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.

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Date		Name		Institution		Title		Abstract		Host
January 23		Charles Hailey		Columbia University		First results from the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) Mission		Abstract		Jacqueline
January 30		Benjamin Oppenheimer		Leiden University		A Full-Scale Intervention of How Galaxies Form with New Constraintsfrom the Circumgalactic Medium		Abstract		Mary
February 6		Ben Brown		Wisconsin		Wreath-building stellar dynamos: how stars like our Sun get their spots?		Abstract		Marcel
February 13		Dale Kocevski		University of Kentucky		Illuminating the Black Hole – Galaxy Connection with CANDELS		Abstract		Jacqueline
February 20		Alberto Sesana		Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics		Massive black hole binaries: formation, dynamics and gravitational waves		Abstract		Zoltan
February 27		Lars Hernquist		Harvard		Cosmology on a Moving Mesh		Abstract		Gurtina
March 6		Lucianne Walkowicz		Princeton		Understanding Exoplanets in Light of their Host Stars: Stellar Astrophysics and Kepler		Abstract		Marcel
March 13		Sheila Kannappan		UNC		Global Gas Content Trends Across the Galaxy Population		Abstract		Jacqueline
March 20						SPRING BREAK
March 27		Dan Weisz		U. Washington		Dissecting Galaxies One Star at a Time		Abstract		Gurtina
April 3		Maryam Modjaz		NYU		Stellar Forensics with Explosions: Supernovae, Gamma-Ray Bursts, and their Environments		Abstract		Jacqueline
April 10		Stella Offner		Yale		Through the Looking Glass: Matching Observational Diagnostics with Simulations of Star Formation		Abstract		Gurtina
April 19 FRIDAY		Alyssa Goodman		Harvard		Seamless Astronomy...and The Bones of the Milky Way ---The BISHOP Lecture		Abstract		Jacqueline
April 24		Anna Frebel		MIT		Stellar Archaeology: New Science with Old Stars		Abstract		Marcel
May 1		Ed Stone		JPL				Abstract		Arlin
May 3		Harvey Richer		UBC		Big Apple Colloquium at AMNH: White Dwarfs - all you need to know about the Universe		Abstract		Mike Shara

May 8

Graduating Students

Columbia University

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