Department Events
Seminars & Workshops
Prof. Jin Koda
SUNY-Stony Brook
TBD
12.10.2009 - 2pm JWG 263
Prof. George Wallerstein
University of Washington
"Stellar Elemental Abundances from 1958 to 2008"
12.03.2009 - 2pm JWG 263
Dr. Julio Chaname
DTM
MACHOs, Dark Matter Halos, and Central Black Holes: Exploiting the Motions of Individual Stars in the Local Group
11.19.2009 - 2pm JWG 263
Prof. Jeff Kenney
Yale University
Strippers in the Green Valley and Other Tales of Galaxy Transformation in Clusters
11.12.2009 - 2pm JWG 263
Prof. Elizabeth Blanton
BU
AGN in Clusters of Galaxies: Cooling Flows, Feedback, and High-z Systems
11.05.2009 - 2pm JWG 263
Dr. Nitya Kallivayalil
MIT
Studying the Milky Way through Satellites
10.29.2009 - 2pm JWG 263
Prof. Joel Primack
UCSC
"A Brief History of Dark Matter"
10.22.2009 - 2pm JWG 263
Anna Frebel
CFA
What the most metal-poor stars tell us about the early Universe
10.15.2009 - 2pm JWG 263
Prof. Seth Redfield
Wesleyan University
Comparative Exoplanetology: Observing the Atmospheres of Transiting Exoplanets
10.08.2009 - 2pm JWG 263
Risa Wechsler
Stanford University
The Galaxy-Halo Connection Across Mass and Time
10.01.2009 - 2pm JWG 263
Dr. Nitya Kallivayalil
MIT
Studying the Milky Way through Satellites
09.24.2009 - 2pm JWG 263
Dr. Yuval Birnboim
CFA
Cold and Hot Modes of Accretion onto Galaxies
09.17.2009 - 2pm JWG 263
Dr. Warren Brown
SAO
Hypervelocity Stars and Massive Black Holes
09.10.2009 - 2pm JWG 263
Kirsten Howley
UCSC
NGC 205 and M32, Understanding Andromeda's Tidally Distorted Satellites
08.13.2009 - 2pm JWG 263
Michal Michalowski
Dark Cosmology Centre, Copenhagen
Cosmic Evolution of Submillimeter Galaxies and Their Contribution to Stellar Mass Assembly
07.07.2009 - 2pm JWG 263
Diego Mardones
Universidad de Chile
"Open Questions in Star Formation"
06.24.2009 - 3pm JWG 263
Min Yun (UMass)
Dust-obscured Star Formation and AGN Activities at z > 1
04.30.2009 - 2pm JWG
Savvas Koushiappas (Brown Univ)
If It Is Dark, Can You Still See It?
04.23.2009 - 2pm JWG 263
Ryan Foley (CfA)
Improving Supernova Cosmology
04.16.2009 - 2pm JWG 263
Charlie Conroy (Princeton)
The Stellar Population Synthesis Technique
04.09.2009 - 2pm JWG 263
Danilo Marchesini (Yale)
The Evolution of the Stellar Mass Function of Galaxies from z=4
04.02.2009 - 2pm, JWG
Alex Halliday
Rupert Wildt Lecturer: "The origin of the Earth and Moon"
04.01.2009 - 4pm, 123 KGL
Thibaut Decressin (Bonn)
Massive Stars in Globular Clusters: Links Between Chemistry and Dynamics
03.03.2009 - 12pm, JWG 263
Thomas Cox (CfA)
“Unraveling the Formation History of Elliptical Galaxies”
02.26.2009 - 2pm JWG 263
Kentaro Nagamine (UNLV)
Galaxy Formation with Cosmological Hydrodynamic Simulations: LBGs and LAEs at z=3-6
02.13.2009 - 2pm, JWG 263
Tesla Jeltema (UCSC)
Probing Cosmology and New Physics with Clusters of Galaxies
02.12.2009 - 2pm, JWG 263
Armin Rest (Harvard)
Addressing the Big Cosmological Problems with Surveys
02.05.2009
