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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.)
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)