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Astronomy Colloquia at Caltech for 2007-2008

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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 3	Andrew Lange (Caltech) Prospects for Detecting Primordial Gravitational Radiation via the CMB Host: Judy Cohen
October 10	Jim Braatz (NRAO)  Megamasers, the Hubble Constant and Dark Energy Host: Wal Sargent
October 17	Joshua Eisner ( Berkeley) Protoplanetary Disks in the Inner AU Host: Anneila Sargent
October 24	Joshua Simon (Caltech) Dark Matter in Dwarf Galaxies Host: Wal Sargent
October 31	Alison Coil (University of Arizona) The Clustering of Galaxies and Black Holes at z~1 Host: Chuck Steidel
November 7	Mark Krumholz (Princeton University) From Massive Cores to Massive Stars Host: John Carpenter
November 14	Warren Brown (Harvard) Hypervelocity Stars Ejected from the Galactic Center Host: Judy Cohen
November 21	NO COLLOQUIUM
November 28	Mary Putman (University of Michigan) Fuel for Galaxy Disks Host: Andrew Benson
December 5	David Wilner (Harvard) Protoplanetary Disks: Analogs of the Early Solar System Host: John Carpenter
January 16	Min Yun (University of Massachusetts) AzTEC 1100 Micron Survey of (Sub-)millimeter Galaxies: Cosmic Variance, Large Scale Structure, and the LMT Host: John Carpenter
January 23	Ed Turner (Princeton University) Detecting Extrasolar Planets, Plants and Beaches Host: Wal Sargent
January 30	James Bullock (UC Irvine) Dark Matter and Dwarf Galaxies Host: Andrew Benson
February 6	Risa Wechsler (Stanford) Connecting Galaxies, Halos, and Star Formation Rates Across Cosmic Time Host: Andrew Benson
February 13	Hal McAlister (Georgia State University ) An Overview of Results from the CHARA Array on Mount Wilson Host: Judy Cohen
February 20	Alex Heger (Los Alamos & University of Minnesota) Life and Death of the First Stars Host: Andrew Benson
February 27	Connie Rockosi (UC Santa Cruz) The Old Disk of the Milky Way as Revealed by the SEGUE Survey Host: Judy Cohen
March 5	Lori Allen (SAO) Structure and Evolution of Young Stellar Clusters Host: John Carpenter
April 2	Aristotle Socrates (Princeton) The Eddington Limit in Cosmic Rays: An Explanation for the Observed Faintness of Starbursting Galaxies Host: Sterl Phinney
April 9	John Carpenter (Caltech) First Results from CARMA Host: Anneila Sargent
April 16	Jason Prochaska (UC Santa Cruz) Characterizing the ISM of High z Star-forming Galaxies with GRB Afterglow Spectroscopy Host: Chuck Steidel
April 23	Luis Lehner (Louisiana State University) Numerical Relativity and a new frontier: Connecting the seen with the unseen. Host: Sterl Phinney
April 30	Gibor Basri (UC Berkeley) The Search for Earth-sized Planets Around Other Stars Host: Lynne Hillenbrand
May 7	Gary Sanders (Caltech) The Thirty Meter Telescope Project: Opening the Next Generation of Giant Optical/Infrared Telescopes Host: Chuck Steidel
May 14	Maarten Schmidt (Caltech) Luminosity Functions: From Quasars to Gamma-Ray Bursts (10th Annual Greenstein Lecture) Host: Lynne Hillenbrand
May 21	Neil Cornish (Montana State University) Gravitational Wave Astronomy Host: Sterl Phinney
May 28	Lisa Kewley (IfA Hawaii) The Metallicity and Star-Formation History of Galaxies Host: Judy Cohen
June 4	Steve Padin (University of Chicago) The South Pole Telescope: a Sunyaev-Zel'dovich survey instrument Host: Tony Readhead

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Updated:
5/5/08