Department of Astronomy
Colloquia Schedule for Fall 2009

(most recent update: November 13, 2009)

Colloquia are on Tuesdays (unless otherwise indicated) at 3:30 pm in RLM 15.216B





Sept. 1st




Ramón J. García López, Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias Abstract
"Technology in Astrophysics: The IAC's Experience"
(host: David Lambert)





Sept. 10th
Thursday


Special Event:
Sukanya Chakrabarti, University of California, Berkeley Abstract
"Tidal Imprints of Dark Sub-Halos on the Cold Gas in Galaxies"
(host: Shardha Jogee)






Sept. 15th




No talk scheduled.





Sept. 22nd


Lisa Prato,
Lowell Observatory
Abstract
"The Youngest Extrasolar Planets"
(host: Daniel Jaffe)





Sept. 29th




No talk scheduled.





Oct. 2nd


Special Event:
The Texas Planetary Science Symposium (October 2, 2009).






Oct. 6th



No talk scheduled.





Oct. 13th




Mark C. Lewis, Trinity University Abstract
"Saturn's Rings: Moonlets, Silicates, and Origins"

(host: Sarah Dodson-Robinson)






Oct. 20th




No talk scheduled, to avoid conflict with the Frank N. Bash Symposium 2009 (October 18-20).





Oct. 27th



Kevin L. Luhman, Pennsylvania State University Abstract
"The Origin of Brown Dwarfs"

(hosts: Gary Hill and Dan Jaffe)




Oct. 27th
7:00 p.m.
ACES 2.302



Antoinette de Vaucouleurs Public Lecture
Rashid Sunyaev, Max-Planck Institute for AstrophysicsAbstract
"The Richness and Beauty of the Physics of Cosmological Recombination"
(hosts: Neal Evans)





Oct. 28th
Wednesday
3:30 p.m.
RLM 15.216B



Antoinette de Vaucouleurs Memorial Lecture
Rashid Sunyaev, Max-Planck Institute for AstrophysicsAbstract
"Cosmic Microwave Background, Clusters of Galaxies and Cosmology"
(hosts: Neal Evans)





Oct. 29th


Special Event:
The Texas Cosmology Network Meeting (October 29-30, 2009).






Nov. 3rd



Beatrice M. Tinsley Visiting Professor in Astronomy
Eliot Quataert, University of California, BerkeleyAbstract
"The Birth of Neutron Stars and Black Holes in Gamma-ray Bursts"
(hosts: Pawan Kumar and Milos Milosavljevic)





Nov. 10th



Benjamin Weiner, Steward Observatory, University of Arizona Abstract
"Infrared-luminous galaxies and their evolution:
what, where, and maybe some of how"

(host: Karl Gebhardt)






Nov. 17th




Christian Marois,  NRC Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics Abstract
"Imaging Planets Orbiting Other Stars: The HR8799 Multi-Planet System"
(host: Sarah Dodson-Robinson)





Nov. 24th




Daisuke Nagai, Yale UniversityAbstract
"title: TBA"
(hosts: Eiichiro Komatsu and Milos Milosavljevic)






Dec. 1st




Juna A. Kollmeier, Carnegie ObservatoriesAbstract
"Probing the Inner and Outer Milky Way"
(host: Karl Gebhardt)








Department of Astronomy
Colloquia Schedule for Spring 2010




Jan. 19th




Edo Berger, Harvard UniversityAbstract
"Title: TBA"

(host: Craig Wheeler)






Jan. 26th




Andrew Blain, California Institute of Technology Abstract
"Title: TBA"

(host: Milos Milosavljevic)






Feb. 2nd




Jane Rigby, Carnegie Observatories Abstract
"Title: TBA"

(host: TBA)






Feb. 9th





Ravit Helled, University of California, Los Angeles Abstract
"Title: TBA"

(host: Sarah Dodson-Robinson)






Feb. 16th




Angela Speck, University of Missouri, Columbia Abstract
"Title: TBA"

(host: Harriet Dinerstein)






Feb. 23rd




John Johnson, California Institute of TechnologyAbstract
"title: TBA"

(host: Sarah Dodson-Robinson)




Mar. 2nd



Evgenya Shkolnik, Carnegie Institution Department of Terrestrial MagnetismAbstract
"title: TBA"

(host: TBD)




Mar. 9th





No talk scheduled, to avoid conflict with the following Conference: The First Stars and Galaxies: Challenges for the Next Decade (March 8-11).





Mar. 15-19




No talk scheduled, to avoid conflict with Spring Break (March 15-19).





Mar. 16th




Dara Norman, National Optical Astronomy ObservatoryAbstract
"title: TBA"

(ATTEMPTING TO RESCHEDULE)





Mar. 23rd




Suvi Gezari, Johns Hopkins UniversityAbstract
"title: TBA"

(host: Milos Milosavljevic)





Mar. 30th




Genevieve Graves, University of California, Berkeley Abstract
"Title: TBA"

(host: TBA)






Apr. 6th





Anders Johansen, Leiden Observatory Abstract
"Title: TBA"

(hosts: Milos Milosavljevic and Sarah Dodson-Robinson)







Apr. 13th



Beatrice M. Tinsley Visiting Professor in Astronomy
Adam Burrows, Princeton UniversityAbstract
"title: TBA"
(host: tbd)






Apr. 20th




No talk scheduled yet.





Apr. 27th




No talk scheduled yet.





May 4th





Emily Freeland, Texas A&M University Abstract
"Title: TBA"

(host: TBD)






Colloquia Schedules from Previous Semesters


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