2011/12 Astronomy Colloquia
2010/11 Astronomy Colloquia
| Sep 8 | Greg Rudnick (Kansas) | The Growth of Dead Galaxies in Clusters over Most of Cosmic Time |
| Sep 29 | Aaron Romanowsky (UCSC/Lick) | Formational Clues in Galaxy Halos |
| Oct 13 | Bill Cochran (Texas) | Kepler and the Search for Habitable Earths |
| Nov 3 | Adi Zolotov (NYU) | The Dual Origin of Galactic Stellar Halos |
| Nov 18 | Charles Lada (Harvard/CfA) | Special Date/Time: Thu 11:30am |
| Dec 1 | James Annis (FNAL) | The Dark Energy Survey |
| Feb 9 |
Hong Guo (CWRU) |
The theory and measurement of the three-point statistics |
| Mar 10 |
Betsy Barton (UC Irvine) |
Star Formation and Gas in the Lowest-Density Environments |
| Mar 22 |
Ralph Schonrich (MPA) |
Making our picture of the galaxy simple |
| Mar 30 |
Dana Casetti (Yale) |
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| Apr 13 |
Nick Suntzeff (Texas A&M) |
A Cosmologist Loose in the State Department: Dark Energy and Science Public Policy |
2009/10 Astronomy Colloquia
| Aug 26 | Peder Norberg (Edinburgh) | Galaxy And Mass Assembly: a survey probing fundamental Cold Dark Matter model predictions |
| Sep 16 | Heather Morrison (CWRU) | Age/metallicity gradients in the Milky Way's thick disk |
| Oct 15 | Neta Bahcall (Princeton) | Weighing the Universe Joint Colloquium with Physics: 4:15 in Rock 301 |
| Oct 22 | Peter Michelson (Stanford) | Joint Colloquium with Physics: 4:15 in Rock 301 |
| Nov 4 | JD Smith (UToledo) | |
| Nov 12 | Robin Ciardullo (Penn State) | The Structure and Kinematics of Galactic Disks Note special date and time: 11:30am |
| Nov 18 | Michael Blanton (NYU) | What dwarf galaxies tell us about galaxy formation and cosmology |
| Dec 2 | David Thilker (Johns Hopkins University) | Star formation in extreme locales revealed by GALEX |
| Dec 3 | Fred Adams (Michigan) | Joint Colloquium with Physics: 4:15 in Rock 301 |
| Dec 10 | Julio Navarro (U Victoria) | The Aquarius Project: Dark Matter under
a Numerical Microscope Joint Colloquium with Physics: 4:15 in Rock 301 |
| Apr 15 | Juna Kollemeier (Carnegie Observatories) | Oldies but Goodies: Old Hypervelocity
Stars and RR Lyrae as Probes of the Inner and Outer Milky Way Note special day/time: Thurs, 1pm |
| Apr 15 | Jessica Sunshine (Maryland) | Joint Colloquium with Physics: 4:15 in Rock 301 |
2008/9 Astronomy Colloquia
2007/8 Astronomy Colloquia
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) |
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| 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
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 |