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SEMINAR IN EXTRAGALACTIC ASTRONOMY
Astronomy 386S - Spring 2007
Th 3:30 · RLM 15.216B (unless noted) · Unique No. 49060


black eye galaxy

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Talks can span a wide variety of formats and topics, e.g.,
  • review talks and formal colloquia
  • informal discussions of ongoing research
  • journal clubs
  • thesis dissertation defense
  • discussions of hot results from recent conferences

Schedule

DATE


SPEAKER/INSTITUTE


TITLE AND WEB LINKS

Jan 25
Rebecca Bernstein
Univ. of Mich.
Detailed Chemical Abundances of Extragalactic Globular Clusters (On the Formation of Galaxies and Spectrographs)
Feb 1
Greg Shields
UT Austin
Review of "A Fundamental Plane Relation for Black Hole Masses and their Redshift Evolution," by Phil Hopkins et al.
astro-ph/0701351
Feb 8
Sheila Kannappan
UT Austin
E/S0 Galaxies on the Blue Color-Stellar Mass Sequence at z=0
Feb 15
Cancelled
 
Feb 22
James Aguirre
NRAO
Submillimeter Galaxies in the COSMOS Survey: First Steps Towards a Systematic Study of the Environments of the Most Massive Known Starbursts
Mar 1
Hyo Jeong Kim
UT Austin
Journal Club Presentation: "Density Profile of Dark Matter Halo in Dwarf Galaxies"
Mar 8
Jeremy Murphy
The Depth of DEEP2: an Overview of the Science
Mar 15
Spring Break
 
Mar 22
None Scheduled
 
Mar 29
Randi Worhatch
UT Austin
Fe Abundance Results and the Relation to Fe II Emission in Quasars
abstract
 
John Barentine
UT Austin
Cats, Dogs, Hair, A Hero, And More: New Milky Way Satellite Discoveries In The SDSS
abstract
Apr 5
Karen Knierman
Univ of Arizona
Tidal Tales of Minor Mergers: Star Formation in the Tidal Debris of Minor Mergers
abstract
Apr 12
Amy Forestell
UT Austin
Journal Club: TBA
 
Guillermo Blanc
UT Austin
Lyman Alpha Blobs, Gigantic Extended Emission Line Sources at High Redshift
Apr 19
Amanda Heiderman
UT Austin
A Voyage from Cluster Cores to Outskirts and Beyond: Environmental Dependencies of Galaxy Evolution and Impact on Cosmic Star Formation History
 
Sarah Salviander
UT Austin
Quasars with a Kick
abstract
Apr 26
Tim Weinzirl
UT Austin
The Observed Bimodality in Galaxies
May 3
Irina Marinova
UT Austin
The Properties of Bars in the Nearby Universe: A Probe of Galaxy Evolution over Cosmic Epochs
(2nd year defense)











 
 





27 April 2007
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