Astronomy Department Past Colloquia
Astronomy Department Colloquia are held on Thursdays at 4:00 pm in room 807 Dennison Bldg, unless otherwise noted. Cookies and tea are served at 3:30 pm in Dennison 845 (OWL room).
For more information contact Oleg Gnedin
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| Date | Speaker | Topic | Affiliation |
| Thu Apr 17 2008 | Tiziana Di Matteo | The Formation and Evolution of a Cosmological Population of Black Holes and Galaxies | Carnegie Mellon University |
| Thu Apr 10 2008 | Leo Blitz | Star Formation in Normal Galaxies | University of California at Berkeley |
| **Tue Apr 01 2008 | Scott Kenyon | Debris Disks & Formation of Planetary Systems | Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics |
| **Thu Mar 27 2008 340 West Hall | Jonathan Lunine | The Methane Hydrological Cycle on Titan---Hosted by MCTP | University of Florida |
| Thu Mar 20 2008 | Marla Geha | Getting to Know the New Neighbors: Kinematics and Chemistries the Ultra-Faint Milky Way Satellites | Yale University |
| Thu Mar 13 2008 | Nick Gnedin | Simulating Reionization: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow | Fermilab |
| Thu Mar 06 2008 | Sally Oey | Radiative Feedback from Massive Stars: A Local Perspective | University of Michigan |
| Thu Feb 28 2008 | Jonathan Tan | Massive Star Formation Through the Universe | University of Florida |
| Thu Feb 21 2008 | Kevin Luhman | The Origin of Brown Dwarfs | Penn State |
| Thu Feb 14 2008 | To Be Announced | TBA | TBA |
| Thu Feb 07 2008 | Lee Hartmann | New Approaches to Understanding Star Formation | University of Michigan |
| **Tue Jan 29 2008 | To Be Announced | TBA | TBA |
| Thu Jan 24 2008 | To Be Announced | TBA | TBA |
| **Tue Jan 22 2008 | To Be Announced | TBA | TBA |
| Thu Jan 17 2008 | To Be Announced | TBA | TBA |
| Thu Jan 10 2008 | Ed Cackett | Recent Progress on Neutron Stars | University of Michigan |
| Thu Dec 13 2007 | Brenda Frye | Physical Conditions in the ISM and Environments of Strongly-lensed Galaxies from 3 < z < 5 | Dublin City University |
| Thu Dec 06 2007 | Jeno Sokoloski | Observations of Stellar Explosions and Jets | Columbia University |
| Thu Nov 29 2007 | Alexey Vikhlinin | Dark energy contraints from growth of structure: results from the 400 deg^2 X-ray cluster survey | Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics |
| Thu Nov 15 2007 | Mike Turner | Cosmic Acceleration: The Most Profound Puzzle in all of Science? | University of Chicago |
| Thu Nov 08 2007 | Mike Shull | Searching Between the Galaxies: Missing Baryons in the Intergalactic Medium | University of Colorado |
| Thu Nov 01 2007 | Niel Brandt | Adventuring Through the Distant X-ray Universe: Recent Results from the Chandra Deep Field Surveys | Penn State |
| Thu Oct 25 2007 | Mary Putman | Fuel for Galaxy Disks | University of Michigan |
| Thu Oct 18 2007 | Howard Bond | Hubble Space Telescope Observations of the Light Echo Around V838 Monocerotis | Space Telescope SCience Institute |
| Thu Oct 11 2007 | Charlie Lada | The Nature of Dark Nebular Cores and The Origin of Stellar Masses | Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics |
| Thu Oct 04 2007 | Carl Heiles | The New Interstellar Medium | University of California at Berkeley |
| **Thu Sep 27 2007 340 West Hall | John Spencer | Enceladus: An Active Ice World | Southwest Research Institute, Boulder |
| Thu Sep 20 2007 | Andrew Youdin | Planetesimal Formation and Particle Dynamics in Turbulent Circumstellar Disks | CITA, University of Toronto |
| Thu Sep 13 2007 | Cole Miller | Off the Edge: The Innermost Stable Circular Orbit Around Neutron Stars | University of Maryland |
| Thu Sep 06 2007 | John Monnier | Nano-radian Astronomy: Investigating Protoplanetary Disks with Infrared Interferometry | University of Michigan |
| Thu Aug 30 2007 | Martin White | The Echo of Einstein's Greatest Blunder | University of California at Berkeley |
| **Thu May 10 2007 4:10 pm | Daisuke Nagai | "Clusters of Galaxies as Cosmological Probes" please note: There will not be a reception preceding this talk. | Caltech |
