Astronomy Colloquium / Spring 2010

Talks are held in Pupin 329, beginning at 4:15pm (unless otherwise noted), and are followed by a wine and cheese reception in the 14th floor library.

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		Who		Institution		Title		Abstract		Host:
January 27		Mark Reid		Harvard-Smithsonian CfA		"Measuring the Cosmos"		Abstract		Host: Jeno S
February 5: FRIDAY @ 3PM		Lloyd Knox		UC Davis		Anisotropies in the infrared background as a probe of the complete history of star formation		Abstract		Host: Zoltan
February 17		Eric Gotthelf		Columbia		Anti-Magnetars: An Exotic New Class of High Energy Pulsars		Abstract		Host: Jeno S
February 24		Vicky Kaspi		Mcgill		'Grand Unification' in Neutron Stars		Abstract		Host: Jeno S
March 3		Jack Hughes		Rutgers University		First Results from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope: SZ Detections of Galaxy Clusters		Abstract		Host: Zoltan
March 10		Dusan Keres		Harvard/CFA		How do galaxies get their gas?		Abstract		Host: Mary
March 17				SPRING BREAK
March 24		Tommaso Treu		UCSB		New observational tests of the LCDM (with pesky baryons) paradigm		Abstract		Host: David S
March 31		Jenny Greene		Princeton University		Beyond the M-sigma relation: Black Holes and Galaxy Evolution		Abstract		Host: Kathryn J
April 7		Daniel Apai		STScI		The Formation of Planets around the Sun and Other Stars		Abstract		Host: Caleb
April 14		Suvi Gezari		JHU		Synergistic Transient Searches in the Ultraviolet and Optical		Abstract		Host: David S
April 16: 3:00 PM ROOM 428		Joan Centrella		GSFC		BIG APPLE COLLOQUIUM: Black Hole Mergers, Gravitational Waves, and Numerical Relativity		Abstract		Host: David S
April 21		Angela Speck		University of Missouri		Through The Looking Glass: A Re-analysis of Silicate Dust Spectral Features		Abstract		Host: Jeno S
April 28		Phil Hopkins		UC Berkeley		How do Massive Black Holes Get their Gas?		Abstract		Host: Zoltan
May 3: 4:15 PM ROOM 428		Rashid Sunyaev		MPA, Munich		Accretion of gas with small angular momentum onto supermassive black holes in elliptical galaxies		Abstract		Host: Zoltan
May 5 NOTE SPECIAL TIME 4:00 PM		Graduating Students Emily Rauscher, Cien Sheng, Stephanie Tonnesen, Sarah Tuttle, Jessica Werk		Columbia		Modeling Hot Jupiter Atmospheres: Probing a New Regime of Circulation and SMBH Formation by Direct Collapse: Keep Protogalactic Gas Free of Hydrogen Molecules and A Tale of Tails and FIREBall - The Faint Intergalactic Redshifted Emission Balloon and Star Formation on the Fringes: The Frequency and Nature of Outlying HII Regions		Abstract		Host: DS + advisors
May 19: SPECIAL SUMMER COLLOQUIUM		Niv Drory		MPE		The Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX)		Abstract		Host: David S/Tuttle