Astrophysics Seminar and Colloquium Calendar
Spring 2016

Astrophysics seminars are held at 1:30 PM on Thursdays in room 401, with refreshments to follow in room 332W. Departmental colloquia are held at 4:45 PM on Wednesdays in the Physics Lecture Hall, preceeded by tea and cookies at 4:30 PM. Special dates, times, and locations are noted in bold in the table below.

Date/Time Location Speaker Title (Click for Abstract) Hosts
Thu, Jan 21
1:30 PM
Serin 385E Jonathan Gardner (GSFC) The James Webb Space Telescope Somerville
Thu, Jan 28
1:30 PM
Serin 401 Heidi Newberg (RPI) Rings and Radial Waves in the Milky Way's Stellar Disk Sellwood
Thu, Feb 4
1:30 PM
Serin 401 No Seminar    
Thu, Feb 11
1:30 PM
Serin 401 Franz Bauer (Pont. U. Catolica) A New Population of X-ray Transients? and ALMA Observations of the Frontier Fields Gawiser
Thu, Feb 18
1:30 PM
Serin 401 No Seminar    
Thu, Feb 25
1:30 PM
Serin 401 No Seminar    
Wed, Mar 2
4:45 PM
Physics Lecture Hall David Hogg (NYU) Self-calibration, Systematic Errors, and Exoplanet Discovery Jha
Thu, Mar 10
1:30 PM
Serin 401 Ferah Munshi (Rutgers) Ali Baba & The 40 Thieves: An Extremely High Resolution Dwarf Galaxy Simulation Pryor
Thu, Mar 17
1:30 PM
No Seminar Spring Break    
Thu, Mar 24
1:30 PM
Serin 401 Nicholas Battaglia (Princeton) Cross Correlations with CMB Secondaries: Constraining Cosmological Parameters and Cluster Astrophysics Hughes
Wed, Mar 30
4:45 PM
Physics Lecture Hall Rachel Bean (Cornell) Next Generation Cosmological Constraints on the Dark Sector and Gravity Gawiser
Thu, Apr 7
1:30 PM
Serin 401 Federica Bianco (NYU) Explosions in my Data Jha
Wed, Apr 13
4:45 PM
Physics Lecture Hall Karin Öberg (Harvard) Planet Formation under the Microscope: The Role of Ice Physics and Chemistry in the Compositions of Nascent Planets Baker
Thu, Apr 21
1:30 PM
Serin 401 No Seminar    
Thu, Apr 28
1:30 PM
Serin 401 Raffaella Margutti (NYU) Fireworks from Massive Stars at the End of their Lives Jha

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