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Week of October 6, 2008 Monday, October 6 Institute for Advanced Study Informal Astrophysics Seminar - NOTE DIFFERENT DAY 11:30am   Topic: Cygnus A Revisited: a Precessing Jet and Emission from Multiple Jet Activity Periods Speaker: Katrien Steenbrugge/Oxford University Room: Bloomberg Hall Astrophysics Library Rutgers Monday Astrophysics Research Seminars 12:00pm   Topic: Stochasticity in N-body Simulations Speaker: Jerry Sellwood/Rutgers University Room: Serin Hall, Room 385E Princeton University Interstellar Medium and Star Formation Seminar 12:00pm   Topic: Constraining the Nature of Star Formation at High Redshift Speaker: Kyoung-Soo Lee/Yale University Room: Peyton Hall, Room 33 Princeton University Princeton Center for Theoretical Science - Big Bang and Beyond Program Group Meeting 2:00pm   Topic: Holographic Systematics of D-brane Inflation Speaker: Liam McAllister/Cornell University Room: PCTS, Jadwin Hall, 4th floor   Topic: Discussion: Cosmologist's vs. String Theorist's Views of Inflation Speaker: Juan Maldacena, and V. (Slava) Mukhanov/Institute for Advanced Study, University of Munich Room: PCTS, Jadwin Hall, 4th floor Tuesday, October 7 Institute for Advanced Study Astrophysics Seminar 11:00am   Topic: Exploring the ISM with Pulsar-Based Holography Speaker: Daniel Stinebring/Oberlin College Room: Bloomberg Hall Astrophysics Library Institute for Advanced Study Bahcall Lunch 12:30pm   Room: Dilworth Room Wednesday, October 8 Princeton University Wunch Talk 12:30pm   Topic: The Stellar Populations of the Andromeda Spiral Galaxy Speaker: Jason Kalirai/University of California Observatories/Lick Observatory Room: Peyton Hall, Room 33 (Old Tea Room) Princeton University Princeton Center for Theoretical Science - Big Bang and Beyond Program Group Meeting 12:30pm   Topic: Topology from Cosmology Speaker: Vijay Balasubramanian/University of Pennsylvania Room: PCTS, Jadwin Hall, 4th floor   Topic: Inflation, Dark Energy and Extra Dimensions Speaker: Paul Steinhardt/Princeton University Room: PCTS, Jadwin Hall, 4th floor Thursday, October 9 Princeton University Department of Physics Colloquium 4:30pm   Topic: Observation of a New Class of Topological States of Quantum Matter Speaker: M Zahid Hasan/Princeton University Room: Jadwin Hall A-10 Friday, October 10 Princeton University Astrophysical Sciences Talk 12:00pm   Topic: H2 Formation and Excitation in Galaxy-wide Shocks Speaker: Pierre Guillard/Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale, Orsay Room: Peyton Hall, Room 33 Princeton University Gravity Group Astrophysics/Cosmology Lunch - NOTE: ROOM CHANGE 12:00pm   Topic: Searching for the Echoes of Inflation in the Polarization of the CMB Speaker: Bill Jones/Princeton University Room: Jadwin 111 (DIFFERENT ROOM) Rutgers University Astrophysics Seminar 3:00pm   Topic: Anomalies in Dark Matter Results Speaker: Neal Weiner/New York University Room: Serin Hall, Room 385E Future Seminars Monday, October 13 Rutgers Monday Astrophysics Research Seminars 12:00pm   Topic: Clusters in the Southern Cosmology Survey Speaker: Felipe Menanteau/Rutgers University Room: Serin Hall, Room 385E Princeton University Astrophysics Monday Seminars (formerly entitled "Interstellar Medium and Star Formation Seminar") 12:00pm   Topic: Subaru Deep Wide-Field Surveys of Lya Emitters at z=3-9 for Galaxy Formation and Reionization Speaker: Masami Ouchi/The Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington Room: Peyton Hall, Room 33 Tuesday, October 14 Institute for Advanced Study Astrophysics Seminar 11:00am   Topic: Cosmology with the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect: