Astrophysics Colloquium

Colloquium meetings are held in Room 5118 Math Sciences from 3:30-4:30pm every Wednesday of the academic season.

Winter 2002 Schedule (as of 01/03/02)

Date
Speakers
Titles
01/16
Mario Hamuy
(Carnegie Observatorie)
Type II Supernovae as Distance Indicators
01/23
Lars Bildsten
(UCSB/ITP)
Measuring Neutron Star Radii from their Incandescent Nuclear Glow.
01/30
John Stauffer
(SIRTF Science Center)
How Old is the Pleiades and Why Should You Care?
02/06
Meg Urry
(Yale)
The Black Hole-Galaxy Connection
02/13
Ron Ekers
(Australia Telescope National Facility)
The Future of Radio Astronomy -
A Square Kilometer Array
02/20
Tim McKay
(Univ. of Michigan)
Probing the Relationship between Luminous and Dark Matter:
New Results from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
02/27
Blas Cabrera
(Stanford)
The Search for Dark Matter Wimps:
the CDMS Experiment
03/06
Dan McIntosh
(Univ of Mass, Amherst)
Searching for Galaxy Transformation among the Newer Members of Local Abell Clusters
03/13
Marc Freitag
(Caltech)
High Resolution Particle Simulations of Galactic Nuclei with a Monte Carlo Code

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