MN Inst. for Astrophysics Colloquium
Fall Semester
Friday, September 15th 2006
Speaker: Dr. Adam Steltzner, JPL
Due to family illness, this colloquium has been cancelled.
Friday, September 22nd 2006
Speaker: Dr. William Reach, Spitzer Science Center
Subject: Star Formation in the Elephant Trunk Nebula
Refreshments served following the talk in the Astronomy Reading Room, 358 Physics
Friday, September 29th 2006
Speaker: Dr. Sebastian Hidalgo-Rodriguez, U. Minnesota, Astronomy
Subject: On the Extended Structures of Dwarf Galaxies
Refreshments served following the talk in the Astronomy Reading Room, 358 Physics
Friday, October 6th 2006
Speaker: Dr. Jacco van Loon, Keele University
Subject: Red (super)giants and Their Galactic Ecology
Refreshments served following the talk in the Astronomy Reading Room, 358 Physics
Friday, October 13th 2006
No Astrophysics Colloquium this week.
Friday, October 20th 2006
Speaker: Dr. Michal Janssen, University of Minnesota, History of Science & Technology
Subject: Why Einstein Introduced the Cosmological Constant
Refreshments served following the talk in the Astronomy Reading Room, 358 Physics
Friday, October 27th 2006
Speaker: Dr. Ludmilla Kolokolova, University of Maryland
Subject: Deep Impact Mission: What We Have Learned
Refreshments served following the talk in the Astronomy Reading Room, 358 Physics
Friday, November 3rd 2006
Speaker: Dr. Eiichiro Komatsu, University of Texas
Subject: Polarized Light in the Cosmic Microwave Background: WMAP Three-year Results
Refreshments served following the talk in the Astronomy Reading Room, 358 Physics
Friday, November 10th 2006
Speaker: Dr. Roy Gal, University of California, Davis
Subject: The ORELSE Survey: Observations of Redshift Evolution in Large Scale Environments
Refreshments served following the talk in the Astronomy Reading Room, 358 Physics
Friday, November 17th 2006
Speaker: Dr. Jennifer Hoffman, UC Berkeley
Subject: Polarized Line Profiles as Diagnostics of Circumstellar Geometry In Type IIn Supernovae
Refreshments served following the talk in the Astronomy Reading Room, 358 Physics
Tuesday, November 21st 2006
The seminar will not be held this week.
Friday, November 24th 2006
No seminar this week - Thanksgiving Holiday
Tuesday, November 28th 2006
The seminar will not be held this week.
Friday, December 1st 2006
Speaker: Patrick Slane, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Subject: The Structure and Evolution of Pulsar Wind Nebulae
Refreshments served following the talk in the Astronomy Reading Room, 358 Physics
Friday, December 8th 2006
Speaker: Dr. James Truran, U. Chicago
Subject: Type Ia Supernovae: Energetics, Explosions, and Nucleosynthesis
Refreshments served following the talk in the Astronomy Reading Room, 358 Physics
Friday, December 15th 2006
Colloquium is done for this semester.
Friday, December 22nd 2006
Colloquium is done for this semester.
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