Rutgers University

Astrophysics Seminar Calendar

Spring 2012

Astrophysics seminars are usually held at 3:00 pm on Fridays in room 385E with refreshments following in room 332W. Monday seminars are held at noon in room 385E. Department colloquia are held at 4:45 pm on Wednesdays in the Physics Lecture Hall, preceded by refreshments at 4:30 pm. Click on a seminar title to view the abstract.

January 6	Viviana Acquaviva (Rutgers) Understanding the Spectral Energy Distribution of Galaxies
January 18 (Colloquium)	Adam Riess (JHU) Supernovae and the Discovery of the Accelerating Universe
January 20	Kristian Finlator (UCSB) Searching for Simplicity in the High-Redshift Universe
January 23 (Monday)	Michael Kuhlen (UCB) Computational Cosmology and Galaxy Formation
January 27	Alyson Brooks (CalTech) Toward the formation of Realistic Galaxies
January 30 (Monday)	Yuexing Li (Penn State) Galaxies and Quasars at the Cosmic Dawn
February 3
February 10
February 17	Karen Andeen (Rutgers) First Measurements of Cosmic Ray Composition using the IceCube Neutrino Observatory
February 24	Renbin Yan (NYU) The Puzzle of LINERs and the Warm Ionized Gas in Early-Type Galaxies
March 2	Ari Maller (CUNY) Cold Flow Disks and Gas Halos Around Galaxies
March 9	Jo Bovy (IAS) New Observational Constraints on the Structure of the Milky Way Disk
March 16	Spring Break – no seminar
March 23	no seminar
March 30	no seminar
April 6	Renee Hlozek (Princeton) New Results from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope
April 11 (Colloquium)	Chris Reynolds (Maryland) The Astrophysics of Black Hole Spin
April 13	Lucianne Walkowicz (Princeton) New Light on Stellar Astrophysics with Kepler
April 20	Art Wolfe (UCSD) Damped Lyman Alpha Absorption Systems: Neutral Gas Reservoirs for Star Formation in Early Galaxies
April 25 (Colloquium)	Kate Jones (Tennessee) Structure, Reactions, Astrophysics – Overlaps in Low-Energy Nuclear Physics
April 27	Michael Shara (AMNH) Dwarf Novae, Classical Novae and Supernovae – the Same DNA
May 4	Ken Wong (Arizona) Optimal Mass Configurations for Lensing High-Redshift Galaxies

Directions to the Department

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Past Schedules:

Fall 2011 (Somerville)

Spring 2011 (Matilsky)

Fall 2010 (Baker)

Spring 2010 (Pryor)

Fall 2009 (Keeton)

Spring 2009 (Gawiser)

Fall 2008 (Sellwood)

Spring 2008 (Hughes)

Fall 2007 (Jha)

Spring 2007 (Matilsky)

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