Astronomy Colloquium Series 2009/10

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 2009

Date	Speaker	Host
October 1	Sarah Gallagher (University of Western Ontario) Resolved: The SED's the Thing	Smita Mathur
October 8	Tom Megeath (The University of Toledo) Surveying Giant Molecular Clouds for Young Stars with the Spitzer Space Telescope	Kris Sellgren
October 15	Michael Strauss (Princeton University) Quasars from z=0 to z=6: Demographics and Clustering as Clues to their Physical Nature	Andy Gould
October 22	Wendy Panero (The Ohio State University; The School of Earth Sciences) Volatile storage and cycling in the Earth's Interior	Jennifer Johnson
October 29	Kelsey Johnson (University of Virginia) From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere: Star Formation & Galaxy Evolution in Compact Groups of Galaxies	Jennifer Johnson
November 5	Adam Leroy (National Radio Astronomy Observatory) Where is the ISM good at forming stars? Using nearby galaxies to understand the drivers of star formation	Todd Thompson
November 12	Rosalba Perna (University of Colorado) Gamma-Ray Bursts as Cosmological Tools	Kris Stanek
November 19	Eric Bell (University of Michigan) Old, red and dead galaxies in a lambda CDM Universe	Paul Martini
December 3	Julianne Dalcanton (University of Washington) Resolved Stellar Populations and the Timing of Astrophysical Processes	Chris Kochanek

Winter Quarter 2010

Date	Speaker	Host
January 7	Larry Widrow (Queen's U.) The Tangled Past of Andromeda and Triangulum	Stelios Kazantzidis
January 14	Ewa Lokas (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center) Tidal evolution of Milky Way satellites	Stelios Kazantzidis
January 21	Gaspar Bakos (Center for Astrophysics) Exploring the diversity of extrasolar planets with the HATNet project	Kris Stanek
January 28	no colloquium
February 4	Caryl Gronwall (Penn State Univ) The Physical Properties of Lyman-alpha Emitters from z=2 to 3	Jennifer Johnson
2pm, February 16 (SPECIAL TIME/DAY)	Jon Fulbright (Johns Hopkins U.) The Very Metal Poor Stars of the RAVE Survey	Jennifer Johnson
February 18	Rosemary Wyse (Johns Hopkins U.) Dark matter and baryons in dwarf spheroidal galaxies	Smita Mathur
February 25	Daniela Calzetti (University of Massachusetts) How To Trace Star Formation in External Galaxies	Paul Martini
March 4	Eric Becklin (UCLA) Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA)	Kris Sellgren
March 11	Idit Zehavi (Case Western Reserve University) Galaxy Clustering and Dark Matter Halo	Todd Thompson

Spring Quarter 2010

Date	Speaker	Host
April 1	Snezana Stanimirovic (University of Wisconsin)
April 8	Dimitar Sasselov (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
April 15	Julia Lee (Harvard)
April 22	JD Smith (University of Toledo)
April 29	Nuria Calvet (University of Michigan)
May 6
May 13	Neil Gehrels (NASA/GSFC)	Michael Stamatikos
May 20
May 27	Andrezj Udalski (Warsaw University Observatory)
June 3	Anatoly Spitkovsky (Princeton)