* 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: Spring/Summer 2003
| DATE |
SPEAKER |
INSTITUTE |
TYPE* |
TITLE |
| Fri 3rd Jan |
Leslie Young |
Southwest Research Institute |
C |
Once and Future
Pluto: what we know now, what the puzzles are, and what we can learn from future
observations and the Pluto-Kuiper Belt Mission |
| Tu 7th Jan |
Emeric Le Floc'h |
Service d'Astrophysique, Saclay |
L |
Are the hosts of Gamma-Ray Bursts representative of high
redshift galaxies ? |
| Thu 9th Jan |
Remo Ruffini |
Universita' La Sapienza - Roma |
C |
On the Structures in
the Afterglow Peak Emission of Gamma-Ray Bursts |
| Tu 14th Jan |
Mike Shara |
American Museum of Natural History & Columbia U. |
L |
Relativity
for the Millions: The Einstein Exhibition at the American Museum of Natural
History |
| Wed 15th Jan |
Mike Shara |
American Museum of Natural History & Columbia U. |
C |
Making Blue
Stragglers and Type Ia Supernovae in Star Clusters |
| Wed 22nd Jan |
Imke de Pater |
U.C. Berkeley |
C |
Studies at
Near and Mid-infrared Wavelengths with the Keck Telescope of: 1) Volcanism on Io
and 2) Titan's Atmosphere and Surface |
| Wed 29th Jan |
Julie Lutz |
University of Washington |
C |
Using NASA
Resources for Education and Public Outreach |
| Tu 4th Feb |
Jan Kleyna |
University of Cambridge |
L |
Dark Matter in
the Draco and Ursa Minor dwarf spheroidals |
| Wed 5th Feb |
Scott Tremaine |
Princeton University |
C |
The
Demography of Massive Black Holes |
| Mon 10th Feb |
Tomotsugu Goto |
Carnegie Mellon University & Univ. of Tokyo |
L |
The Environmental
Effects on Cluster Galaxy Evolution Based on the SDSS Data |
| Wed 12th Feb |
Jeff Bell |
HIGP, University of Hawaii |
C |
Why We
Might be Alone: The Case Against Earth-Like Planets |
| Wed 19th Feb |
Ben Zuckerman |
U.C. Los Angeles |
C |
Young Stars Near
Earth: Implications for the Origin of Planetary Systems |
| Mon 24th Feb |
Jean-Julien Fleck |
Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris |
L |
Tidally Induced
Parametric Excitation in Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies |
| Tu 4th Mar |
Stephen Smartt |
Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge |
C |
Detecting the
Progenitors of Core-collapse Supernovae |
| Fri 14th Mar |
Mike Mumma |
Goddard Space Flight Center |
C |
cancelled |
| Thurs 20th Mar |
Jean Brodie |
U.C. Santa Cruz |
C |
Globular Cluster
Sub-Populations and Galaxy Assembly |
| Fri 21st Mar |
Vicki Sarajadini |
University of Florida |
C |
Variable Galaxies Detected with the
Hubble Space Telescope |
| Wed 26th Mar |
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***
Spring Break *** |
| Wed 2nd Apr |
Rolf-Peter Kudritzki |
IfA |
C |
A New Extragalactic
Distance Determination Method Using Spectroscopy of Blue Supergiants |
| Wed 9th Apr |
Don Goldsmith |
Interstellar Media |
C |
Bringing Astronomy to the
Public: Successes and Challenges |
| Wed 16th Apr |
Doug Knight |
ALU LIKE, Inc |
C |
King Kalekaua: The Versatile
Monarch's Interest in Astronomy and 19th Century Technology |
| Mon 21st Apr |
Daniel Pisano |
CSIRO-ATNF |
L |
Searching for the Remnants of Galaxy Formation |
| Wed 23rd Apr |
Norbert Przybilla |
IfA |
C |
Quantitative
Spectroscopy of Supergiants |
| Wed 30th Apr |
Marianne Takamiya |
UH Hilo |
C |
Star Formation Rate in Nearby and
z~0.7 Galaxies |
| Mon 5th May |
Ben Maughan |
Univ. of Birmingham, UK |
L |
XMM and Chandra Observations of High Redshift Galaxy Clusters |
| Wed 7th May |
Bill Keel |
University of Alabama |
C |
Formation of Massive Star Clusters in
Interacting Galaxies - When, Where, How? |
| Thurs 8th May |
Scott Davis |
International Dark Sky Association |
C |
What is the International Dark-Sky Association? |
| Wed 14th May |
Lisa Prato |
U.C. Los Angeles |
C |
The Smallest Mass Ratio
Young Star Spectroscopic Binaries |
| Fri 16th May |
Nagendra Singh |
Univ. of Alabama - Huntsville |
L |
Double Layers, Magnetic Reconnection, and Alfven Waves as Acceleration Mechanisms in Space and Astrophysical Plasmas |
| Wed 4th June |
Peter Barthel |
Kapteyn Institute, Groningen |
C |
Nuclear
Activity in Nearby Galaxies |
| Mon 23rd June |
Naoyuki Tamura |
Durham, UK |
L |
Color Gradients in Elliptical Galaxies: Evidence for
Environmental Dependence of Galaxy Formation Process ? |
| Wed 2nd July |
Leon Golub |
CfA |
C |
The Sun in X-rays
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| Thurs 3rd July |
Graham Smith |
Caltech |
C |
The Mass Structure of X-ray Luminous Galaxy Clusters at z=0.2: The View from Hubble and Chandra
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| Wed 9th July |
Casey Lisse |
Univ. of Maryland |
L |
Observations of EUV and X-ray Emission from Comets
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| Wed 30th July |
Chris Matzner |
CITA |
C |
The Nature of Nonradiative,
Magnetized Accretion onto SgrA*
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| Wed 6th August |
John Kormendy |
Univ. of Texas at Austin |
C |
Scaling Laws for Dark
Matter Halos in Late-type and Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies
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