Astronomy Colloquia at Caltech for 2005-2006

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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
September 28	Joe Kirschvink (Caltech)  A Paleoproterozoic Planetary Suicide Attempt:  Did The Sudden Evolution of Oxygenic Photosynthesis trigger the first Snowball Earth? Host: Andrew Blain
October 5	Licia Verde ( University of Pennsylvania)  Optimizing CMB polarization experiments to constrain inflationary physics Host: Marc Kamionkowski
October 12	Mike Brown (Caltech)  The Tenth Planet Host: Andrew Blain
October 19	You-Hua Chu  (University of Illinois)  Spitzer View of Star Formation in the Large Magellanic Cloud Host: Russel White
October 26	Geoff Blake (Caltech) Spitzer+Keck Spectroscopy & the Building Blocks of Planetary Systems Host: Andrew Blain
November 2	Robert Caldwell (Dartmouth)  The Limits of Quintessence Host: Marc Kamionkowski
November 9	Luis Ho (Carnegie Observatory)  The Highs and Lows of Accretion in Nuclear Black Holes Host: Richard Ellis
November 16	Harvey Richer (UBC) White Dwarfs in Star Clusters Host: Shri Kulkarni
November 23	No Colloquium - Day Before Thanksgiving
November 30	Michael Rich (UCLA) The Galactic Bulge Population:  Insights into the formation of Spheroids Host: Chuck Steidel
December 7	Elizabeth Barton ( UC Irvine) The Role of Starbursts in the Evolution of Galaxies Host: Nick Scoville
January 4, 2006	Rescheduled
January 11	American Astronomical Society  (207th Meeting) January 8-12, Washington, DC
January 18	George Helou (Caltech) The Spitzer Infrared Nearby Galaxies Survey (SINGS): Recent Results Host:
January 25	Steven Furlanetto (Yale University)  The Dark Ages, the Twilight Zone, and the 21 cm Transition Host: Marc Kamionkowski
February 1	Darren Croton (Berkeley) The many lives of AGN: from super-massive black holes to host galaxy colours and luminosities Host: Andrew Blain
February 8	Carlos S. Frenk (Durham University)  The Broken Hierarchy of Galaxy Formation Host: Richard Ellis
February 15	Ralf Bender (University of Munich) The triple nucleus of M31: two nested disks in Keplerian rotation around a supermassive black hole. Host: Nick Scoville
February 22	Re'em Sari  (Caltech)  The formation of the solar system Host: Sterl Phinney
March 1	William Reach (Caltech) Comets present and future: infrared survey of comets and white dwarfs Host: Nick Scoville
March 8	Puragra Guhathakurta (Lick Observatory)  The Extended Metal-Poor Stellar Halo of the Andromeda Spiral Galaxy Host:  Nick Scoville
March 15	Stephen Shectman  (Carnegie Observatory)   Extremely Metal-Poor Stars (8th Annual Greenstein Lecture) Host: Chuck Steidel
March 22	Gary Hinshaw (NASA)  New Results from WMAP Host: Andrew Lange
March 29	Julio Navarro (University of Victoria) Galaxy Formation and the Formation of the Galaxy  Host: Andrew Blain
April 5	Alycia Weinberger (Carnegie Institution of Washington) Circumstellar Disks and their Clues for Planet Formation Host: Lynne Hillenbrand
April 12	Jaymie Matthews  (UBC)  Ultraprecise photometry from space:  From stellar cores to exoplanetary atmospheres Host: Wes Traub
April 19	Nergis Mavalvala (MIT) Gravitational-wave Detection with Interferometers: The search for the elusive waves Host: Sterl Phinney
April 26	Christopher Reynolds (University of Maryland) Radio galaxy feedback and the cooling cores of galaxy clusters Host: Sterl Phinney
May 3	Scott Ransom (NRAO) Hitting the Millisecond Pulsar Jackpot with the GBT Host: Shri Kulkarni
May 10	Chuck Steidel  (Caltech ) Observational Evidence for "Feedback" During the Peak Epoch of Galaxy Formation
May 17	Lin Yan (Caltech) Mid-IR Spectroscopy of Infrared Luminous Galaxies at z~2 Host:  Nick Scoville
May 24	Evan Skillman  (University of Minnesota )  The Evolution of Dwarf Galaxies Host: Andrew Blain
May 31	Tomasso Treu (UCSB )  Cosmic evolution of spheroids: stellar populations, dark matter halos, and supermassive black holes Host: Richard Ellis
June 7	James Larkin (UCLA)  OSIRIS: First Results from the Keck Telescope Host: Andrew Blain

*Previous Astronomy Colloquia:
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004

Updated:
5/15/06
Gina Armas
(gma@astro)