 Jan. 15th |
Jenny E. Greene Princeton University Abstract "Local Galaxies with Radiating Black Holes" (host: Milos Milosavljevic) |
Jan. 22nd |
Special Event: Beatrice M. Tinsley Visiting Professor in Astronomy Ramesh Narayan Harvard University Abstract "Measuring Black Hole Spin" (hosts: Pawan Kumar, Milos Milosavljevic) |
Jan. 29th |
Todd Thompson Ohio State University Abstract "Feedback in Starburst Galaxies" (host: Milos Milosavljevic) |
Feb. 5th |
No talk scheduled. |
Feb. 12th |
Special Event: Beatrice M. Tinsley Visiting Professor in Astronomy (visit: Feb 11-21) Ivan Hubeny University of Arizona Abstract "From Stars (Planets) to Quasars: Modeling Radiation-Dominated Objects in Astrophysics" (host: Greg Shields) |
Feb. 13th Wednesday |
Special Colloquium (visit: Feb. 13-14) Klaus M. Pontoppidan California Institute of Technology (Caltech) Abstract "Straddling the Snow Line: Water Vapor and Carbon-Containing Molecules in Protoplanetary Disks at 1 AU" (host: Milos Milosavljevic) |
Feb. 19th |
Nick Kaiser University of Hawaii - Institute for Astronomy Abstract "The Pan-STARRS Wide Field Survey Project" (host: Karl Gebhardt) |
Feb. 20th Wednesday |
Special Event: Beatrice M. Tinsley Visiting Professor in Astronomy (visit: Feb 11-21) Ivan Hubeny University of Arizona Abstract "Transiting Extrasolar Planets: A Key to Understanding their Physics Chemistry, and even Meteorology" |
Feb. 21st Thursday |
Special Colloquium (visit: Feb. 21-22) Seth L. Redfield University of Texas at Austin Abstract "The Age of Exometeorology: Observing the Atmospheres of Transiting Exoplanets" (host: Bill Cochran) |
Feb. 26th |
Special Colloquium (visit: Feb. 26-27) Yoram Lithwick Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA) Abstract "Dynamics of Protoplanetary Disks: Vortices and Turbulence" (hosts: Larry Trafton & John Scalo) |
Feb. 28th Thursday |
Special Colloquium (visit: Feb. 28-29) Sarah E. Robinson University of California / Lick Observatory Abstract "Chemistry of Giant Planet Formation: Future Directions in Theory and Observations" (host: Barbara McArthur) |
Mar. 4th |
Nicole P. Vogt New Mexico State University (NMSU) Abstract "Nine Billion Years of Galaxy Evolution: Disentangling Recent Evolution and Selection Biases in Disk Galaxies" (host: Karl Gebhardt) |
Mar. 5th Wednesday |
Special Colloquium (visit: Mar. 5-6) Michael P. Muno California Institute of Technology (Caltech) Abstract "Identifying Black Holes and Neutron Stars in Order to Understand How They Formed (or, Making Dead Stars Talk)" (host: Dan Jaffe) |
Mar. 18th |
Harold 'Hal' F. Levison Southwest Research Institute/Dept. of Space Studies Abstract "The Early Dynamical Evolution of the Outer Solar System: A Nice Story" (visit: Mar. 16-19) (host: Bill Cochran) |
Mar. 25th |
Eiichiro Komatsu University of Texas at Austin Abstract "The 5-Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations: Cosmological Interpretation" |
Apr. 1st |
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Apr. 4th Friday |
Special Event: Beatrice M. Tinsley Visiting Scholar in Astronomy (visit: Apr. 2-5) Jane Arthur Centro de Radioastronomia y Astrofisica, UNAM Abstract "HII Regions for the 21st Century" (host: Dan Jaffe) |
Apr. 8th |
Special Event: Beatrice M. Tinsley Visiting Scholar in Astronomy (visit: Apr. 6-18) Philip F. Hopkins Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Abstract "Dissipation in the Formation of Elliptical Galaxies: Putting our Understanding of Spheroid Formation to the Test" (host: John Kormendy) |
Apr. 10th Thursday |
Special Event: Beatrice M. Tinsley Visiting Scholar in Astronomy (visit: Apr. 6-18) Philip F. Hopkins Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Abstract "Quasars and Galaxy Mergers: Fueling, Feedback, and Evolution" |
Apr. 14th Monday |
Fred K. Y. Lo Director, National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) Abstract "Mega-masers, Dark Energy and the Hubble Constant" (host: Neal Evans) |
Apr. 22nd |
Ehud Nakar California Institute of Technology (Caltech) (visit: Apr. 21-25) Abstract "The Search for the Origin of Short Gamma-Ray Bursts" (host: Milos Milosavljevic) |
Apr. 29th |
Special Event: Beatrice M. Tinsley Visiting Scholar in Astronomy (visit: Apr. 20 - May 04) Jonathan McKinney Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Abstract "Magnetically-Driven Ultrarelativistic Jets from Rotating Black Holes" (host: Milos Milosavljevic) |
May. 6th |
Special Event: Beatrice M. Tinsley Visiting Scholar in Astronomy (visit: May 5-16) Travis Barman Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, Arizona Abstract "Exploring the Atmospheres of Extrasolar Planets" (host: Bill Cochran) |
May. 20th |
Special Event: Beatrice M. Tinsley Visiting Scholar in Astronomy (visit: May 14-31) Rene Goosmann Astronomical Institute, Acadamy of Sciences, Czech Republic Abstract "Exploring the Innermost Accretion Regions of Supermassive Black Holes" (host: Martin Gaskell) |
May. 27th |
Special Event: Beatrice M. Tinsley Visiting Scholar in Astronomy (visit: May 14-31) Rene Goosmann Astronomical Institute, Acadamy of Sciences, Czech Republic Abstract "Using Polarization to Probe Unresolved Structure of AGNs and Other Objects" (host: Martin Gaskell) |