The Ohio State University College of Mathematical & Physical Sciences Department of Astronomy

Astronomy Department Weekly Colloquium Series 2006/07

Coffee & Refreshments are at 3:00pm in 4054 McPherson Lab, except as noted.

Autumn Quarter 2006

Date	Speaker
September 21	Karen Leighly, University of Oklahoma Current and Recent AGN Emission- and Absorption-line Research
September 28	Greg Sivakoff, OSU Low-Mass X-ray Binaries, Diffuse Gas, and Globular Clusters in Early-Type Galaxies
October 5	Jason Wright, UC Berkeley Characterizing Exoplanetary Systems: The Search for Solar System Analogs
October 12	Eduardo Rozo, OSU/CCAPP Cosmological Constraints from the maxBCG Cluster Sample
October 17 12:30pm, PRB1080 **Special Date/Time**	Joint CCAPP/Astronomy Colloquium Scott Dodelson, Fermilab/Chicago Dark Matter vs. Modified Gravity
October 26	Andrey Kravtsov, University of Chicago Cosmological simulations of clusters of galaxies: status, problems, challenges
November 2 New Speaker	Joel Hartman, Harvard-Smithsonian CfA A High Precision Transit Survey of the Open Cluster M37
November 9	Thomas Masseron, OSU Stellar Nucleosynthesis in Galactic History: The Carbon Stars
November 16	Doug Clowe, Ohio University A direct empirical proof of the existence of dark matter.
November 17 12:30pm **Special Date/Time**	Tesla Jeltema, Carnegie Observatories The Evolution of Large-Scale Structure: Clusters and Groups of Galaxies
November 30	Mandeep Gill, OSU/CCAPP From the Littlest to the Largest: from QCD to the LBT

Winter Quarter 2007

Date	Speaker
January 3 **Special Date/Time**	Pat McDonald, CITA Probing Inflation, Dark Matter, Dark Energy, etc. using the Lyman-alpha Forest
January 25	Ann Hornschemeier, NASA/GSFC New Views of the Coma Cluster: A Local Multiwavelength Micro-Cosmos
January 30 **Special Date**	Todd Thompson, Princeton Feedback in Starburst Galaxies
February 1	George Rieke, University of Arizona A Planet's Rocky Road to Success
February 6 **Special Date**	Evan Scannapieco, UC Santa Barbara Feedback Processes in Cosmology
February 15, 12:30 pm, 4054 McPherson **Special Time/Place**	Jason Tumlinson, Yale Digging Through the Dark Age with Galactic Archaeology
February 22	No colloquium
March 1	Adrian Melott, U. Kansas Spectral Analysis of Biodiversity Cycles and Galactic Dynamics
March 8	Mitch Begelman, JILA The First Supermassive Black Holes?

Spring Quarter 2007

Date	Speaker
March 29
April 5
April 12	Mike Skrutskie, University of Virginia TBA
April 19	Hiranya Peiris, U. Chicago TBA
April 26	John Cowan,U. Oklahoma TBA
May 10	Evan Skillman, U. Minnesota TBA
May 17	Joshua Winn, MIT TBA
May 24	Eric Agol, U. Washington Prospecting for Planets
May 31	Licia Verde, U. Pennsylvania TBA