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.
| Sep 05 | | Kevin Luhman | | Penn State | | The Origin of Brown Dwarfs | | Abstract | | Host: Kristen Menou
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| Sep 12 | | Jennifer Johnson | | Ohio State | | My Life in the Bulge: A G-Dwarf Perspective | | Abstract | | Host: Kathryn Johnston
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| Sep 19 | | Fred Lo | | NRAO | | Mega-masers, Dark Energy and the Hubble Constant | | Abstract | | Host: Jacqueline van Gorkom
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| Sep 26 | | Greg Laughlin | | UC Santa Cruz | | Eccentric Giants -- Hydrodynamical Simulations of Extrasolar Planets Subject to Time-Varying Illumination | | Abstract | | Host: Kristen Menou
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| Oct 03 | | Marla Geha | | Yale University | | Meet the New Neighbors: Kinematics of the Ultra-Faint Milky Way Dwarf Galaxies | | Abstract | | Host: Kathryn Johnston
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| Oct 10 | | Henrik Spoon | | Cornell University | | Probing the central power sources of ULIRG nuclei using Spitzer-IRS | | Abstract | | Host: David Schiminovich
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| Oct 17 | | Steve Furlanetto | | Yale University | | Cosmology at Low Radio Frequencies: The 21cm Transition | | Abstract | | Host: Zoltan Haiman
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| Oct 24 | | Nathan Smith | | UC Berkeley | | Precursors to supernova explosions and extraordinary deaths of very massive stars | | Abstract | | Host: Kristen Menou
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| Special: Friday Oct 26 | | Adam Burrows | | Univ. Arizona | | Big Apple Colloquium @ AMNH: Extrasolar Giant Planets: New Insights from New Data | | Abstract | | Host: Ben Oppenheimer
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| Oct 31 | | Erin Sheldon | | NYU | | CANCELLED | | Abstract | | Host: Lam Hui
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| Nov 07 | | James Jee | | UC Davis | | Dark Matter Substructures in Galaxy Clusters Revealed by Gravitational Lensing with HST/ACS | | Abstract | | Host: David Schiminovich
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| Nov 14 | | Hsiao-Wen Chen | | University of Chicago | | Halo Occupation of Dark Baryons | | Abstract | | Host: Kathryn Johnston
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| Friday at 4pm Nov 16 | | Eline Tolstoy | | University of Gronigen | | Galactic Archaelogy | | Abstract | | Host: Jacqueline van Gorkom
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| Special: Tuesday Nov 20 | | Casey Papovich | | University of Arizona | | Galaxy Evolution in the Spitzer Era: What Have We Learned? | | Abstract | | Host: David Schiminovich
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| Nov 28 | | Erin Sheldon | | NYU | | Cluster Lensing in the SDSS | | Abstract | | Host: Lam Hui
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| Dec 05 | | Oded Regev | | Technion & Columbia | | Accretion disk theory - recent turbulent developments | | Abstract | | Host: Kristen Menou
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