AST 386S-Extragalactic Seminar-Fall 09

SEMINAR IN EXTRAGALACTIC ASTRONOMY
Astronomy 386S - Fall 2009
Th 3:30 · RLM 15.216B · Unique No. 49595

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NGC 4676: When Mice Collide [ACS Science & Engineering Team, Hubble Space Telescope, NASA]

Schedule

Date	Speaker	Title

Aug 27	Derek Wills & Greg Shields University of Texas at Austin	Organizational Meeting

Sep 03	Remco van den Bosch University of Texas at Austin	"Red Nuggets"

Sep 10	Sukanya Chakrabarti University of California, Berkeley	"Tidal Imprints of Dark Sub-Halos on the Cold Gas in Galaxies" abstract

Sep 17	Peter Yoachim University of Texas at Austin	"Satellite Galaxies in Stripe 82"

Sep 17	Jeremy Murphy University of Texas at Austin	Journal Club: (discussing 3 papers) (1) "Gravitational Heating Helps Make Massive Galaxies Red and Dead" by Johansson et al., arXiv:0903.2840; (2) "Smooth, undisturbed dwarf spheroidal galaxies in the Perseus Cluster core: Implications for dark matter content" by Penny et al., arXiv: 0908.3841; (3) "Discovery of CIV Emission Filaments in M87" by Sparks et al., arXiv:0909.2063v1

Sep 24	Martin Gaskell University of Texas at Austin	"Accurate AGN Black Hole Masses and the Dispersions in the Black Hole Mass - Bulge Luminosity and M-Sigma Relationships" abstract

Oct 01	Joshua Adams University of Texas at Austin	"LSB Kinematics with Virus-P"

Oct 08	Greg Shields University of Texas at Austin	"The Quasar: SDSS J1050+3456: Black Hole Recoil or Double-Peaked Emitter?"

Oct 08	Randi Worhatch University of Texas at Austin	"Emission Lines in Low Mass AGN"

Oct 15	Nalin Vutisalchavakul University of Texas at Austin	Journal Club: "Hierarchical models of high redshift galaxies with thermally pulsing asymptotic giant branch stars: comparison with observations" by Tonini, et al., arXiv:0910.0015T

Oct 15	Taylor Chonis University of Texas at Austin	"Stellar Tidal Streams in Nearby Spiral Galaxies"

Oct 22	Daniel Stern Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology	"The Spitzer Deep, Wide-Field Survey: Brown Dwarfs to Reionization, and Everything In Between" (This presentation cancelled due to family illness; we hope to reschedule Daniel Stern's visit at a future date)

Oct 29	John Jardel University of Texas at Austin	"Galaxy Zoo: Passive Red Spirals" (rescheduled to a later date to avoid conflict with the Texas Cosmology Network Meeting: Seminar loyalists are urged to attend the TCN meeting)

Oct 29	Chalence Safranek-Shrader University of Texas at Austin	"Fragmentation of Galactic Accretion Streams at High Redshift" (rescheduled to a later date to avoid conflict with the Texas Cosmology Network Meeting: Seminar loyalists are urged to attend the TCN meeting)

Nov 05	Eliot Quataert University of California, Berkeley Beatrice M. Tinsley Visiting Professor	"Feedback from Radiation Pressure during Galaxy Formation"

Nov 06 Friday 3:30	Yoshiyuki Inoue Kyoto University	Special Astrophysics Theory / Extragalactic Seminar Talk: "Active galactic nuclei and the cosmic gamma-ray background radiation in the Fermi era" abstract

Nov 12	Julie Comerford University of California, Berkeley	"Dual Supermassive Black Holes as Tracers of Galaxy Mergers" abstract

Nov 19	Tim Weinzirl University of Texas at Austin	"Dust Obscured Galaxies at z~2"

Nov 26		No talk scheduled. Thanksgiving Holiday.

Dec 03	John Barentine University of Texas at Austin	"Distances to the 21 cm High Velocity Clouds" abstract

Dec 03	Mimi Song University of Texas at Austin	"SED Evolution of IR Luminous Galaxies at 1<z<1.5: 15 micron Observation of the Extended Groth Strip"