Astronomy Colloquium / Spring 2012

Talks are held in Pupin 1402, beginning at 4:00pm, and are followed by a wine and cheese reception in the 14th floor library.

Date		Name		Institution		Title		Abstract		Host
January 25		Beth Willman		Haverford		What is a Galaxy?		Abstract		Marcel
February 1		Phil Chang		CITA/Wisconsin-Milwaukee		The Physics and Cosmology of TeV Blazars		Abstract		Kristen
February 8		Janice lee		OCIW		Star Formation in Dwarf Galaxies		Abstract		Kathryn
February 17 3PM FRIDAY Pupin 428		Victoria Kaspi		McGill University		Unifying the Many Faces of Neutron Stars: The High Magnetic Field Connection (Big Apple Colloquium)		Abstract		Jules
February 22						No colloquium		Abstract
February 29		Martin Bureau		University of Oxford		The Tully-Fisher Relation: Across Morphological Types and Redshifts		Abstract		Jacqueline
March 7		Eliot Quataert		UC Berkeley		The Physics of Galaxy Cluster Plasmas		Abstract		Zoltan
March 14						SPRING BREAK
March 21		Virginia McSwain		Lehigh		Multiwavelength Observations of Gamma-ray Binaries		Abstract		Marcel
March 28		Nicholas Law		Toronto		Cool Stars, Cool Planets, and Extremely Cold Astronomy		Abstract		Marcel
April 4		Jin Koda		Stony Brook		Evolution of Molecular Gas and Star Formation in Galaxies		Abstract		Jacqueline
April 11		Stuart Shapiro		University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign		The Merger of Binary Black Holes in Gaseous Environments		Abstract		Zoltan
April 18		Monica Valluri		Michigan		Exploring the phase space structure and formation of the Milky Way halo with stellar orbits		Abstract		Kathryn
April 25		Andrea Ghez		UCLA		Bishop Lecture: Bringing our Galaxy's Supermassive Black Hole and its Environs into Focus with Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics		Abstract		Frits
May 2		Graduating Students		Columbia University		Jana Grcevich/Cameron Hummels/Colin McNally/Kyle Parfrey/Andreas Svedin		Abstract
May 30		Diana Valencia		MIT		Characterizing Super-Earths and Mini-Neptunes		Abstract		Zoltan