ASTROPHYSICS SEMINARS
Fall 2009
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| Nov 4 | Vivienne Wild |
Crystal Martin |
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Spring 2009
| Date | Speaker | Topic | Host |
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| Apr 8 | Paola Rebusco MIT |
Galaxy clusters in the Swift/BAT era |
Omer Blaes |
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| Apr 29 |
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| May 6 | Frans Pretorius Princeton University |
Phil Marshall |
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| May 13 | David Spergel Princeton University |
Physics / LCO |
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| May 20 | Christopher Kochanek The Ohio State University |
Tommaso Treu |
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| May 27 | David Sand CFa and LCOGT |
Getting to know our new neighbors: the star formation history and extended structure of the Hercules Milky Way satellite |
Lars Bildsten |
| Jun 3 | Sunil Golwala Caltech |
Ben Mazin |
Winter 2009
| Date | Speaker | Topic | Host |
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| Jan 14 | John Silverman ETH Zurich |
Co-evolving star formation and AGN activity within the zCOSMOS density field |
Tommaso Treu |
| Jan 21 | Philip Hopkins UC Berkeley |
Galaxy Collisions: A Factory for Quasars, Feedback, Ellipticals, and even Disks? | Crystal Martin |
| Jan 28 | Matt McQuinn Harvard University |
HeII Reionization and Its Effect on the IGM | Peng Oh |
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| Feb 11 | Ed Cackett University of Michigan |
Recent Progress in Neutron Stars |
Eli Rykoff |
| Feb 18 | Andy Lawrence University of Edinburgh |
Ski Antonucci |
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| Feb 25 | Mark Lacy Spitzer Science Center, Caltech |
The obscured growth of supermassive black holes and implications for feedback and galaxy growth |
Nicola Bennert |
| Mar 4 | Aaron Romanowsky UC Santa Cruz |
Mass and Angular Momentum in Early-type Galaxies |
Tommaso Treu |
| Mar 11 | Aaron Dutton UC Santa Cruz |
Tommaso Treu |
2007-2008
Spring 2008
| Date | Speaker | Topic | Host |
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| April 2 | Pat Ogle |
H2 Emission from Radio Galaxies--Accretion or Feedback Power? |
Ski Antonucci |
| April 9 | Ian Parrish | New Convective Instabilities in Magnetized Plasmas and their Application to Galaxy Clusters |
Peng Oh |
| April 16 | Chris Packham | Phil Lubin | |
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| April 30 | Adam Burgasser (MIT) | Lars Bildsten | |
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| May 14 | Masami Ouchi | Crystal Martin | |
| May 21 | LCO lecture | ||
| May 28 | Dominik Riechers | Crystal Martin | |
| June 4 | Rennan Barkana | Peng Oh |
Fall 2008
| Date | Speaker | Topic | Host |
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| Oct 8 | Franesco Shankar Ohio State University |
Tommaso Treu | |
| Oct 15 | Avi Shporer Weizmann Institute, Tel Aviv |
Tim Brown | |
| Oct 22 | Adam Mantz Stanford University |
Cosmological Tests Using X-ray Observations of Clusters of Galaxies |
Tommaso Treu |
| Oct 29 | Kevin Bundy UC Berkeley |
The Mass-Dependent Role of Mergers in Galaxy Evolution | Tommaso Treu |
| Nov 5 | Misty Bentz UC Irvine |
Tommaso Treu | |
| Nov 12 | Devdeep Sarkar UC Irvine |
Prospects for Probing Dark Energy and Primordial Non-Gaussianity: How well can we do? |
Peng Oh |
| Nov 19 | Zoltan Haiman Columbia University |
The Origin and Detection of High-Redshift Supermassive Black Holes |
Peng Oh |
| Nov 26 | DAY BEFORE THANKSGIVING |
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| Dec 3 | Kevin Schawinski Yale University |
Crystal Martin | |
| Dec 10 | Alexander Tchekhovskoy Harvard University |
Efficient Magnetic to Kinetic Energy Conversion even in Monopole Magnetospheres and Ultrarelativistic Jets |
Omer Blaes |
In addition to this seminar, the astrophysics group holds a weekly lunchtime gathering where items of interest are discussed in an informal setting. These meetings take place on Fridays from noon in Broida Conference Room 3302. http://www.kitp.ucsb.edu/~bildsten/friday.html