Astrophysics Seminar and Colloquium Calendar
Fall 2013

The astrophysics seminars are held at 2:00 PM on Thursdays in room 401 with refreshments to follow in room 332W. Departmental colloquia are at 4:45 PM on Wednesdays in the Physics Lecture Hall preceeded by tea and cookies at 4:30PM. Special dates and/or times are noted in bold in the table below.

Date/Time Location Speaker Title (Abstract) Host
Thu, Sep 12
2:00 PM
Serin 401 Edmond Cheung
U.C. Santa Cruz
Galaxy Zoo: Observing Secular Evolution through Bars Sellwood
Thu, Sep 19
2:00 PM
Serin 401 Bhuvnesh Jain
U. Penn
Beyond Dark Energy Jha
Wed, Sep 25
12:00 PM
Wright Lab Auditorium Sally Dodson-Robinson
U. Delaware
Giant Planets in Dusty Disks: How Solids Affect Planet Formation Somerville
Thu, Sep 26 No seminar  
 
Thu, Oct 3
2:00 PM
Serin 401 Sukanya Chakrabarti
RIT
A New Probe of the Distribution of Dark Matter in Spiral Galaxies Gawiser
Thu, Oct 10
2:00 PM
Serin 401 Gergo Popping
Groningen
Modeling multiphase gas and sub-mm line emission in galaxies Somerville
Thu, Oct 17
2:00 PM
Serin 401 Héctor Arce
Yale
From clouds to protostars (and then back to the cloud): studying the early stages of star formation and stellar feedback Brooks
Wed, Oct 23
4:45 PM
Physics Lecture Hall Tommaso Treu
U.C. Santa Barbara
What is the Nature of Dark Energy and Dark Matter? Keeton
Thu, Oct 24 No seminar  
 
Thu, Oct 31
2:00 PM
Serin 401 Ena Choi
Princeton & Rutgers
Black Hole Growth in Hierarchical Galaxy Formation Pryor
Thu, Nov 7
2:00 PM
Serin 401 Ann Zabludoff
Arizona
Deficit Spending and the Cluster Baryon Budget Hughes
Wed, Nov 13
4:45 PM
Physics Lecture Hall Maura McLaughlin
West Virginia
A Galactic Scale Gravitational Wave Observatory Baker
Thu, Nov 14
2:00 PM
No seminar
 
Thu, Nov 21
2:00 PM
Serin 401 Maureen Teyssier
Rutgers
Dynamically Extreme Stellar and Galactic Populations in the Via Lactea II Cosmological Simulation and Their Observable Counterparts Gawiser
Thu, Nov 28 No seminar Thanksgiving
 
Thu, Dec 5
2:00 PM
Serin 401 Joel Berrier
Rutgers
Spiral Structure as an Indicator of Mass Distribution in Disk Galaxies Matilsky
Mon, Dec 9
12:00 PM
Serin 401 Vy Tran
Texas A&M
Galaxy Clusters in the Distant Universe Baker

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