Date

Speaker

Title

Jan 21

Greg Shields

University of Texas at Austin

Organizational Meeting.

Jan 28

Ohad Shemmer

University of North Texas

Please attend Ohad Shemmer's talk at this special date/time: Monday, 1 February, 2010, 11:00 a.m.: "Multiwavelength Insights into the Nature of Weak Emission-Line Quasars at High Redshift"
abstract

Feb 04

Erin Bonning

Yale University

See 2 February Colloquium: "Multiwavelength Observations of Fermi Blazars"

Feb 11

Arjen van der Wel

Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg, Germany

"The Evolution of Quiescent Galaxies and the Morphology-Density Relation"
abstract

Feb 18

No talk scheduled, to avoid conflict with Dr. Sally Ride's Presentation: (location: ACES 2.302) "Keeping Girls Interested in Science"

Feb 25

Josh Adams

University of Texas at Austin

"A New Observational Upper Limit to the z=0 Ultraviolet Extragalactic Background with VIRUS-P"

Feb 25

Jeremy Murphy

University of Texas at Austin

"Dynamical Modeling of M87: Current Results and Future Plans"

Mar 04

Anne-Marie Weijmans

Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Toronto, Canada

"Dark Matter in Early-type Galaxies: Mapping Dark Halos with Integral-field Spectroscopy"

Mar 11

No talk scheduled, to avoid conflict with the following Conference: "The First Stars and Galaxies: Challenges for the Next Decade", on March 8 - 11.

Mar 18

Spring Break

University of Texas at Austin

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

Mar 25

Irina Marinova

University of Texas at Austin

"Barred Galaxies in the Coma Cluster"

Mar 25

Guillermo Blanc

University of Texas at Austin

"First Results from the VIRUS-P Exploration of Nearby Galaxies (VENGA): The Spatially Resolved Star Formation Law in NGC5194"

Apr 01

Mimi Song

University of Texas at Austin

Journal Club: "The Local Star-Formation Rate Density: Assessing Calibrations Using [O11], Ha, UV luminosities" by David G. Gilbank et al.; arxiv:1002.3172

Apr 01

Taylor Chonis

University of Texas at Austin

Journal Club: "The VIMOS VLT Deep Survey: Star Formation Rate Density of LAEs from a Sample of 217 Galaxies with Spectroscopic Red Shifts 2 < z < 6.6", by Cassata et al., 2010; arxiv:1003.3480

Apr 08

Remco Van den Bosch

University of Texas at Austin

"Binary Super Massive Black Holes are Very Short-Lived"
abstract

Apr 08

Martin Gaskell

University of Texas at Austin

"The Nature and Origin of the Black Hole/Bulge M-L and M-sigma Relationships"
abstract

Apr 15

Tim Weinzirl

University of Texas at Austin

"Assembly of Massive Galaxies in the GOODS-NICMOS Survey"

Apr 15

Andreas Schulze

AIP - Astrophysical Institute Potsdam

"Studying Black Hole Growth in the Local Universe"
abstract

Apr 22

Bev Wills & Caroline Caldwell

University of Texas at Austin

"Magnetic Fields in the Jets of Active Galactic Nuclei over 20-30 Years"

Apr 22

Jeremy Schnittman

Johns Hopkins University

"Electromagnetic Signatures of Black Hole Mergers"
abstract

Apr 29

John Jardel

University of Texas at Austin

PhD Qualifying Exam (2nd year defense): "Two Non-Traditional Applications of Orbit-Based Modeling"

May 06

Eric Emsellem

European Southern Observatory (ESO), Garching, Germany, Tinsley Visiting Scholar

"The ATLAS3D Project: Towards a Paradigm Shift for Early-Type Galaxies"
abstract