Date

Speaker

Title

Jan 19

Hayato Motohashi

Tokyo University

Texas Cosmology Center Presentation: "Cosmological Imprints of f(R) Gravity"
abstract

Jan 26

Alycia J. Weinberger

Carnegie Institution for Science: Department of Terrestrial Magnetism

(host: Jaffe; IR/Planets Tinsley Visitor) "Circumstellar Disk Composition and Evolution"
abstract

Feb 2

Gary Hill, Karl Gebhardt, and Marc Rafal

UT Astronomy & McDonald Observatory

"HETDEX Update"
abstract

Feb 9

Brian Mason

National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO)

Texas Cosmology Center Presentation: "High Resolution Imaging of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect in Galaxy Clusters"
abstract

Feb 16

Charles Steidel

California Institute of Technology

(Tinsley Professor) "Exploration of the Circum-Galactic Medium at High Redshifts"
abstract

Feb 23

No talk scheduled.

Mar 2

Ramesh Narayan

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

(Host: Kumar) "Numerical Simulations of Relativistic Jets"
abstract

Mar 9

No talk scheduled.

Mar 16

Spring Break: March 14-18. No talk scheduled.

Mar 23

No talk scheduled.

Mar 30

Savvas Koushiappas

Brown University

(host: Comerford) TCC Presentation: "The Influence of Structure Formation on the Interpretation of Dark Matter Experiments"
abstract

Apr 6

Constance Rockosi

University of California, Santa Cruz & UCO/Lick Observatory

(Tinsley Scholar) (host: Fritz) "Tracing Recent Mass Accretion in the Milky Way Halo"
abstract

Apr 13

Gilles Chabrier

Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, France

(host: Evans, Tinsley Visitor) "Star Formation and Early Phases of Evolution: from the Stellar Initial Mass Function to the Properties of Young Stellar Objects"
abstract

Apr 20

Catherine Espaillat

Harvard CfA

(host: Joel Green, Tinsley Visitor) "Planet Formation in Dusty Disks Around Young Stars"
abstract

Apr 27

Guillermo Blanc

University of Texas at Austin

PhD Defense: "Studying Star Formation at Low and High Redshift with Integral Field Spectroscopy"

May 4

Jonathan Rawlings

University College London

"New Diagnostics of the Dynamics of Protoplanetary and Star-forming Regions"