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Monday, January 19th 2009
12:15 pm:
Cosmology Lunchtime Seminar
in 435 Physics
There will be no seminar this week.
Monday, January 26th 2009
12:15 pm:
Cosmology Lunchtime Seminar
in 435 Physics
Speaker: Evan Skillman, University of Minnesota
Subject: To be announced.
Monday, February 2nd 2009
12:15 pm:
Cosmology Lunchtime Seminar
in 435 Physics
Speaker: Cyril Pitrou, University of Oslo, Norway
Subject: The non-linear evolution of the cosmic microwave background
Monday, February 9th 2009
12:15 pm:
Cosmology Lunchtime Seminar
in 435 Physics
Speaker: Jeff McMahon, University of Chicago
Subject: Cosmology with the South Pole Telescope
Monday, February 16th 2009
12:15 pm:
Cosmology Lunchtime Seminar
in 435 Physics
Speaker: Christiano Galbiati, Princeton
Subject: Noble Liquids - The Revolution in Direct Dark Matter Searches Recent results from Borexino
Monday, February 23rd 2009
12:15 pm:
Cosmology Lunchtime Seminar
in Physics
Speaker: Dr. Sam Waldman, LIGO MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139
Subject: Attometer Astrophysics: Gravitational wave astronomy with LIGO
Dr. Sam Waldman is an astro/cosmology faculty candidate,
Monday, March 2nd 2009
12:15 pm:
Cosmology Lunchtime Seminar
in 435 Physics
Speaker: Dr. Amanda Weinstein, UCLA
Subject: Exploring the extreme universe: astronomy and particle physics with VHE gamma-rays
Dr. Amanda Weinstein is an astro/cosmology faculty candidate,
Monday, March 9th 2009
12:15 pm:
Cosmology Lunchtime Seminar
in 435 Physics
Speaker: Eric Thrane, University of Minnesota
Subject: Probing Anisotropies in the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background
Monday, March 16th 2009
12:15 pm:
Cosmology Lunchtime Seminar
in 435 Physics
There will be no seminar this week.
Monday, March 23rd 2009
12:15 pm:
Cosmology Lunchtime Seminar
in 435 Physics
Speaker: Liliya L.R. Williams, University of Minnesota
Subject: Relaxation of Dark Matter Halos
Monday, March 30th 2009
12:15 pm:
Cosmology Lunchtime Seminar
in 435 Physics
Speaker: Benjamin Gold, John's Hopkins University
Subject: Five Years of WMAP: Galactic Foreground Emission
Monday, April 6th 2009
12:15 pm:
Cosmology Lunchtime Seminar
in 435 Physics
Speaker: Terry Jones, University of Minnesota
Subject: Weighing the Milky Way and Its Black Hole
Monday, April 13th 2009
12:15 pm:
Cosmology Lunchtime Seminar
in 435 Physics
Speaker: Robert Gehrz, University of Minnesota
Subject: Stardust review: Astrophysical grains in stellar winds, debris disks, the ISM, and the Solar System
Monday, April 20th 2009
12:15 pm:
Cosmology Lunchtime Seminar
in 435 Physics
Speaker: Gerald J. Wasserburg, California Institute of Technology
Subject: The Origin of Lithium-rich Giant Stars & Some Broader Implications on Galactic Inventory of 7Li & 3He
12:15 pm:
Joint Cosmology Lunchtime and Nuclear Physics Seminar
in 435 Physics
Speaker: G. J. Wasserburg, Caltech
Subject: The Origin of Lithium-rich giant stars & some broader implications on Galactic inventory of 7Li & 3He
Monday, April 27th 2009
12:15 pm:
Cosmology Lunchtime Seminar
in 435 Physics
Speaker: Kris Davidson
Subject: Why VM Stars are Dangerous for Theory
Monday, May 4th 2009
12:15 pm:
Cosmology Lunchtime Seminar
in 435 Physics
Speaker: Lawrence Rudnick, University of Minnesota
Subject: First Light: a parliament of White Papers
1:00 pm:
Thesis Defense
in Mayo 3-100
Speaker: Andrew Thompson, University of Minnesota
Subject: The Structural Dynamics of Force Generation in Muscle, Probed by Electron Paramagnetic Resonance of Bifunctionally Labeled Myosin
This is the public portion of Mr. Thompson's thesis defense.
