Astrophysics Colloquium



Colloquium meetings are held in the Physics and Astronomy Building (PAB) in Room 1-434A from 3:30-4:30pm every Wednesday of the academic season.



Winter 2012 Schedule

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Date Speaker Title (mouseover for abstract)
2012-01-18 Daniela Calzetti
University of Massachusetts
Spatially-Resolved Star Formation
2012-01-25 Nevin Weinberg
MIT
Nonlinear tides in close binary systems
2012-02-01 Meredith Hughes
UC Berkeley
What Millimeter-Wavelength Interferometry Can Tell Us about Planet Formation
2012-02-08 Roman Rafikov
Princeton
Origin of Giant Planets: Top Down or Bottom Up?
2012-02-15 Reinhard Genzel
MPE Garching and UCB
Massive star forming galaxies at the peak of the galaxy formation epoch
2012-02-22 Steve Majewski
University of Virginia
The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) in SDSS3
2012-02-29 Beth Willman
Haverford
Ultra-faint dwarfs, dark matter, and galaxy formation
2012-03-07 Kevin Luhman
Penn State
The Formation of Brown Dwarfs and Wide Planetary Companions
2012-03-14 Andi Burkert
University of Munich
The Puzzle of Star Formation



Astrophysics Talks in Physics Colloquium Series:

Date Speaker
2012-01-12 Geoff Marcy
2012-02-23 Mattias Steinmetz
2012-03-01 Frank Shu
2012-03-08 Ed Bertschinger


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