Special Seminars / Fall 2013

Talks are held on Thursdays at 4:15 pm in 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 (and also update the web page, either directly or by contacting Greg Bryan with the required information)

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Date

Name

Institution

Title

Abstract

Host

September 12

Daisuke Nagai He Gao

Yale University of Nevada

Cosmic Melting Pots in the Outskirts of Galaxy Clusters Multi-messenger signals from neutron star binary mergers

Mary Imre

September 19		Edmond Cheung Vanessa Moss		UCSC U. Sydney		Galaxy Zoo: Observing Secular Evolution Through Bars High Velocity Clouds in the Galactic All Sky Survey		Abstract Abstract		Greg Josh/Mary
September 26		Colin Hill Ely Kovetz		Princeton U Texas		New Constraints on the Amplitude of Cosmic Density Fluctuations and Intracluster Gas from the Thermal SZ Signal Measured by Planck and ACT Cosmic Bandits: Exploration vs. Exploitation in Cosmological Surveys		Abstract Abstract		Zoltan Zoltan
October 3		Alex Hill George Privon		CSIRO University of Virginia		Magnetic fields in high velocity clouds Dynamical Models of Galaxy Mergers: Connecting Simulations and Data		Abstract Abstract		Josh Summer
October 10		Blakesley Burkhart Behrang Jalali		UW Madison Cologne University		New Diagnostics of MHD Turbulence in the Multiphase ISM Star Formation in the vicinity of Sgr A*		Abstract Abstract		Josh Andreas K
October 17		Rodolfo Barniol Duran Simeon Bird		IAS		On the origin of the radio emission of a tidal disruption event candidate TBA		Abstract TBD		Brian Metzger Jacqueline

October 24

Dan Taranu Shan Gao

U. Toronto Penn State

Forming Elliptical Galaxies via Mergers in Groups Neutrinos from GRB jets & Recent Observations

Abstract Abstract

Gurtina Imre

October 31		Girish Kulkarni Peter Veres		MPIA Heidelberg Penn State		TBA Photospheric emission from gamma-ray burst models with general dynamics and fits to Fermi LAT observations		Abstract		Zoltan Imre
November 7		Werner Becker Viktor Czinner		MPE Garching Universidade do Minho		TBA TBA				Frits Zoltan
November 14		Shy Genel Daryl Haggard		CfA Northwestern		TBA G2 as a Probe of Sgr A*’s Hot Environs: A View from Chandra and VLA		Abstract Abstract		Gurtina Marcel/Zoltan
November 21		Wen-Fai Fong Ed Belbruno		Harvard Princeton		TBA Structure of Black Hole and Big Bang Singularities				Brian Metzger Arlin
December 5		Josh Adams Rubab Khan		Carnegie Ohio State		TBA Does Episodic Mass Loss Dominate the Evolution of Massive Stars? - Eta Car Analogs in the Local Universe		Abstract		Gurtina Imre/Szabi
December 12		Stijn Wuyts Caroline D'Angelo		MPE Amsterdam		TBA TBA				Gurtina
December 19		Joss Bland-Hawthorn		U of Sydney		TBA				Kathryn