Keck
Astro Grad Seminar
Hosted by:
Joel Berrier and Jeff Cooke
Galaxy merger

TIME AND LOCATION FOR FALL:
Fridays at 1:00 in Room FRH 2111
MILAGRO
100 Mpc dark matter simulation Mission Statement M33 X-ray cluster

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Spring 2007
 
Date
Topic
Speaker
03/30/07
Cesar Chavez Day
No Meeting
04/06/07
04/13/07
04/20/07
 
04/27/07
Milky Way Satellites
Louis
05/04/07
05/11/07
05/18/07
05/25/07
Memorial Day Weekend
No Meeting
06/01/07
06/08/07
06/15/07
No meeting (Finals week)
06/22/07
SUMMER BREAK

Past quarter's schedules


 
Fall 2005
 
Date
Topic
Speaker
10/10/05
First meeting - Introductions
Jeff
10/17/05
Measuring Spectra with MILAGRO
Branden
10/24/05
Measurement of X-Ray Galaxy Cluster Dynamical States
Brian
10/31/05
No meeting
 
11/07/05
Low Frequency Detection of Pulsar Signals
Coral
11/14/05
Close Pairs of Galaxies and the Halo Occupation Distribution: Reconciling Theory and Observation
Joel
11/21/05
Environment Statistics:
CfA and SSRS2  Redshift Surveys
Heather
11/28/05
Chemical Abundances and Kinematics of the Stellar Populations of M33
Mike
12/05/05
No meeting (Finals week)
 
12/12/05
HAPPY HOLIDAYS
 

Winter 2006
 
Date
Topic
Speaker
01/09/06
No meeting
 
01/16/06
Holiday (King Jr. Day)
 
01/23/06
Discussion
Louis
01/30/06
MILAGRO science overview
Branden
02/06/06
No meeting
 
02/13/06
Determining the Star Formation History of M33 and the Large Magellanic Cloud from Analysis of Color-Magnitude Diagrams
Matt
02/20/06
Holiday (Presidents' Day)
 
02/27/06
The Evolution of Structure in X-Ray Clusters of Galaxies
Brian
03/06/06
Discussion
Jeff
03/13/06
No meeting
 
03/20/06
Intercluster light and the stellar halo
Chris
03/27/06
Spring Break
 

Spring 2006
 
Date
Topic
Speaker
04/03/06
Discussion
Jeff
04/10/06
Paper assignment
Jeff
04/17/06
UCI Center for Cosmology Symposium: Chancellor's Distinguished Fellows Series - Margaret Geller
 
04/24/06
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
05/01/06
No meeting
 
05/08/06
General Discussions
Jeff
05/15/06
Galaxies and the Cosmic Web
Las Cruces NM Conference
 
05/22/06
Paper discussions:
Baryon Dynamics, Dark Matter Substructure, and Galaxies (Weinberg et al. astro-ph/0604393)
Heather
05/29/06
Holiday (Memorial Day)
 
06/05/06
Personal Research
Quinn
06/12/06
No meeting (Finals week)
 

Summer 2006
 
Date
Topic
Speaker
06/28/06
Rotation Curves from Velocity Fields in LSB Galaxies
Rachel Kuzio de Naray
07/05/06
No meeting
 
07/12/06
meta-CDM
Louis Strigari
07/19/06
Seminar to pick up in the Fall
 

Fall 2006
 
Date
Topic
Speaker
10/06/06
Advancement to Candidacy Talk: Theortetical Studies of Galaxy Mergers in a LCDM Cosmology
Joel Berrier
10/13/06
Constraining Dark Matter Halo Profiles and Galaxy Formation Models Using Spiral Arm Morphology
Marc Seigar
10/20/06
The Mass of 2.5 < z < 5 Systems
Jeff Cooke
10/27/06
TBA
11/03/06
TBA
11/10/06
TBA
11/17/06
TBA
11/24/06
HAPPY THANKSGIVING
12/01/06
TBA
12/08/06
No meeting (Finals week)
12/15/06
HAPPY HOLIDAYS
End of Quarter
 
Winter 2007
 
Date
Topic
Speaker
01/19/07
First meeting of the quarter
Joel and Jeff
01/26/07
02/02/07
02/09/07
 
02/16/07
02/23/07
03/02/07
03/09/07
03/16/07
 
03/23/07
No meeting (Finals week)
 
03/30/07
SPRING BREAK