Date

Speaker

Title

Jan 25

Milos Milosavljevic

University of Texas at Austin

Organizational Meeting.

Feb 01

Jounghun Lee

Seoul National University, South Korea

"Cosmic Voids as a Probe of Cosmology"
abstract

Feb 08

Jun Zhang

University of Texas at Austin

"Two Breakthroughs in Cosmic Shear Measurement (Weak Lensing)"
abstract

Feb 08

J. Craig Wheeler

University of Texas at Austin

"Magnetic Feilds in the Late Stages of Stellar Evolution"

Feb 15

Rualdo Soto-Chavez

University of Texas at Austin

"Two-Fluid Temperature-Dependent Relativistic Waves in Pulsar Plasmas"

Feb 15

Paul Shapiro

University of Texas at Austin

"Cosmic Reionization and Its Observable Consequences"

Feb 22

Eiichiro Komatsu

Director, Texas Cosmology Center, University of Texas at Austin

"The 7-year WMAP Observations: Cosmological Interpretation"
abstract

Mar 01

Jonathan Ganc

University of Texas at Austin

"Was Inflation Driven by a Single-Field? Improving the Single-Field Consistency Relation"

Mar 01

Yi Mao

University of Texas at Austin

"The Impact ofPeculiar Velocity and Patchy Reionization on 21cm Cosmology from the Epoch of Reionization"

Mar 08

The First Stars and Galaxies: Challenges for the Next Decade

University of Texas at Austin

Astronomy Department Conference: March 8-11, 2010, at the AT&T Conference Center, 1900 University Avenue, Austin, TX (click on hyperlink at left for more information).

Mar 15

Spring Break

University of Texas at Austin

Spring Break: March 15-20. Buildings open and staff working, but classes and seminars not being held this week.

Mar 22

Athena Stacy

University of Texas at Austin

"The First Stars: Studies in Protostellar Feedback and Angular Momentum"

Mar 22

Daniel Kagan

University of Texas at Austin

"Particle Diffusion and the Origin of GRB Prompt Emission"

Mar 29

Myoungwon Jeon

University of Texas at Austin

"Black Hole Growth in the First Galaxy"

Mar 29

Masatoshi Shoji

University of Texas at Austin

"Void in Redshift Space"

Mar 29

Chi-Ting Chiang

University of Texas at Austin

"Low Multipole Tensor Mode Polarization from Reionization"

Apr 05

Chris Lindner

University of Texas at Austin

PhD Qualifying Exam (2nd Year Defense): "Accretion-Powered Core-Collapse Supernovae"

Apr 12

Adam Burrows

Princeton University, Beatrice M. Tinsley Visiting Professor

"Can We Explain Core-Collapse Supernova Explosions?"
abstract

Apr 19

Sean Couch

University of Texas at Austin

PhD Defense: "Multidimensional Multiscale Dynamics of High-Energy Astrophysical Flows"
abstract

Apr 26

Chalence Safranek-Shrader

University of Texas at Austin

PhD Qualifying Exam (2nd Year Defense): "The Formation and Properties of the First Galaxies: Fragmentation of Cold Accretion Streams"

May 03

Rodolfo Santana

University of Texas at Austin

"Magnetic Fields in Gamma-Ray Bursts"

May 03

Anwar al Muhammad

University of Texas at Austin

"Some Recent Observations of Galactic Massive Stars Formation Regions"

May 03

Jacob Hummel

University of Texas at Austin

"The Hunt for the First Supernovae"

May 17

Donghui Jeong

University of Texas at Austin

Special Time: 5:00 p.m., PhD Defense.