Astronomy Pizza Lunch / Fall 2007

Talks and Pizza are held in the 14th floor library of Pupin, beginning at 12:00pm. Slices of pizza are $1 each.

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Date		Talks by		Institution		Title/Topic		Organizer
Sep 4		Mike Muno		Caltech		Limits to the Number of Undiscovered Galactic Magnetars		Franz
		Michael Allison		GISS		New Spins on Titan		Franz
Sep 11		Cameron Hummels & Neil Zimmerman		Columbia		Public Outreach Opportunities		Franz

		Eric Gotthelf		Columbia		The First "Real" Detection of Pulsars		Franz
Sep 18		Cameron Hummels		Columbia		Demonstration on Using the New Mac Xgrid		Franz
		Antara Basu-Zych		Columbia		Using Stellar Synthesis Modelling to Investigate Bavarian Landscapes		Franz
		Bjorn Emonts		Columbia		Large-scale HI and the Evolution of Radio Galaxies		Franz
Sep 25		Tamara Bogdanovic		Univ. Maryland		Spin alignment of supermassive black holes prior to coalescence		Franz, Scheduled by Kristen
		Arthur Congdon		Rutgers Univ.		Gravitational Lensing in the Galactic SMBH		Franz, Scheduled by Zoltan
Oct 2		Yuexing Li		CfA		The multi-wavelength properties and luminosity functions of quasars at z>6
		Yosi Gelfand		NYU		Astronomy Radio Show		Franz
Oct 9		Michele Trenti		StScI		From PopIII stars to High Redshift Galaxies		Paul, Scheduled by Zoltan
		Simon Glover		Potsdam		The Role of H3+ in Pop III Star Formation		Paul, Scheduled by Daniel
Oct 16		Louie Strigari		UC Irvine		Dark Matter in Dwarf Galaxies		Paul, Scheduled by Kathryn (J)
Oct 23		Ian McGreer		Columbia		HD Cooling in Primordial Star Formation		Paul
		Josh Schroeder		Columbia		Astronomy in Wikipedia		Paul
Oct 30		Julian Berengut		Univerity of New South Wales		Cosmic Variation of the Fine Structure Constant		Paul, Scheduled by Daniel
		Emily Rauscher		Columbia		Hot Jupiter Overkill		Paul
Nov 6		Daniel Cumberbatch		Oxford		Sterile Neutrino Dark Matter		Scheduled by Zoltan
		Franz Bauer		Columbia		Something on the Galactic Centre
Nov 13		Erika, Joe, Jen		Pupin		various brief contributions		Jacqueline
		Z. Lucas Uhm		Columbia		Relativistic Blast Waves and GRB Afterglows		Jacqueline
Nov 20		Thorsten Naab		Munich		Some topic on elliptical galaxy formation		Scheduled by Greg
		Paola Rebusco		MIT		Stochastic gas motions in puzzling cool core clusters		Scheduled by Kristen
Nov 27		Zheng Zheng		Princeton		Studying Galaxy Evolution from Galaxy Clustering		Scheduled by Greg
		Dave Spiegel		Columbia		Habitable climates		Scheduled by Kristen
Dec 4		Elena Rossi		JILA/Colorado		Growing Supermassive black holes by z = 6 with "Quasistars"		Scheduled by Kristen
		Chuck Hailey		Columbia		The NuSTAR X-ray Telescope		Scheduled by Kristen
Dec 11
?		Sarah Tuttle		Columbia		FIREBall's First Flight - Details as promised. With more pictures. And even a little bit of science.		Franz

Faculty and Students: If you have a visitor coming for a given week this semester who would like to speak, please contact the person in charge for that month (Oct. is organized by Paul Bryans, bryans @ astro . columbia . edu)

Speakers: We aim for informal talks about 20 minutes in length. We find that information overload and pages of equations tend to give indigestion to some, so please keep this in mind when preparing your talk.

Also, it is possible (in fact, preferred) to have multiple people give talks for a given pizza lunch. Please do not hesitate to suggest a second/third/Nth speaker for a given pizza lunch date.