JILA
ASTROPHYSICS LUNCH SEMINAR
2006/2007
Seminars are held on Fridays at noon in S105
Contact
Richard Alexander (JILA; rda@jilau1.colorado.edu)
for more information.
Other JILA seminars can be found here .
Other astrophysics seminars in Boulder:
Department of Astrophysics and Planetary Sciences(APS)
Department of Space Studies at Southwest Research Institute(SwRI)
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics(LASP)
CU Center for Astrobiology
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
| Aug 31st (Thursday, 4pm) |
Kelle Cruz (Special seminar) |
AMNH, New York |
Brown Dwarfs: Young and Old |
| Sep 5th (Tuesday, 4pm, JILA Auditorium) |
Seth Hornstein (Special seminar) |
UCLA |
A Keck Study of Infrared Emission Associated with the Supermassive Black Hole at the Galactic Center. |
| Sep 7th (Thursday, 4pm) |
Mark Miesch (Special seminar) |
HAO, Boulder |
Thunderous Turning Within: A Look into the Turbulent Dynamics of the Solar Interior |
| Sep 12th (Tuesday, 4pm) |
Eldar Dobrea (Special seminar) |
Malin Space Sciences Systems |
Outcrops of the chaotic terrain: Mineralogical constraints, morphology, and stratigraphic relationships |
| Sep 22nd |
Pedro Avelino |
Univ. Porto |
Domain Walls and Dark Energy |
| Sep 29th |
Roberto Soria |
Harvard-Smithsonian CfA |
What are the black hole masses in
ultra-luminous X-ray sources? |
| Oct 6th |
Jack Burns |
APS/CASA |
Why do only some galaxy clusters have cool cores? |
| Oct 13th |
Seminar Postponed |
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| Oct 20th |
Mike Shull |
APS/CASA |
Critical Metallicity for High-Redshift Star Formation |
| Oct 27th |
Yuexing Li |
Harvard-Smithsonian CfA |
The formation and evolution of galaxies and quasars at z~6 |
| Nov 3rd |
Charles Danforth |
CASA |
What's new in the local IGM? |
| Nov 10th |
Paolo Tozzi |
INAF, Trieste |
What we learn from X-ray clusters of galaxies at high redshift |
| Nov 17th |
Matt van Adelsberg |
JILA |
Thermal Radiation from Strongly Magnetized Isolated Neutron Stars: Spectra and Polarizations |
| Nov 24th |
No seminar - Thanksgiving |
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| Dec 1st |
Eric Hallman |
CASA |
Simulating the Universe: Large Area Synthetic Sky Surveys |
| Dec 8th |
Kevin Heng |
JILA |
SNR 1987A and Balmer-Dominated Supernova Remnants |
Holidays |
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| Jan 19th |
Jorge Cuadra |
JILA |
Young stars and stellar winds around the Galactic super-massive black hole |
| Jan 26th |
Jill Tarter |
SETI Institute |
Radio Astronomy and SETI with the Allen Telescope |
| Feb 2nd |
Elisa Costantini |
SRON, Utrecht |
The inner regions of AGN seen in X-rays: the case of Mrk279 |
Feb 9th |
Nadia Zakamska |
IAS, Princeton |
Selection and multi-wavelength properties of obscured quasars |
| Feb 16th |
Alak Ray |
Tata Institute |
Pulsar Timing and Supernovae |
| Feb 23rd |
Patricia Arévalo |
Univ. Southampton | Modelling the spectral-timing properties of AGN X-ray light curves |
| Mar 2nd |
Cynthia Froning |
CASA |
Near-Infrared Spectroscopy of Compact Binaries: Structure, Evolution, and Black Hole Masses |
| Mar 9th |
John Stocke |
CASA/APS |
The very low-redshift intergalactic medium: lost in the local Lyman-alpha forest |
| Mar 16th |
Seminar postponed |
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| Mar 23rd |
No seminar - Spring Break |
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| Mar 30th |
No seminar - Spring Break |
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| Apr 5th (Thursday, noon, JILA Auditorium) |
Bob Kirshner (Special seminar) |
Harvard-Smithsonian CfA |
The fundamentals of supernova cosmology |
| Apr 13th |
Jack Burns |
APS/CASA |
Probing into the "Dark Ages" with a low frequency interferometer on the Moon |
| Apr 20th |
Jiri Bicak |
Charles University, Prague |
Palette of gravitomagnetic effects |
| Apr 27th |
Henry Throop |
SwRI |
Planetesimal Formation in Dense Star Clusters |
| May 4th |
Andrew Fox |
IAP, Paris |
High ions in damped Lyman-alpha systems: star formation and galactic outflows at z=2-3 |
| May 11th |
No seminar - CU graduation |
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| May 18th |
Ted von Hippel |
Univ. Texas, Austin |
White dwarfs and debris discs: the fate of planetary systems? |
| May 25th |
Dick McCray |
JILA |
SN1987A at age 20 |
Seminars are held on Fridays at noon in S105
Other JILA seminars can be found here .
Other astrophysics seminars in Boulder:
Department of Astrophysics and Planetary Sciences(APS)
Department of Space Studies at Southwest Research Institute(SwRI)
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics(LASP)
CU Center for Astrobiology