stephen's quintet

Stephen's Quintet xray/optical composite (Chandra)

Astronomy 386S - Fall 2011

Seminar in Extragalactic Astronomy

Th 3:30 · RLM 15.216B · 47675


Professor

Derek Wills

RLM 15.314 · (512) 471-1392 · email

Schedule

Date

Speaker

Title


Aug 25

Derek Wills

University of Texas at Austin

Organizational meeting.


Sept 1

Mia Bovill, Steve Finkelstein, Keely Finkelstein & Erin Mentuch

University of Texas at Austin

"The New Ex-Gal Postdocs Introduce Themselves"


Sept 8

Lisa Kewley

University of Hawaii

TCC Presentation: "Galaxy Formation and Evolution through Metals"
abstract


Sept 15

Steve Finkelstein

University of Texas at Austin

"Studying Galaxy Evolution at z = 2 - 8 with Hubble and HETDEX"


Sept 15

Kyle Kaplan

University of Texas at Austin

"The UCSC Blazar Monitoring Program"


Sept 22

No talk scheduled.


Sept 29

Jennifer Lotz

Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)

TCC Presentation (host: Comerford): "Galaxy Mergers through Cosmic Time"
abstract


Oct 6

Benny Trakhtenbrot

Tel-Aviv University

"Observing the Growth of the Most Massive Black Holes at High Redshifts"
abstract


Oct 13

No talk scheduled.


Oct 20

John Jardel

University of Texas at Austin

"Dark Matter in Local Group Dwarf Spheroidals"


Oct 20

John Barentine

University of Texas at Austin

"Metallicities of Intermediate- and High-Velocity Clouds"


Oct 27

Randi Ludwig

University of Texas at Austin

"Emission-Line Properties of Low-Mass AGN"


Oct 27

Roderik Overzier

University of Texas at Austin

"New Perspectives on Galaxy Evolution"


Nov 3

Paul Robertson

University of Texas at Austin

"Enhanced Abundances in Spiral Galaxies of the Pegasus I Cluster"


Nov 3

Greg Shields

University of Texas at Austin

"Grain Destruction and Fe II Emission in the Broad Line Region of AGN"


Nov 10

Laura Blecha

Harvard University

(host: Greg Shields) "Signatures of Supermassive Black Hole Mergers: Before and After"
abstract


Nov 17

Marc Sarzi

University of Hertfordshire, UK (Tinsley Visiting Scholar)

"The Ionised Gas of Early-Type Galaxies"
abstract


Nov 24

No talk scheduled: Thanksgiving Holiday (University Closed).


Dec 1

Naveen Reddy

University of California, Riverside (Tinsley Visiting Scholar)

"How Dust Affects Our View of the Distant Universe"
abstract


Jan 5

Marcel Haas

Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)

Special Exgal Intersession Presentation: "Growing and Observing Galaxies in a Computer"
abstract