* C = Colloquium
L = Lunchtime Seminar
Colloquia are held in
the IfA Auditorium at 3:30 pm, with refreshments served at 3:15
pm, unless otherwise noted.
Lunch talks are usually
held in the IfA Auditorium at 12:30 pm.
e-mail: Dave
Sanders
(Colloquium Chair)
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Colloquia: Fall 2002
| DATE |
SPEAKER |
INSTITUTE |
TYPE* |
TITLE |
| Wed 28th Aug |
Jay van Delden |
Univ of Arizona |
C |
Polarimetry with an Ortho-Babinet Polarization-Interogating Filter |
| Thu 29th Aug |
Sara Seager |
Institute for Advanced Study |
C |
Characterizing Extrasolar Planets |
| Tue 3rd Sep |
Martin Merck |
Inst. for Theoretical Physics & Astrophysics
Wuerzburg, Germany |
L |
MAGIC: An Instrument for Ground-Based Gamma-Ray-Astronomy |
| Wed 11th Sep |
John Lacy |
Univ of Texas, Austin |
C |
Observations of
Interstellar Molecules with a Novel Infrared Spectrograph |
| Wed 25th Sep |
Jean-Charles Cuillandre |
CFHT |
C |
An
Introductory Talk on Digital Imaging at CFHT |
| Thu 26th Sep |
Elizabeth Barrett & Michael Connelley |
IfA |
11.00 am |
Astronomy 699 presentations
Note change of time |
| Mon 30th Sep |
Michael Meyer |
Univ of Arizona |
C |
Structure and Evolution of Circumstellar Disks Around Young Stars:
Placing Our Solar System in Context |
| Thu 3rd Oct |
Tom Soifer |
Caltech |
C |
SIRTF: NASA's Infrared
Great Observatory |
| Mon 7th Oct |
Doug Finkbeiner |
Princeton Univ |
L |
Measuring
Interstellar Dust Properties with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey |
| Mon 7th Oct |
Wolfgang Duschl |
Univ of Heidelberg, Germany |
C |
The Formation and the
Feeding of Super-Massive Black Holes in the Young Universe |
| Thu 10th Oct |
Dennis Crabtree |
Dominion Astrophysical Observatory |
C |
Canadian Large
Optical Telescope Studies |
| Fri 11th Oct |
Richard Ellis |
Caltech |
C |
The Assembly History of
Elliptical Galaxies |
| Wed 16th Oct |
Sergei Vorontsov |
Astronomy Unit, Queen Mary, University of London |
C |
Helioseismic
Measurements of Solar Internal Rotation and its Variations with Solar Activity |
| Wed 23rd Oct |
Nick Kaiser |
IfA |
L |
Pan-STARRS
Information Talk |
| Wed 23rd Oct |
Chancellor Peter Englert |
UH-Manoa |
Special Colloquium; 4:30pm |
A
Vision for the IfA |
| Wed 30th Oct |
Art Wolfe |
U.C. San Diego |
C |
CII* Absorption in
Damped Lyman Alpha Systems: A New Window on the Star Formation History and Multi-phase
Structure of Protogalaxies |
| Fri 1st Nov |
Subu Mohanty |
CfA |
L |
Brown Dwarfs and
Planetary-Mass Candidates in Upper Scorpius: A Test of Evolutionary Models through
High-Resolution Spectral Analysis |
| Mon 4th Nov |
Saurabh Jha |
U.C. Berkeley |
L |
Exploding Stars, Near and
Far |
| Wed 6th Nov |
Ann Zabludoff |
Univ of Arizona |
C |
A Census of Poor
Groups: Hot Gas, Cold Gas, and Galaxies |
| Wed 13th Nov |
Dave Jewitt |
IfA |
L (postponed) |
The Hangzhou Tidal
Bore |
| Thu 14th Nov |
Phil Goode |
NJIT and Big Bear Solar Observatory |
C |
Sunshine, Earthshine
and Climate |
| Fri 15th Nov |
Steve Chesley |
Jet Propulsion Lab, Caltech |
C |
Early
Detection of Hazardous Near-Earth Asteroid Encounters |
| Mon 18th Nov |
Brenda Matthews |
U. C. Berkeley |
L |
Magnetic Fields in
Star-Forming Molecular Clouds: Ongoing Results from SCUBA Polarimetry |
| Thu 21st Nov |
Henrik Spoon |
Kapteyn Astronomical Institute
Groningen, The Netherlands |
C |
An icy view of
ULIRGs |
| Fri 6th Dec |
James Larkin |
U.C. Los Angeles |
C |
Galaxy
Evolution at the Keck Diffraction Limit |
| Wed 11th Dec |
Alex Filippenko |
U.C. Berkeley |
C |
The Lick Observatory
Supernova Search with the Katzman Automatic Imaging Telescope, and Studies of Nearby
Supernovae |
| Fri 13th Dec |
Sun Kwok |
Univ of Calgary, Canada |
C |
The Synthesis
of Organic Compounds in the Circumstellar Environment |
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