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Past Astronomy Colloquia



2008/9 Astronomy Colloquia



Sep 16 TJ Cox (Harvard/CfA) Unraveling the Formation History of Elliptical Galaxies
Oct 16 Eric Herbst (OSU) Complex Interstellar Molecules
Note: Joint Physics/Astronomy Colloquium. Held in Rockefeller 301 at 4:15
Oct 28 Mario Juric (IAS) 7-D mapping of the Milky Way with SDSS
Nov 13 Alan Marscher (Boston U) Probing Deeply into the Inner Je ts of Blazars
Note special date and time: Thu @3pm
Nov 18 Steinn Sigurdsson (PSU) Second Stars
Dec 9 Janice Lee (OCIW) H-alpha Imaging Surveys of Galaxies: S tar Formation Near and Far
Dec 18 Sally Oey (U Mich) Massive stars as a population and rec ent highlights on feedback effects Note special date and time
Jan 21
Laura Ferrarese (HIA)
The Structure o f Early-Type Galaxies from the ACS Virgo and Fornax Cluster Surveys: Cores, Stellar Nuclei and Supermassive Black Holes
Feb 4
Idit Zehavi (CWRU)
Galaxy Clustering and Dark Matter Halos Note special time: 11:00am
Feb 18
Rok Roskar (Washington)
Clues about Disk E volution from the Outermost Reaches of Galaxies
Mar 12
Carlos Frenk (Durham)
Cosmology on small scales: the structure of (mostly) dark matter halos Note: Joint Physics/Astronomy Colloquium. Held in Rockefeller 301 at 4:15
Mar 25
Kelly Holley-Bockelmann (Vanderbilt)
How Black Holes G et Their Kicks Note special date and time: Wed at 3:00pm
Apr 16
Mario Livio (STScI)
Dark Energy: Hopes and Expectations


2007/8 Astronomy Colloquia



Sep 4 Earle Luck (CWRU) Giants in the Local Region
Sep 18 Anthony Gonzalez (Florida) The Distribution of Baryons in Galaxy Clusters and Groups
Oct 2 Santiago Patiri (CWRU) Cosmic Voids: a useful tool to constrain galaxy formation models and cosmology
Oct 18 Bob Kirshner (Harvard) Fundamentals of Supernova Cosmology (Joint Physics/Astronomy Colloquium; Thu 4:15pm in Roc k 301)
Nov 1 Kathryn Johnston (Columbia) Mapping the Local Group (Note special date)
Nov 15 Romeel Dave (Arizona) The Impact of Galactic Outflows Across Cosmic Scales (Note special date and time: Thu @3pm)
Nov 27 Kristine Spekkens (Rutgers) Understanding Nearby Galaxy Structure in a Cosmological Context
Dec 13 Gus Evrard (Michigan) Computing the Cosmos: Illuminating the Dark Side with Clusters of Galaxies (Joint Physics/Astronomy Colloquium; Thu 4:15pm in Rock 301)
Jan 22 Christy Tremonti (Arizona) Can Quasars Quench Star Formation? New clues from the study of fossil galactic winds in post-starburst galaxies
Feb 21 Francesco Shankar (OSU) Constraining the evolution of Super-Massive Black Holes and their Hosts Note: Thurs 3pm
Mar 4 Patrick McDonald (CITA) Probing inflation, dark matter, dark energy, etc. using the Lyman-alpha forest
Mar 20 Pablo Laguna (PSU) Binary Black Holes, Gravitational Bursts and the Issue of the Final Spin (Note special date and time: Thu @3pm)
Mar 25 Jason Tumlinson (Yale) First Light from the Fossil Record: A New Synthesis
Apr 1 Stelios Kazantzidis (OSU) Cold Dark Matter Substructure and Galactic Disks: Morphological and Dynamical Signatures of Hierarchical Satellite Accretion (Note special time: 2:30pm)
Apr 15 John Ruhl (CWRU Physics) The South Pole Telescope (note: date change)
Apr 24 Dieter Hartmann (Clemson) Astronomy with Radioactivities (Joint Physics/Astronomy Colloquium; Thu @4:15pm in Rock 301)


