Spring Semester
Friday, January 25th 2008
There will be no Colloquium this week.
Friday, February 1st 2008
Speaker: Dr. Richard Massey, Caltech
Subject: Viewing Dark Matter with Weak Gravitational Lensing
Friday, February 8th 2008
Speaker: Dr. David Yuen, U Minnesota, Geology
Subject: Tsunami Waves Along the Chinese Coast from Earthquakes Along Nearby Subducting Zones
Refreshments served in 358 Physics at 4:00pm
Friday, February 15th 2008
Speaker: Dr. Juri Toomre, U Colorado, Boulder
Subject: Unfolding the Sources of Solar Magnetism with Helioseismology and Simulations
Refreshments will be in Physics 358 at 4:00pm
Friday, February 22nd 2008
Speaker: Dr. Annick Pouquet, High Altitude Obs., Boulder, CO
Subject: Interactions of Eddies and Waves in MHD Turbulence
Refreshments will follow in Physics 358
Friday, February 29th 2008
Speaker: Dr. David Brain, U.C. Berkeley
Subject: Aurora in the Lumpy Magnetic Fields of Mars
Refreshments will follow in Physics 358
Friday, March 7th 2008
Speaker: Dr. Mordecai-Mark Mac Low
Subject: Control of Star Formation by Gravitational Instability and Supersonic Turbulence
Refreshments will follow in Physics 358
Friday, March 21st 2008
Speaker: The Astronomy Colloquium will not be held this week.
Friday, March 28th 2008
Speaker: Dr. Brad Peterson, Ohio State U
Subject: Masses of Black Holes in Active Galactic Nuclei
Refreshments will follow in Physics 358
Friday, April 4th 2008
Speaker: Dr. Pauline Barmby, U. Western Ontario
Subject: Big and Little Pictures of M31
Refreshments will follow in Physics 358
Friday, April 11th 2008
Speaker: Dr. Alex Lazarian, U Wisconsin, Madison
Subject: Quantitative Theory of Grain Alignment and its Implications
Refreshments will follow in Physics 358
Friday, April 18th 2008
Speaker: Dr. Henric Krawcyznski, Washington U, St. Louis, MO
Subject: Gamma-ray Astronomy with the VERITAS Experiment
Refreshments will follow in Physics 358
Friday, April 25th 2008
Speaker: Dr. Ben Davies, Rochester Institute of Technology
Subject: The Scutum Red-Supergiant Clusters
Refreshments will follow in Physics 358
Friday, May 2nd 2008
Speaker: Dr. Ben Williams, U. Washington
Subject: The Chandra View of M31 and M33
Refreshments will follow in Physics 358
Friday, May 9th 2008
Speaker: Dr. John Moustakas, New York U.
Subject: Ten Billion Years of Chemical Evolution in Star-Forming Galaxies
Refreshments will follow in Physics 358
Friday, May 16th 2008
There will be no Colloquium this week.
Friday, May 23rd 2008
The colloquium has ended for the semester. It will return in September 2008
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