Special Seminars / Fall 2008

These mini-seminars take place on Thursdays at 4:15 PM in room 1402. Note that ALL talks must be a maximum of 30 minutes long (even if there is only one speaker). Hosts should inform speakers of this requirement.

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Sep 11

1402 Pupin

4:15PM

Francesco Shankar

Ohio State / MPA Munich

Constraining the evolution of Super-Massive Black Holes

Abstract

Host: Zoltan Haiman

Sep 18

1402 Pupin

4:15PM

Josh Younger

Harvard/CfA

The Self-Regulated Growth of Supermassive Black Holes

Abstract

Host: Zoltan Haiman

Sep 25

1402 Pupin (if available)

4:15PM

Tom Maccarone

U. Southampton

Black Holes in Globular Clusters

Abstract

Host: Jeno Sokoloski

Oct 9

1402 Pupin (if available)

4:15PM

Yuexing Li

Harvard/CfA

The First Galaxies and Quasars

Abstract

Host: Kathryn Johnston

Oct 16

1402 Pupin (if available)

4:15PM

Bodhi Sen

Columbia, Statistics

Detecting Streaming motion in Leo I

Abstract

Host: Mary Putman

Oct 23

1402 Pupin (if available)

4:15PM

1. Brian Metzger 2. Evan Kirby

1. UC Berkeley 2. UC Santa Cruz

1. The Evolution and Outflows of Accretion Disks Formed from Compact Object Mergers 2. Discovery of Extremely Metal-Poor Stars in the Ultra-Faint Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies of the Milky Way

1. Abstract 2. Abstract

Host: 1. Andrei Beloborodov 2. Kathryn Johnston

Oct 30

1402 Pupin (if available)

4:15PM

Kyoung-Soo Lee

Yale

Constraining the Nature of Star Formation at High Redshift

Abstract

Host: Greg Bryan

Nov 13

1402 Pupin (if available)

4:15PM

Marcelo Alvarez

Stanford

Cosmic H II Regions: From the First Stars and Black Holes to the Present-day Universe

Abstract

Host: Zoltan Haiman

Dec 11

1402 Pupin (if available)

4:15PM

Matt Turk

Stanford

Forming the First Star: latest results

Host: Greg Bryan

Feb 5

1402 Pupin (if available)

4:15PM

Manu Linares

Amsterdam

Host: Frits Paerels