Astronomy Colloquia at Caltech for 2006-2007

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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 27	Huub Rottgering (Caltech) LOFAR, and studies of powerful radio galaxies as probes of distant protoclusters Host:
October 4	Daniel Wang (University of Massachusetts Amherst) What is getting in and/or out of nearby disk galaxies? Host: Sterl Phinney
October 11	Don Brownlee (University of Washington) Results from the Stardust mission Host: Fiona Harrison
October 18	Leon Koopmans (Kapteyn Astronomical Institute) Selfconsistent Lensing & Stellar Dynamics: Probing Galaxies to z=1 Host: Andrew Blain
October 25	Greg Taylor (University of New Mexico) Imaging Compact Supermassive Binary Black Holes with the Very Long Baseline Array Host: Tony Readhead
November 1	Laura Ferrarese (NRC/HIA) The Inner Workings of Early-Type Galaxies: Cores, Nuclei and Supermassive Black Holes Host: George Djorgovski
November 8	Sarbani Basu (Yale University) Trouble in paradise? The tale of solar abundances Host: Lynne Hillenbrand
November 15	Michael Muno (Caltech) The Ends of Stellar Lives at the Galactic Center Host:
November 22	Stephane Courteau (Queen's University) A Revised Model for the Formation of Disk Galaxies Host: George Djorgovski
November 29	Claudia Maraston (University of Oxford) A new generation of stellar population synthesis models, and galaxy evoloution Host: Nick Scoville
December 6	Daniel Eisenstein (University of Arizona) Baryon Acoustic Oscillations as a cosmological probe Host: George Djorgovski
January 17, 2007	Fred Adams (University of Michigan) The influence of young embedded clusters on star/planet formation Host: Lynne Hillenbrand
January 24	Nick Scoville/Jason Rhodes (Caltech) Large Scale Structures in COSMOS: Galaxy Evolution and Dark Matter
January 31	Pieter van Dokkum (Yale) WANTED (dead or alive): the progenitors of massive galaxies Host: George Djorgovski
February 7	Bob Kirshner (CfA) Fundamentals of Supernova Cosmology Host: Wal Sargent
February 14	Marta Volonteri (University of Michigan) Massive black holes from early times to the present Host: George Djorgovski
February 21	Jonas Zmuidzinas (Caltech) Submillimeter astronomy: past, present, and future
February 28	Brenda Dingus (LANL) Surveying the TeV Gamma-Ray Sky Host: Fiona Harrison
March 7	David H. Weinberg (Ohio State) What Can We Learn From Galaxy Clustering? Host: Andrew Blain
March 14	Vicky Kaspi (McGill) Diversity in Young Neutron Stars: The High Magnetic Field Puzzle Host: Rachel Akeson
March 21	Felix Aharonian (MPI) Ground Based Gamma Ray Astronomy: Status and Perspectives Host: George Djorgovski
March 28	Rob Kennicutt (Cambridge) New Insights into Star Formation in Galaxies from Spitzer Host: Lynne Hillenbrand
April 4	Michael Liu (IFA Hawaii) Extrasolar Planetary Systems at High Resolution Host: Rachel Akeson
April 11	Daniela Calzetti (STScI) Star Formation in Extreme Environments Host: Mara Salvato
April 18	Juna Kollmeier (Carnegie) Lyman-alpha Emission from the Intergalactic Medium Host: Chuck Steidel
April 25	Pat Cote (Herzberg Inst.) Science Highlights from the ACS Virgo Cluster Survey Host: George Djorgovski
May 2	Stephen L. W. McMillan (Drexel University) Dynamics of Young Star Clusters Host: Sterl Phinney
May 9	Jim Cordes (Cornell) The SKA Science Case Host: Sterl Phinney
May 16	Avishay Gal-Yam (Caltech) The Nature of Cosmic Explosions
May 23	John Carlstrom (University of Chicago) Cosmology with the SZ-Array and the South Pole Telescope (9^th Annual Greenstein Lecture) Host: Chuck Steidel

*Previous Astronomy Colloquia:
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Updated:
5/15//07
Gina Armas
(gma@astro)