4:00 pm
Cahill Center, Hameetman Auditorium
RR Lyrae Variables: Getting Out of the Galaxy
Juna Kollmeier, Carnegie
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
4:00 pm
William T. Golden Auditorium, 813 Santa Barbara Street
TBA
Dr. Charles Lawrence, NASA JPL
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
4:00 pm
Cahill Center, Hameetman Auditorium
Supermassive Black Holes in Giant Elliptical Galaxies
Chung Pei Ma, UC Berkeley
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
4:00 pm
William T. Golden Auditorium, 813 Santa Barbara Street
TBA
Dr. Davy Kirkpatrick, IPAC, Caltech
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
4:00 pm
Cahill Center, Hameetman Auditorium
Planet formation in the Kepler Era
Hilke Schlichting, UCLA
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
4:00 pm
William T. Golden Auditorium, 813 Santa Barbara Street
TBA
Prof. Annika Peter, Prof., UC Irvine/Ohio State University
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
4:00 pm
Cahill Center, Hameetman Auditorium
CSI-Los Angeles: The Growth of Distant Galaxies and Reionization
Ranga- Ram Chary, Caltech
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
4:00 pm
William T. Golden Auditorium, 813 Santa Barbara Street
TBA
Prof. Risa Wechsler, Stanford University
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
4:00 pm
Cahill Center, Hameetman Auditorium
Gone with the Wind? Galactic winds and star formation quenching
Christy Tremonti, Wisconsin
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
4:00 pm
William T. Golden Auditorium, 813 Santa Barbara Street
Getting WIRED About Dust and Substellar Objects Orbiting White Dwarfs
Dr. John H. Debes, STScI
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
4:00 pm
William T. Golden Auditorium, 813 Santa Barbara Street
The Evolution of Galaxy Sizes
Dr. Bianca Poggianti, INAF