2006/7 Astronomy Colloquia



Aug 1
John Norris (MSSSO/ANU)
The Most Metal Poor Stars -- -5.5 < [Fe/H] < -3.5
Sep 5
James Bullock (UC Irvine)
Dark Matter Halo Merging and Galaxy Formation
Oct 3
Paul Martini (OSU)
Active Galactic Nuclei in Clusters of Galaxies
Oct 17
Eric Becklin (UCLA)
SOFIA: Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy
Oct 19
Zeljko Ivezic (Washington)
Dissecting the Milky Way with SDSS and LSST
Oct 31
Massimo Ricotti (Maryland)
Feedback in the Early Universe and X-ray Reionization
Nov 14
Josh Frieman (Fermilab)
Probing Dark Energy
(Joint Particle-Astrophyics seminar)
Nov 30
Rocky Kolb (UChicago)
Dark Energy: Taking Sides on the Issue
(Joint Astronomy/Physics colloquium; Thu 4:15pm in Rock 301)
Dec 12
Oleg Gnedin (UMichigan)
(Particle-Astrophysics seminar; Tue 11:30 in Rock 221)
Dec 14
Mario Livio (STScI)
Astrophysical Jets CANCELLED (fog in Baltimore)
Jan 23
Hsiao-Wen Chen (UChicago)
Unveiling Star-forming Galaxies through GRB Afterglow Absorption-line Observations
Feb 13
Francesc Ferrer (Case)
Exotic physics in the sky: light dark matter and superconducting strings Note new date and time: 4:15pm
Feb 20
Vicki Sarajedini (UFlorida)
Searching for AGN in Deep HST Fields
Mar 6
Christy Tremonti (UArizona)
Postponed until Fall 07
Mar 22
Jennifer Johnson (OSU)
The Initial Mass Function of the First Stars
Mar 27
John Ruhl (Case)
The South Pole Telescope (cancelled)
Apr 5
Cameron McBride (Pitt)
Projected 3pt Correlation Function in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Note Special Date/Time: Thu 1:30pm
Apr 17
Darren Croton (UC Berkeley)
The environments of galaxies as triggers for star formation 'quenching'


2005/6 Astronomy Colloquia



Sep 6
Mike Hudson (Waterloo)
The Luminous Tip of the Dark Matter Iceberg
Oct 18
Alvaro Villalobos Cofre (Groningen)
The Problem of Simulating the Formation of Thick Disks in a Cosmological Context
Nov 8
Carlos Allende Prieto (Texas)
The Galactic Thick Disk: Near and Far
Nov 11
Brian Hynek (Colorado)
Geological, Geophysical, and Geochemical Analyses of Meridiani Planum, Mars: A New Interpretation (note: Joint Geology/Astronomy talk)
Nov 22
Connie Rockosi (UCSC/Lick)
SEGUE and the Galactic Thick Disk/Halo Transition
Dec 5
William Bidelman (Case)

Dec 15
Michael Strauss (Princeton)
Active Galaxies at low and high redshift: Type II quasars, reionization, and other insights from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.
Jan 24
Heather Morrison (Case)
Flared outer disk or Ring around the Galaxy?
Jan 31
Chris Mihos (Case)
Intracluster Light and the Evolution of Galaxy Clusters
Feb 17
Mary Putman (Michigan)
How Gas Gets Into Galaxies (note: Friday 3:00pm)
Mar 7
David Weinberg
(Ohio State)
The Theory of Galaxy Formation: Current Issues
Mar 20
Stephane Courteau (Queen's)
Puzzles in the Structure of Spiral Galaxies (note special day, time TBA)
Mar 31
Ken Freeman (ANU)
Galactic Disks (note: 2pm Friday)
Apr 3
Ken Freeman (ANU)
Near-field cosmology (note: 3pm Monday)
Apr 4
Earle Luck (Case)
Dwarf Abundances in the Local Region
Apr 7
Roger Phillips
(WashU StLouis)
Radars at Mars (note: Joint Geology/Astronomy talk; Friday 2pm in AW Smith)
Apr 11
David Schlegel (LBL)
Clustering of Luminous Red Galaxies, Baryon Acoustic Oscillations, and Cosmological Implications
Apr 18
Greg Bryan (Columbia)
Heating and Cooling in Galaxy Clusters


2004/5 Astronomy Colloquia



Aug 5
John Norris (Mt Stromlo/ANU)
The Chemical Enrichment of Omega Centauri
Aug 10
John Norris (Mt Stromlo/ANU) Extremely Metal-Poor Stars
Oct 15
Matt Bershady (Wisconsin) Luminous Compact Blue Galaxies: Enigma or Archetype?
Oct 27
Chris Mihos (Case Astronomy)
The Evolution of Cluster Galaxies
Nov 4
Glenn Starkman (Case Physics)
 Is the low-l Microwave Background Cosmic?
Nov 18
Karl Gebhardt (Texas) Black Holes of All Masses: Understanding the Fundamental Correlations
Dec 6
Dave Silva (ESO Garching)
Cool Insights into Early-Type Galaxies
Jan 18
Andrew Hopkins (Pittsburgh)
Star formation, gas and galaxy morphology
(10:45 am - note time change)
Jan 20
Ken Nagamine (UCSD)
Massive galaxies and EROs at z=1-3 in cosmological hydrodynamic
simulations: Is the hierarchical CDM model wrong?

