Special Seminars / Fall 2009

These mini-seminars take place on Thursdays at 4:15 PM in room Pupin 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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Date

Location

Time

Speaker

Institution

Title

Abstract

Host

Sep 10

1402 Pupin

4:15PM

Andreea Petric

Caltech

MIR Diagnostics and Warm Molecular Gas in Local Luminous Infrared Galaxies in the GOALS sample

Abstract

Frits Paerels

Sep 24

1402 Pupin

4:15PM

Laura Sales

Kapteyn Institute

On the formation mechanism of the Galactic thick disk

Abstract

Jacqueline

1402 Pupin

4:15PM

Amit Kashi

Technion

Accretion onto the Companion of Eta Carinae

Abstract

Kristen

Oct 8

1402 Pupin

4:15PM

Sanchayeeta Borthakur

University of Massachusetts

Connection between Galaxies and Neutral Gas Outside Galaxies

Abstract

Jacqueline

Oct 15

1402 Pupin

4:15PM

Thiago Goncalves

Caltech

TBA

Abstract

David Schiminovich

Oct 22

1402 Pupin

4:15PM

Kevin Heng

IAS

Planetesimal Disk Dynamics and Microlensing

Abstract

Joshua Schroeder

Oct 29

1402 Pupin

4:15PM

Charlie Conroy

Princeton

The stellar population synthesis technique

Abstract

David Schiminovich

Nov 5

1402 Pupin

4:15PM

Jorge Moreno

Haverford University

Halo mergers, AGN and downsizing

Abstract

Zoltan Haiman

1402 Pupin

4:15PM

Doron Lemze

Tel Aviv

TBA

Abstract

Greg Bryan

Nov 12

1402 Pupin

4:15PM

Sean O'Neill

University of Maryland

TBA

Abstract

Zoltan Haiman

1402 Pupin

4:15PM

Naoki Yoshida

University of Tokyo

Star formation in the early universe: from zero to the solar metallicity

Abstract

Zoltan Haiman

Nov 19

1402 Pupin

4:15PM

Abstract

Dec 3

1402 Pupin

4:15PM

John Bochanski

MIT

Abstract

Marcel Agüeros

Dec 10

1402 Pupin

4:15PM

Abstract

Dec 17

1402 Pupin

4:15PM

Abstract