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Friday, January 20th 2006
3:35 pm:
Astrophysics Colloquium
in 210 Physics
Speaker: Dr. Andrew Cole, University of Minnesota
Subject: K Giants and the G Dwarf Problem in the Large Magellanic Cloud
Refreshments served following the talk in the Astronomy Reading Room, 358 Physics
Friday, January 27th 2006
3:35 pm:
Astrophysics Colloquium
in 210 Physics
Speaker: Dr. Tracey DeLaney, Center for Astrophysics
Subject: Time Variability in the X-ray Nebula Powered by Pulsar B1509-58
Refreshments served following the talk in the Astronomy Reading Room, 358 Physics
Friday, February 3rd 2006
3:35 pm:
Astrophysics Colloquium
in 210 Physics
Speaker: Dr. J. Christopher Howk, Notre Dame
Subject: Studying the Cosmic Evolution of Galaxies Through Their Gas
Refreshments served following the talk in the Astronomy Reading Room, 358 Physics
Friday, February 10th 2006
3:35 pm:
Astrophysics Colloquium
in 210 Physics
Speaker: Dr. Tim Young, U. North Dakota
Subject: An Optical Afterglow Model For Bright Linear Type II Supernovae
Refreshments served following the talk in the Astronomy Reading Room, 358 Physics
Friday, February 17th 2006
3:35 pm:
Astrophysics Colloquium
in 210 Physics
Speaker: Dr. Fred Lo, NRAO
Subject: Mega-masers and Dark Energy
Refreshments served following the talk in the Astronomy Reading Room, 358 Physics
Friday, February 24th 2006
3:35 pm:
Astrophysics Colloquium
in 210 Physics
Speaker: Dr. J.D. Smith, University of Arizona
Subject: Spitzer SINGS a New Song
Refreshments served following the talk in the Astronomy Reading Room, 358 Physics
Friday, March 3rd 2006
3:35 pm:
Astrophysics Colloquium
in 210 Physics
Speaker: Dr. Michelle Creech-Eakman, New Mexico Tech
Subject: Magdalena Ridge Observatory Interferometer: A Facility Class Optical Imaging Interferometer
Refreshments served following the talk in the Astronomy Reading Room, 358 Physics
Friday, March 10th 2006
3:35 pm:
Astrophysics Colloquium
in 210 Physics
Speaker: Dr. Tom Roellig, NASA/Ames Research Center
Subject: Spitzer Spectroscopy of Low-Mass Dwarfs - Clouds and Chemistry at the Bottom of the IMF
Refreshments served following the talk in the Astronomy Reading Room, 358 Physics
Friday, March 17th 2006
3:35 pm:
Astrophysics Colloquium
in 210 Physics
Subject: No Astrophysics Colloquium this week.
Friday, March 24th 2006
3:35 pm:
Astrophysics Colloquium
in 210 Physics
Speaker: Dr. Karl Haisch, Utah Valley State College
Subject: New Observational Frontiers in the Multiplicity of Young Stars
Refreshments served following the talk in the Astronomy Reading Room, 358 Physics
Friday, March 31st 2006
3:35 pm:
Astrophysics Colloquium
in 210 Physics
Speaker: Dr. Christopher Reynolds, University of Maryland
Subject: Radio-galaxy Feedback in the Cores of Galaxy Clusters
Refreshments served following the talk in the Astronomy Reading Room, 358 Physics
Friday, April 7th 2006
3:35 pm:
Astrophysics Colloquium
in 210 Physics
Speaker: Dr. John Weiss, Space Science Inst/CICLOPS
Subject: Gravity's Playground: New Views of Saturn's Rings with Cassini
Refreshments served following the talk in the Astronomy Reading Room, 358 Physics
Friday, April 14th 2006
3:35 pm:
Astrophysics Colloquium
in 210 Physics
Speaker: Dr. Douglas Arnold, University of Minnesota, Math Institute
Subject: Numerical Simulation and Gravitational Astronomy
Refreshments served following the talk in the Astronomy Reading Room, 358 Physics
Friday, April 21st 2006
3:35 pm:
Astrophysics Colloquium
in 210 Physics
Speaker: Dr. Adam Frank, University of Rochester
Subject: Hypersonic Swizzle Sticks: Proto-stellar Jets and Turbulence in Molecular Clouds
Refreshments served following the talk in the Astronomy Reading Room, 358 Physics
Friday, April 28th 2006
3:35 pm:
Astrophysics Colloquium
in 210 Physics
Speaker: Dr. Tim Young, U. North Dakota
Subject: An Optical Afterglow Model For Bright Linear Type II Supernovae
Refreshments served following the talk in the Astronomy Reading Room, 358 Physics
Friday, May 5th 2006
3:35 pm:
Astrophysics Colloquium
in 210 Physics
No Seminar. Will resume in the fall.
