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Astro Grad Seminar
Hosted by:
Joel Berrier and Jeff Cooke
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| TIME AND LOCATION FOR FALL: Fridays at 1:00 in Room FRH
2111
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Spring 2007
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Speaker
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03/30/07
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Cesar Chavez Day
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No Meeting
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04/06/07
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04/13/07
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04/20/07
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04/27/07
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Milky Way Satellites
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Louis
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05/04/07
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05/11/07
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05/18/07
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05/25/07
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Memorial Day Weekend
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No Meeting
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06/01/07
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06/08/07
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06/15/07
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No meeting (Finals week)
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06/22/07
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SUMMER BREAK
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Past quarter's schedules
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Fall 2005
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Topic
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Speaker
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10/10/05
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First meeting - Introductions
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Jeff
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10/17/05
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Measuring Spectra with MILAGRO
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Branden
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10/24/05
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Measurement of X-Ray Galaxy Cluster
Dynamical States
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Brian
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10/31/05
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No meeting
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11/07/05
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Low Frequency Detection of Pulsar
Signals
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Coral
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11/14/05
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Close Pairs of Galaxies and the
Halo Occupation Distribution: Reconciling Theory and Observation
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Joel
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11/21/05
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Environment Statistics:
CfA and SSRS2 Redshift Surveys |
Heather
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11/28/05
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Chemical Abundances and Kinematics
of the Stellar Populations of M33
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Mike
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12/05/05
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No meeting (Finals week)
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12/12/05
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HAPPY HOLIDAYS
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Winter 2006
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Date
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Topic
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Speaker
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01/09/06
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No meeting
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01/16/06
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Holiday (King Jr. Day)
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01/23/06
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Discussion
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Louis
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01/30/06
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MILAGRO science overview
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Branden
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02/06/06
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No meeting
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02/13/06
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Determining the Star Formation
History of M33 and the Large Magellanic Cloud from Analysis of
Color-Magnitude Diagrams
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Matt
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02/20/06
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Holiday (Presidents' Day)
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02/27/06
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The Evolution of Structure in
X-Ray Clusters of Galaxies
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Brian
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03/06/06
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Discussion
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Jeff
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03/13/06
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No meeting
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03/20/06
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Intercluster light and the
stellar halo
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Chris
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03/27/06
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Spring Break
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Spring 2006
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Date
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Topic
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Speaker
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04/03/06
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Discussion
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Jeff
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04/10/06
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Paper assignment
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Jeff
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04/17/06
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UCI Center for Cosmology
Symposium: Chancellor's Distinguished Fellows Series -
Margaret Geller
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04/24/06
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Paper discussions:
(1) CIRS: Cluster Infall Regions in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey I. Infall Patterns and Mass Profiles (Rines & Diaferio, astro-ph/0602032) (2) Local Group Dwarf Galaxies and the Contribution of the First Stars to Reionization (Tumlinson, astro-ph/0602179) |
(1) Joel
(2) Chris |
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05/01/06
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No meeting
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05/08/06
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General Discussions
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Jeff
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05/15/06
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Galaxies and the Cosmic Web
Las Cruces NM Conference |
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05/22/06
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Paper discussions:
Baryon Dynamics, Dark Matter Substructure, and Galaxies (Weinberg et al. astro-ph/0604393) |
Heather
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05/29/06
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Holiday (Memorial Day)
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06/05/06
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Personal Research
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Quinn
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06/12/06
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No meeting (Finals week)
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Summer 2006
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Date
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Topic
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Speaker
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06/28/06
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Rotation Curves from Velocity
Fields in LSB Galaxies
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Rachel Kuzio de Naray
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07/05/06
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No meeting
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07/12/06
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meta-CDM
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Louis Strigari
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07/19/06
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Seminar to pick up in the Fall
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Fall 2006
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Date
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Topic
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Speaker
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10/06/06
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Advancement to Candidacy Talk:
Theortetical Studies of Galaxy Mergers in a LCDM Cosmology
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Joel Berrier
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10/13/06
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Constraining Dark Matter Halo
Profiles and Galaxy Formation Models Using Spiral Arm Morphology
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Marc Seigar
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10/20/06
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The Mass of 2.5 < z < 5 Systems
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Jeff Cooke
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10/27/06
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TBA
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11/03/06
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TBA
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11/10/06
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TBA
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11/17/06
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TBA
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11/24/06
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HAPPY THANKSGIVING
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12/01/06
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TBA
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12/08/06
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No meeting (Finals week)
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12/15/06
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HAPPY HOLIDAYS
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End of Quarter
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Winter 2007
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Topic
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Speaker
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01/19/07
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First meeting of the quarter
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Joel and Jeff
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01/26/07
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02/02/07
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02/09/07
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02/16/07
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02/23/07
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03/02/07
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03/09/07
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03/16/07
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03/23/07
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No meeting (Finals week)
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03/30/07
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SPRING BREAK
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