Astrophysics Colloquium



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



Fall 2008 Schedule

Alice Shapley


         Date    
Speakers
Titles
October 1 Hans-Walter Rix
MPIA, Heidelberg
The Milky Way's Outskirts: Do they Live Up to Cosmological Expectations (abstract)
October 8 Art Wolfe
UC, San Diego
Finding the gas and magnetic fields that make galaxies
October 15 Eric Agol
U. Washington
Probing the atmospheres of giant exoplanets (abstract)
October 22 Mark Morris
UCLA
Modeling Strong Stellar Winds in Binary Systems: the Formation of Spiral Shells
October 29 Stanimir Metchev
SUNY, Stony Brook
The Substellar Mass Function and Implications for Imaging Exoplanets (abstract)
November 5 Marusa Bradac
U.C., Santa Barbara
Dark Matter and the Highest Redshift Galaxies: Revealing the Invisible with 2 Cosmic Supercolliders the "Bullet Cluster" 1E0657-56 and MACSJ0025-1222 (abstract)
November 12 Aristotle Socrates
IAS
Thermal Tides in Transiting Extrasolar Giant Planets (abstract)
November 19 Zeljko Ivezic
U. Washington
Mapping the Milky Way with SDSS and LSST (abstract)
November 26 No speaker Thanksgiving Holiday
December 3 Rebecca Bernstein
U.C., Santa Cruz
Deeper, Fainter, Higher Resolution; Smaller, Cheaper, and Simpler (abstract)


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