Astronomy Tea Talks at Caltech

2002 - 2003 Season:

September 16	Matthew Bailes (Swinburne) "The Impact of a Dedicated Supercomputer on High Precision Pulsar Timing and Searching"
September 30	Jean-Paul Kneib (Observatoire Midi-Pyrenees) "The Most Massive Clusters in the Universe"
October 7	Michael Rich (UCLA) "Black Holes in Globular Clusters"
October 10 (12:15 Thursday)	Ken Rines (Harvard/CfA) "The Infall Regions of Nearby Galaxy Clusters"
October 14	Geoff Marcy (CANCELLED)
October 21	Chad Trujillo (Caltech) "The Brightest Kuiper Belt Objects and the Discovery of `Quaoar'"
October 28	Marc Sarzi (Oxford) "Results from SUNNS, the Survey of Nearby Nuclei with STIS"
November 4	Pieter van Dokkum (Caltech) "Spectroscopic confirmation of a population of luminous galaxies with evolved stellar populations at z~3"
November 11	Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz (Cambridge) "Intrinsic Timescales and Energetics of Gamma-ray Burst Triggers"
November 12 (Tue, 4:15, 023 Rob)	Ben Oppenheimer (AMNH) "Toward Imaging Exoplanets: the Lyot Project"
November 18	Scott Chapman (Caltech) "A Spectroscopic Survey of SCUBA Galaxies"
November 25	Russel White (Caltech) "The Formation of Very Low Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs"
December 2	Avishay Gal-Yam (Tel-Aviv) "Supernovae in Galaxy Cluster Fields"
December 5 (noon)	Phil Marshall (Cambridge) "Combining Lensing and SZ data to Reconstruct the Mass Distributions of Clusters"
December 9	Franz Bauer (Penn State University) "Results from the Chandra Deep Field North"
December 16	Andrea Ghez (UCLA) (CANCELLED) "TBD"
January 13	Nicole Homeier (ESO, UW-Madison) "Discovery of Embedded Stellar Clusters in the Giant Radio HII Region W49A"
January 21 (Tuesday)	Mike Muno (MIT) "Two Thousand X-ray Stars at the Galactic Center"
January 27	Joeri van Leeuwen (Utrecht) "Probing the nulling and subpulse-drifting mechanisms in radio pulsars"
February 3	Ricardo P. Schiavon (Santa Cruz) "Ages and Metal Abundances of Nearby and Distant Stellar Populations"
February 17	President's Day No Talk
February 24	Maciej Konacki (Caltech) "OGLE-TR-56b: The first detection of an extra-solar planet identified via photometry" (30 min) Shri Kulkarni (Caltech) "EPICS: Search and Studies of Extra-solar planets with SIM" (15 min)
March 3	Sebastien Ouellete (Caltech) "L-VIS is alive! - A new Imaging Fourier Transform Spectrograph at Palomar: BYOSC (Bring Your Own Science Case) for full-field spectroscopy at a selectable resolution from 1 to 10,000"
March 10	Eduardo Martin (IfA) "Binarity among ultracool dwarfs"
March 17	Dimitar Sasselov (CfA) "The Orbit of OGLE-TR-56b and Fast Tides"
March 24	Open
March 31	Open
April 7	Open
April 14	Dave Latham (CfA) "Companions Amongst the Oldest Stars"
April 21	Marshall Cohen (Caltech) "101 Superluminal Sources"
April 28	Tommaso Treu (Caltech) "The growth of a cluster in a hierarchical universe: the case study 0024 at z=0.39"
May 5	Graham Smith (Caltech) "An HST Lensing Survey of X-ray Luminous Galaxy Clusters -- New Results and Future Plans"
May 12	Michael Blanton (NYU) "Galaxy clustering and the galaxy power spectrum in the SDSS"
May 19	Charles McGruder (Western Kentucky University) "Ultra-high Photometric Precision and the Search for Extrasolar Planets"
May 26	Memorial Day No talk
June 2	Open
June 9	Kartik Sheth (Caltech) "Barred Spiral Galaxies at z > 0.7: NICMOS Deep Field Observations"
June 16	Andrew Benson (Caltech) "Things I've learned at Caltech"

For more astronomy related talks, see:

IR/Submm/Mm Sack Lunch Talks  (Tuesday, 12:15pm, Lauritsen 248).

UCLA Astrophysics Journal Club (Wednesday, 1pm, Room 8911 Math Sciences )

Carnegie Observatories colloquia (Tuesday, 4pm, OCIW Santa Barbara Street Lecture Hall).

IPAC lunch talks (Wednesday, 12:15pm, IPAC Conference Room 102).

Caltech Astronomy colloquia (Wednesday, 4pm, Rm 155 Arms; tea at 3:45 pm in the Robinson astrophysics library).

Carnegie Observatories Lunch Talks (Friday, 12:15pm, OCIW Santa Barbara Street Conference Room)

Theoretical Astrophysics and Relativity Seminars (listings for various seminars).

Solange Ramírez's weekly compilation of astro talks.

Archives: 2001, 2000 , 1999, 1998

Last update: 08/19/03 by cc@astro.caltech.edu