Astronomy Spring Colloquia 2011 Tuesday, 4:30pm-5:30pm, Peyton Hall auditorium
February 1, 2011
| Speaker: | Aaron Parsons (NSF Fellow, Townes Fellow, UC Berkeley) |
| Title: | 21cm Cosmology: Probing the Epoch of Reionization |
| Email: | aparsons@astron.berkeley.edu |
| Host: | Brian Metzger |
| Arrival: | January 31 |
| Departure: | February 2 |
February 8, 2011
| Speaker: | Debra Elmegreen |
| Title: | Clumpy Galaxies in the Early Universe |
| Email: | elmegreen@vassar.edu |
| Host: | Dimitrios Giannios |
| Arrival: | Morning of February 8 |
| Departure: | After Dinner |
February 15, 2011
| Speaker: |
Kristen Menou |
| Title: | Electromagnetic Counterparts of Spacetime Sirens |
| Email: | Kristen@astro.columbia.edu |
| Host: | Dave |
| Arrival: | Feb 15 |
| Departure: | Feb 15 |
February 22, 2011
| Speaker: | Sean Solomon |
| Title: | Exploring the planet Mercury by spacecraft: Seeking clues to the formation and evolution of the inner planets |
| Email: | scs@dtm.ciw.edu |
| Host: | Dave Spiegel |
| Arrival: | February 21 |
| Departure: | February 22 |
March 1, 2011
| Speaker: | John Johnson |
| Title: | Exoplanets in Projection |
| Email: | johnjohn@astro.caltech.edu |
| Host: | Cullen Blake |
| Arrival: | February 27 |
| Departure: | March 5 |
March 8, 2011
| Speaker: | Chuck Keeton |
| Title: | Gravitational Lensing and Dark Matter Substructure |
| Email: | keeton@physics.rutgers.edu |
| Host: | Dave |
| Arrival: | Same day |
| Departure: | Same day |
March 15, 2011
| Speaker: | Scott Ransom |
| Title: | Detecting gravitational waves (and doing other cool physics) with millisecond pulsars |
| Email: | sransom@nrao.edu |
| Host: | Brian Metzger |
| Arrival: | Monday |
| Departure: | Tuesday evening |
March 22, 2011
| Speaker: | Dave Latham |
| Title: | Super Earths and Life |
| Email: | dlatham@cfa.harvard.edu |
| Host: | Cullen Blake |
| Arrival: | March 21 |
| Departure: | March 23 |
March 29, 2011
| Speaker: | Beth Willman |
| Title: | "What is a Galaxy?' |
| Email: | bwillman@haverford.edu |
| Host: | Jason Nordhaus |
| Arrival: | March 29 |
| Departure: | March 30 |
April 5, 2011
| Speaker: | Caroline Terquem |
| Title: | Dynamics of Planetary Systems |
| Email: | caroline.terquem@iap.fr |
| Host: | Dimitrios Giannios |
| Arrival: | Local |
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April 12, 2011
| Speaker: | Greg Bryan |
| Title: | Gas cooling and accretion in clusters and galaxies |
| Email: | gbryan@astro.columbia.edu |
| Host: | Jason Nordhaus |
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April 19, 2011
| Speaker: | Daniel Eisenstein |
| Title: | Baryon Acoustic Oscillations: A robust and Precise Route to the Cosmological Distance Scale |
| Email: | deisenstein@cfa.harvard.edu |
| Host: | Kendrick |
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April 26, 2011
| Speaker: | Todd Thompson |
| Title: | A New Mechanism for "prompt" Ia Supernovae and Compact Object Mergers |
| Email: | thompson@astronomy.ohio-state.edu |
| Host: | Stephanie Tonnesen |
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May 3, 2011
A surprisingly simple model for solar rotation
| Speaker: | Steve Balbus |
| Title: | A surprisingly simple model for solar rotation |
| Email: | balbus@astro.Princeton.EDU |
| Host: | Mindy Lipman |
| Arrival: | Local |
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