Galaxies' Lunch Topic Series / Spring 2012
Galaxies' Lunch is held every Thursday @noon in RM 1402 (Astronomy Library). Please bring a lunch and join us if
you are interested in and/or study:
1) Observations of
2) Simulations of
3) Theories of
galaxy formation, growth, and evolution. It is an informal meeting with an aim to bring together various viewpoints
and expertise in the areas of galactic and extragalactic astronomy. The meetings cover a range of ideas including star
clusters and gas clouds as integral parts in the understanding of galaxy structure and evolution up to how galaxies
themselves serve as parts of the Universe in a cosmological context.
We will select a couple of people each week to lead an INFORMAL discussion for the following week with the
understanding that anyone should bring up science ideas, pertinent to the group, at any time. This semester's
schedule of topic coordinators is listed below:
| Date | | Topic Coordinator | | Topic | | References/Links
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| January 26 | | Duane Lee | | Organization of Topics | |
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| February 2 | | Allyson Sheffield | | Research | |
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| February 23 | | Gurtina, Duane, Lauren & Kathryn | | KITP Dwarf Galaxy Conference | |
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| March 1 | | Martin Bureau (Oxford University) | | Cold Gas Accretion | |
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| March 8 | | Kim Coble (Chicago State University) | | Investigating Student Understanding of Cosmology (Talk) | | Abstract
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| March 29 | | Duane & Greg | | Globular Cluster Formation | |
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| April 5 | | Maureen Teyssier | | Hypervelocity Stars | | I will summarize the observed population of hypervelocity stars, theoretical methods of generation, and what hypervelocity stars may tell us about the galactic center, the galactic potential, and galaxy formation. References: Abadi09, Hills88 (the seminal paper).
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| April 12 | | TBA | | Gaseous halo: Observations | |
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| April 19 | | TBA | | Gaseous halo: Simulations | |
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| April 26 | | Ryan Joung | | Molecular Gas at High z | |
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