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.) TBD	Stelios Kazantzidis
January 14	Ewa Lokas (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center) TBD	Stelios Kazantzidis
January 21	Gaspar Bakos (Center for Astrophysics) TBD
January 28	()
February 4	Caryl Gronwall (Penn State Univ) TBD
February 11	Jon Fulbright (Johns Hopkins U.) TBD
February 18	()
February 25	Daniela Calzetti (University of Massachusetts) TBD
March 4	Eric Becklin (UCLA) TBD	Kris Sellgren
March 11	Idit Zehavi (Case Western) TBD

Spring Quarter 2010

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