University of Minnesota
School of Physics & Astronomy

MN Inst. for Astrophysics Colloquium

Fall Semester

Friday, September 15th 2006
3:35 pm:
Astrophysics Colloquium in 210 Physics
Speaker: Dr. Adam Steltzner, JPL
Due to family illness, this colloquium has been cancelled.
Friday, September 22nd 2006
3:35 pm:
Astrophysics Colloquium in 210 Physics
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
3:35 pm:
Astrophysics Colloquium in 210 Physics
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
3:35 pm:
Astrophysics Colloquium in 210 Physics
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
3:35 pm:
Astrophysics Colloquium in 210 Physics
No Astrophysics Colloquium this week.
Friday, October 20th 2006
3:35 pm:
Astrophysics Colloquium in 210 Physics
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
3:35 pm:
Astrophysics Colloquium in 210 Physics
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
3:35 pm:
Astrophysics Colloquium in 210 Physics
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
3:35 pm:
Astrophysics Colloquium in 210 Physics
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
3:35 pm:
Astrophysics Colloquium in 210 Physics
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
2:30 pm:
The seminar will not be held this week.
Friday, November 24th 2006
3:35 pm:
Astrophysics Colloquium in 210 Physics
No seminar this week - Thanksgiving Holiday
Tuesday, November 28th 2006
2:30 pm:
The seminar will not be held this week.
Friday, December 1st 2006
3:35 pm:
Astrophysics Colloquium in 210 Physics
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
3:35 pm:
Astrophysics Colloquium in 210 Physics
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
3:35 pm:
Astrophysics Colloquium in 210 Physics
Colloquium is done for this semester.
Friday, December 22nd 2006
3:35 pm:
Astrophysics Colloquium in 210 Physics
Colloquium is done for this semester.

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