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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.
Maps and directions to the department. For more information contact Mateusz Ruszkowski.
| Fall 2009 Full Schedule | |||
| Date | Speaker | Topic | Affiliation |
| Thu Sep 10 2009 | Eric Pellegrini | 30 Doradus: Deconstructing the Structure and Physical Processes of a GEHIIR | University of Michigan |
| Thu Sep 17 2009 | Margaret Hanson | Massive Star Clusters in the Milky Way: The known and the known unknowns | University of Cincinnati |
| Thu Sep 24 2009 | Juna Kollmeier | Probing the Inner and Outer Milky Way | The Carnegie Observatories |
| Thu Oct 01 2009 | Mitch Begelman | The First Supermassive Black Holes? | University of Colorado at Boulder |
| Thu Oct 08 2009 | Norman Murray | Stellar Feedback and Galaxy Formation | CITA |
| Thu Oct 15 2009 | Brian McNamara | Supermassive Black Holes: Workhorses of Cosmic Structure | University of Waterloo |
| Thu Oct 22 2009 | Peng Oh | Probing helium reionization | University of California at Santa Barbara |
| Thu Oct 29 2009 | Alex Wolszczan | Planets around evolved stars | Penn State |
| Thu Nov 05 2009 | Shantanu Basu | The Formation and Long-Term Evolution of Circumstellar Disks | University of Western Ontario |
| Thu Nov 12 2009 | Ian Parrish | Anisotropic Thermal Conduction and the Cooling Flow Problem in Galaxy Clusters | University of California at Berkeley |
| Thu Nov 19 2009 | Sebastian Heinz | Black hole exhaust: An environmental impact study of microquasars | University of Wisconsin, Madison |
| Thu Dec 03 2009 | Milos Milosavljevic | TBA | University of Texas at Austin |
| Thu Dec 10 2009 | Janice Lee | TBA | The Carnegie Observatories |
| Winter 2010 | |||
| Date | Speaker | Topic | Affiliation |
| Thu Jan 14 2010 | Karl . Gebhardt | TBA | University of Texas at Austin |
| Thu Jan 21 2010 | . | ||
| Thu Jan 28 2010 | Eric . Wilcots | TBA | University of Wisconsin at Madison |
| Thu Feb 04 2010 | . | ||
| Thu Feb 11 2010 | Heather . Knutson | TBA | University of California at Berkeley |
| **Thu Feb 18 2010 260 Dennison | Guy . Consolmagno | Meteorites, Asteroids and the Structure of the Solar Nebula **Please note, the talk may be held in 260 Dennison Building | Vatican Observatory |
| Thu Feb 25 2010 | Ellen . Zweibel | TBA | University of Wisconsin, Madison |
| Thu Mar 11 2010 | David . Wilner | TBA | Harvard University |
| Thu Mar 25 2010 | Zoltan . Haiman | TBA | Columbia University |
| Thu Apr 01 2010 | Jack . Burns | TBA | University of Colorado at Boulder |
| **Tue Apr 06 2010 | Kris . Stanek | TBA | Ohio State University |
| Thu Apr 15 2010 | Philip . Meyers | TBA | Harvard University |
See a list of Past Colloquia.
