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  Astronomy Colloquia at Caltech for 2008-2009   

Colloquia are held every Wednesday during the academic year at 4pm in room 155 Arms. Tea and cookies are served at 3:45 pm in the astrophysics library located on the 1st floor of Robinson building.

 

Date

Speaker

                                                   Talk Title

OCTOBER

   1

     Ranga-Ram Chary

          ( Caltech)

Host:  Lee Armus

 

 

   8

              Andy Lawrence

(Royal Observatory, Edinburgh)                            )

Host:  Sterl Phinney

Results from the UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS)

  15

(no colloq this week)

 

  22

(no colloq this week)

 

  29

              Jeff Hester

 (Arizona State University)

Host:  George Djorgovski

The Crab Nebula:  An Astrophysical Chimera

NOVEMBER

5

     Sean Carroll

       (Caltech)

Host:  Chris Hirata

 

12

    Charles Lada

     (Harvard)

Host:  John Carpenter

 

19

        Tom Abel

       (Stanford)

Host:  Nick Scoville

Making Galaxies on Supercomputers; one Star at a Time   

26

   

 

DECEMBER

 

3

    Jennifer Lotz

         (NOAO)

Host:  Andrew Blain

 

JANUARY

7

AAS meeting

no colloquium

14

  Joanna Dunkley

     (Princeton)

Host:

 

21

      Piero Madau

(Lick Observatory)

 

28

    Philip Hopkins

          (CfA)

Host:

 

FEBRUARY

4

Karl Glazebrook

(Johns Hopkins)

Host:

 

11

 

 

18

 

 

25

 

 

MARCH

 

4

 

 

APRIL

1

 

 

8

     Chris Mihos

(Case Western)

 

15

 

 

22

 

 

29

 

 

MAY

6

 

 

13

 

 

20

 

 

27

 

 

JUNE

 

3

 

 


Information for Speakers

 

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2008

 

Updated:
9/4/08