New Results and Future Plans Speaker: John Carlstrom/University of Chicago Room: Bloomberg Hall Astrophysics Library Institute for Advanced Study Bahcall Lunch 12:30pm   Room: Dilworth Room Wednesday, October 15 Princeton University Wunch Talk 12:30pm   Topic: Quasars Probing Quasars: Understanding the Physics of Massive Galaxy Formation Speaker: Joseph Hennawi/University of California, Berkeley Room: Peyton Hall, Room 33 (Old Tea Room) University of Pennsylvania Astrophysics Group Seminar 4:00pm   Topic: Quintessence or Dust? Progress and Prospects for Supernova Cosmology Speaker: Saurabh Jha/Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Room: David Rittenhouse Laboratory (DRL) (209 South 33rd Street), Room A4 Thursday, October 16 Princeton University Princeton Center for Theoretical Science - Big Bang and Beyond Program Micro-Symposium - Day 1 11:00am   Topic: Forefronts of LHC Physics Speaker: See all details - http://pcts.princeton.edu/pcts/bigbang/bigbang.html/ Room: PCTS, Jadwin Hall, 4th floor Institute for Advanced Study Informal Astrophysics Seminar 11:30am   Topic: Chasing High-Magnification Microlensing Events to Hunt for Extrasolar Planets: Discoveries, Surprises and Challenges Speaker: Subo Dong/Ohio State Room: Bloomberg Hall Astrophysics Library Princeton University Department of Physics Colloquium/Princeton Center for Theoretical Science - Big Bang and Beyond Program Public Lecture 4:30pm   Topic: The Large Hadron Collider: A New Era in High Energy Physics Speaker: Matthew Strassler/Rutgers University Room: Jadwin Hall, Room A-10 Friday, October 17 Princeton University Princeton Center for Theorectical Science - Big Bang and Beyond Program Micro-Symposium - Day 2 9:30am   Topic: Forefronts of LHC Physics Speaker: see all details http://pcts.princeton.edu/pcts/bigbang/bigbang.html/ Room: PCTS, Jadwin Hall, 4th floor Princeton University Astrophysics Seminar 2:00pm   Topic: The Physics of Collisionless Shocks Speaker: Anatoly Spitkovsky/Princeton University Room: Peyton Hall, Room 33 Rutgers University Astrophysics Seminar 3:00pm   Topic: The Evolution of Galaxies in Different Environments Speaker: Jacqueline van Gorkom/Columbia University Room: Serin Hall, Room 385E Monday, October 20 Princeton University Astrophysics Monday Seminars 12:00pm   Topic: AMR Studies of Star Formation: Simulations and Simulated Observations Speaker: Stella Offner/University of California, Berkeley Room: Peyton Hall, Room 33 Princeton University Princeton Center for Theoretical Science - Big Bang and Beyond Program Group Meeting 2:30pm   Topic: TBA Speaker: David E. Kaplan/Johns Hopkins University Room: PCTS, Jadwin Hall, 4th floor Tuesday, October 21 Institute for Advanced Study Astrophysics Seminar 11:00am   Topic: TBA Speaker: Avishay Gal-Yam/Weizmann Institute Room: Bloomberg Hall Astrophysics Library Institute for Advanced Study Bahcall Lunch 12:30pm   Room: Dilworth Room Wednesday, October 22 Princeton University Wunch Talk 12:30pm   Topic: The Evolution and Outflows of Accretion Disks Formed from Compact Object Mergers Speaker: Brian Metzger/University of California, Berkeley Room: Peyton Hall, Room 33 (Old Tea Room) University of Pennsylvania Astrophysics Group Seminar 4:00pm   Topic: Using Extragalactic Water Vapor Masers to Measure the Hubble Constant Speaker: Jim Braatz/National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) Room: David Rittenhouse Laboratory (DRL) (209 South 33rd Street), Room A4 Thursday, October 23 Institute for Advanced Study Informal Astrophysics Seminar - NOTE TIME CHANGE 11:00am   Topic: Stellar Dynamics Near Massive Black Holes: Young Stars, Hypervelocity