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Astronomy Department Colloquia

Astronomy Department Colloquia are held on Thursdays at 4:10 pm in room 807 Dennison Bldg, unless otherwise noted. Cookies and tea are served at 3:45 pm in Dennison 845 (OWL room). Click on the date for more details, including the abstract when available.

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Fall 2009 Full Schedule
Date Speaker Topic Affiliation
Thu Sep 10 2009Eric Pellegrini30 Doradus: Deconstructing the Structure and Physical Processes of a GEHIIRUniversity of Michigan
Thu Sep 17 2009Margaret HansonMassive Star Clusters in the Milky Way: The known and the known unknownsUniversity of Cincinnati
Thu Sep 24 2009Juna KollmeierProbing the Inner and Outer Milky WayThe Carnegie Observatories
Thu Oct 01 2009Mitch BegelmanThe First Supermassive Black Holes?University of Colorado at Boulder
Thu Oct 08 2009Norman MurrayStellar Feedback and Galaxy FormationCITA
Thu Oct 15 2009Brian McNamaraSupermassive Black Holes: Workhorses of Cosmic StructureUniversity of Waterloo
Thu Oct 22 2009Peng OhProbing helium reionizationUniversity of California at Santa Barbara
Thu Oct 29 2009Alex WolszczanPlanets around evolved starsPenn State
Thu Nov 05 2009Shantanu BasuThe Formation and Long-Term Evolution of Circumstellar DisksUniversity of Western Ontario
Thu Nov 12 2009Ian ParrishAnisotropic Thermal Conduction and the Cooling Flow Problem in Galaxy ClustersUniversity of California at Berkeley
Thu Nov 19 2009Sebastian HeinzBlack hole exhaust: An environmental impact study of microquasarsUniversity of Wisconsin, Madison
Thu Dec 03 2009Milos MilosavljevicTBAUniversity of Texas at Austin
Thu Dec 10 2009Janice LeeTBAThe Carnegie Observatories
Winter 2010
Date Speaker Topic Affiliation
Thu Jan 14 2010Karl . GebhardtTBAUniversity of Texas at Austin
Thu Jan 21 2010 .
Thu Jan 28 2010Eric . WilcotsTBAUniversity of Wisconsin at Madison
Thu Feb 04 2010 .
Thu Feb 11 2010Heather . KnutsonTBAUniversity of California at Berkeley
**Thu Feb 18 2010
260 Dennison
Guy . ConsolmagnoMeteorites, Asteroids and the Structure of the Solar Nebula **Please note, the talk may be held in 260 Dennison BuildingVatican Observatory
Thu Feb 25 2010Ellen . ZweibelTBAUniversity of Wisconsin, Madison
Thu Mar 11 2010David . WilnerTBAHarvard University
Thu Mar 25 2010Zoltan . HaimanTBAColumbia University
Thu Apr 01 2010Jack . BurnsTBAUniversity of Colorado at Boulder
**Tue Apr 06 2010Kris . StanekTBAOhio State University
Thu Apr 15 2010Philip . MeyersTBAHarvard University
**Note Special Day, Time and/or Location
See a list of Past Colloquia.