titan, enceladus, rings, and haze

Titan, Enceladus, Rings, and Haze [Cassini Imaging Team]

Astronomy 383L - Spring 2014

Cosmos Seminar

W 3:00 · RLM 15.216B · Not for credit Spring 2014

Professor

Daniel Jaffe

RLM 16.342 · (512) 471-2877 · email

Schedule

Date

Speaker

Title

 

Jan 15

Dan Jaffe

University of Texas at Austin

Organizational meeting.

 

Jan 22

No talk scheduled.

 

Jan 29

No talk scheduled.

 

Feb 5

No talk scheduled.

 

Feb 12

No talk scheduled.

 

Feb 19

No talk scheduled.

 

Feb 26

Sadegh Kochfar

University of Edinburgh

(Exgal Seminar Talk): "Quo Vadis Galaxy Formation?"

abstract

 

Mar 5

Brendan Bowler

California Institute of Technology

The Cosmos Seminar this week will be held on Thursday, 6 March, at 3:30 PM in the Exgal Seminar slot. (host: Dan Jaffe) "The Outer Architecture of Planetary Systems"

abstract

 

Mar 12

Spring Break: March 10-14. No talk scheduled.

 

Mar 19

Katherine Mack

University of Melbourne

(host: Emily McLinden) "Known Unknowns of Dark Matter Annihilation over Cosmic Time"

abstract

 

Mar 26

No talk scheduled today. This week's Cosmos Seminar "Effective Writing" presentation by Dr. Kormendy is being held on Thursday during the Exgal Seminar time-slot.

 

Apr 2

Christa Gall

Dark Center, Copenhagen

(host: Volker Bromm) "Dust in the Early Universe: The Origin of Dust"

 

Apr 9

Kelle Cruz

Hunter College/AMNH

(host: Adam Kraus) "Progressing Towards a Better Astronomy"

abstract

 

Apr 16

No talk scheduled.

 

Apr 23

Kevin Bundy

University of Tokyo, Kavli IPMU

(host: Niv Drory) (Tinsley Scholar: Exgal Group) "MaNGA: Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory - an IFU Survey of 10,000 Galaxies"

I will discuss the design, ongoing construction, and soon-to-begin execution of a new survey to obtain resolved spectroscopy for 10,000 nearby galaxies called MaNGA (Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory). MaNGA is one of three programs that make up the 6-year SDSS-IV project, beginning in August 2014. MaNGA will deploy 17 fiber-bundle IFUs across the Sloan 2.5m Telescope's 3 degree field-of-view, targeting a mass-selected sample with a median redshift of 0.03, typical spatial resolution of 1-2 kpc, and a per-fiber signal-to-noise ratio of 5-10 in the outskirts of target galaxies. For each galaxy in the sample, MaNGA will provide maps and measured gradients of the age and chemistry of stellar populations, the gas-phase metallicity and star formation rates, as well as the velocity fields of both stars and gas. This unprecedented, rich data set will shed new light on the early formation history, ongoing growth, and eventual "death" via star-formation quenching of nearby galaxies.

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Apr 30

Speaker: TBA

Affiliation: TBD

"Title: TBA"