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Friday, January 23rd 2009
3:00 pm:
Astronomy Colloquium
in 210 Physics
Speaker: Dr. Megan Krejny, U Minnesota, Astronomy
Subject: The Hertz-VPM Polarimeter and Applications of Multiwavelength Polarimetry
Friday, January 30th 2009
3:00 pm:
Astronomy Colloquium
in 210 Physics
Speaker: Dr. Klaus Dolag, Max Planck Inst for Astrophysik, Garching
Subject: Magnetic Fields and Cosmic Rays in Galaxy Clusters
Friday, February 6th 2009
3:00 pm:
Astronomy Colloquium
in 210 Physics
Speaker: Dr. James Truran, U Chicago
Subject: The Rise, Decline, and Fall of Classical Novae
Friday, February 13th 2009
3:00 pm:
Astronomy Colloquium
in 210 Physics
Speaker: Dr. Kris Sellgren, Ohio State U
Subject: Really Cool Stars in the Galactic Center
Friday, February 20th 2009
3:00 pm:
Astronomy Colloquium
in 210 Physics
Speaker: Dr. Howard Bond, STSci
Subject: V838 Monocerotis and the New Classes of Luminous Transients
Friday, February 27th 2009
3:00 pm:
Astronomy Colloquium
in 210 Physics
Speaker: Dr. Alex Fullerton, STSci
Subject: What Are the Mass-Loss Rates of O-Type Stars?
Friday, March 6th 2009
3:00 pm:
Astronomy Colloquium
in 210 Physics
Speaker: Dr. You-Hua Chu, U Illinois
Subject: Debris Disks around Hot White Dwarfs
Friday, March 13th 2009
3:00 pm:
Astronomy Colloquium
in 210 Physics
Speaker: Dr. Morag Hastie, MMT
Subject: The MMT's Instrument Suite
Friday, March 27th 2009
3:00 pm:
Astronomy Colloquium
in 210 Physics
Speaker: Dr. Laurens Keek, U of Minnesota
Subject: Studying neutron stars in binaries with large thermonuclear explosions
Friday, April 3rd 2009
3:00 pm:
Astronomy Colloquium
in 210 Physics
Speaker: Dr. Mark Jirsa, MN Geological Survey
Subject: "The Sudbury Meteorite Impact Layer in the Lake Superior Region
Friday, April 10th 2009
3:00 pm:
Astronomy Colloquium
in 210 Physics
Speaker: Dr. John Hackwell, Aerospace
Subject: An Astronomer Looks Down
Friday, April 17th 2009
3:00 pm:
Astronomy Colloquium
in 210 Physics
Speaker: Dr. Krysztof Stanek, Ohio State U
Subject: Drinking Coffee, Writing Papers
Friday, April 24th 2009
3:00 pm:
Astronomy Colloquium
in 210 Physics
Speaker: Dr. Brian O'Shea, Michigan State U
Subject: Galaxy Clusters and the WHIM as Cosmological Probes
Friday, May 1st 2009
3:00 pm:
Astronomy Colloquium
in 210 Physics
Speaker: Dr. Oleg Gnedin, U Michigan
Subject: The final frontier: dark matter and smallest galaxies
Friday, May 8th 2009
3:00 pm:
Astronomy Colloquium
in 210 Physics
Speaker: Dr. Eduardo Telles, Observatorio Nacional, Brazil
Subject: HII Galaxies
Friday, May 15th 2009
3:00 pm:
Astronomy Colloquium
in 210 Physics
No seminar this week. Finals week.
Friday, September 18th 2009
3:35 pm:
Astronomy Colloquium
in 210 Physics
Speaker: Dr. Attila Kovacs, U of Minnesota, Astronomy
Subject: A Larger, Deeper Survey of Submillimeter Galaxies
Friday, September 25th 2009
3:35 pm:
Astronomy Colloquium
in 210 Physics
Speaker: Dr. Giles Novak, Northwestern U
Subject: Observing the Large-scale Magnetic Fields of Giant Molecular Clouds
Friday, October 2nd 2009
3:35 pm:
Astronomy Colloquium
in 210 Physics
Speaker: No colloquium this week.
Friday, October 9th 2009
3:35 pm:
Astronomy Colloquium
in 210 Physics
Speaker: Dr. Terry Oswalt, Florida Inst. of Technology
Subject: Fragile Binary Stars: Observational Leverage on Difficult Astrophysical Problems
Friday, October 16th 2009
3:35 pm:
Astronomy Colloquium
in 210 Physics
Speaker: Terry J. Jones, U Minnesota, Astronomy
Subject: UM Astronomy, the LBT, and You
Friday, October 23rd 2009
3:35 pm:
Astronomy Colloquium
in 210 Physics
Speaker: Dr. Robert Pepin, U Minnesota, Physics
Subject: A Look at Stardust's Comet Cargo
Subtitle: Ed Ney wouldn't have been surprised, but many others were
Friday, October 30th 2009
3:35 pm:
Astronomy Colloquium
in 210 Physics
Speaker: Dr. Robert Williams, Space Telescope Science Institute
Subject: The Nova Outburst: Evidence for a New Paradigm?
Friday, November 6th 2009
3:35 pm:
Astronomy Colloquium
in 210 Physics
Speaker: Dr. Jeffrey Larson, U.S. Naval Academy
Subject: Mapping the Asymmetric Thick Disk: I. Field Star Distributions of the Hercules Thick Disk Cloud
Friday, November 13th 2009
3:35 pm:
Astronomy Colloquium
in 210 Physics
Speaker: Dr. Timothy Beers, Michigan State U
Subject: The Chemo-Dynamical History of the Milky Way as Revealed by SDSS/SEGUE
Friday, November 20th 2009
3:35 pm:
Astronomy Colloquium
in 210 Physics
Speaker: No colloquium this week.
Friday, November 27th 2009
3:35 pm:
Astronomy Colloquium
in 210 Physics
No colloquium this week.
Friday, December 4th 2009
3:35 pm:
Astronomy Colloquium
in 210 Physics
Speaker: Dr. Judith Cohen, Caltech
Subject: Going, Going, Gone - The Formation of the Galactic Halo
Friday, December 11th 2009
3:35 pm:
Astronomy Colloquium
in 210 Physics
Speaker: Dr. Farhad Zadeh, Northwestern U
Subject: The Massive Black Hole at the Center of the Galaxy
Friday, December 18th 2009
3:35 pm:
Astronomy Colloquium
in 210 Physics
There will be no colloquium this week.
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