Date

Speaker

Title

Jan 17

Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday. No talk scheduled.

Jan 24

Milos Milosavljevic

University of Texas at Austin

Organizational meeting.

Jan 31

Katherine Freese

University of Michigan

(TCC Speaker) "Dark Matter"
abstract

Feb 7

Olivier Mousis

University of Franche-Comte & Besancon Observatory

(Tinsley Scholar. Host: Anita Cochran) "Formation of Icy Planetesimals in the Primitive Nebula: Implications for the Composition of Gas Giant Planets, Satellites, and Comets"
abstract

Feb 14

No talk scheduled.

Feb 21

Jonathan Ganc

University of Texas at Austin

"Observational Consequences of Single-Field Inflation: Producing Suqeezed-Limit non-Gaussianity from non-Bunch-Davies Initial States"

Feb 21

Rodolfo Santana

University of Texas at Austin

"Magnetic Fields in Gamma-Ray Bursts"

Feb 28

Carles Badenes

Tel-Aviv University & Weizmann Institute of Science

(Presentation Cancelled 2/24/11): "The Quest for Type Ia Supernova Progenitors"
abstract

Mar 7

Athena Stacy

University of Texas at Austin

"The Effect of Relative Streaming Between Dark Matter and Baryons on the Formation of Pop III Stars"

Mar 7

Masatoshi Shoji

University of Texas at Austin

"Void Ellipticity Distribution in Redshift Space"

Mar 14

Kaveh Pahlevan

Yale University, Dept. of Geology and Geophysics

Special Seminar: "When the Moon was a Cloud - the Creation Myth"
abstract

Mar 21

Jun Zhang

University of Texas at Austin

"Cosmic Shears Should not be Measured in Conventional Ways"

Mar 21

J. Craig Wheeler

University of Texas at Austin

"Stellar-mass Black Holes in Young Galaxies"

Mar 28

John Scalo

University of Texas at Austin

"Molecular Biophysics of Habitability"
abstract

Apr 4

Andreas Pawlik

University of Texas at Austin

"The Sources of Reionization"
abstract

Apr 11

No talk scheduled.

Apr 18

Jacob Hummel

University of Texas at Austin

2nd Year Defense: "The Hunt for the First Supernovae: The Source Density and Observability of Pair-Instability Supernovae from the First Stars"

Apr 25

Chi-Ting Chiang

University of Texas at Austin

2nd Year Defense: "CMB Polarization from Gravitational Waves"

May 2

No talk scheduled.