Special Seminars / Spring 2013

Talks are held on Thursdays at 4:15 pm in Pupin. Note that ALL talks must be a maximum of 30 minutes long (even if there is only one speaker). Hosts should inform speakers of this requirement.

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Date		Name		Institution		Title		Abstract		Host
January 17		Federico Lelli Saurav Dhital		Kapteyn Institute Boston University		Dynamics of starbursting dwarf galaxies SLoWPoKES: Constraining Binary Formation Theory		Abstract Abstract		Jacqueline Jeff
January 24		Or Graur Sarah Ballard		AMNH U. Washington		Digging for buried treasure: discovery of 90 Type Ia supernovae in a spectroscopic supernova survey in the SDSS Exoplanet Characterization by Proxy for Kepler-61b: How a Nearby Star Bumped a Planet Out of the Habitable Zone		Abstract		Gurtina
January 31		Daniele Vigano		U. Alicante, Spain		Magneto-Thermal Evolution of Isolated Neutron Stars: Towards the Grand Unification		Abstract		Gurtina
February 7								Abstract
February 14		Daryl Haggard		Northwestern		Prospects for Observing the Sgr A*/G2 Encounter		Abstract		Marcel
February 21		Imre Bartos Michael Kesden		Columbia NYU		Prospects for Observing the Encounter of G2 with a stellar-mass BH Resonant-plane locking and spin alignment in stellar-mass black-hole binaries: a diagnostic of compact-binary formation		Abstract Abstract		Zoltan Zoltan
February 28		Nick Battaglia Kim Venn		CMU UVic		Reionization on Large Scales: A New Parametric Model and CMB Observables Evidence for Inhomogeneous Mixing in the Chemical Evolution of Classical Dwarf Galaxies		Abstract		Gurtina KVJ and JvG
March 7		Andrew Fox		STScI		The Magellanic Stream: Probing the Baryon Cycle in the Galactic Halo		Abstract
March 14		Greg Dobler Jose Onorbe		UCSB UCI		From Hazes to Bubbles: an Enormous Eruption from the Heart of the Milky Way Feedback from Massive Stars in Dwarf Galaxy Formation		Abstract		Gurtina Ryan
March 21		SPRING BREAK						Abstract
March 28		Mubdi Rahman		John Hopkins		Recovering Redshift Distributions using Galaxy Clustering: Early Results		Abstract		Gurtina
April 4		Maxim Lyutikov		Purdue		The gamma-ray emission of Crab pulsar and the Nebula: paradigm changes?		Abstract		Andrei
		Andreea Petric		Caltech		Mid-Infrared and Millimeter Spectroscopic Diagnostics of Local Luminous Infrared Galaxies				Frits
April 11		Karin Sandstrom Erik Tollerud		MPIA Yale		The Connection between Star Formation and the Cold Interstellar Medium in Nearby Galaxies TBD		Abstract TBD		APW
April 18		Raul Jimenez James Rhoads		ICREA-ICC Barcelona/CERN ASU		Neutrino Cosmology TBD		Abstract Abstract		Zoltan Zoltan
April 25		Martin Stringer Sean Raymond		Observatoire de Paris Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux		How fundamental physics maps onto galaxy properties TBD		Abstract Abstract		Zoltan Marcel
May 2		Federica Bianco Sangeeta Malhotra		NYU ASU		TBD TBD		Abstract Abstract		Gurtina Zoltan
May 9		Jay Lockman Jason Dexter		NRAO UC Berkeley				Abstract		Zoltan