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Department of Astronomy

Astronomy Colloquium Series 2008/09

Colloquia are held at 3:30pm every Thursday during the normal academic quarter.

All talks are in 2015 McPherson Laboratory unless otherwise indicated.

Coffee & Refreshments are at 3:00pm in 4054 McPherson Lab, except as noted.

Autumn Quarter 2008

Date Speaker
Host
October 2 Roberta Humphreys (The University of Minnesota)
Ejections, Eruptions, and Explosions in the Upper HR Diagram
Kris Stanek
October 9 Heather Knutson (Harvard University)
Portraits of Distant Worlds: Characterizing the Properties of Extrasolar Planets
Scott Gaudi
October 16 Jonathan Fortney (The University of California, Santa Cruz)
Understanding Extreme Planetary Atmospheres: Modeling and Classifying Hot Jupiters
Kris Sellgren
October 23 Stelios Kazantzidis (The Ohio State University; CCAPP)
Astrophysical Disks in a LCDM Universe: A Key to Fundamental Physics and Galaxy Formation
David Weinberg
October 30 Kurtis Williams (The University of Texas, Austin)
White Dwarfs and the Deaths of Intermediate-Mass Stars
Jennifer Johnson
November 6 Mark Krumholz (The University of California, Santa Cruz)
The Secret Lives of Molecular Clouds
Todd Thompson
November 13 Gabriela Canalizo (The University of California, Riverside)
Quasar Black Hole Masses and Triggering Mechanisms: A Study Based on Low Redshift Host Galaxies
Smita Mathur
November 20 Lars Bildsten (Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics)
Type Ia Supernovae Progenitors: Challenges and Opportunities
Todd Thompson
December 4 Philip F. Hopkins (The University of California, Berkeley)
Galaxy Collisions: A Factory for Quasars, Feedback, Ellipticals, and Disks?
Paul Martini

Winter Quarter 2009

Date Speaker
Host
January 15 Warren Brown (Center for Astrophysics, Harvard University)
Hypervelocity Stars and Massive Black Holes
Kris Stanek
January 22 Nathan Smith (UC Berkeley)
Precursors to supernova explosions and extraordinary deaths of very massive stars
Jennifer Johnson
January 29 Mark Voit (Michigan State University)
Mysteries of Cluster Cores
Brad Peterson
February 5 Robert Williams (Space Telescope Science Institute)
Novae
Pat Osmer
February 6 (SPECIAL DAY AND TIME!) Franck Delahaye (CEA/DSM/IRFU, Service d'Astrophysique, France)
From Accurate Atomic Data to Astrophysical Modeling
Marc Pinsonneault
February 26 Tommaso Treu (The University of California, Santa Barbara)
Dark Matter and Black Holes over Cosmic Time
Smita Mathur
March 5 Mike Brown (Caltech)
The Dwarf Planets of the Outer Solar System
Rick Pogge

Spring Quarter 2009

Date Speaker
Host
March 25, 2:30p (SPECIAL DAY, TIME) Serena Bertone (UC Santa Cruz)
Mapping the Intergalactic Medium in Emission at Low and High Redshift
Matt Pieri
April 2 Alycia Weinberger (DTM, Carnegie Institution of Washington)
Nearby Circumstellar Disks: Their compositions and the stars that host them
Kris Sellgren
April 9 Lynne Hillenbrand (Caltech)
Characterizing Young Star Masses, Ages, and Multiplicity: An Empiricist's View
Marc Pinsonneault
April 14, 2:00pm (SPECIAL DAY, TIME) Marta Volonteri (U. Michigan)
Growing and merging black holes
Brad Peterson
April 16 Leonidas Moustakas (JPL)
Strong gravitational lensing and astrophysical constraints on the nature of dark matter
Chris Kochanek
April 23 Vicky Kalogera (Northwestern)
Binary Compact Objects and their Powerful Astrophysics
Kris Stanek
April 30 Thaisa Storchi-Bergmann (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul)
Feeding and Feedback in nearby AGN from IFU observations
Brad Peterson
May 7 Jeremy Darling (University of Colorado)
Molecular Pathologies: Probes of Galaxy and Black Hole Evolution, Cosmology, and Fundamental Physics
Paul Martini
May 14 Con Deliyannis (Indiana University)
TBD
Marc Pinsonneault
May 21 Olivier Guyon (Subaru Telescope & U. Arizona)
A bright future ahead for direct imaging of extrasolar planets
Rick Pogge
May 28 Ata Sarajedini (U. Florida)
The HST/ACS Treasury Survey of Galactic Globular Clusters
David Weinberg
June 4 Adam Burrows (Princeton)
Unifying Principles in the Theory of Core-Collapse Supernovae
Scott Gaudi