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You are cordially invited to afternoon |
Astronomy Tea Talks at Caltech
Mondays, Hameetman auditorium (Cahill)
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| 2008 - 2009 season: | |
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| 4 August 2008 |
Jayanta Roy (NCRA)
"The Giant Meterwave Radio Telescope and its Enhanced Capability with a New Software Back-End" |
| TUESDAY 19 August 2008 |
Tobias Goerdt (Hebrew University)
"The formation of ultra-compact dwarf galaxies and nucleated dwarf galaxies" |
| 15 September 2008 |
Hai Fu (Caltech)
"Extended Emission-Line Regions: Remnants of Quasar Superwinds?" |
| 22 September 2008 |
Mark Ammons (UCSC)
"Detection of Distributed Young Stellar Populations in Strong AGN at z~1 with Keck AO." |
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TUESDAY 23 September 2008 |
Jonathan Trump (Tucson)
"Fueling and Obscuration of Faint and Low-Mass AGN in COSMOS" |
| 29 September 2008 |
Brian Siana (Caltech)
"The Spitzer View of Lyman Break Galaxies: Testing Star Formation Rate Diagnostics at High Redshift" |
| 6 October 2008 |
Kartik Sheth (SSC)
"Using Evolution of Barred Spiral Galaxies to Reconstruct the Assembly of Spiral Galaxies: Latest Results from the COSMOS and DEEP Surveys" |
| 13 October 2008 | Thomas Greif (Heidelberg) |
| 24 October 2008 | Karin Oberg (Leiden) |
| 27 October 2008 | Stella Offner (UC Berkeley) |
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TUESDAY 28 October 2008 | Tim Eifler (Bonn) |
| 3 November 2008 |
Genevieve Graves (UC Santa Cruz)
"Dissecting the Red Sequence: Star Formation Histories and Structure of Early Type Galaxies" |
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11:00am! 10 November 2008 |
Danilo Marchesini (Yale)
"The evolution of the stellar mass function of galaxies from z=4" |
| 10 November 2008 |
Evan Kirby (UC Santa Cruz)
"Building the Milky Way Halo: An Inspection of the dSph Building Blocks" |
| 17 November 2008 | Louise Edwards (IPAC) |
| 24 November 2008 |
Kristian Finlator (Arizona)
"Computing Reionization with the Moments of the Transfer Equation: |
| 1 December 2008 |
Jeff Cooke (UC Irvine)
"The Detection of z > 2 Type IIn Supernovae in the CFHTLS Deep Fields" |
| 2 December 2008 | Matthew Turk (Stanford) |
| 8 December 2008 | Tonia Venters (Chicago) |
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11:00am! 15 December 2008 |
Kevin Covey (CfA)
"The Age of B59 and the Pipe Nebula: Implications for the Star Formation Timescale" |
| 15 December 2008 |
Andreas Pawlik (Leiden Observatory)
"TRAPHIC - radiative transfer for large hydrodynamical simulation of cosmic reionization" |
| 22 December 2008 |
Johan Richard (ICC, University of Durham)
"Strong-lensing analysis of the most massive lensing clusters" |
| 29 December 2008 |
Winter Break |
| 5 January 2009 |
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| 12 January 2009 |
Demerese Salter (Leiden)
"Captured at millimeter wavelengths: a flare from the Classical T Tauri Star DQ Tau" |
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TUESDAY 13 January 2009 | Laurent Loinard (UNAM) |
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THURSDAY (11AM!!!) 15 January 2009 |
Mark Sargent (MPIA)
"The role of environment in the growth of disk galaxies: surface brightness, size & star formation histories" |
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TUESDAY 20 January 2009 |
Hugo Messias OAL/UCR
"A multiwavelength approach to the properties of Extremely Red Galaxies" |
| 22 January 2009 |
Stefania Giodini (MPE)
"Stellar and total barion mass fractions in groups and clusters since redshift 1" |
| 26 January 2009 |
Jessica Lu (Caltech)
"An adaptive optics perspective on star formation around a supermassive black hole." |
| 2 February 2009 |
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| 9 February 2009 |
Shelley Wright (UC Irvine)
"Spatially Resolved Spectroscopy of Galactic Disks, Mergers, and Weak AGN in the Early Universe" |
| 16 February 2009 |
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| 23 February 2009 |
Julianne Dalcanton (UW)
"Stellar Populations with HST: Constraints on Astrophysical Timescales" |
| 2 March 2009 |
Peter Capak (Spitzer)
"New Perspectives on Galaxy evolution from the COSMOS survey" |
| 9 March 2009 | Quinn Konopacky (UCLA) |
| 16 March 2009 |
Richard Ellis (Caltech) and Jason Rhodes (JPL)
"Ninety Years of Gravitational Lensing: A Pilgrimage to `Eddington's Island'" and "HALO: The High Altitude Lensing Observatory" |
| 23 March 2009 |
Lucy Fortson (Chicago / Adler Planetarium)
"The Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System (VERITAS)" |
| 30 March 2009 |
Christoph Baranec (Caltech)
"Observing With Ground-Layer Adaptive Optics" |
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TUESADAY 31 March 2009 | Anca Constantin (Harvard Smithsonian CfA) |
| 6 April 2009 |
Luc Dessart (Marseille)
"Quantitative Spectroscopy of Core-Collapse Supernovae and Applications" |
| 13 April 2009 | Mayank Vahia (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai) |
| 20 April 2009 |
David Polishook (Tel-Aviv University)
The 'Light Revolution' - On the effect of light on the revolutions of asteroids" |
| 27 April 2009 |
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| 4 May 2009 | Leonidas Moustakas (JPL) |
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TUESDAY 5 May 2009 4:00 - 5:30 |
David Jauncey (CSIRO/ATNF) David DeBoer (ATNF)
"ISS and IDV; telling the difference" |
| 11 May 2009 |
Tassos Fragos (Northwestern)
"Models for X-Ray Binaries: Galactic and extragalactic populations" |
| 18 May 2009 |
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| 25 May 2009 |
Memorial Day
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| 1 June 2009 |
Thiago Goncalves (Caltech)
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Thursday 11 June 2009 | Poshak Gandhi (RIKEN, Japan) |
| 22 June 2009 |
Miller Goss (NRAO)
"Under the Radar- The First Woman Radio Astronomer- Ruby Payne-Scott" |
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