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 ScheduleAlice Shapley |
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| 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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