* 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 2004
| DATE |
SPEAKER |
INSTITUTE |
TYPE* |
TITLE |
| Fri 9 Jan |
Ivan Hubeny |
NOAO, Tucson |
C |
Atmospheres and Spectra of Extrasolar Giant Planets |
| Wed 14 Jan |
Gary Fuller |
UMIST, Manchester |
C |
The Circumstellar Environment of High-Mass Protostellar Objects |
| Fri 16 Jan |
Phil Solomon |
SUNY Stony Brook |
C |
Dense Gas and Star Formation Rates in Galaxies |
| Wed 21 Jan |
Bob Becker |
U.C. Davis & LLNL |
C |
The Blue Quasar Conspiracy: Maybe We Need a Recount |
| Fri 23 Jan |
Bahram Mobasher |
STScI |
C |
First Science Results from GOODS |
| Tu 27 Jan |
Richard Ellis |
Caltech |
Coffee |
A z=7 Galaxy Strongly Lensed by the Rich Cluster Abell 2218: Exploring the Dark Ages |
| Wed 4 Feb |
Leo Blitz |
U.C. Berkeley |
C |
Dark Matter Density Distributions in Dwarf Galaxies |
| Wed 11 Feb |
Ed Cloutis |
University of Winnipeg |
C |
What Reflectance Spectroscopy can Tell us about Planetary Surfaces and their
Evolution |
| Fri 13 Feb |
Justyn Maund |
Cambridge University |
L |
The Progenitors of Core-collapse Supernovae
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| Wed 18 Feb |
Kartik Sheth |
Caltech |
C |
Bars do NOT disappear at z > 0.7: NICMOS Deep Field Observations |
| Fri 20 Feb |
Ian Bryson |
UKATC, Edinburgh |
L |
Astronomical Instrumentation at the UK Astronomy Technology Centre |
| Fri 20 Feb |
Alexei Pevtsov |
National Solar Observatory |
C |
Solar magnetic Fields and their Helicity |
| Tu 24 Feb |
Gyula Szokoly |
MPE-Garching |
L |
The Diffuse X-ray Background |
| Wed 25 Feb |
Art McDonald |
Queens University, Canada |
C |
The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory: Enhanced neutrino flavor with a pinch of salt. |
| Tu 2 Mar |
Amiee Norton |
High Altitude Observatory, Boulder |
C |
The Dynamics of Magnetized Plasma in the Solar Interior and Atmosphere |
| Wed 3 Mar |
Don Brownlee |
Univ. of Washington |
C |
Stardust- a Sample Return Mission from a Jupiter Family Comet |
| Fri 5 Mar |
Ilia Roussev |
Univ. of Michigan |
C |
Coronal Mass Ejections: Theory and Modeling |
| Mon 8 Mar |
Chris McKee |
U.C. Berkeley |
C |
The Formation of Massive Stars: Now and Then |
| Wed 10 Mar |
Judy Young |
University of Massachusetts |
C |
Sunwheels for the 21st Century: Everyday Astronomy for Everyone |
| Thu 11 Mar |
Christoff Keller |
National Solar Observatory |
Coffee |
The NSO SOLIS Vector Spectromagnetograph: Design and First Results |
| Fri 12 Mar |
Suketu Bhavsar |
University of Kentucky |
L |
The Filament-Void Network and the Scale of Homogeneity in the Universe |
| Wed 17 Mar |
Chris Conselice |
Caltech |
C |
The Mass Assembly History of Field Galaxies of Known Morphology |
| Wed 24 Mar |
Stewart McKechnie |
ITT Industries, Inc. |
C |
General Formulation for Imaging through Atmospheric Turbulence using Large Ground-Based Telescopes |
| Wed 31 Mar |
Francesca Matteucci |
Universita di Trieste |
C |
Cosmic Chemical Evolution and the Mean Metallicity of the Universe |
| Fri 2 Apr |
Rolf-Peter Kudritzki |
IfA |
C |
Frontier Science Enabled by a Giant Segmented Mirror Telescope |
| Mon 5 Apr |
Masayuki Akiyama |
Subaru Telescope |
L |
Emergence of Type-2 QSOs ? |
| Wed 7 Apr |
Stuart Jefferies |
MSRC/Univ. of New Mexico |
C |
Vibrations and Waves in the Sun |
| Wed 14 Apr |
Colin Borys |
Caltech |
C |
Toward N(z) for the Sub-mm Bright Galaxy Population |
| Wed 21 Apr |
Crystal Brogan |
IfA |
C |
Resolving the Confusion: A Low Radio Frequency Survey of the
Inner Galactic Plane |
| Thu 13 May |
Martin Harwit |
Cornell University |
C |
Photon Orbital Angular Momentum in Astrophysics |
| Fri 14 May |
Jeffrey Linsky |
JILA/Univ. of Colorado |
C |
What is (are) the total D/H ratio(s) within 1 kpc of the Sun ? |
| Mon 24 May |
Eugene Chiang |
U.C. Berkeley |
C |
Dynamics of Circumstellar Rings: The Kuiper Belt and Beyond |
| Wed 26 May |
Martin Elvis |
CfA |
C |
Solving Quasars, I: Atmospheres and Winds |
| Fri 28 May |
Andrew Connolly |
Pittsburgh |
C |
Searching in the Dark: Energy and Matter in the Universe |
| Tu 1 June |
Eugene Chiang |
U.C. Berkeley |
L |
Architectures of Extrasolar Planetary Systems |
| Thu 3 June |
Kahalelaukoa Ka`ahanui Ell |
Mauna Kea |
C |
Mauna Kea & I - A Journey of Discovery. Ancient & Modern Uses. |
| Mon 7 June |
Chris Willmer |
Lick Observatory |
L |
The Galaxy Luminosity Function to z = 1: Results from DEEP |
| Mon 14 June |
Russel White |
Caltech |
L |
The Youngest Optically Visible Stars in Taurus-Auriga |
| Mon 14 June |
Carl Grillmair |
SSC, Caltech |
C |
Galactic Structure with SIM |
| Fri 18 June |
Ciska Kemper |
UCLA |
C |
Probing the Formation and Processing of Silicates with ISO and Spitzer Spectroscopy |
| Thurs 8 July |
Akiva Bar-Nun |
Tel-Aviv University |
L |
Comet Wild-2 Craters: An Experimental Simulation |
| Fri 9 July |
Marcus Seigar |
UKIRT |
C |
Dust Penetrated Arm Classes: A near-infrared classification scheme for
spiral galaxies |
| Thurs 15 July |
Steve Chesley |
JPL |
L |
Direct Detection of the Yarkovsky Effect via Radar Ranging to Asteroid
6489 Golevka |
| Thurs 5 August |
Andreas Burkert |
Univ. of Munich |
L |
Formation of Stars and Stellar Clusters in a Turbulent Interstellar Medium |
| Fri 6 August |
Andreas Burkert |
Univ. of Munich |
C |
Structure and Origin of Elliptical Galaxies |
| Wed 18 August |
Nir Shaviv |
Hebrew Univversity, Jerusalem |
C |
On Galactic Spiral Arms, Cosmic Rays, Ice-Ages, and Politics |
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