Special Seminars / Spring 2010

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

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Date

Location

Time

Speaker

Institution

Title

Abstract

Host

Jan 21

1402 Pupin

4:15PM

Ivan Minchev

Strasbourg

Galactic Disks: Ringing, Streaming, Blurring and Churning

Abstract

Kathryn V Johnston

Jan 28

1402 Pupin

4:15PM

Abstract

Feb 04

1402 Pupin

4:15PM

Sean Mc Williams

NASA Goddard

Cosmography to z ∼ 6 with coincident gravitational wave and electromagnetic observations

Abstract

Janna Levin

Feb 11

1402 Pupin

4:15PM

Krzysztof Belczynski

Los Alamos

On the Apparent Lack of Be X-ray Binaries with Black Holes

Abstract

Janna Levin

Feb 18

1402 Pupin

4:15PM

Abstract

Feb 25

1402 Pupin

4:15PM

Abstract

Mar 04

1402 Pupin

4:15PM

Abstract

Mar 11

1402 Pupin

4:15PM

Christian Klingenberg?

Abstract

Mar 18

Spring Break

Mar 25

1402 Pupin

4:15PM

Alex Hill

U Wisc-Madison

Warm Ionized Gas in the Galaxy

Abstract

M Ryan Joung

Apr 01

1402 Pupin

4:15PM

Abstract

Apr 08

1402 Pupin

4:15PM

Jason Kalirai

STSci

Galaxy Formation and Evolution in the Next Decade

Abstract

Kathryn V Johnston

Apr 15

1402 Pupin

4:15PM

Simon Glover

Heidelberg

Understanding the relationship between CO and H2 abundances in giant molecular clouds

Abstract

Colin McNally

Apr 22

1402 Pupin

4:15PM

Gurtina Besla

Harvard

The Formation of the Magellanic Stream

Abstract

Kathryn V Johnston

1402 Pupin

4:15PM

John Bochanski

MIT

Our 15 Million Nearest Neighbors: M Dwarfs & the Local Milky Way

Abstract

Marcel Agüeros

FRIDAY Apr 23

1402 Pupin

12:30pm

Nathan Leigh

McMaster

Stellar Encounters With Multiple Star Systems and the Blue Straggler Problem

Abstract

Colin McNally

Apr 29

1402 Pupin

4:15PM

Abstract

May 13

1402 Pupin

4:15PM

Josh Peek

Columbia

The Cold Ribbon: Our Local Laboratory