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Department of Astronomy

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)