Friday, September 15th 2006
3:35 pm:
Astrophysics Colloquium
in 210 Physics
Speaker: Dr. Adam Steltzner, JPL
Due to family illness, this colloquium has been cancelled.
Friday, September 22nd 2006
3:35 pm:
Astrophysics Colloquium
in 210 Physics
Speaker: Dr. William Reach, Spitzer Science Center
Subject: Star Formation in the Elephant Trunk Nebula
Refreshments served following the talk in the Astronomy Reading Room, 358 Physics
Friday, September 29th 2006
3:35 pm:
Astrophysics Colloquium
in 210 Physics
Speaker: Dr. Sebastian Hidalgo-Rodriguez, U. Minnesota, Astronomy
Subject: On the Extended Structures of Dwarf Galaxies
Refreshments served following the talk in the Astronomy Reading Room, 358 Physics
Friday, October 6th 2006
3:35 pm:
Astrophysics Colloquium
in 210 Physics
Speaker: Dr. Jacco van Loon, Keele University
Subject: Red (super)giants and Their Galactic Ecology
Refreshments served following the talk in the Astronomy Reading Room, 358 Physics
Friday, October 13th 2006
3:35 pm:
Astrophysics Colloquium
in 210 Physics
No Astrophysics Colloquium this week.
Friday, October 20th 2006
3:35 pm:
Astrophysics Colloquium
in 210 Physics
Speaker: Dr. Michal Janssen, University of Minnesota, History of Science & Technology
Subject: Why Einstein Introduced the Cosmological Constant
Refreshments served following the talk in the Astronomy Reading Room, 358 Physics
Friday, October 27th 2006
3:35 pm:
Astrophysics Colloquium
in 210 Physics
Speaker: Dr. Ludmilla Kolokolova, University of Maryland
Subject: Deep Impact Mission: What We Have Learned
Refreshments served following the talk in the Astronomy Reading Room, 358 Physics
Friday, November 3rd 2006
3:35 pm:
Astrophysics Colloquium
in 210 Physics
Speaker: Dr. Eiichiro Komatsu, University of Texas
Subject: Polarized Light in the Cosmic Microwave Background: WMAP Three-year Results
Refreshments served following the talk in the Astronomy Reading Room, 358 Physics
Friday, November 10th 2006
3:35 pm:
Astrophysics Colloquium
in 210 Physics
Speaker: Dr. Roy Gal, University of California, Davis
Subject: The ORELSE Survey: Observations of Redshift Evolution in Large Scale Environments
Refreshments served following the talk in the Astronomy Reading Room, 358 Physics
Friday, November 17th 2006
3:35 pm:
Astrophysics Colloquium
in 210 Physics
Speaker: Dr. Jennifer Hoffman, UC Berkeley
Subject: Polarized Line Profiles as Diagnostics of Circumstellar Geometry In Type IIn Supernovae
Refreshments served following the talk in the Astronomy Reading Room, 358 Physics
Tuesday, November 21st 2006
2:30 pm:
Astronomy and Cosmology Seminar
in 435 Physics
The seminar will not be held this week.
Friday, November 24th 2006
3:35 pm:
Astrophysics Colloquium
in 210 Physics
No seminar this week - Thanksgiving Holiday
Tuesday, November 28th 2006
2:30 pm:
Astronomy and Cosmology Seminar
in 435 Physics
The seminar will not be held this week.
Friday, December 1st 2006
3:35 pm:
Astrophysics Colloquium
in 210 Physics
Speaker: Patrick Slane, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Subject: The Structure and Evolution of Pulsar Wind Nebulae
Refreshments served following the talk in the Astronomy Reading Room, 358 Physics
Friday, December 8th 2006
3:35 pm:
Astrophysics Colloquium
in 210 Physics
Speaker: Dr. James Truran, U. Chicago
Subject: Type Ia Supernovae: Energetics, Explosions, and Nucleosynthesis
Refreshments served following the talk in the Astronomy Reading Room, 358 Physics
Friday, December 15th 2006
3:35 pm:
Astrophysics Colloquium
in 210 Physics
Colloquium is done for this semester.
Friday, December 22nd 2006
3:35 pm:
Astrophysics Colloquium
in 210 Physics
Colloquium is done for this semester.
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