Colloquia Schedule Fall 2014
Colloquia are on Tuesdays (unless otherwise indicated) at 3:30 pm in RLM 15.216B
"Hot Chromospheres and Flares on Cool and Ultracool Dwarfs" Ohio State University host: Adam Kraus |
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"Let it Collide: An Epic Saga of Star Wars Planets, Planetesimals, and Super Planet Crashes" University of Texas at Austin host: Adam Kraus |
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"The Complex Interplay between Star Formation and Galaxy Evolution from z~0-6" Haverford College host: Steve Finkelstein |
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"Compact Galaxies and Super-Massive Black Holes" Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA), Heidelberg host: Karl Gebhardt |
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"The Architecture and Timing of Planetary Systems" University of Chicago host: TBD |
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"Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Supermassive Black Hole?" Pennsylvania State University host: Steve Finkelstein |
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"Puzzles in the Structure of Disk Galaxies" Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada host: Karl Gebhardt |
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"Galaxy Build-up in the First Gyr: Insights from ultra-deep HST and Spitzer Observations" Yale University host: Steve Finkelstein |
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"Forming Earths and Mercuries: Solids Less Volatile than Ice" American Museum of Natural History, New York host: Joel Green |
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"Shedding Lyman Alpha Light on Cosmological Reionization" Arizona State University host: Steve Finkelstein |
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"From Disks to Planets: Observational Insights" Rice University host: Adam Kraus |
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"The Giant Magellan Telescope Project: Science and Status" GMT is an international collaboration to design, build, and operate a 25m
diameter telescope with the goal of leading ground-based astrophysical research
in exoplanet science, general astrophysics, and cosmology at optical-IR
wavelengths. The consortium includes partners in Australia (ANU and Astronomy
Australia Limited), the Korean Astronomy and Space Science Institute,
University of Sao Paulo, and several US universities and research institutes.
At the core of the GMT design is its 7-segment primary mirror, which is
comprised of 8.4-m diameter mirrors fabricated at the Steward Obs. Mirror Lab.
Also integral to the design is an adaptive secondary mirror that will provide
Adaptive Optics capabilities -- from wide-field, ground layer AO to diffraction
limited AO -- with nearly 100% sky coverage. The combination will provide
collecting area and diffraction-limited image quality that are an order of
magnitude better than what is obtained by current facilities. The project has
recently passed an extensive series of design and cost reviews, and is
preparing to move into the construction phase.
Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) host: Taft Armandroff |
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"There's Government in Your Science" American Astronomical Society host: Jeff Silverman |
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DeVaucouleurs Medalist DeVaucouleurs Lecture: "The Growth of Supermassive Black Holes and Galaxy Evolution" Yale University dinner host: Shardha Jogee (Medal Awarded by Daniel Jaffe) |
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DeVaucouleurs Medalist Public Lecture: "Black Holes, Galaxies and the Evolution of the Universe: An Observer's View" Yale University dinner host: Daniel Jaffe |
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DeVaucouleurs Medalist UT CNS Women in Science Lecture: "Why So Few? The Dearth of Women in Science" Yale University dinner host: Dean Linda Hicke |
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"Brown Dwarfs as Exoplanet Analogs" Bucknell University, Lewisburg PA host: Adam Kraus |
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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