University of Minnesota
School of Physics & Astronomy

MN Inst. for Astrophysics Colloquium

Spring Semester

Friday, January 20th 2012
3:35 pm:
Speaker: Dr. Jean-Claude Passy, U of Victoria, Canada
Subject: Modeling Catastrophic Interactions in Binary Stars With Multi-Physics Simulations
Friday, January 27th 2012
3:35 pm:
Speaker: Dr. Michael Boylan-Kolchin, UC Irvine
Subject: Dark Matter and Dwarf Galaxies
Friday, February 3rd 2012
3:35 pm:
Speaker: Dr. Falk Herwig, U of Victoria, Canada
Subject: Hydrodynamic combustion in stellar evolution and the origin of the elements
Friday, February 10th 2012
3:35 pm:
Speaker: Sally Brummel and Jim Rock, Bell Museum, ExploraDome
Subject: Between Earth and Sky: Indigenous Star Lessons from Turtle Island
Friday, February 17th 2012
3:35 pm:
Speaker: Dr. Alberto Bolatto, U Maryland
Subject: The Large Scale Picture of Star Formation in Galaxies: Bright Gas, Dark Gas, and Galaxy Evolution
Friday, February 24th 2012
1:35 pm:
Speaker: Dr. John Cannon, Macalester College
Monday, February 27th 2012
10:35 am:
MN Inst. for Astrophysics Colloquium in Bell Museum auditorium
Speaker: Sally Brummel and Jim Rock
Subject: The ExploraDome program
5:35 pm:
Speaker: Dr. Alberto Bolatto, U Maryland
Friday, March 2nd 2012
3:35 pm:
Speaker: No colloquium this week
3:35 pm:
Speaker: Laura Trouille (CIERA Postdoctoral Fellow, Northwestern University)
Subject: The Monster's Fiery Breath: Supermassive Black Holes at the Centers of Distant Galaxies
Friday, March 9th 2012
3:35 pm:
Speaker: Dr. Kristen McQuinn, MN Inst for Astrophysics, UofM
Friday, March 16th 2012
3:35 pm:
Speaker: No colloquium - University closed
Friday, March 23rd 2012
3:35 pm:
Speaker: Dr. Paul Ricker, U Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Friday, March 30th 2012
3:35 pm:
Speaker: Dr. Paul Smith, U Arizona
Friday, April 6th 2012
3:35 pm:
Speaker: Dr. Claudia Scarlata, U Minnesota, MN Inst. for Astrophysics
Friday, April 13th 2012
3:35 pm:
Speaker: No colloquium
Subject: MIfA kickoff this week with the Karlis Kaufmanis public lecture
Invited speaker is Mike Brown
Friday, April 20th 2012
3:35 pm:
Speaker: Dr. Joel Kastner, Rochester Inst of Technology
Friday, April 27th 2012
3:35 pm:
Speaker: Dr. Michael Kelley, U of Maryland

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