Colloquia Schedule Fall 2015
Colloquia are on Tuesdays (unless otherwise indicated) at 3:30 pm in RLM 15.216B
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No Colloquium scheduled. |
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"Convection in Cool Stars, as Revealed through Stellar Brightness Variations" Pennsylvania State University host: Adam Kraus or Bill Cochran |
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"Compact Objects in Globular Clusters" Texas Tech host: Karl Gebhardt |
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"Convection in Low-Mass Stellar Evolution, or 'What about magnetic fields?' " University of Uppsala, Sweden host: Andrew Mann |
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"Tracing the Cosmic Shutdown of Star Formation in Massive Galaxies" Hubble Fellow, UMass Amherst host: Steve Finkelstein |
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"The Assembly of Disk Galaxies" Space Telescope Science Institute host: Rachael Livermore |
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"Are we Correctly Measuring Star Formation Rates?" University of Texas at Austin host: Adam Kraus |
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No Colloquium Scheduled, to avoid conflict with: Speaker: Dr. Frank N. Bash and invited speakers "New Horizons in Astronomy" |
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Tinsley Scholar: Interstellar Group (visiting: Oct 25-31) "The Impact of Stellar Feedback on Molecular Clouds" Affiliation: University of Massachusetts, Amherst host: Neal Evans |
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Tinsley Scholar: Theory Group (visiting: late Oct - early Nov) "Disk Dynamos: Understanding the Origin of Galacic Magnetic Fields" The emergence of large scale magnetic fields in galaxies is poorly understood, and frequently claimed as evidence for new fundamental physics. Standard mean field dynamo theory predicts exponential, but very slow, growth of such fields. Combining this with reasonable seed field mechanisms has given rise to the expectation that high redshift galaxies will be very weakly magnetized and that the first generation of star formation will take place in a largely unmagnetized interstellar medium. The latter prediction is convenient, but unverified, and the former is not consistent with observational evidence. I will discuss a fundamental revision of dynamo theory, supported by simple physical arguments and computer simulations, which predicts a faster-than-exponential growth of the disk magnetic field. A consequence of this model is that detecting a disk galaxy without a large scale magnetic field will be quite difficult, and that early star formation took place in a magnetized environment. Johns Hopkins University host: TBD |
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"From TripleSpec to NEWS: Exoplanet Discovery Science with Bread and Butter Infrared Spectroscopy" Boston University host: Adam Kraus |
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"New Insights on Galaxy Formation from Comparisons of Simulated and Observed Galaxies" UC Santa Cruz host: Paul Shapiro |
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No colloquium scheduled. |
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DeVaucouleurs Medalist "Expansion of the Universe Seen by Hubble" Johns-Hopkins University, and Space Telescope Science Institute, and DeVaucouleurs Medalist host: Shardha Jogee, Chair |
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"Supernovae and their Progenitor Systems (or lack thereof)" Space Telescope Science Institute host: Jeff Silverman |
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