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 8 | John Hawley
(Univ. of Virginia) Simulating
Accretion Disks Around Kerr Black Holes Host: Sterl Phinney |
| October 15 | Bob
Becker (UC Davis/LLNL) The
Blue Quasar Conspiracy: Maybe We
Need
a Recount Host: Aaron Barth |
| October 22 | Tom
Abel (Penn State) Frontiers
in Understanding the Origin of Structure in the Universe Host: Andrew Blain |
| October 29 | Sarah
Church ( Stanford University ) Multi-frequency
Observations of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich
Effect with the
SuZIE Experiment Host: Andrew Blain |
| November 5 | Ralf
Bender (Univ. of Munich) When
and how did bulges and ellipticals form? Host: Wal Sargent --CANCELED-- |
| November 12 | Jonathan
Lunine (University of Arizona)The origin of water on Earth and
Mars,
with implications for making other Earths Host: John Carpenter |
| November 19 | Tim
de Zeeuw ( Leiden) THE
SAURON
PROJECT: Reading the fossil record of galaxy formation Host: Wal Sargent |
| November 26 | Thanksgiving
Holiday |
| December 3 | Ewine
van Dishoeck (Leiden) From
molecular cores to protoplanetary disks: evolution of gas and dust Host: Anneila Sargent |
| December 10 |
Stanford
Woosley (UC Santa Cruz) The
Collapsar Model For Gamma-Ray Bursts Host: Andrew MacFadyen |
| January 7, 2004 | Dick
Manchester (CSIRO, Sydney) Recent Results from Parkes Pulsar
Surveys Host: Shri Kulkarni |
| January 14 | Scott Messenger
(NASA Johnson Space Center) Silicate Stardust from
Comets Host: Bill Reach |
| January 21 | Chris Carilli
(NRAO) Obscured Galaxy and SMBH
formation Host: Andrew Blain |
| January 28 | Eric
G. Blackman (Univ. of Rochester) Understanding Magnetic Dynamos and their Importance in Accretion-Ejection Phenomena Host: Sterl Phinney |
| February 4 | Lars
Bildsten (UCSB) White
Dwarfs as Donor Stars in Binaries: Galactic Pulsars and X-Ray Sources
in Distant Elliptical Galaxies Host: Re'em Sari |
| February 11 | Alex
Filippenko (UC Berkeley) Evidence
from Type Ia Supernovae for a Decelerating, then Accelerating Universe
and Dark Energy Host: Aaron Barth |
| February 18 | Mike Werner
(JPL) The Spitzer Space Telescope:
New Views of the Cosmos (6th Annual Greenstein Lecture) Host: Wal Sargent |
| February 25 | Matias
Zaldarriaga (Harvard) Constraining
the origin of density perturbations with astronomical observations Host: Marc Kamionkowski |
| March 3 | Yuri
Levin (CITA) Massive stars near SgrA* and other
supermassive black holes Host: Kip Thorne |
| March 10 | Sandra
Faber (UCSC) Recent Results
from the DEEP Survey Host: Wal Sargent |
| March 17 | Rachel Somerville (STScI) The Cold Dark Matter
Power Paradox: small scale structure and early reionization Host: Andrew Blain |
| April 7 | Laird
Close (Univ. of Arizona) The
Characterization of Very Low Mass Binary Stars, Brown Dwarfs, and Extra-Solar Planets with Adaptive Optics Host:John Carpenter |
| April 14 | Eliot
Quataert (UC Berkeley) Accretion
onto the Massive Black Hole in the Galactic Center Host: Re'em Sari |
| April 21 | Mike Brown (Caltech)
Beyond
the Kuiper belt Host: John Carpenter |
| April 28 | Alex
Lazarian (Univ. of Wisconsin) Properties of MHD
Turbulence Host: John Carpenter |
| May 5 | Nick
Scoville (Caltech) The COSMOS
Galaxy and Large-Scale-Structure Evolution Project with HST Host: John Carpenter |
| May 12 | Avishai Dekel
(Racah Inst. of Physics) A Characteristic Scale
in Galaxy Formation Host: Re'em Sari |
| May 19 | Yong-Zhong
Qian (Univ. of Minnesota) Chemical Evolution of Galaxies and
Enrichment of the
Intergalactic Medium Host: Wal Sargent |
| May 26 | Andrei
Beloborodov (Columbia University) Gamma-Ray Burst
Explosions Host: Re'em Sari |
| June 2 | Jean
Turner (UCLA/Caltech Sabbatical) Watching
the Formation of Super Star
Clusters Host: Anneila Sargent |
*Previous Astronomy Colloquia:
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
Updated:
5/7/04
Gina Armas