Astrophysics Seminar and Colloquium Schedule
Spring 2011

Seminars are generally held on Fridays at 3:00 PM in room 385E. Refreshments are served after the talks in room 332W. Departmental colloquia are at 4:45 PM on Wednesdays in the Physics Lecture Hall preceded by coffee and cookies at 4:30PM. Special dates and/or times are noted in bold in the table below.

Date	Speaker	Title and Abstract
Wednesday January 19 Physics Lecture Hall 4:45 PM	Romeel Davé (U Arizona)	Galaxy Formation in the Cosmic Ecosystem
Friday January 21	Ana Matkovic (Penn State)	Stellar Populations of Dwarf Early-Type Galaxies in the Coma Cluster
Monday January 31 Physics Lecture Hall 4:45 PM	Eric Gawiser (Rutgers)	Distant Galaxies, Dark Matter, and Dark Energy
Wednesday February 9 11:00 AM	Will Dawson (UC Davis)	*Gravitational Weak Lensing Tomography and Examples of its Application*
Tuesday February 22 Room 372 2:00 PM	Elena D'Onghia (CfA)	*Resonant Stripping as the Origin of Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies*
Friday February 25	Ian McCarthy (University of Cambridge)	*Thermodynamics of the Hot Gas in Galaxy Groups and Clusters*
Tuesday March 1 Room 372 2:00 PM	Dušan Kereš (Berkeley)	*How do galaxies get their gas?*
Friday March 11	Stanimir Metchev (Stony Brook)	*Extreme-Contrast Imaging: the Dawn of Comparative Exoplanetology*
Friday March 18	No seminar-Spring Break
Monday March 21 12:00 Noon	Amitai Bin-Nun (Penn)	*Gravitational Lensing by Compact Objects in the Galactic Center: Can we exclude or detect a boson star?*
Friday March 25	Jennifer Donovan Meyer (Stony Brook)	*The CO Survey of Nearby Galaxies with Nobeyama and CARMA*
Monday March 28 12:30 NHETC		*Prospective Graduate Student Lunch*
Friday April 1	Ryan Joung (Columbia University)	*Cold Streams, Hot Winds*
Monday April 4 Noon	Luke Hovey	*Monday Research Seminar*
Friday April 8	Geoff Marcy (Berkeley)	*Exoplanets: Misaligned, Migratory, Metallic, and Mini*
Saturday April 9 Irons Lecture- Physics Lecture Hall 2:00 PM	Geoff Marcy (Berkeley)	*Earth-Size Exoplanets and Intelligent Life in the Universe*
Monday April 11 Noon	Mike Solway	*Monday Research Seminar*
Wednesday April 13 Physics Lecture Hall 4:45 PM	Andrew Baker (Rutgers)	*Dense Gas in Distant Galaxies*
Friday April 15	Josh Peek (Columbia University)	*Casting shadows on the standard interstellar medium paradigm with GALFA-HI*
Monday April 18 Noon	Mike Berry	*Monday Research Seminar*
Friday April 22	Marcel Agüeros (Columbia University)	*The Factory & The Beehive: Stellar Rotations at 600 Myr*
Monday April 25 Noon	Jack Hughes	*Monday Research Seminar*
Wednesday April 27 Physics Lecture Hall 4:45 PM	Saurabh Jha (Rutgers)	*Surveying the Accelerating Universe with Supernovae*
Friday April 29	Kelle Cruz (Hunter College)	*Head in the Clouds: The Spectra of Brown Dwarfs and Massive Exoplanets*
Monday May 2 Noon	Brandon Patel	*Monday Research Seminar*
Friday May 13	Saul Perlmutter (Berkeley/LBL)	*Dark Energy and the Accelerating Universe: One Observationalist's Mid-Semester Report Card*
Wednesday May 18 2 PM	Kevin Hand (NASA/JPL)	*On the Physics and Chemistry of Electromagnetic Interactions at Icy Worlds*