Stars and Gravitational Wave Sources Speaker: Hagai Perets/Weizmann Institute Room: Bloomberg Hall Astrophysics Library Princeton University Wunch Talk - SPECIAL DATE 12:30pm   Topic: TBA Speaker: Julie Comerford/University of California, Berkeley Room: Peyton Hall, Room 33 (Old Tea Room) Friday, October 24 Rutgers University Astrophysics Seminar 3:00pm   Topic: Star Formation in Galaxies Speaker: Mordecai MacLow/American Museum of Natural History Room: Serin Hall, Room 385E Monday, October 27 Princeton University Astrophysics Monday Seminars 12:00pm   Topic: TBA Speaker: Rik Williams/Leiden University Room: Peyton Hall, Room 33 Rutgers Monday Astrophysics Research Seminars 12:00pm   Topic: The Assembly of Galaxy Disks & Evolution of Galactic Structures in COSMOS - Reconstructing the the Hubble Sequence Speaker: Kartik Sheth/California Institute of Technology, Spitzer Science Center Room: Serin Hall, Room 385E Tuesday, October 28 Institute for Advanced Study Astrophysics Seminar 11:00am   Topic: TBA Speaker: Don Gurnett/University of Iowa Room: Bloomberg Hall Astrophysics Library Institute for Advanced Study Bahcall Lunch 12:30pm   Room: Dilworth Room Wednesday, October 29 Princeton University Wunch Talk 12:30pm   Topic: TBA Speaker: Genevieve Graves/Lick Observatory Room: Peyton Hall, Room 33 (Old Tea Room) University of Pennsylvania Astrophysics Group Seminar 4:00pm   Topic: TBA Speaker: Nic Ross/Pennsylvania State University Room: David Rittenhouse Laboratory (DRL) (209 South 33rd Street), Room A4 Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) Colloquia 4:15pm   Topic: Mars Exploration Rovers: Still Driving on Mars Speaker: Dr. John Grant/Center for Earth and Planetary Studies, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution Room: Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Melvin B. Gottlieb Auditorium Thursday, October 30 Institute for Advanced Study Informal Astrophysics Seminar 11:30am   Topic: On the Origin of Radio Emission in RQQ - a New Working Hypothesis Speaker: Ari Laor/Technion/IAS Room: Bloomberg Hall Astrophysics Library Friday, October 31 Rutgers University Astrophysics Seminar 3:00pm   Topic: TBA Speaker: Susan Kassin/Oxford University Room: Serin Hall, Room 385E Monday, November 3 Princeton University Astrophysics Monday Seminars 12:00pm   Topic: TBA Speaker: Anne-Marie Weijmans/Leiden University Room: Peyton Hall, Room 33 Tuesday, November 4 Institute for Advanced Study Astrophysics Seminar 11:00am   Topic: Galaxy Evolution Over the Last Two-Thirds of Cosmic Time Speaker: Sandra Faber/University of California, Santa Cruz Room: Bloomberg Hall Astrophysics Library Institute for Advanced Study Bahcall Lunch 12:30pm   Room: Dilworth Room Wednesday, November 5 Princeton University Wunch Talk 12:30pm   Topic: TBA Speaker: Jose Luis Prieto/Ohio State University Room: Peyton Hall, Room 33 (Old Tea Room) University of Pennsylvania Astrophysics Group Seminar 4:00pm   Topic: Ten Billion Years of Chemical Evolution in Star-Forming Galaxies Speaker: John Moustakas/New York University Room: David Rittenhouse Laboratory (DRL) (209 South 33rd Street), Room A4 Rutgers University Physics/Astronomy Colloquium 4:45pm   Topic: Science of Rare Isotopes: Connecting Nuclei with the Universe Speaker: Witek Nazarewicz/IUniversity of Tennessee/ORNL Room: Physics Lecture Hall Thursday, November 6 Institute for Advanced Study Informal Astrophysics Seminar 11:30am   Topic: A Tilted Universe: Inflationary Origins of the Cosmic Power Asymmetry Speaker: Adrienne Erickcek/California Institute of Technology Room: Bloomberg Hall Astrophysics Library Princeton University Evnin Public Lecture/Princeton