Colloquia Spring/Summer 2012
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Colloquia: Spring/Summer 2012


DATE SPEAKER INSTITUTE TITLE HOST
Wed
18
Jan 		Eric Hilton IfA Characteristics of M Dwarf Stars: Exoplanet Implications Eric Gaidos
Wed
25
Jan 		Yancy Shirley Steward Observatory The Bolocam Galactic Plane Survey - A Census of Embedded Star Formation in the Milky Way Jonathan Williams
Wed
1
Feb 		Andreea Petric Caltech Mid-Infrared and Millimeter Spectroscopic Diagnostics of Local Luminous Infrared Galaxies Bob Joseph
Wed
8
Feb 		Michael Chauvin Hawaii The 1874 transit of Venus expedition to Hawaii Gareth Wynn-Williams
Thu
9
Feb 		Andrew Howard UC Berkeley Origins and Properties of Super-Earths and Neptune-size Planets Jonathan Williams
Mon
13
Feb 		Andrew Benson Caltech Galaxy Formation Theory: The Next Decade Istvan Szapudi
Thu
16
Feb 		Amy Mainzer JPL The Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer: Greatest Hits Karen Meech
Tue
21
Feb 		Brad Cenko UC Berkeley The Time Domain Renaissance: From Gamma-Ray Bursts to Advanced LIGO Alan Tokunaga
Thu
23
Feb 		Sarah Dodson-Robinson University of Texas Planetary Archaeology in Space and Time Shadia Habbal
Tue
28
Feb 		Michael Boylan-Kolchin UC Irvine Dark Matter and the Milky Way's Satellites Len Cowie
Thu
1
Mar 		Dan Stark U Arizona The Nature of Early Star Forming Galaxies Len Cowie
Mon
5
Mar 		Mark Krumholz UC Santa Cruz The Origin of the Initial Mass Function Mike Liu
Thu
8
Mar 		Konstantin Batygin Caltech Orbits and Interiors of Extrasolar Planets Fabio Bresolin
Wed
14
Mar 		Lucas Macri Texas A&M The Cepheid Distance Scale in the Era of Precision Cosmology Rolf Kudritzki
Mon
19
Mar 		Mark Voit Michigan State University Triggering of Feedback in Galaxy Cluster Cores Harald Ebeling
Wed
21
Mar 		Richard Bond CITA, Toronto Revealing the Cosmic Information in Clusters through the Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect Nick Kaiser
Wed
28
Mar 		Evan Kirby Caltech Galactic and Stellar Evolution with Medium-Resolution Spectroscopy Fabio Bresolin
Thu
12
Apr 		Chris Martin Caltech GALEX: Mapping the Hidden Side of Galaxy Evolution and the UV Universe Len Cowie
Fri
20
Apr 		Richard Ellis Caltech Obesity in the Universe: How Fast Can Early-Type Galaxies Grow? Nick Kaiser
Wed
25
Apr 		Guenther Hasinger IfA Cosmic Evolution of Active Galactic Nuclei
Wed
2
May 		Bob Joseph IfA Babylonian Astronomy
Wed
9
May 		David Sobral Leiden Observatory The 11 Gyr Evolution of Star-forming galaxies Tomo Goto
Thu
24
May 		Jean-Philippe Beaulieu Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris From frozen Super Earth to Habitable Earth via microlensing Istvan Szapudi
Wed
30
May 		Jeff Taylor Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology Water and Volatiles as Tracers of Lunar Formation, Differentiation, and Bombardment Nader Haghighipour
Wed
6
Jun 		Mark Neyrinck Johns Hopkins University How Wrinkles form in the Universe and How to Deal with their Information-Sabotage Istvan Szapudi
Thu
14
Jun 		Joachim Krautter Heidelberg X-ray Observations of Novae Guenther Hasinger
Tue
26
Jun 		Claus Leitherer STScI Galaxies as Laboratories for Studying Stellar Evolution Lisa Kewley
Thu
12
Jul 		Evgenya Shkolnik Lowell Observatory Tides and Magnetic Fields in Hot Jupiter Systems Norbert Schorghofer