The astrophysics seminars are held at 3:00 PM on Fridays in room 385E with coffee and cookies to follow in room 332W. Departmental colloquia are at 4:45 PM on Wednesdays in the Physics Lecture Hall preceeded by coffee and cookies at 4:30PM. Special dates and/or times are noted in bold in the table below.
| Date/Time | Location | Speaker | Title (Abstract) |
| Fri, Jan 25 3:00 PM |
Serin 385E | Andrew Harris
University of Maryland |
Into the High-Redshift Molecular Universe (Abstract) |
| Fri, Feb 1 3:00 PM |
Serin 385E | Michael Fall STScI/IAS |
Life Cycles of Star Clusters: From Formation to Dissolution (Abstract) |
| Fri, Feb 8 3:00 PM |
Serin 385E | Cara Rakowski Naval Research Lab |
Heating and Acceleration in Coronal Mass Ejections: What can we learn from in-situ measurements? (Abstract) |
| Fri, Feb 15 3:00 PM |
Serin 385E |
Yosi Gelfand NYU |
Radio Emission from the Magnetar SGR 1806-20 Giant Flare (Abstract) |
| SPECIAL SEMINAR
Mon, Feb 18 12:00 noon |
Serin 385E | Rosanne DiStefano
Harvard-Smithsonian CfA |
Gravitational lensing, distant dark matter, and nearby planets (Abstract) |
| Fri, Feb 29 3:00 PM |
Serin 385E |
Jonathan Mitchell IAS |
Understanding Titan from the perspective of Earth's climate (Abstract) |
| Fri, Mar 7 3:00 PM |
Serin 385E | Karl Gebhardt
University of Texas |
Dark Matter and Black Holes: Shedding Light on Galaxy Formation (Abstract) |
| Fri, Mar 14 3:00 PM |
Serin 385E | Armin Rest Harvard University |
Light Echoes of Ancient and Historic SNe (Abstract) |
| Fri, Mar 21 3:00 PM |
Serin 385E | Spring Break | No Astronomy Seminar |
| COLLOQUIUM
Wed, Mar 26 4:45 PM |
PHL |
Gerry Brown
SUNY Stony Brook |
Escorting Hans Bethe Down the Path to Nothingness (Black Holes) (Abstract) |
| Fri, Mar 28 3:00 PM |
Serin 385E |
Frank van den Bosch MPIA - Heidelberg |
The Galaxy-Dark Matter Connection (Abstract) |
| SPECIAL SEMINAR
Mon, Mar 31 12:00 PM |
Serin 385E |
Vicky Kalogera Northwestern |
Binary Compact Objects and Their Powerful Astrophysics (Abstract) |
| COLLOQUIUM Wed, Apr 2 4:45 PM |
PHL |
Adam Burrows
Princeton |
What is the Key to the Supernova Explosion Mechanism? (Abstract) |
| Fri, Apr 4 3:00 PM |
Serin 385E |
Mariangela Bernardi University of Pennsylvania |
Massive galaxies in massive datasets (Abstract) |
| Fri, Apr 11 3:00 PM |
Serin 385E | Joanna Dunkley
Princeton/Oxford |
WMAP Five-Year Results (Abstract) |
| Fri, Apr 18 3:00 PM |
Serin 385E |
Masao Sako
University of Pennsylvania |
The SDSS-II Supernova Survey (Abstract) |
| SPECIAL SEMINAR
Mon, Apr 21 12:00 noon |
Serin 385E | Ravi Sheth
University of Pennsylvania |
The Phenomenology of Structure Formation in the Universe (Abstract) |
| Fri, Apr 25 3:00 PM |
Serin 385E |
Shane Davis IAS |
Probing Black Holes and Accretion Flows in X-ray Binaries with Spectral Models (Abstract) |
| COLLOQUIUM Wed, Apr 30 4:45 PM |
PLH |
Amber Miller Columbia University |
Peeking in Ancient Holes and Seeking the Holy Grail (Abstract) |
| Fri, May 2 3:00 PM |
Serin 385E | Anthony Gonzalez
University of Florida |
The Distribution of Baryons in Galaxy Clusters and Groups (Abstract) |
| Fri, May 16 12:20 noon |
Serin 385 | Hossein Khiabanian
Brown University |
Statistics of Dark Matter Halos via Maximum-Likelihood Weak Lensing Mass Reconstruction (Abstract) |
Revised February 4, 2008