Colloquia Schedule Fall 2011
Colloquia are on Tuesdays (unless otherwise indicated) at 3:30 pm in RLM 15.216B
Not your Parents' M Dwarfs: Probing the Milky Way with its Smallest Constituents (Cancelled due to Hurricane Irene: to be rescheduled) Boston University host: Colette Salyk |
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Maxwell, Einstein, and Their Impossibilities Center for Nonlinear Dynamics & Dept. of Physics, University of Texas at Austin hosts: Paul Shapiro & Tanja Rindler-Daller |
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Dark Matter, Dwarf Galaxies, and Massive Failures in the Halo of the Milky Way University of California, Irvine host: TBD |
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Black Hole Scaling Relations University of Michigan host: Karl Gebhardt |
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The Quest for the Dynamical Signature of Close Supermassive Binary Black Holes Pennsylvania State University host: Julie Comerford |
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What is a Galaxy? Haverford College host: TBD |
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No talk scheduled, to avoid conflict with Frank N. Bash Symposium |
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Status update on the James Webb Space Telescope project The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large (6.6 m), cold (<50 K), infrared (IR)-optimized space observatory that will be launched in ~2018. The observatory will have four instruments covering 0.6 to 28 micron, including a multi-object spectrograph, two integral field units, and grisms optimized for exoplanets. I will review JWST's key science themes, as well as exciting new ideas from the recent JWST Frontiers Workshop. I will summarize the technical progress and mission status. Recent highlights: All mirrors have been fabricated, polished, and gold-coated; the mirror is expected to be diffraction-limited down to a wavelength of 2 micron. The MIRI instrument just completed its cryogenic testing. STScI has released exposure time calculators and sensitivity charts to enable scientists to start thinking about how to use JWST for their science. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center host: TBD |
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GAMA: from Little Blue Fuzzies to Massive Red Monsters and Beyond Swinburne University host: Karl Gebhardt |
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Casting Shadows on the Standard Interstellar Medium Paradigm with GALFA-HI Columbia University host: Sarah Tuttle |
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Beatrice M. Tinsley Visiting Scholar The Origins of Planetary Systems - Constraints from Protoplanetary Disks University of Arizona host: John Lacy |
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No talk scheduled. |
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No talk scheduled. |
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Stellar Forensics with Explosions: Supernovae, Gamma-Ray Bursts, and their Environments New York University, Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics host: Sarah Tuttle |
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HETDEX Special Colloquium Astrophotonics and Space Photonics: A New Era of Instrumentation University of Sydney, School of Physics host: Sarah Tuttle |
Visitors to the Department of Astronomy can find detailed information and maps on our Visiting Austin Page.
Please report omissions/corrections to: G. Orris at argus@astro.as.utexas.edu.
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