Astronomy Spring Colloquia 2010
Tuesday, 4:30pm-5:30pm, Peyton Hall auditorium:
February 2, 2010
| Speaker: | Marla Geha (Yale) |
| Title: | "The Darkest Galxies" |
| Email: | marla.geha@yale.edu |
| Host: | Neta Bahcall |
| Arrival: | 10:00am |
| Departure: | After Dinner |
February 9, 2010
| Speaker: | Robert A. Benjamin (Univ. of Wisconsin) |
| Title: | "New Results in Galactic Cartography: The Stellar Disk and Bar(s) of the Milky Way" |
| Email: | benjamir@uww.edu |
| Host: | Bruce Draine |
| Arrival: | Feb 8 - Evening |
| Departure: | Feb 10 - Afternoon |
February 16, 2010
| Speaker: | Pieter Van Dokkum (Yale ) |
| Title: | "The remarkable history of massive galaxies" |
| Email: | pieter.vandokkum yale.edu |
| Host: | Jerry Ostriker |
| Arrival: | Monday Evening |
| Departure: | Tuesday After Dinner |
February 23, 2010
| Speaker: | Jenny Greene (Princeton) |
| Title: | "Beyond the M-sigma relation: The role of black holes in galaxy evolution" |
| Email: | jgreene@astro.princeton.edu |
| Host: | Jerry Ostriker |
March 2, 2010
| Speaker: | Mike Blanton ( NYU Astronomy) |
| Title: | "The last eight billion years of galaxy growth" |
| Email: | blanton@physics.nyu.edu |
| Host: | Jerry Ostriker |
| Arrival: | IAS lunch |
| Departure: | After Dinner |
March 9, 2010
| Speaker: | Paul Steinhardt |
| Title: |
"Inflationary Cosmology on Trial" |
| Email: | steinh@Princeton.EDU |
| Host: | Jerry Ostriker |
March 23, 2010
| Speaker: | Mariska Kriek (Princeton) |
| Title: | "The Different Life Cycles of Galaxies" |
| Email: | mariska@astro.princeton.edu |
| Host: | Jerry Ostriker |
March 30, 2010
| Speaker: |
Paul Schechter (MIT) |
| Title: | "The baryonic mass-to-light ratio in elliptical galaxies measured from the static gravitational micro-lensing of multiply imaged quasars" |
| Email: | schech@achernar.mit.edu |
| Host: | Neta Bahcall |
| Arrival: | March 29 |
| Departure: | March 31 |
April 6, 2010
| Speaker: | Kathryn Johnston (Columbia) |
| Title: | "Tales from Tails - Science Enabled by Large Scale Stellar Surveys" |
| Email: | kvj @ astro.columbia.edu |
| Host: | Michael Strauss |
| Arrival: | 10:30am |
| Departure: | April 7th, 5:00pm |
April 13, 2010
| Speaker: | Alexey Vikhlinin (Harvard Astronomy) |
| Title: | Recent Advances and Future Challenges for Using Galaxy Clusters in Cosmology |
| Email: | avikhlinin@head.cfa.harvard.edu |
| Host: | Jerry Ostriker |
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| Departure: |
April 20, 2010
| Speaker: | Scott Tremaine (IAS) |
| Title: | "The centers of galaxies" |
| Email: | tremaine@ias.edu |
| Host: | Jerry Ostriker |
April 27, 2010
| Speaker: |
Zoltan Haiman (Columbia) |
| Title: | "Electromagnetic Signatures of Supermassive Black Hole Mergers" |
| Email: | zoltan@astro.columbia.edu |
| Host: | Michael Strauss |
| Arrival: | 10:30am |
| Departure: | After Dinner |
May 4, 2010
| Speaker: | Josh Winn (MIT Physics) |
| Title: | "The Transits of Exoplanets" |
| Email: | jwinn@space.mit.edu |
| Host: | Ed Turner |
| Arrival: | May 3 - Evening |
| Departure: | May 5 - Morning |
May 11, 2010
Spitzer Lecturer
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Speaker: |
Roger Romani (Stanford) |
| Title: | "A Galaxy full of Gamma-Ray Pulsars" (See spitzer lectures info) |
| Email: | |
| Host: | David Spergel |
| Arrival: | May 3 |
| Departure: | May 14 |
May 18, 2010
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Speaker: |
Charlie Conroy(Princeton University) |
| Title: | "Stellar Population Synthesis for the Future" |
| Email: | cconroy@astro.Princeton.EDU |
| Host: | Jill Knapp |
May 25, 2010
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Speaker: |
Lisa Kaltenegger (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) |
| Title: | |
| Email: | lkaltene@cfa.harvard.edu |
| Host: | David Spergel |
| Arrival: | Sunday Eve |
| Departure: | Wednesday Morning |