Amanda Karakas (ANU/Stromlo)
Heavy Element Nucleosynthesis in Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars
01.29.2009
Alicia Soderberg (CfA)
How to Tell a Supernova From a Gamma-Ray Burst
01.22.2009
Frank van den Bosch (MPIA)
The Galaxy-Dark Matter Connection
01.15.2009
Informal Seminars
Edwin Henneken
Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
"The ADS in a nutshell - Searching Millions of Records without Breaking a Sweat"
11.09.2009 - Monday, 12pm JWG 263
Julie Comerford
UC Berkeley
Cosmology Seminar: Dual Supermassive Black Holes as Tracers of Galaxy Mergers
11.06.2009 - 12pm JWG 263
Professional Seminars
Prof. Meg Urry
Yale University
“The Co-Evolution of Black Holes and Galaxies”
11.13.2009 - 2:30 pm JWG 263
Professor Juri Toomre
"Probing the sources of solar magnetism with helioseismology and simulations"
10.16.2009 - 3:30pm JWG 263
YCAA Seminars
Meg Schwamb
Caltech
TBA
12.08.2009 - 12pm JWG 263
Elena Gallo
MIT
"AMUSE-VIRGO: DOWN-SIZING IN BLACK HOLE ACCRETION"
12.01.2009 - 12pm JWG 263
Stephanie Tonnesen
Columbia University
"A Tale of Tails: Environmentally-Driven Evolution of Cluster Galaxies"
11.24.2009 - 12pm JWG 263
Aleks Diamond-Stanic
University of Arizona
"The Growth of Supermassive Black Holes: A Biased View"
11.17.2009 - 12pm JWG 263
Dan Grin
Caltech
Cosmology Seminar Series
11.13.2009 - 12pm, JWG 263
Richard Scalzo
Yale University
Cosmology Seminar Series
10.30.2009 - 12pm, JWG 263
Jaiyul Yoo
CFA
"A New Perspective on Galaxy Clustering as a Cosmological Probe: General Relativistic Effects"
10.20.2009 - 12pm JWG 263
Andrew Wetzel
UC Berkeley
Cosmology Seminar Series
10.16.2009 - 12pm, JWG 263
Marla Geha
Yale University
Cosmology Seminar Series
09.18.2009 - 12pm, JWG 263
Michael Garcia (SAO)
The International X-ray Observatory
04.28.2009 - 12pm JWG
Dimitri Veras
UFL
Formation, Survival, and Detectability of Planets Beyond 100 AU
04.21.2009 - 12:00pm, JWG 263
Ian Dell Antonio
Brown University
Clusters of Galaxies and Large Scale Structure Seen through Weak Gravitational Lensing
04.07.2009 - noon
Jeremiah Ostriker
Princeton University
"Making massive galaxies, is feedback necessary to make them "red and dead"?"
03.31.2009 - noon
Kai Noeske
CfA
TBA
03.24.2009
Nikhil Padmanabhan (LBNL)
TBA
02.24.2009
Richard Alexander (Leiden)
The Evolution and Dispersal of Protoplanetary Discs
02.17.2009 - 12pm, JWG 263
Sam Waldman (MIT)
Attometer Astrophysics: Gravitational Wave Astronomy with LIGO
02.10.2009 - 12pm, Gibbs 263
Joseph Hennawi (UC Berkeley)
Quasars Probing Quasars: Understanding the Physics of Massive Galaxy Formation
02.06.2009
Adam Bolton (IfA)
On the Mass of Massive Galaxies
02.03.2009
Brant Robertson (University of Chicago)
Bifocals for Baryonic Physics: Toward Successful Models of High-Redshift Galaxy Formation
01.27.2009
Sean Matt (University of Virginia)
Accretion-Powered Stellar Winds and the Angular Momentum Problem
01.20.2009
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