Special Seminars / Spring 2011

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 6	1402 Pupin	4:15PM	Bryan Gaensler	U. Sydney	The Magnetic Universe	Abstract	Mary Putman
Jan 27	1402 Pupin	4:15PM	Joanne Bibby	AMNH	Wolf-Rayet stars as supernova progenitors	Abstract	Maryam Modjaz
Feb 3	1402 Pupin	4:15PM	Lorenzo Sironi	Princeton	Particle Acceleration in Relativistic Magnetized Astrophysical Shocks		Andrei Beloborodov
Feb 10	1402 Pupin	4:15PM	Benjamin Johnson	IAP	Galaxies in the Local Volume: Star formation history and SED fitting	Abstract	David S.
Feb 17	1402 Pupin	4:15PM	Jeanette Gladstone	U. Alberta	Observations of Ultraluminous X-ray Sources	Abstract	Joe
March 10	1402 Pupin	4:15PM / 4:45PM	Juri Poutanen / Indrek Vurm	University of Oulu / Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Fermi observation of blazars and implications for the origin of their gamma-ray emission / Collisional dissipation in magnetized GRB jets		Andrei Beloborodov
March 24	1402 Pupin	4:15PM	Jason Melbourne	Caltech	The Contribution of Evolved Stars to the Near-IR Luminosities of Galaxies: Implications for Stellar Mass Estimates of High Redshift Galaxies		Hugh Crowl
April 7			Wendy Freedman	OCIW	Bampton Lecture series		David H
April 14			Wendy Freedman	OCIW	Bampton Lecture series		David H
April 21	1402 Pupin	4:15PM / 4:45 PM	Hendrik van Eerten / Asaf Pe'er	NYU/CfA	GRB afterglows from jet simulation to light curve / A New Model of Emission from Microquasar Jets, and Possible Explanation to the Outliers of the Fundamental Plane	Abstract	Maryam Modjaz/Andrei Beloborodov
April 28	1402 Pupin	3:45-4:15pm 4:15-5:15pm	Mark Dijkstra / Blake Bullock	MPA Garching / Northrup Grummon Aerospace Systems	JWST: Lyman Alpha Emitters during the Epoch of Reionization JWST: the view from a career in technology development and science policy.	Abstract	Zoltan / Kathryn J
May 12	1402 Pupin	4:15pm 4:45pm	John Wise Britton Smith	Princeton Michigan State	The Imprint of Population III on the First Galaxies The Nature of the Missing Baryons		Greg
May 19	1402 Pupin	4:15PM	Kimitake Hayasaki	Kyoto University	Mergers of Supermassive Black Holes with Gas Disks	Abstract	Zoltan
May 26	1402 Pupin	4:15PM	Kartik Sheth	NRAO	The starring role of bars in galaxy evolution: results from COSMOS, S4G and DEEP2		David S.

June 9	1402 Pupin	4:15PM	Andrew Benson / Prasenjit Saha	Caltech / University of Zurich	"What I cannot create, I do not understand": A galaxy builder's toolkit / Relativity and the Galactic-center Stars	Abstracts	Zoltan / Dan D'O
June 16	1402 Pupin	4:15PM	Maria Pereira Eilat Glikman	Arizona Yale	A census of star formation in galaxy clusters at z~0.2 with Herschel and Hectospec: The impact of environment and substructure dynamics on cluster galaxy populations. / Assembling the Universe: Formation of Black Holes and the First Stars at High Redshift		Greg / Yuan