Astronomy Colloquium / Spring 2009

Talks are held in Pupin 1332, beginning at 4:15pm, and are followed by a wine and cheese reception in the 14th floor library.

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Jan 12 *Special* *Seminar*		Mario Livio		STScI		The Greatest Achievements of the Hubble Space Telescope		Abstract		Host: Kristen Menou
Jan 30 *FRIDAY* *AT AMNH* at 3:30pm		Alex Filippenko		UC Berkeley		Big Apple Colloquium Lick Observatory Supernova Search and Follow-Up Studies of Supernovae		Abstract		Host: Ben Oppenheimer reception 5-7:30 among dinosaurs
Feb 4		Fabian Heitsch		University of Michigan		From Spiral Arms to Protostellar Cores: New Approaches to Understanding Star Formation		Abstract		Host: Mary Putman
Feb 11		Jerry Sellwood		Rutgers University		New Developments in Spiral Structure Theory		Abstract		Host: Jacqueline van Gorkom
Feb 20 *FRIDAY* AT 3:30pm		Andy Gould		Ohio State University		Microlensing: Measuring the Galactic Distribution of Planets (Bishop lecture) ​PDF slides		Abstract		Host: David Helfand
Feb 25		Mark Krumholz		UC Santa Cruz		From Massive Cores to Massive Stars		Abstract		Host: David Schiminovich
Mar 4		Phil Armitage		Univ. of Colorado		Is our Solar System a typical planetary system?		Abstract		Host: Zoltan Haiman
Mar 11		Risa Wechsler		Stanford University		The Galaxy-Halo Connection Across Cosmic Time: Constraints and Implications		Abstract		Host: Jacqueline van Gorkom
Mar 18		No Colloquium				Spring Break
Mar 25		Rosalba Perna		University of Colorado, Boulder		Neutron Star Spins: in lonely life and with companions		Abstract		Host: Zoltan Haiman
Apr 1		Zeljko Ivezic		University of Washington		Reaching for the sky with SDSS and LSST		Abstract		Host: Kathryn Johnston
Apr 8		Avery Broderick		CITA, Toronto		Imaging Horizons: Probing the Nature of Black Holes		Abstract		Host: Kristen Menou
Apr 15		Martin Weinberg		University of Massachussetts		Galactic warps & asymmetries: origins and implications		Abstract		Host: Kathryn Johnston
Apr 24 FRIDAY 3PM in Room 428		Tim Heckman		Johns Hopkins University		Big Apple Colloquium: The Co-Evolution of Galaxies and Black Holes: A Local Perspective		Abstract		Host: David Schiminovich
Apr 29		Michael Way		Goddard Institute for Space Sciences		A history of the prediction and detection of the expansion of the Universe and of the CMB		Abstract		Host: Jacqueline van Gorkom
May 5 *TUESDAY		Graduating Students		Columbia University		Title TBD		Abstract		Host: TBD
May 27		Marcel Agueros		Columbia University		Tales From The Haystack: Isolated Neutron Stars and Low-Mass White Dwarfs		Abstract		Host: Jacqueline van Gorkom