Colloquia Schedule Spring 2016
Colloquia are on Tuesdays (unless otherwise indicated) at 3:30 pm in RLM 15.216B
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"Spirals, Gaps, and Cavities: Signposts of Planets in Protoplanetary Disks?" LBNL/Berkeley host: Adam Kraus |
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"The Key Influence of AGB Stars on the Evolution and Global Properties of Galaxies" NASA Goddard host: Kristen McQuinn |
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"CAMPARE and Cal-Bridge: Two Synergistic Programs Forming a Successful New Model for Promoting Participation of Women and Underrepresented Minority Students in Astronomy" California State Polytechnic University, Pomona host: William Cochran |
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"Exoplanet Atmospheres in High Resolution" Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics host: Daniel Jaffe |
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"The Dynamical Evolution of Young Stellar Complexes in the Milky Way" McMaster University, Hamilton, ON host: Natalie Gosnell |
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"The Evolution of Galaxy Structural Properties" Rutgers University, Downsbrough Chair in Astrophysics host: Shardha Jogee |
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"A PHAT New Measurement of the High-Mass Stellar IMF" UC Berkeley/University of Washington host: Michael Boylan-Kolchin |
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"The Role of Dwarf-Dwarf Galaxy Interactions in Galaxy Assembly" Massive galaxy mergers are an important mode of galaxy evolution and are observed to inspire intense starbursts, the growth of AGN, and significant rearranging of the galaxies' gas and dust. However, despite the fact that the majority of mergers at all epochs occur among low mass galaxies, whether these effects occur in the shallow gravitational potential wells of dwarf galaxies remains mostly uncharted territory. Mergers at low redshift in particular offer a high resolution look at a process that set the stage for galaxy assembly at earlier epochs when such low metallicity mergers were more frequent. I will present initial results and future plans for TiNy Titans, the first systematic study of a sample of interacting dwarf galaxies and the mechanisms governing their star formation and subsequent processing of the ISM. We find multi-wavelength evidence based on star formation rates, gas and dust content that mergers proceed substantially differently at low masses. Our survey further uncovers galaxy groups with only low-mass members, a discovery that appears to contradict predictions of structure formation from hydrodynamic cosmological simulations. NRAO/University of Virginia host: Kristen McQuinn |
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No colloquium scheduled. (Spring Break) |
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"Exploring the z~2.3 Cosmic Web with 3D Lyman-Alpha Forest Tomography" UC Berkeley/LBNL host: Caitlin Casey |
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"Understanding Galaxy Evolution with Massive Starburst Galaxies" University of Iowa host: Caitlin Casey |
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"Implications from the Detection of the Binary Black Hole Inspiral GW150914" University of Texas Rio Grande Valley host: J. Craig Wheeler |
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Stellar Seminar talk Date/Time: Wed., 12 Noon: "Title: TBA" David Yong (Stellar Tinsley Scholar) Mt. Stromlo Observatory, Australia host: Fritz Benedict |
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"The Calm Before the Storm: Exploring the Post Accretionary Doldrums Prior to the Late Heavy Bombardment" William F. Bottke (Planetary Tinsley Scholar) Southwest Research Instutite, Boulder, Colorado host: Mike Endl/Judit Ries |
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"Disk Galaxy Assembly Across Cosmic Time: Combining Magnitude-limited Survey with Gravitational Lensing" Tiantian Yuan (Exgal Tinsley Scholar) Australia National University host: Chao-Ling Hung |
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"The Discovery and Characterization of the Y Dwarfs" University of Toledo host: Brendan Bowler |
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"What can Binaries tell us about Planet Formation?" Kaitlin M. Kratter (ISM Tinsley Scholar) Steward Observatory, University of Arizona host: Adam Kraus |
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