Date

Speaker

Title

Jan 20

Cheng-Yu Kuo

University of Virginia

(host: Jenny Greene) "The Megamaser Cosmology Project: Angular-Diameter Distances to Megamaser Galaxies and the Masses of their Central BHs"
abstract

Jan 27

Martin Gaskell

University of Texas at Austin

"Solving Active Galactic Nuclei Puzzles - a New Paradigm"
abstract

Feb 3

No talk scheduled.

Feb 10

Patrick McCarthy

Director, Giant Magellan Telescope Observatory

(host: Jaffe) "Giant Magellan Telescope Update and Town Hall Meeting"

Feb 17

Charles Steidel

California Institute of Technology

(Tinsley Visiting Professor) "Direct Observations of Ionizing Radiation from High-z Galaxies"
abstract

Feb 24

Andy Sheinis

University of Wisconsin-Madison

(host: Gary Hill) "Observationally Constraining the Nature of QSO Host Galaxies and Their Relationship to Merger-Driven Galaxy Evolution"
abstract

Mar 3

Nickolas Fotopoulos

LIGO Laboratory, Caltech

Physics Relativity Seminar (RLM 6.116): "The Search for Compact Binary Coalescence in Association with Short GRBs with the First-Generation LIGO and Virgo Detectors"
abstract

Mar 10

Mariska Kriek

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

(host: Jenny Greene) "The Diverse, yet Orderly Lives of Galaxies"
abstract

Mar 17

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

Mar 24

No talk scheduled.

Mar 31

No talk scheduled.

Apr 7

Matthew Bershady

University of Wisconsin-Madison

(Host: Gary Hill) "How Much Mass is in Spiral Disks?"
abstract

Apr 14

No talk scheduled.

Apr 21

Amy Reines

University of Virginia

(host: Jenny Greene) "Surprise! Dwarf Starburst Galaxy Hosts Supermassive Black Hole"
abstract

Apr 28

Michael Cooper

University of California, Irvine

(TCC visitor) "Understanding the Global Course of Galaxy Evolution at z < 1"
abstract

May 5

Michael Boylan-Kolchin

University of California, Irvine

(TCC visitor) "The Dark Matter Halo - Galaxy Connection in the Local Universe and Local Group"
abstract