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Astronomy Colloquium

Spring Semester

Friday, January 25th 2008
3:00 pm:
Astronomy Colloquium in 210 Physics
There will be no Colloquium this week.
Friday, February 1st 2008
3:00 pm:
Astronomy Colloquium in 210 Physics
Speaker: Dr. Richard Massey, Caltech
Subject: Viewing Dark Matter with Weak Gravitational Lensing
Friday, February 8th 2008
3:00 pm:
Astronomy Colloquium in 210 Physics
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
3:00 pm:
Astronomy Colloquium in 210 Physics
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
3:00 pm:
Astronomy Colloquium in 210 Physics
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
3:00 pm:
Astronomy Colloquium in 210 Physics
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
3:00 pm:
Astronomy Colloquium in 210 Physics
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
3:00 pm:
Astronomy Colloquium in 210 Physics
Speaker: The Astronomy Colloquium will not be held this week.
Friday, March 28th 2008
3:00 pm:
Astronomy Colloquium in 210 Physics
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
3:00 pm:
Astronomy Colloquium in 210 Physics
Speaker: Dr. Pauline Barmby, U. Western Ontario
Subject: Big and Little Pictures of M31
Refreshments will follow in Physics 358
Friday, April 11th 2008
3:00 pm:
Astronomy Colloquium in 210 Physics
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
3:00 pm:
Astronomy Colloquium in 210 Physics
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
3:00 pm:
Astronomy Colloquium in 210 Physics
Speaker: Dr. Ben Davies, Rochester Institute of Technology
Subject: The Scutum Red-Supergiant Clusters
Refreshments will follow in Physics 358
Friday, May 2nd 2008
3:00 pm:
Astronomy Colloquium in 210 Physics
Speaker: Dr. Ben Williams, U. Washington
Subject: The Chandra View of M31 and M33
Refreshments will follow in Physics 358
Friday, May 9th 2008
3:00 pm:
Astronomy Colloquium in 210 Physics
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
3:00 pm:
Astronomy Colloquium in 210 Physics
There will be no Colloquium this week.
Friday, May 23rd 2008
3:00 pm:
Astronomy Colloquium in 210 Physics
The colloquium has ended for the semester. It will return in September 2008

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