Aug. 30

Not your Parents' M Dwarfs: Probing the Milky Way with its Smallest Constituents (Cancelled due to Hurricane Irene: to be rescheduled)

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Andrew A. West

Boston University

host: Colette Salyk

Sept. 6

Maxwell, Einstein, and Their Impossibilities

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Mark G. Raizen

Center for Nonlinear Dynamics & Dept. of Physics, University of Texas at Austin

hosts: Paul Shapiro & Tanja Rindler-Daller

Sept. 13

Dark Matter, Dwarf Galaxies, and Massive Failures in the Halo of the Milky Way

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James S. Bullock

University of California, Irvine

host: TBD

Sept. 20

Black Hole Scaling Relations

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Kayhan Gultekin

University of Michigan

host: Karl Gebhardt

Sept. 27

The Quest for the Dynamical Signature of Close Supermassive Binary Black Holes

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Michael Eracleous

Pennsylvania State University

host: Julie Comerford

Oct. 4

What is a Galaxy?

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Beth Willman

Haverford College

host: TBD

Oct. 11

No talk scheduled, to avoid conflict with Frank N. Bash Symposium
(held: October 9-11, 2011).

Oct. 18

Status update on the James Webb Space Telescope project

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Jane Rigby

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

host: TBD

Oct. 25

GAMA: from Little Blue Fuzzies to Massive Red Monsters and Beyond

The Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey is currently a large area multi-wavelength galaxy survey including optical spectra being collected at the Anglo-Australian Telescope. I will present some of my work to date with the GAMA survey, characterising the lowest star-forming systems in the sample - the little blue fuzzies. I will then outline how GAMA is ideally placed to answer questions remaining about the evolution of Brightest Cluster Galaxies (BCGs) - massive red monsters. I will also present the first stellar kinematics of BCGs from an Integral Field spectroscopy analysis undertaken with the VLT. Finally I will introduce one of the first follow-up proposals for GAMA: AAT/SPIRAL and ANU2.3m/WiFeS IFS observations to determine the spatially-resolved effects of galaxy environment - and beyond!

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Sarah Brough

Swinburne University

host: Karl Gebhardt

Nov. 1

Casting Shadows on the Standard Interstellar Medium Paradigm with GALFA-HI

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Joshua E. G. Peek

Columbia University

host: Sarah Tuttle

Nov. 8

Beatrice M. Tinsley Visiting Scholar

The Origins of Planetary Systems - Constraints from Protoplanetary Disks

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Ilaria Pascucci

University of Arizona

host: John Lacy

Nov. 15

No talk scheduled.

Nov. 22

No talk scheduled.

Nov. 29

Stellar Forensics with Explosions: Supernovae, Gamma-Ray Bursts, and their Environments

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Maryam Modjaz

New York University, Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics

host: Sarah Tuttle

Dec. 13

HETDEX Special Colloquium

Astrophotonics and Space Photonics: A New Era of Instrumentation

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Lisa Fogarty

University of Sydney, School of Physics

host: Sarah Tuttle