Astronomy Colloquium / Fall 2007

Talks are held in Pupin 1332, beginning at 4:15pm, and are followed by a wine and cheese reception in the 14th floor library.

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Sep 05		Kevin Luhman		Penn State		The Origin of Brown Dwarfs		Abstract		Host: Kristen Menou
Sep 12		Jennifer Johnson		Ohio State		My Life in the Bulge: A G-Dwarf Perspective		Abstract		Host: Kathryn Johnston
Sep 19		Fred Lo		NRAO		Mega-masers, Dark Energy and the Hubble Constant		Abstract		Host: Jacqueline van Gorkom
Sep 26		Greg Laughlin		UC Santa Cruz		Eccentric Giants -- Hydrodynamical Simulations of Extrasolar Planets Subject to Time-Varying Illumination		Abstract		Host: Kristen Menou
Oct 03		Marla Geha		Yale University		Meet the New Neighbors: Kinematics of the Ultra-Faint Milky Way Dwarf Galaxies		Abstract		Host: Kathryn Johnston
Oct 10		Henrik Spoon		Cornell University		Probing the central power sources of ULIRG nuclei using Spitzer-IRS		Abstract		Host: David Schiminovich
Oct 17		Steve Furlanetto		Yale University		Cosmology at Low Radio Frequencies: The 21cm Transition		Abstract		Host: Zoltan Haiman
Oct 24		Nathan Smith		UC Berkeley		Precursors to supernova explosions and extraordinary deaths of very massive stars		Abstract		Host: Kristen Menou
Special: Friday Oct 26		Adam Burrows		Univ. Arizona		Big Apple Colloquium @ AMNH: Extrasolar Giant Planets: New Insights from New Data		Abstract		Host: Ben Oppenheimer
Oct 31		Erin Sheldon		NYU		CANCELLED		Abstract		Host: Lam Hui

Nov 07		James Jee		UC Davis		Dark Matter Substructures in Galaxy Clusters Revealed by Gravitational Lensing with HST/ACS		Abstract		Host: David Schiminovich
Nov 14		Hsiao-Wen Chen		University of Chicago		Halo Occupation of Dark Baryons		Abstract		Host: Kathryn Johnston
Friday at 4pm Nov 16		Eline Tolstoy		University of Gronigen		Galactic Archaelogy		Abstract		Host: Jacqueline van Gorkom
Special: Tuesday Nov 20		Casey Papovich		University of Arizona		Galaxy Evolution in the Spitzer Era: What Have We Learned?		Abstract		Host: David Schiminovich
Nov 28		Erin Sheldon		NYU		Cluster Lensing in the SDSS		Abstract		Host: Lam Hui

Dec 05

Oded Regev

Technion & Columbia

Accretion disk theory - recent turbulent developments

Abstract

Host: Kristen Menou