Astronomy Pizza Lunch / Spring 2009

Talks and Pizza are held in the 14th floor library of Pupin, beginning at 12:00pm. Slices of pizza are $1 each.

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Date	Speaker		Topic		Host
Jan 27	David Hogg		Orbital roulette		Kristen			Astroph Papers
Feb 3	Nithya, Christine, Erika, Cameron, Maureen, Sarah, Maria, Andrew. Everybody: local white papers & decadal survey exercise		Recent conferences (Pune, Canary, Long Beach)		Kristen			Astroph Papers
Feb 10	Frits, Zoltan, Kristen		Astro2010 whitepapers		Kristen			Astroph Papers
Feb 17	Mary, Mordecai, Thomas Peters (Heidelberg)		Astro2010 whitepapers, Massive star formation		Kristen			Astroph Papers
Feb 24	Arlin, Jules, Daniel		Astro2010 whitepaper, slow pulsars, NSF GRFP		Kristen			Astroph Papers
Mar 3	Kathryn , David S. + Cameron, Marcel, Ximena, Nitza, Duane, Lia		Astro2010 whitepaper & constraint on dark sector force, Nature paper, Galileoscope, National Society for Black/Hispanic Physicists meeting		Kristen			Astroph Papers
Mar 10	Joe		Are there limits to Olympic performance?		Kristen			Astroph Papers
Mar 17	Spring Break				Kristen			Astroph Papers
Mar 24	Jen, Sarah		Dark matter free galaxies, Fireball		Kristen			Astroph Papers
Mar 31	Jeno, Jacqueline		Arizona conference, Contributions to Astro2010 NYC Town Hall meeting		Kristen			Astroph Papers
Apr 7	Taka, Zoltan		Baltimore workshop, Irvine conference		Kristen			Astroph Papers
Apr 14	H.-W. Rix, E. Tasker		Galactic structure, Galaxy formation		Kristen			Astroph Papers
Apr 21	Kristen		BH mergers		Kristen			Astroph Papers
Apr 28	Frits, David Martinez-Delgado, Yuri Levin		Distant GRB, Galaxies, Pulsar Networks		Kristen			Astroph Papers
May 5	Special Graduating students day				Kristen

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Date	Title	URL	Discussion Leader
May 12	Enhanced tidal disruption rates from massive black hole binaries	​http://arxiv.org/abs/0904.4481	Kristen
	Stirring, not shaking: binary black holes' effects on electromagnetic fields	​http://arxiv.org/abs/0905.1121	Kristen
	Exoplanet Blog	​http://oklo.org/	Emily
May 19	The formation of the first stars and galaxies	​http://arxiv.org/abs/0905.0929	Josh
	The 2pt+: an enhanced 2 point correlation function	​http://arxiv.org/abs/0905.2192	Kyle
	Turbulence and Dynamo in Galaxy Cluster Medium	​http://arxiv.org/abs/0905.2196	Kristen
	High-performance computing on GPUs	​http://arxiv.org/abs/0905.2453 & ​http://www.astrogpu.org/videos.php	Kristen
May 26	Challenges facing young astrophysicists	​http://arxiv.org/abs/0905.1986	Josh
	On the detectability of primordial black holes in the Galaxy	​http://arxiv.org/abs/0905.3078	Lia
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June 9
June 16
June 23

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Faculty, research staff and students: If you have a visitor coming for a given week, please contact the person in charge for that week (do not modify this page yourself). Also be sure to add the visitor's name to the visitor page. The goal is to allow all visitors the chance to lead a brief discussion of their research.

Speakers: We aim for informal discussions about 10-20 minutes in length. Powerpoint is discouraged, but permitted for particularly relevant images.