| **Tue Apr 10 2007 3:00 PM | Joel Primack | Galaxy Mergers: Simulations, Observations, and Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) | University of California at Santa Cruz |
| Thu Apr 05 2007 | Linda Sparke | Bars in Bars and Rings Round Stars | University of Wisconsin, Madison |
| Thu Mar 29 2007 | Leisa Townsley | Not Your Grandmother's HII Regions: An X-Ray Tour of Massive Star-Forming Regions | Penn State University |
| Thu Mar 22 2007 | Kelsey Johnson | Are Super Star Clusters Actually Super? | University of Virginia |
| Thu Mar 15 2007 | Tod Strohmayer | **CANCELED** | Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA |
| Thu Mar 08 2007 | Katherine Rhode | Globular Clusters, Galaxy Formation, Dark Matter, and Black Holes | Wesleyan University |
| Thu Feb 22 2007 | Thomas Bensby | Abundance structure and chemical evolution in the Solar neighbourhood | University of Michigan |
| Thu Feb 15 2007 | Robert Benjamin | Galactic Cartography in the Infrared: Bulge, Bar, and Spiral Arms | University of Wisconsin, Whitewater |
| Thu Feb 01 2007 | Ben Oppenheimer | Direct Imaging and Spectroscopy of Exoplanets | American Museum of Natural History |
| Thu Jan 25 2007 | Marijke Haverkorn | The Turbulent Life and Times of Galactic Interstellar Gas | University of California, Berkeley |
| Thu Dec 07 2006 | Trevor Weekes | VERITAS: A View of the TeV Universe | University of Arizona |
| **Thu Nov 30 2006 12:00 | Chris Impey | Measuring Dar Energy with Quasar Pairs | University of Arizona |
| Thu Nov 16 2006 | Ellen Zweibel | Primordial Generation of Magnetic Fields | University of Wisconsin, Madison |
| **Mon Nov 13 2006 12:00 | Francisco Prada | "Halo properties of isolated galaxies" | IAA_CSIC, Spain |
| Thu Nov 09 2006 | Fabian Heitsch | Flows, Filaments & Fragmentation: Towards a Theory of Dynamical Star Formation | University of Michigan |
| Thu Nov 02 2006 | Tom Megeath | Star Formation in the Nearest Kiloparsec: The View From Spitzer | University of Toledo |
| Thu Oct 26 2006 | Derek Fox | The Nature of Short-Hard Gamma-Ray Bursts | Penn State University |
| Thu Oct 19 2006 | Hector Arce | Protostellar Outflows and Their Influence on the Star Formation Environment | American Museum of Natural History |
| **Tue Oct 17 2006 | Edwin Bergin | Interstellar Chemistry: Exploring Links to Comets and Meteorites | University of Michigan |
| Thu Oct 12 2006 | Thorsten Naab | The Formation and Evolution of Elliptical Galaxies | University Observatory, Munich |
| **Thu Oct 05 2006 3:30 PM | Jifeng Liu | Understanding the Nature of Ultra-luminous Sources *******Ralph B. Baldwin Prize Award Reception****** | Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Harvard |
| Thu Sep 28 2006 | Rebecca Bernstein | Detailed Chemical Abundances of Extragalactic Globular Clusters: From Optical Design to Galaxy Formation. | University of Michigan |
| Thu Sep 21 2006 | Darren Croton | Galaxy Formation: Why The Devil Really is in the Detail | University of California, Berkeley |
| Thu Sep 07 2006 | Stephen Strom | Transition Disks: Learning What Kinds of Planets Form in What Kinds of Disks | Kitt Peak Observatory, NOAO |
| Thu Feb 23 2006 | Marta Volonteri | Massive Black Holes in a Hierarchical Universe | University of Cambridge |
| **Tue Feb 21 2006 | Mateusz Ruszkowski | Singing Black Holes and the Mystery of "Cooling Flows" | University of Colorado at Boulder |
| **Tue Feb 14 2006 | Sarah Gallagher | Quasar Winds: Agents of Galaxy Feedback and Tracers of Accretion Physics | University of California, Los Angeles |
| Thu Feb 09 2006 | Kentaro Nagamine | The History of Cosmological Star Formation: Three Independent Approaches and a Critical Test Using the Extragalactic Background Light | University of California, San Diego |
| **Tue Feb 07 2006 | David Pooley | Close Binary Systems in Globular Clusters: The Keys to Dynamical Evolution | University of California at Berkeley |
| Thu Feb 02 2006 | Jeffrey Newman | From Fine Structure to Large-Scale Structure in the DEEP2 Galaxy Redshift Survey | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
