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SEMINAR IN THEORETICAL ASTROPHYSICS
Astronomy 381S - Spring 2008
M 3:30-4:40 · RLM 15.216B · Unique No. 49565

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Professor

Milos Milosavljevic

Office: RLM 17.214
Hours: TBA
Phone: (512) 471-3397
email
Schedule
Date
Speaker
Title
Jan. 14
none scheduled
Meeting-time swapped with Interstellar Matter Seminar.
Jan. 18
Ramesh Narayan,
Harvard University  
"Special Theory Seminar (2:00 pm): In Search of the Black Hole Event Horizon"
Jan. 21
none scheduled
Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday - University Closed.
Jan. 28
Milos Milosavljevic
Organizational Meeting.
Feb. 04

No talk scheduled.
Feb. 11
  
No talk scheduled.
Feb. 18
Milos Milosavljevic
"The Shy Flower: The Formation of Nuclear Star Clusters"
Feb. 25
Thomas Greif
Univ. of Heidelberg 
"The Formation of the First Stars and Galaxies" abstract
Mar. 03
Beth Fernandez
"Fluctuations in the Near Infrared Background"
Mar.10
none scheduled
Spring Break (March 10 - 14)
Mar. 17
Liubin Pan
PhD Dissertation Defense: "Turbulent Mixing of Chemical Elements in Galaxies" meeting early, at 3:00 pm (instead of 3:30 pm)
Mar. 24
Athena Stacy
"Protostellar Accretion in the Early Universe"
Mar. 24
Jarrett Johnson
"An Extension of the Collapsar Model for Gamma-Ray Bursts"
Mar. 31
Donghui Jeong
"Is it possible to remove annoying fingers in the redshift space?"
Mar. 31
Jun Koda
"Evolution and Relaxation of Cosmological Self-Interacting Dark Matter Halos"
Apr. 07
Yuki Watanabe
"Inflation in String Theory and Heating Our Universe"
Apr. 14
Eric Gawiser
Special Colloquium: "Lyman Alpha Emitting Galaxies at z=3.1: Progenitors of Present-day L* Galaxies"
Apr. 15
Rongfeng Shen
Tuesday, in the Colloquium time-slot: "The Prompt Optical Emission and the Emission Site of GRBs"
Apr. 15
Rodolfo
Barniol Duran
Tuesday, in the Colloquium time-slot: "Adiabatic Expansion, Early X-Ray Data and the Central Engine in GRBs: Results"
Apr. 21
 Sean Couch 
 2nd Year Defense: "Jets in Astrophysical Explosions"
Apr. 28
 Masatoshi Shoji 
 2nd Year Defense: "Deciphering the Dark Engraved on the Universe: from HETDEX to the Dark Energy Cosmos"


























 
 





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