Monday, May 11th 2009
12:15 pm:
Cosmology Lunchtime Seminar
in 435 Physics
No seminar this week. Finals week.
Monday, September 14th 2009
12:15 pm:
Cosmology Lunchtime Seminar
in 435 Physics
There will be no seminar this week.
Monday, September 21st 2009
12:15 pm:
Cosmology Lunchtime Seminar
in 435 Physics
Speaker: Meir Shimon-Moshe (UCSD)
Subject: CMB and Fundamental Physics
Tuesday, September 22nd 2009
09:00 am:
Special Cosmology Seminar
in 435 Physics
Speaker: Meir Shimon-Moshe, UCSD
Subject: Discussion of CMB Systematics
This is a group discussion that is scheduled to last two-hours.
Monday, September 28th 2009
12:15 pm:
Cosmology Lunchtime Seminar
in 435 Physics
Speaker: Kin-Wang Ng, Academia Sinica/SLA
Subject: Dynamical dark energy and its coupling to matter
3:40 pm:
Special Cosmology Seminar
in 157 Physics
Speaker: Riccardo DeSalvo, California Institute of Technology
Subject: Dissipation in Metals, From Viscous to
Monday, October 5th 2009
12:15 pm:
Cosmology Lunchtime Seminar
in 435 Physics
There will be no seminar this week.
Monday, October 12th 2009
12:15 pm:
Cosmology Lunchtime Seminar
in 435 Physics
Speaker: Jose Cembranos, University of Minnesota
Subject: Dark Matter from Effective Theories
Monday, October 19th 2009
12:15 pm:
Cosmology Lunchtime Seminar
in 435 Physics
Speaker: Kyle Zilic, University of Minnesota
Subject: Experimental Design of EBEX
Monday, October 26th 2009
12:15 pm:
Cosmology Lunchtime Seminar
in 435 Physics
Speaker: Yong-Zhong Qian, University of Minnesota
Subject: What can we learn from supernova neutrinos?
Monday, November 2nd 2009
12:15 pm:
Cosmology Lunchtime Seminar
in 435 Physics
There will be no seminar this week.
Monday, November 9th 2009
12:15 pm:
Cosmology Lunchtime Seminar
in 435 Physics
Speaker: Laurens Keek, University of Minnesota
Subject: X-ray bursts with too short recurrence times
Monday, November 16th 2009
12:15 pm:
Cosmology Lunchtime Seminar
in 435 Physics
Speaker: Barun Dhar, University of Minnesota
Subject: Surface Density profiles of Dark Matter Halos and the Light distribution in Ellipticals
Monday, November 23rd 2009
12:15 pm:
Cosmology Lunchtime Seminar
in 435 Physics
There will be no seminar this week.
Monday, November 30th 2009
12:15 pm:
Cosmology Lunchtime Seminar
in 435 Physics
Speaker: Larry Rudnick, University of Minnesota
Subject: The Cold Spot and the Void - a two year retrospective
Monday, December 7th 2009
12:15 pm:
Cosmology Lunchtime Seminar
in 435 Physics
There will be no seminar this week.
Monday, December 14th 2009
12:15 pm:
Cosmology Lunchtime Seminar
in 435 Physics
Note: this week only the seminar will be replaced with the Hubmayr thesis defense
12:15 pm:
Thesis Defense
in 435 Physics
Speaker: Johannes Hubmayr, University of Minnesota
Subject: Bolometric detectors for EBEX: a balloon-borne cosmic microwave background polarimeter
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