Astrophysics Lunch Seminar
Seminars are held on Fridays at noon in room S105 unless stated otherwise.Calendar 2007/2008
(see this week)| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
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| Aug 10 | Tomer Holczer | Technion, Israel | Studies of X-ray Absorption Spectra Due to Active Galactic Nuclei Outflows |
| Aug 17 | Nina Hatch | Leiden Observatory | Diffuse light in the Spiderweb: evidence for star formation outside galaxies |
| Sep 7 | Victor Flambaum | New South Wales | Variation of fundamental constants in space and time: theory and observations |
| Sep 14 | Davide Lazzati | JILA | Dust nucleation in the ISM |
| Sep 21 | Andrew King | Leicester | Evolution of Black Hole Mass and Spin in AGN |
| Sep 28 | Jason Austermann | Massachusetts | Sub-Millimeter Galaxy Surveys with AzTEC |
| Oct 5 | Eric Hallman | CASA | The Next Frontier in Numerical Cosmological Simulations: Including Nonthermal Effects |
| Oct 12 11:00 am Auditorium | John Grunsfeld | NASA | HST: Servicing Mission 4 and the Apex of Hubble Science |
| Thursday Oct 18 | Giuseppe Palma | SNS Pisa | Hyper-relativistic Blast Waves from Gamma-Ray Bursts |
| Oct 19 | Philip Chang | Berkeley | The Origin of the Young Stars in the Nucleus of M31 |
| Oct 26 | Michele Trenti | STScI | From the very first Pop III to z ~ 6 galaxies and quasars |
| Nov 2 | Elena Rossi | JILA | Growing Supermassive Black Holes by z = 6 with "Quasistars" |
| Nov 9 | Phil Armitage | JILA | Star formation from disks in the Galactic Center |
| Nov 16 | Kevin France | CASA | Far-Ultraviolet H2 Emission: Interstellar and Circumstellar Media |
| THANKSGIVING | |||
| Nov 30 | Britton Smith | CASA | Simulating the Transition from the First Stars to the Second Stars |
| Dec 7 | Rory Barnes | LPL, Arizona | The First Successful Prediction of an Extrasolar Planet |
| Dec 14 | Lang Shao | Nanjing & JILA | Echo Emission and the X-ray Afterglows of Gamma-Ray Bursts |
| CHRISTMAS / NEW YEAR / AAS | |||
| Jan 18 | Dick McCray | JILA | Supernova light curves |
| Jan 25 | Matthew van Adelsberg | JILA | Modeling Emission from the Transition Zone of Balmer-Dominated Shocks |
| Feb 1 | Nanda Rea | Amsterdam | Energetic RRATs populate the Universe |
| Feb 8 | Jim Green & Mike Shull | CASA | Cosmic Origins Spectrograph: Capabilities & IGM Science |
| Feb 15 JILA 10C |
Mike Shull | CASA | Journal Club: |
| Wednesday Feb 20 4:00 pm |
Simon Glover | AIP Potsdam | The Second Stars |
| Feb 22 | No Seminar (Constellation-X Meeting in Boulder) |
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| Feb 29 | No Seminar (APS Graduate Recruitment) |
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| Mar 7 | Travis Metcalfe | NCAR | Asteroseismology and the Solar-Stellar Connection |
| Mar 14 | Kyle Willett | CASA | OH Megamasers in the Early Universe: the IR Connection |
| Mar 21 | Niccolò Bucciantini | Berkeley | Long Duration GRBs and the Birth of Magnetars |
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| Apr 4 | Sara Beck | Tel Aviv | Looking for the Most Massive Stars |
| Apr 11 | Doug Johnstone | HIA, Victoria | Understanding How Star Formation Proceeds in the Perseus and Ophiuchus Molecular Clouds |
| Apr 18 | Jeffrey Linsky | JILA | Why do quasars twinkle at radio wavelengths? |
| Apr 25 | Samuel Skillman | CASA | Shock-Accelerated Cosmic Rays in AMR Cosmological Simulations |
| May 2 | Zoë Leinhardt | DAMTP Cambridge | Collisions in the Outer Solar System |
| Wednesday May 7 | Nissim Kanekar | NRAO | Probing fundamental constant evolution with radio spectroscopy |
| May 9 | No Seminar (CU Commencement) |
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| Wednesday June 25 | Chris Reynolds | Maryland | The variability of black hole accretion disks |
| Thursday July 17 2:00 pm | Ned Wright | UCLA | The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) |
Contact: Jorge Cuadra (jcuadra at jilau1 colorado edu).