Special Seminars / Spring 2009

These mini-seminars take place on Thursdays at 4:15 PM in room 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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Supernova Remnants

Jan 29

1402 Pupin

4:15PM

M. Ali Alpar

Sabanci U.

Fallback Disks and Magnetars

[Abstract]

Host: Jules Halpern

Feb 5

1402 Pupin

4:15PM

Manu Linares

University of Amsterdam

Accreting Neutron Stars

Abstract

Host: Frits Paerels

Feb 19

1402 Pupin

4:15pm

Andy Gould

OSU, Bishop Lecturer

Resolving Microlensing Degeneracies

[Abstract]

Host: Jacqueline van Gorkom

March 12

1402 Pupin

4:15PM

Jill Tarter

SETI

[Abstract] Note probably 1 hour talk

Host: Caleb Scharf

March 26

1402 Pupin

4:15PM

Ron Ekers/ Michael Kuhlen

CSIRO, Sydney/ IAS

A search for UHE neutrinos looking for Cerenkov pulses from the Moon/Implications of Galactic Substructure for (In)direct Detection of Dark Matter

[Abstract]

Host: Jacqueline van Gorkom/ Kathryn V Johnston

April 2

1402 Pupin

4:15PM

Raja Guhathakurta

UCSC

The SPLASH Survey and Progress Stages of Hierarchical Galaxy Formation

[Abstract]

Host: Jacqueline van Gorkom

April 9

1402 Pupin

4:15PM

Elena d'Onghia

CfA

The Origin of Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies

[Abstract]

Host: Kathryn Johnston

April 16

1402 Pupin

4:15PM

Dimitri Veras

U.Florida

Formation, Survival, and Detectability of Planets Beyond 100 AU

[Abstract]

Host: Kristen Menou

April 23

1402 Pupin

4:15PM

Ricardo Munoz

Yale

Exploring the Extended Structure of Galactic Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies

[Abstract]

Host: Kathryn Johnston

April 30

1402 Pupin

4:15PM

Yuri Levin

Leiden

Fast secular instability of eccentric stellar discs near supermassive black holes, with application to the Galactic Center

[Abstract]

Host: Andrei Beloborodov

May 14

1402 Pupin

4:15PM

Laura Chomiuk

Madison

A Universal Luminosity Function for

Abstract

Host: Jacquelinevan Gorkom