Rutgers University

Department of Physics and Astronomy

Astrophysics Seminar Schedule
Fall 2006

Seminars are generally held on Fridays at 3:00 PM in room 385E. Refreshments are served after the talks in room 332W.

Date

Speaker

Title and Abstract

Friday September 15

Ricardo P. Schiavon
(U Virginia)
Constraining the History of Star Formation of Early-Type Galaxies

Friday September 22

No seminar
 

Friday September 29

No seminar  

Friday October 6

Masami Ouchi
(STScI)
Subaru Surveys for Galaxies at z = 3-7

Friday October 13

Aristotle Socrates
(Princeton)
Super-Eddington Luminosities from Super-Eddington Accretion:
Powering Ultra-Luminous X-ray Sources with Stellar Mass Black Holes

Friday October 20

Erin Sheldon
(NYU)
Cluster Mass Profiles and Mass-to-light Ratios from Weak Lensing in the SDSS

Friday October 27

Tomasz Plewa
(U Chicago)
Detonating Failed Deflagrations of Type Ia Supernovae

Friday November 3

David Hogg
(NYU)
The Growth of Galaxies by Merging

Friday November 10

David Schiminovich
(Columbia)
From B&W to RGB to UV+IR:
Tuning Into the Physics of Galaxy Formation and Evolution

Friday November 17

No seminar  

Friday November 24

No seminar - Thanksgiving  

Wednesday November 29
(4:45pm, Physics Lecture Hall)

David Weinberg
(Ohio State)
What Can We Learn from Galaxy Clustering?

Friday December 1

Jeno Sokoloski
(Columbia)
Observations of Stellar Explosions and Jets

Friday December 8

Jenny Greene
(Princeton)
Growing Black Holes From Seeds

Contact: Andrew Baker
email: ajbaker[at]physics.rutgers.edu

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