Astrophysics Seminar Schedule
Fall 2007

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

Date	Speaker	Title and Abstract
Friday, September 7	*no seminar*
Friday, September 14	Héctor Arce (AMNH, Yale)	The physical and chemical impact of protostellar outflows on the interstellar medium
Friday, September 21	Alicia Soderberg (Princeton)	A radio view of the GRB-SN connection
Monday, September 24, 12 noon (note special day and time)	Thorsten Naab (Munich)	The formation of massive galaxies
Friday, September 28	Jeff Kenney (Yale)	Environmental effects on Virgo Cluster spiral galaxies
Friday, October 5	Caryl Gronwall (Penn State)	Lyman-alpha emitters at z = 3.1 in the Extended Chandra Deep Field South
Friday, October 12	Mir Abbas Jalali (Sharif U, IAS)	*The quest for the modal content of stellar disks*
Friday, October 19	Tamara Bogdanovic (U Maryland)	Alignment of the spins of supermassive black holes prior to coalescence
Friday, October 26	Kathryn Johnston (Columbia)	Making sense of the Local Group
Friday, November 2	Alexia Schulz (IAS)	*Galaxy cluster mergers*
Friday, November 9	Kevin Heng (IAS)	Balmer-dominated supernova remants (and beyond)
Friday, November 16	Zoltan Haiman (Columbia)	The first stars and black holes and how they regulated the reionization history
Friday, November 23	no seminar Thanksgiving
Friday, November 30	Glenn van de Ven (IAS)
Friday, December 7	Ed Bertschinger (MIT)	Dark Energy or Modified Gravity?