University of Minnesota
School of Physics & Astronomy

MN Inst. for Astrophysics Colloquium

Fall Semester

Thursday, September 2nd 2010
1:00 pm:
Thesis Defense in 133 Physics
Speaker: Lynn B. Wilson III, University of Minnesota
Subject: The Microphysics of Collisionless Shocks
Friday, September 10th 2010
3:35 pm:
Astronomy Colloquium in 210 Physics
No colloquium
Friday, September 17th 2010
3:35 pm:
Astronomy Colloquium in 210 Physics
Speaker: No colloquium
Friday, September 24th 2010
Speaker: Andrew Helton thesis defense
Friday, October 1st 2010
3:35 pm:
Astronomy Colloquium in 210 Physics
Speaker: No colloquium - Astronomy Picnic
Friday, October 8th 2010
3:35 pm:
Astronomy Colloquium in 210 Physics
Speaker: Dr. Andrew MacHadyen, NYU
Subject: Extreme Explosions - The Dynamics and Observational Signatures of Gamma-Ray Bursts
Friday, October 15th 2010
3:35 pm:
Astronomy Colloquium in 210 Physics
Speaker: Dr. Adwin Boogert, IPAC, Caltech
Subject: Interstellar Ices
Friday, October 22nd 2010
3:35 pm:
Astronomy Colloquium in 210 Physics
Speaker: Dr. Brian Metzger, Princeton U
Subject: The Proto-Magnetar Model for Gamma Ray Bursts
Friday, October 29th 2010
3:35 pm:
Astronomy Colloquium in 210 Physics
Speaker: Dr. Mark Halpern, U British Columbia
Subject: Having a BLAST in Antarctica, and measuring star formation history with a submillimeter camera
Friday, November 5th 2010
3:35 pm:
Astronomy Colloquium in 210 Physics
Speaker: Dr. Chris Reynolds, U Maryland
Subject: New Insights Into Black Hole Accretion
Friday, November 12th 2010
3:35 pm:
Astronomy Colloquium in 210 Physics
Speaker:  Dr. Niklas Karlsson, U Minnesota, Physics
Subject: On the Origin of Cosmic Rays
Friday, November 19th 2010
3:35 pm:
Astronomy Colloquium in 210 Physics
Speaker: Dr. Eric Thrane,University of Minnesota
Subject: Listening for the Big Bang: searching for stochastic gravitational-wave backgrounds and foregrounds
Friday, November 26th 2010
3:35 pm:
Astronomy Colloquium in 210 Physics
There will be no seminar this week. The University is closed for the Thanksgiving Holiday
Friday, December 3rd 2010
3:35 pm:
Astronomy Colloquium in 210 Physics
Speaker: Dr. Alan McConnachie, NRC Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, Victoria, Canada
Subject: Galaxy Archaeology in the Near Field
Friday, December 10th 2010
3:35 pm:
Astronomy Colloquium in 210 Physics
Speaker: Dr. Roberta Humphreys, U Minnesota, Astronomy
Subject: A Galactic Asymmetry and Interaction with the Bar in the Disk
Friday, December 17th 2010
3:35 pm:
Astronomy Colloquium in 210 Physics
No colloquium. Finals begin.
Friday, December 24th 2010
3:35 pm:
Astronomy Colloquium in 210 Physics
No colloquium. University winter closure.

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