| **Tue Jan 31 2006 | Jonathan Granot | Modeling the Radio Afterglow of the Giant Flare from SGR 1806-20 | Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology-Stanford Linear Accelerator Center |
| Thu Jan 26 2006 | Evan Scannapieco | The Sources of Intergalactic Metals | Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics-University of California, Santa Barbara |
| **Tue Jan 24 2006 | Oleg Gnedin | Physics of Galaxy Formation | Ohio State University |
| Thu Jan 19 2006 | Sebastian Heinz | Harassing the Neighbors: The Interaction of Jets With Their Environment | Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research-Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| **Tue Jan 17 2006 | Danny Steeghs | The Astrophysics of Accretion onto Compact Objects | Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics |
| Thu Nov 17 2005 | Aparna Venkatesan | "The First Stars in the Universe: Formation, Feedback Effects and Detections" | University of Colorado, Boulder |
| Thu Nov 10 2005 | Scott Burles | "First results from the SDSS Lens + ACS (SLACS) survey" | Massachussetts Institute of Technology |
| Thu Nov 03 2005 | Ramesh Narayan | "Black Hole Accretion" *Part of the Einstein Lecture Series. | Harvard University |
| Thu Oct 27 2005 | Jason Tumlinson | Ending the Dark Ages: A New Synthesis of Observing and Theory Reveals the First Stars | Yale University |
| Thu Oct 20 2005 | David Spergel | * Probing the Dark Energy, Orren C. Mohler Prize Lecturer *Part of the Einstein Lecture Series. | Princeton University |
| Thu Oct 13 2005 | Oleg Gnedin | "Understanding the Physics of Star Formation in Galaxies" | Ohio State University |
| Thu Oct 06 2005 | Angela Olinto | *The Mystery of Ultra-high Energy Cosmic Rays and the First Auger Results. *Part of the Einstein Lecture Series | University of Chicago |
| **Mon Oct 03 2005 | Stacy McGaugh | The Mass of Spiral Galaxies, Luminous and Dark. | University of Maryland |
| **Fri Sep 30 2005 12:00 pm | John Kormendy | Secular Evolution in Disk Galaxies: The Growth of Pseudobulges and Problems for Cold Dark Matter Galaxy Formation | Department of Astronomy, University of Texas, Austin |
| Thu Sep 29 2005 | David Weinberg | *The Theory of Galaxy Formation: Current Issues. *Part of the Einstein Lecture Series. | Ohio State University |
| **Tue Sep 20 2005 | Jocelyn Bell Burnell | “Pulsar precession and pulsar evolution: Two problems” | Oxford University |
| Thu Sep 15 2005 | Joel Bregman | *The Missing Baryons in the Universe. *Part of the Einstein Lecture Series. | University of Michigan |
| Thu Apr 07 2005 | Christopher Mullis | Galaxy Clusters at High Redshift | University of Michigan, Department of Astronomy |
| **Tue Mar 15 2005 | C. Megan Urry | The GOODS on Hidden Black Holes in the Young Universe/ GOODS=Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey | Director, Yale Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics |
| Thu Feb 24 2005 | Paul Martini | The Magellan/Chandra Survey for AGN in Clusters of Galaxies | Harvard-Smithsonian, Center for Astrophysics |
| **Tue Feb 22 2005 | Scott Chapman | The Birth of Massive Galaxies | California Institute of Technology |
| Thu Feb 17 2005 | Sera Markoff | Understanding the Ins -- and Especially the Outs -- of Accretion | MIT Center for Space Research |
| **Tue Feb 15 2005 | Caleb Scharf | A (Partial) History of Baryons | Columbia Astrophysics Laboratory |
| **Tue Feb 08 2005 | Phil Arras | Seismology of Accreting White Dwarfs | Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics |
| Thu Feb 03 2005 | Jon Miller | Black Hole Accretion Across the Mass Scale: New Horizons | Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics |
| **Tue Feb 01 2005 | Milos Milosavljevic | The Astrophysics of Massive Black Hole Mergers | California Institute of Technology |
| Thu Jan 27 2005 | Michael Blanton | Extremely Low Luminosity Galaxies | Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics, NYU |
| **Tue Jan 25 2005 | Steven Furlanetto | Measuring the Topology of Reionization | California Institute of Technology |
