Special Seminars / Fall 2012

Talks are held on Thursdays at 4:15 pm in Pupin. 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		Name		Institution		Title		Abstract		Host
Sep 13		Sugata Kaviraj		U. Oxford/Imperial College London		Early-type galaxies: the last 12 billion years				Mary
Sep 20		Anastasia Fialkov Matt Walker		Tel Aviv University CfA		Velocity and feedback enhance 21-cm signal from first stars at z ~ 20 Toward a Definitive Test of the Cold Dark Matter (CDM) Paradigm		Abstract Abstract		Zoltan Gurtina
Sept 27		Mark Morris Jonathan Blazek		UCLA UC Berkeley		Restlessness of the Galactic Black Hole Intrinsic alignments and gravitational lensing		Abstract		Jacqueline Erika
Oct 4		Guangtun Zhu Deborah Bard		JHU SLAC		Probing Gas Halos of Galaxies with SDSS Cosmology with Shear Peaks Statistics and LSST		Abstract Abstract		David S Zoltan
Oct 11		Robert Penna Sarah Miller		Harvard Caltech/UC Riverside		General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamic Accretion Disks Uncovering key drivers in the assembly of disk galaxies		Abstract Abstract		Gurtina
Oct 18		Andreas Kuepper Lauren Porter		University of Bonn UCSC		Weighing the Milky Way using Tidal Tails of Globular Clusters Simulating the Fundamental Plane of Early-Type Galaxies.		Abstract Abstract		Kathryn
Oct 25		Ena Choi Aleks Diamond-Stanic		Princeton University UCSD		Radiative and Mechanical AGN feedback via BAL Winds Probing the Gas Around Galaxies and Black Holes		Abstract Abstract		Joo Mary
Nov 1		Pascal Oesch (CANCELED) Kevin Hainline		UCSC Dartmouth		Galaxy Build-up in the First 2 Billion Years: New Insights from Deep HST and Spitzer Observations UV selected AGN at z~2-3		Abstract Abstract		Zoltan Lia
Nov 8		Pascal Oesch		UCSC		Galaxy Build-up in the First 2 Billion Years: New Insights from Deep HST and Spitzer Observations		Abstract		Zoltan
Nov 15		Adi Zolotov Andrew Wetzel		Racah Institute of Physics Yale		Challenges and Solutions to LambdaCDM on small scales Galaxy evolution in groups and clusters in a hierarchical Universe		Abstract Abstract		Kathryn
Nov 29		Nick Stone Jill Naiman		Harvard UC Santa Cruz		Compression, Disruption, and Precession in Strong Tidal Encounters Gas Retention and Accumulation in Stellar Clusters and Galaxies: Implications for Star Formation and Black Hole Accretion		Abstract Abstract		Gurtina Zoltan
Dec 6		Analisa Pilepich Bhaskar Agarwal		UCSC MPE Munich		TBA Journey to and of the first supermassive black holes		Abstract Abstract		Kathryn Zoltan