University of Minnesota
School of Physics & Astronomy

Cosmology Lunchtime Seminar

Fall Semester

Monday, September 4th 2006
Labor Day Holiday - the Fall Seminar Series will begin next week
Monday, September 11th 2006
Speaker: Yong Qian, University of Minnesota
Subject: A stellar solution to the cosmological Li discrepancy?
Monday, September 18th 2006
Speaker: Masahide Yamaguchi, Aoyama Gakuin University
Subject: WMAP and smooth hybrid new inflation
Monday, October 2nd 2006
Speaker: Kenji Kadota, University of Minnesota
Subject: CMB, Dark Energy and Galaxy Clusters
Monday, October 9th 2006
Speaker: Larry Rudnick, University of Minnesota
Subject: Recent Developments in Baryon Fractions from X-ray clusters
Monday, October 16th 2006
Speaker: Tomo Matsumura, University of Minnesota
Subject: Reionization
Monday, October 23rd 2006
Speaker: Burak Himmetoglu, University of Minnesota
Subject: Stability analysis and de Sitter solutions for an extended brane in a six dimensional compactification
Monday, October 30th 2006
Speaker: Jim Kneller, University of Minnesota
Subject: Sterile Neutrinos in the Early Universe
Monday, November 6th 2006
Speaker: Jiun-Huei Proty Wu, National Taiwan University
Subject: CMB Constraints on Cosmic Defects, Inflation, String Theory, & SUSY GUTs
Monday, November 13th 2006
Speaker: Terry Jones, University of Minnesota
Subject: In Search of Ho
Monday, November 20th 2006
Speaker: Asad Aboobaker, University of Minnesota
Subject: Revised Values of n_s from WMAP 3-year Data
Monday, November 27th 2006
Speaker: Keith Olive, University of Minnesota
Subject: The effects of variable couplings on BBN
Monday, December 4th 2006
Speaker: Tom Jones, University of Minnesota
Subject: Cosmic Ray Feedback in Structure Formation
Monday, December 11th 2006
Speaker: Pearl Sandick, University of Minnesota
Subject: EGRET's Excess of Diffuse Gamma Rays as Dark Matter Tracer
Monday, December 18th 2006
Seminar is done for this semester.

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