Colloquia Schedule Spring 2011
Colloquia are on Tuesdays (unless otherwise indicated) at 3:30 pm in RLM 15.216B
Dust in the Early Universe INAF/Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma host: Volker Bromm |
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Magnetic Relaxation in ICM Bubbles and the Magnetic Flux Problem in Star Formation University of Bonn (TCC Tinsley Scholar) host: Craig Wheeler |
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Reading the Record of Ancient Impacts California Institute of Technology host: Pawan Kumar |
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Star Formation in Galaxy Clusters Over the Past 10 Billion Years Texas A&M University and University of Zurich host: Neal Evans |
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McDonald Observatory Board of Visitors Meeting (Austin) |
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19th Annual Great Lecture in Astronomy Exploring Newly Discovered Worlds with the Giant Magellan Telescope University of Texas at Austin |
Is Inhomogeneity Important in Cosmology? University of Cape Town host: Tanja Rindler-Daller |
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Exploration of the Circum-Galactic Medium at High Redshifts California Institute of Technology (Tinsley Visiting Professor) host: Karl Gebhardt |
Clarifying our View of Star Formation in Extreme Environments with Adaptive Optics California Institute of Technology host: Jenny Greene |
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DeVaucouleurs Medalist Chemical Abundances in the Oldest Galactic Stars: Globular Clusters vs. the Halo Field UCOLICK host: Chris Sneden |
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DEEP2 and Beyond: Studying Galaxy Evolution and Large-Scale Structure with Deep Surveys University of Pittsburgh (TCC Visiting Speaker) host: Eiichiro Komatsu |
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Spring Break: 14-18 March: No talk scheduled |
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Diverse Energy Sources for Supernovae UCSB/Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (Tinsley Visiting Professor) host: Donald Winget |
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Exploding Stars! UCSB/Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (Tinsley Visiting Professor) host: Donald Winget |
Recent Advances in our Understanding of Enigmatic Gamma-ray Bursts After a brief summary of key observational properties of gamma-ray bursts
an overview of the recent progress in our understanding of these explosions
will be provided. Data obtained by the Swift satellite has answered several
long standing questions, and also added new puzzles. Swift has shed some
light on the workings of the "central engine" in these bursts, and last
year it discovered a burst at a redshift of 8.25 (when the universe
was 625 million years old) which is one of the most distant objects
we know today (detection of a galaxy at z~10 was reported in January this
year). The Fermi satellite (launched in June 2008) has provided excellent
data covering a very broad energy band --- 8 keV to ~300 GeV --- that has
clarified some aspects of these bursts, and also added a few new mysteries. University of Texas at Austin host: TBD |
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Physical Properties of Kepler's Small Exoplanets Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics host: Jenny Greene |
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The Physical Properties of Lyman-alpha Emitters from z=2 to 3 Pennsylvania State University host: Karl Gebhardt |
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Thermal Tides: An Explanation for the Inflated Radii of the Hot Jupiters Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton host: Jenny Greene |
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Magnetic Reconnection and the Evolution of Large Scale Magnetic Fields McMaster University, Ontario, Canada host: Craig Wheeler |
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Title: TBA Affiliation: TBD host: TBD |
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