Date

Speaker

Title

Aug 29

Milos Milosavljevic

University of Texas at Austin

Organizational meeting.

Sept 5

No talk scheduled: Labor Day Holiday (University Closed).

Sept 12

Swadesh Mahajan

UT Austin, Institute for Fusion Studies

"On the Origin of Cosmic Magnetic Fields"
abstract

Sept 19

Jillian Bellovary

University of Michigan

"The Formation and Evolution of Massive Black Holes in Cosmological Simulations" (host: Mia Bovill)
abstract

Sept 26

Mia Bovill

University of Texas at Austin

"The Fossils of the First Galaxies in the Local Universe"

Sept 26

Anson D'Aloisio

University of Texas at Austin

"The Effects of Primordial Non-Gaussianity on Giant Arc Statistics"

Oct 3

Roderik Overzier

University of Texas at Austin

"The Millenium Run Observatory"
abstract

Oct 10

No talk scheduled. Instead, seminar attendees are encouraged to attend the Frank N. Bash Symposium (Oct 9-11, 2011):
Bash Symposium Hyperlink (click here)

Oct 17

Anze Slosar

Brookhaven National Laboratory

TCC Presentation (host: Jun Zhang): "Lyman-Alpha in Three Dimensions"
abstract

Oct 24

Claudio Dalla Vecchia

Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics

TCC Presentation (host: Andreas Pawlik): "From OWLS to FiBY: Numerical Simulations of Galaxy Formation and Evolution"
abstract

Oct 31

No talk scheduled.

Nov 7

Chi-Ting Chiang

University of Texas at Austin

"Galaxy Survey and Window Function"

Nov 7

Hyunbae Park

University of Texas at Austin

"Kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect"

Nov 14

Philip Chang

University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

TCC Presentation (host: Jun Zhang): "The Plasma Physics and Cosmological Implications of TeV Blazars"
abstract

Nov 21

Masatoshi Shoji

University of Texas at Austin

PhD Defense Presentation: "Toward an Understanding of the Large Scale Structure of the Universe with Galaxy Surveys"
abstract

Nov 28

Rodolfo Santana

University of Texas at Austin

"X-ray flares from Gamma-Ray Bursts"

Nov 28

Jeremy Ritter

University of Texas at Austin

"Tracking Metals Synthesized in the First Stars from Supernova Free Expansion into the Cosmological Environment"

Dec 5

Adam Lidz

University of Pennsylvania

TCC Presentation (host: Comerford): "Hydrogen and Helium Reionization"
abstract