Astronomy Colloquium / Spring 2013
Talks are held in 329 Pupin beginning at 4:15 pm, and are followed by a wine and cheese reception in the 14th floor library.
| Date | | Name | | Institution | | Title | | Abstract | | Host
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| January 23 | | Charles Hailey | | Columbia University | | First results from the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) Mission | | Abstract | | Jacqueline
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| January 30 | | Benjamin Oppenheimer | | Leiden University | | A Full-Scale Intervention of How Galaxies Form with New Constraintsfrom the Circumgalactic Medium | | Abstract | | Mary
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| February 6 | | Ben Brown | | Wisconsin | | Wreath-building stellar dynamos: how stars like our Sun get their spots? | | Abstract | | Marcel
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| February 13 | | Dale Kocevski | | University of Kentucky | | Illuminating the Black Hole – Galaxy Connection with CANDELS | | Abstract | | Jacqueline
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| February 20 | | Alberto Sesana | | Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics | | Massive black hole binaries: formation, dynamics and gravitational waves | | Abstract | | Zoltan
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| February 27 | | Lars Hernquist | | Harvard | | Cosmology on a Moving Mesh | | Abstract | | Gurtina
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| March 6 | | Lucianne Walkowicz | | Princeton | | Understanding Exoplanets in Light of their Host Stars: Stellar Astrophysics and Kepler | | Abstract | | Marcel
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| March 13 | | Sheila Kannappan | | UNC | | Global Gas Content Trends Across the Galaxy Population
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| March 20 | | | | | | SPRING BREAK | | | |
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| March 27 | | Dan Weisz | | U. Washington | | | | Abstract | | Gurtina
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| April 3 | | Maryam Modjaz | | NYU | | | | Abstract | | Marcel
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| April 10 | | Stella Offner | | Yale | | | | Abstract | | Gurtina
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| April 19 | | Alyssa Goodman | | Harvard | | the BISHOP lecture (note Friday) | | Abstract | | Jacqueline
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| April 24 | | Anna Frebel | | MIT | | Stellar Archaeology: New Science with Old Stars | | Abstract | | Marcel
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| May 1 | | Ed Stone | | JPL | | | | Abstract | | Arlin
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| May 3 | | Harvey Richer | | UBC | | Big Apple Colloquium at AMNH:
White Dwarfs - all you need to know about the Universe | | Abstract | | Mike Shara
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| May 8 | | Graduating Students | | Columbia University | | | | Abstract | |
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