Special Seminars / Fall 2011

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
Sept 8	1402 Pupin	4:15PM-4:45PM	Roban Hultman Kramer	ETH, Zurich	The Unseen Sources of Early Enrichment and Reionization: Explanations for the Evolution of C IV Density at z = 5-6	Abstract	Kathryn Johnston/ Jacqueline
	1402 Pupin	4:45PM	Outreach Program	Columbia	Fall 2011 Organizational Meeting		Cameron/Josh/Summer
Sept 15	1402 Pupin	4:15PM	Alis Deason/ Ryan Cooke	IoA, Cambridge University	"Smooth, squashed and rotating. Not the stellar halo we used to know"/ "Finding the First Metals"	Abstract	Kathryn Johnston
Sept 22	1402 Pupin	4:15pm	Xander Tielens	Leiden University	Lifecycle of dust in galaxies	Abstract	Jacqueline
Sept 29	1402 Pupin	4:15pm	Mike Boylan-Kolchin	UC Irvine	CDM substructure of dwarf galaxies	Abstract	Zoltan
Oct 6	1402 Pupin	4:15PM	Evan Kirby/ Gurtina Besla	Cal Tech / Columbia	"The Chemical Evolution of Milky Way Satellite Galaxies from Keck Spectroscopy"/"The Magellanic System"	Abstract	Kathryn Johnston
Oct 13	1402 Pupin	4:15PM	Mike Norman/Jeff Oishi	UCSD/Stanford	"Petascale Cosmological Simulations: The Agony and the Ecstasy" / "Magnetorotational Turbulence: Dynamos, Planetesimals, and Undergraduate Involvement in Computational Astrophysics"		Greg Bryan
Oct 20	1402 Pupin	4:15PM	Erik Tollerud/ Hoang Chi Thiem	UC Irvine/ UW-Madison	"Small-Scale Structure and Bright Satellites in LCDM"/ "Improved Model of Spinning Dust Emission and Comparison to WMAP data"		Kathryn Johnston/ Mary Putman
Nov 3	1402 Pupin	4:15PM	Katherine Mack / Thomas Greif	Cambridge, UK / MPA Garching	"High-z 21cm / The Formation of the First Stars"	Abstract	Zoltan Haiman
Nov 10	1402 Pupin	4:15PM	Dany Page/ Slavko Bogdanov	UNAM/ Columbia	"Do Supernovae Make or Kill Pulsars?" / "X-rays from Radio Millisecond Pulsars"	Abstract	Eric Gotthelf/ Jules Halpern
Nov 17	1402 Pupin	4:15 PM	Renbin Yan	NYU	"The Puzzle of LINERs and the Warm Ionized Gas in Early-type Galaxies"	Abstract	David Schiminovich
Dec 1	1402 Pupin	4:15PM	Kat Barger/ Laura Blecha	UW-Madison/ CfA	"Ionizing the Magellanic Bridge" / "Signatures of Supermassive Black Hole Mergers: Before and After"	Abstract	Mary Putman/ Gurtina Besla
Dec 8	1402 Pupin	4:15PM	Sylvana Yelda / Laura Marian	UCLA / Univ. Bonn, Germany	"Insight into Star Formation at the Galactic Center from Kinematics of the Young Stellar Disk" / "weak lensing shear peaks"	Abstract	Kathryn Johnston / Zoltan Haiman