Astrophysics Colloquium

Colloquium meetings are held in Room 6229 Math Sciences from 3:30-4:30pm every Wednesday of the academic season.

Spring 2002 Schedule (as of 03/23/02)

Date
Speakers
 Titles
04/03
Ron Taam
(Northwestern University)
 Disks Surrounding Cataclysmic Binary Stars
04/10
Gaspard Duchene
(UCLA)
 Growth of Dust Grains in TTauri Disks?
04/17
Mark Morris
(UCLA)
 Stellar Dynamics and the History of the Central Star Cluster of our Galaxy
04/24
Aaron Barth
(Caltech)
 Measuring Black Hole Masses with Ionized Gas Kinematics
05/01
Julie McEnery
(Univ. of Wisconsin)
 Very High Energy Observations of Gamma Ray Bursts
05/08
Carmen Sanchez-Contreras
(JPL)
 Formation of Protoplanetary Nebulae:
Aspherical Morphologies, Collimated Outflows, and Binarity
05/15
James Liebert
(University of Arizona)
 The luminosity functions of disk and halo white dwarfs
05/22
Sarah Gallagher
(Penn State University)
 The View Through the Wind:
X-ray Observations of Broad Absorption Line Quasars
05/29
Vladimir Vassiliev
(University of Utah)
 Extragalactic Background Light and the TeV gamma-ray Observations of Blazars
06/05
Francois Schweizer
(Carnegie Observatories)
 Globular-Cluster Formation in Merging Galaxies

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Artist Impression of a Cataclysmic Variable
Image from http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov

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