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 / Host |
| October 2 | Dick
Bond (CITA, sabbatical at Caltech) The CMB and Inflation, Then and
Now
Host: Tony Readhead |
| October 9 | Bruce
Draine (Princeton Univ.) Interstellar Dust -- From Microwaves to
X-Rays
Host: Lynne Hillenbrand |
| October 16 | Mike Shao (JPL) The Start of Science with
the Keck Interferometer, and the Status of SIM
Host: George Djorgovski |
| October 23 | Andy Fabian (Cambridge, Institute of Astronomy)
Chandra
Observations of Clusters of Galaxies
Host: Roger Blandford |
| October 30 | Puragra
Guhathakurta (UC Santa Cruz, Lick Obs.) M31: A Fossil Record
of Galaxy Formation and Evolution
Host: George Djorgovski |
| November 6 | Karl
Gebhardt (Univ. of Texas) Black Holes of All Masses: the
Globular Cluster/Galaxy Connection
Host: Andrew MacFadyen |
| November 13 | Kip Thorne (Caltech) LIGO, LISA, and the Numerical Simulation of Gravitational-Wave Sources |
| November 20 | Bernard
Sadoulet (UC Berkeley) The Technology of Dark Matter Searches
Host: Roger Blandford |
| November 27 | -No Colloquium- |
| December 4 | Laura
Ferrarese (Rutgers Univ.) Black Hole
Demographics
Host: George Djorgovski |
| January 8, 2003 | AAS 2003 (Seattle, WA) 1/5 - 1/9 |
| January 15 | John
Carlstrom (Univ. of Chicago) Detection of Polarization in the Cosmic
Microwave Background using DASI
Host: Tony Readhead |
| January 22 | Geoff Blake (Caltech) High Resolution OVRO Millimeter Array and Keck NIRSPEC Spectroscopy of Circumstellar Disks |
| January 29 | Andrea
Ghez (UCLA) Full 3-D Orbital Solutions for Stars Making a Close
Approach to the Supermassive Black Hole at the Center of the Galaxy
Host: Roger Blandford |
| February 5 | Michael
Norman (UCSD)
The First Billion Years (Numerical Investigations
of the Young Universe) (The Kingsley Lecture)
Host: Roger Blandford |
| February 12 | Wendy
Freedman (Carnegie) Cosmological Parameters (The Fifth Annual Greenstein
Lecture)
Host: Roger Blandford |
| February 19 | Chris
Sneden (Univ. of Texas) The remarkable chemical compositions of
binary blue metal-poor stars
Host: Lynne Hillenbrand |
| February 26 | Mario
Livio (STScI) Type Ia Supernovae and Cosmology: Could We Be Fooled?
Host: Roger Blandford |
| March 5 | Andrew Blain (Caltech) Evolution and Selection Effects of Ultraluminous Dusty Galaxies |
| March 12 | Walter
Lewin (MIT) X-ray Astronomy -- The Early Pioneering Years
Host: Bob Rutledge |
| March 19 | Matthew Colless (Australian National Univ.) Results from the 2dF and 6dF Galaxy Redshift Surveys |
| April 2 | Richard
Griffiths (Carnegie Mellon) Deep surveys with Chandra and XMM -
the X-ray evolution of AGN and galaxies
Host: Roger Blandford |
| April 9 | Deepto
Chakrabarty (MIT) The Spin Periods of Millisecond X-Ray Pulsars
and the Possible Role of Gravitational Radiation
Host: Roger Blandford |
| April 16 | Nancy
Levenson (Univ. of Kentucky) An X-ray View of Obscured AGN and the
Starburst Connection
Host: Andrew MacFadyen |
| April 23 | Sylvain
Veilleux (Univ. of Maryland) Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies: Quasars
/ Ellipticals in Formation?
Host: Lee Armus |
| April 30 | Renyue
Cen (Princeton) The Universe Was Reionized Twice
Host: George Djorgovski |
| May 7 | Todd
Thompson (UC Berkeley) Supernovae, Protoneutron Star Winds, and
the Origin of the Heavy Elements
Host: Wal Sargent |
| May 14 | Jill
Bechtold (Univ. of Arizona) Heavy Element Abundances in Quasar
Absorbers: New Observations with Chandra and HST
Host: Lynne Hillenbrand |
| May 21 | Doug
Leonard (Univ. of Massachusetts) The Cepheid Distance to NGC 1637:
A Direct Test of the EPM Distance to SN 1999em
Host: Lynne Hillenbrand |
| May 28 | Rosemary
Wyse (Johns Hopkins Univ.) Constraints on Galaxy Formation
from the Milky Way and its Satellites
Host: Lynne Hillenbrand |
| June 4 | Reem Sari (Caltech) Kuiper Belt Binaries: Dynamics of Runaway Accretion |
*Previous Astronomy Colloquia:
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
Updated:
6/4/03
Gina Armas
(gma@astro)