Colloquia Schedule Spring 2011

Colloquia are on Tuesdays (unless otherwise indicated) at 3:30 pm in RLM 15.216B

Jan. 18

Dust in the Early Universe

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Raffaella Schneider

INAF/Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma

host: Volker Bromm

Jan. 25

Magnetic Relaxation in ICM Bubbles and the Magnetic Flux Problem in Star Formation

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Jonathan Braithwaite

University of Bonn (TCC Tinsley Scholar)

host: Craig Wheeler

Feb. 1

Reading the Record of Ancient Impacts

Debris from asteroids and comets continually bombards the Earth. Impacts by big bodies launches ejecta on trajectories that transports it thousands of kilometers from the inpact site. These events are recorded in discrete layers of sub-millimeter size spherules in sea floor sediments. Larger, rarer, and interestingly shaped objects are found on land. I will describe the physical processes that occur in energetic impacts. Emphasis will be given to the mechanisms that determine the sizes and shapes of the ejecta and the cooling of the fireball. An analogy with structure formation in the expanding universe will be exploited, and a possible relation with the formation of chondrules will be explored.

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Peter Goldreich

California Institute of Technology

host: Pawan Kumar

Feb. 8

Star Formation in Galaxy Clusters Over the Past 10 Billion Years

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Kim-Vy Tran

Texas A&M University and University of Zurich

host: Neal Evans

Feb. 11-12

McDonald Observatory Board of Visitors Meeting (Austin)


Feb. 12
1-2 PM
ACE 2.302

19th Annual Great Lecture in Astronomy

Exploring Newly Discovered Worlds with the Giant Magellan Telescope

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Daniel Jaffe

University of Texas at Austin

Feb. 15

Is Inhomogeneity Important in Cosmology?

abstract

George F. R. Ellis

University of Cape Town

host: Tanja Rindler-Daller

Feb. 16
Wed.
3:15 PM

Exploration of the Circum-Galactic Medium at High Redshifts

abstract

Charles Steidel

California Institute of Technology (Tinsley Visiting Professor)

host: Karl Gebhardt

Feb. 22

Clarifying our View of Star Formation in Extreme Environments with Adaptive Optics

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Jessica Lu

California Institute of Technology

host: Jenny Greene

Mar. 1

DeVaucouleurs Medalist

Chemical Abundances in the Oldest Galactic Stars: Globular Clusters vs. the Halo Field

abstract

Robert Kraft

UCOLICK

host: Chris Sneden

Mar. 8

DEEP2 and Beyond: Studying Galaxy Evolution and Large-Scale Structure with Deep Surveys

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Jeffrey A. Newman

University of Pittsburgh (TCC Visiting Speaker)

host: Eiichiro Komatsu

Mar. 15

Spring Break: 14-18 March: No talk scheduled


Mar. 22

Diverse Energy Sources for Supernovae

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Lars Bildsten

UCSB/Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (Tinsley Visiting Professor)

host: Donald Winget

Mar. 24
Public Talk
RLM 4.102
7:00 PM

Exploding Stars!

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Lars Bildsten

UCSB/Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (Tinsley Visiting Professor)

host: Donald Winget

Mar. 29

Recent Advances in our Understanding of Enigmatic Gamma-ray Bursts

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Pawan Kumar

University of Texas at Austin

host: TBD

Apr. 5

Physical Properties of Kepler's Small Exoplanets

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Dimitar D. Sasselov

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

host: Jenny Greene

Apr. 12

The Physical Properties of Lyman-alpha Emitters from z=2 to 3

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Caryl Gronwall

Pennsylvania State University

host: Karl Gebhardt

Apr. 19

Thermal Tides: An Explanation for the Inflated Radii of the Hot Jupiters

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Aristotle Socrates

Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton

host: Jenny Greene

Apr. 26

Magnetic Reconnection and the Evolution of Large Scale Magnetic Fields

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Ethan Vishniac

McMaster University, Ontario, Canada

host: Craig Wheeler

May 3

Title: TBA

Speaker: TBD

Affiliation: TBD

host: TBD

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