Astronomy Colloquium / Spring 2012

Talks are held in Pupin 428, beginning at 4:15pm, and are followed by a wine and cheese reception in the 14th floor library.

Date	Speaker	Institution	Title	Abstract	Host
January 25				Abstract
February 2	Andrew West	Boston University	Not your parents' M dwarfs: What low-mass stars can tell us about magnetic fields, Galactic dynamics, the distribution of dust and the widest binaries in the Milky Way	Abstract	Marcel
February 9	Daniel Fabrycky	UCSC	Planetary Systems from Kepler	Abstract	Kristen / Jeno
February 16	Debra Fischer	Yale	Searching for Earths	Abstract	Kathryn J
February 23	Warren Brown	CfA, Harvard	Black Holes and Hypervelocity Stars	Abstract	Kathryn J
March 2	Ed Belbruno	Princeton	Minimal Energy Transfers, Black Hole Dynamics, and Weak Stability Boundaries	Abstract	Arlin
March 9 - BIG APPLE COLLOQUIUM -- 3:45pm, AMNH Linder Theater	Steven Balbus	ENS & Princeton	The flywheels of helios: making sense of how the Sun (and other stars) go round.	Abstract	@AMNH
March 23	Daniel Kasen	Berkeley	What powers the brightest supernovae?	Abstract	Kristen
March 30	John Johnson	Caltech	Giant Exoplanets in the Stellar Mass-Metallicity Plane	Abstract	Marcel
April 6	Wendy Freedman	OCIW	Bampton Lecture series	TBA	David H
April 13	Wendy Freedman	OCIW	Bampton Lecture series	TBA	David H
April 27	James Bullock	UCI	A Big Dark Satellite Problem for Cold Dark Matter	Abstract	Kathryn J
May 4	Graduating Students	Columbia	PhD talks	Abstracts	All