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