| Thu Jan 20 2005 | Lee Hartmann | Dynamic Molecular Cloud and Star Formation | Harvard-Smithsonian, Center for Astrophysics |
| **Tue Jan 18 2005 | Nuria Calvet | Evolution of Protoplanetary Disks | Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics |
| Thu Dec 02 2004 | Marc Kuchner | The Terrestrial Planet Finders: Not Just for Exo-Earths Anymore | Princeton University |
| Thu Apr 08 2004 | Nilton Renno | Electrical Discharges and Broadband Radio Emission by Martian Dust Devils and Dust Storms (Abstract) | University of Michigan (AOSS) |
| Thu Apr 01 2004 | Edward Brown | Deep heating of accreting neutron stars (Abstract) | Michigan State University |
| Thu Mar 18 2004 | Karl Haisch | Disks, Binaries, and Outflows in Star Formation (Abstract) | University of Michigan |
| Thu Feb 19 2004 | Volker Bromm | The First Sources of Light (Abstract) | Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics |
| Thu Feb 12 2004 | Ravi Sheth | In Halos We Trust (Abstract) | Pittsburgh |
| Thu Feb 05 2004 | Sally Oey | Massive Star Feedback: Interplanetary to Intergalactic Effects (Abstract) | Lowell Observatory |
| Thu Jan 29 2004 | Mariangela Bernardi | Evolution, Environment and Mass of early-type galaxies: constraints on models of galaxy formation (Abstract) | Carnegie Mellon |
| Thu Dec 04 2003 | Vicky Kalogera | X-Ray Binaries in Nearby Galaxies (Abstract) | Northwestern University |
| Thu Nov 27 2003 | No Speaker | Thanksgiving | . |
| Thu Nov 20 2003 | Megan Donahue | Do Cluster Cooling Flows Cool? | Michigan State University |
| Thu Nov 13 2003 | Kevin Marvel | Astro-Policy: Government's Influence on Astronomy (Abstract) | American Astronomical Society |
| Thu Nov 06 2003 | David Weinberg | The Prospects for Understanding Dark Energy (Abstract) | Ohio State University |
| Thu Oct 30 2003 | Tom Statler | Mapping the Mass in Elliptical Galaxies (Abstract) | Ohio University |
| Thu Oct 23 2003 | Geoff Marcy | Properties of Extrasolar Planets (Abstract) | University of California, Berkeley |
| Thu Oct 16 2003 | Alyssa Goodman | Speeding Young Stars (Abstract) | Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics |
| Thu Oct 09 2003 | Joan Najita | Exploring Inner Protoplanetary Disks (Abstract) | National Optical Astronomy Observatory |
| Thu Oct 02 2003 | Matt Lister | Relativistic Jets in Active Galactic Nuclei (Abstract) | Purdue University |
| Thu Sep 25 2003 | Chris Matzner | The Nature of Nonradiative, Magnetized Accretion onto Sgr A* (Abstract) | University of Toronto |
| Thu Sep 18 2003 | John Ruhl | Cosmology with Arcminute Scale Observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background | Case Western Reserve University |
| Thu Sep 11 2003 | Doug Richstone | The Propinquity of Supermassive Black Holes | University of Michigan |
| Thu Nov 14 2002 | Steven Shore | Panchromatic View of the Classical Novae Outburst: Extracting Physics from Phenomenology | Indiana University and University of Pisa |
| **Fri Nov 08 2002 3:00 PM | Neal Evans | From Molecular Cores to Planet-forming Disks with SIRTF | University of Texas at Austin |
| Thu Oct 31 2002 | You-Hua Chu | Bubbles | University of Illinois |
| Thu Oct 24 2002 | Margaret Hanson | Hot Young Stars | University of Cincinnati |
| Thu Oct 17 2002 | David Sanders | The Infrared Universe: Cosmic Evolution of Superstarbursts and Massive Black Holes | Institute for Astronomy, Hawai`i and MPE-Garching |
| Thu Oct 10 2002 | Mary Putman | Gaseous Remnants of Galactic Satellites | University of Colorado |
| Thu Oct 03 2002 | Verde Licia | Cosmology from the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey | Princeton University |
| Thu Sep 26 2002 | Robert Becker | High-Redhshift Quasars as Probes of the Early Universe | University of California, Davis and IGPP/LLNL |
| Thu Sep 19 2002 | Peter Garnavich | Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglows at Optical Wavelengths | University of Notre Dame |
| Thu Sep 12 2002 | Federica Govoni | Magnetic Fields in Clusters of Galaxies | Universita Di Bologna, Italy |
| ** | Gary Da Costa |
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