(Thursday 2:00pm)
Jan 25
Hsiao-Wen Chen (MIT)
Unmasking Damped Lya Absorbing Galaxies
Feb 4
Dan McIntosh (UMass)
Evolution of Spheroid Galaxies Over the Last Half of Cosmic History (note Friday date)
Feb 8
Idit Zehavi (Arizona)
Galaxy Clustering in the SDSS Redshift Survey (2:00 pm)
Mar 1
Derek Richardson (Maryland)
Binary Asteroids
Mar 24
Robert Zinn (Yale)
The QUEST RR Lyrae Survey: a search for substructure in the galactic halo
Mar 29
Jim Rose (UNC)
Evolution of Galaxies


2003/4 Astronomy Colloquia



Sep 3
Sergei Andrievsky (Odessa State) The Galactic Abundance Gradient with Cepheids
Sep 10
Kelly Holley-Bockelmann (UMass) Bars and Dark Matter Cusps
Oct 1 Nelson Caldwell (CfA) Stellar Populations in Virgo Cluster Galaxies Down to Mv=-8
Oct 14
Konrad Kuijken (Leiden)
Bulges Large and Small
Oct 29
W.P. Bidelman (CWRU)
Spectroscopic Wonderland: Przybylski's Star
Nov 20
Chris Fryer (LLNL)
The Fates of Massive Stars (note Thursday 1:30pm talk)
Dec 3 Lin Yan (IPAC)
Morphologies and Spectral Properties of
Luminous, Red Galaxies at z ~ 1

Dec 17 Charles Bailyn (Yale) Stellar Mass Black Holes in Transient X-ray Binaries
Jan 7 Jennifer Johnson (DAO) The Creation of the Heavy Elements in the Early Universe
Jan 21
Steve Hauck (Case)
The Evolution of Mercury
Feb 9
Chris Miller (CMU)
The Effects of Environment on Galaxy Evolution in the Local Universe
(note Monday 2:00pm talk)
Feb 11
Victor Debattista (IfA, Zurich)
Understanding Bulges with Numerical Experiments
(note Wednesday 2:00pm talk)
Feb 23
Adrianne Slyz (Oxford)
Hunting for the key parameters of star formation
(note Monday 2:00pm talk)
Feb 27
Volker Bromm (Harvard/CfA)
The First Stars and Quasars (note Friday 3:15pm talk)
Mar 9
James Bullock (Harvard/CfA)
Cosmology and the Milky Way (note Tuesday 1:30pm talk)
Mar 11
Alan Boss (DTM)
A heretic's approach to Solar System formation
(note Thursday 3:30pm talk)
Apr 7
Dean McLaughlin (STScI)
HST Proper Motions and Stellar Dynamics in the Core of 47 Tucanae
Apr 14
Rob Kennicutt (Arizona)
SINGS: The Spitzer Infrared Nearby Galaxies Survey


2002/3 Astronomy Colloquia (Spring Only)



Jan 15 Cole Miller (Maryland) Intermediate Mass Black Holes
Feb 5 Heather Morrison (CWRU) A thin disk system of globular clusters in M31
Feb 19 James Bullock (Harvard/CfA) Cosmology and the Milky Way
Mar 19 John Hibbard (NRAO) The Dynamical Nature of Tidal Dwarf Galaxy Candidates
Mar 26 Michael Vogeley (Drexel) Cosmic Voids and Void Galaxies
Apr 9 Lynn Matthews (Harvard/CfA) Clues on Galaxy Disk Evolution from Studies of "Superthin" Spirals
Apr 16 Rebecca Bernstein (Michigan) Optical Extragalactic Background Light



2001/2 Astronomy Colloquia



Sep 26 Caryl Gronwall (STScI) The KPNO International Spectroscopic Survey for Nearby Emission-Line Galaxies
Oct 4  Christine Wilson (McMaster) When Galaxies Collide: Massive Clouds and Massive Star Formation in the "Antennae" Galaxies (note special day)
Oct 17 Corbin Covault (CWRU) Chasing the Elusive Blazar with STACEE
Oct 25 Craig Hogan (Washington) Gravitational Radiation from the Early Universe
(joint colloquium w/ Physics. Note special day, time, and place: 4:15 Thursday in Rockefeller 301)
Oct 31 Pat Cote (Rutgers) Cold Dark Matter, Small-Scale Power, and Halo Substructure: Clues from Globular Clusters 
Nov 8 Alwyn Wootten (NRAO) High Angular Resolution Observations of Maser Kinematics Near Low Mass Young Stellar Objects
(Note special day and time: 3pm Thursday)
Nov 14 Eric Wilcots (Wisconsin) The HI Environments of Galaxies: Clues to Galaxy Formation
Nov 19 Eileen Friel (NSF) New Clues from Old Star Clusters of the Galactic Disk
(Note special day and time: 10:30am Monday)
Dec 5 Billy Bidelman (CWRU) Eureka II: The Origin of Peculiar A Stars
Jan 16 Brian McNamara (Ohio U) Cluster Cooling Flows in the Chandra Era
Feb 13 Larry Nittler (DTM) Meteoritic Stardust and the Evolution of the Galaxy
Feb 20 Ulrike Heiter (CWRU) Model Atmospheres and Abundance Analyses of Main Sequence Stars
Mar 6 Andy Layden (Bowling Green) Modeling the Stellar Populations in the Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy
Mar 21 Gary Ferland (Kentucky) Reconstructing the geometry of the Orion Nebula with spectroscopy
Mar 27 Steve Zepf (Michigan State) The Formation and Evolution of Globular Cluster Systems and Their Host Galaxies
Apr 3 Friedrich Kupka (Vienna) Fully non-local models of stellar convection
Apr 10 Mike Eracleous (Penn State) Cancelled
April 18 Bill Cochran (Texas) ExtraSolar Planets: New Clues for Planet Formation