Center for Theoretical Science 7:30pm   Topic: What Happened Before the Big Bang? Speaker: Neil Turok/Cambridge, Perimeter Room: TBA Friday, November 7 Princeton University Princeton Center for Theoretical Science - Big Bang and Beyond Program Micro-Symposium 10:00am   Topic: Cyclic and Bouncing Universes Speaker: See all details - http://pcts.princeton.edu/pcts/bigbang/bigbang.html/ Room: PCTS, Jadwin Hall, 4th Floor Monday, November 10 Princeton University Astrophysics Monday Seminars 12:00pm   Topic: TBA Speaker: Jane Rigby/The Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington Room: Peyton Hall, Room 33 Tuesday, November 11 Institute for Advanced Study Astrophysics Seminar 11:00am   Topic: TBA Speaker: Don Brownlee/University of Washington Room: Bloomberg Hall Astrophysics Library Institute for Advanced Study Bahcall Lunch 12:30pm   Room: Dilworth Room Wednesday, November 12 Princeton University Wunch Talk 12:30pm   Topic: TBA Speaker: Alicia Soderberg/Princeton University Room: Peyton Hall, Room 33 (Old Tea Room) Rutgers University Physics/Astronomy Colloquium 4:45pm   Topic: Where Did We Come From and Are We Alone? Speaker: Paul Falkowski/Inst itute of Marine and Coastal Sciences/Geology, Rutgers Room: Physics Lecture Hall Thursday, November 13 Institute for Advanced Study Informal Astrophysics Seminar 11:30am   Topic: TBA Speaker: Nelson Padilla/Universidad Catolica de Chile Room: Bloomberg Hall Astrophysics Library Monday, November 17 Princeton University Astrophysics Monday Seminars 12:00pm   Topic: TBA Speaker: Alison Coil/University of Arizona Room: Peyton Hall, Room 33 Rutgers Monday Astrophysics Research Seminars 12:00pm   Topic: SALT Meeting Summary Speaker: Ted Williams and Jack Hughes/Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Room: Serin Hall, Room 385E University of Pennsylvania Astrophysics Group - Special Seminar (NOTE DATE) 4:00pm   Topic: TBA Speaker: Enrique Gaztanaga/Institut de Ciencies de l'Espai (ICE) Room: David Rittenhouse Laboratory (DRL) (209 S. 33rd St.), Room A4 Tuesday, November 18 Institute for Advanced Study Astrophysics Seminar 11:00am   Topic: Large Scale Structure in Galaxies and Dark Matter in COSMOS Speaker: Nick Scoville/California Institute of Technology Room: Bloomberg Hall Astrophysics Library Institute for Advanced Study Bahcall Lunch 12:30pm   Room: Dilworth Room Wednesday, November 19 Princeton University Wunch Talk 12:30pm   Topic: TBA Speaker: Nikhil Padmanabhan/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Room: Peyton Hall, Room 33 (Old Tea Room) University of Pennsylvania Astrophysics Group Seminar 4:00pm   Topic: TBA Speaker: Dan Kasen/University of California, Santa Cruz Room: David Rittenhouse Laboratory (DRL) (209 South 33rd Street), Room A4 Thursday, November 20 Institute for Advanced Study Informal Astrophysics Seminar 11:30am   Topic: Gravitational Lensing by Stochastic Substructure Speaker: Chuck Keeton/Rutgers University/Institute for Advanced Study Room: Bloomberg Hall Astrophysics Library Princeton University Vanuxem Public Lecture/ Princeton Center for Theoretical Science - Big Bang and Beyond Program Public Lecture 7:30pm   Topic: TBA Speaker: Leonard Susskind/Stanford University Room: TBA Friday, November 21 Princeton University Princeton Center for Theoretical Science - Big Bang and Beyond Program Micro-Symposium 10:00am   Topic: String Landscape Speaker: See all details - http://pcts.princeton.edu/pcts/bigbang/bigbang.html/ Room: PCTS, Jadwin Hall, 4th floor Rutgers University Astrophysics Seminar 3:00pm   Topic: TBA Speaker: Stacy McGaugh/University of Maryland Room: Serin Hall, Room 385E University of Pennsylvania Astrophysics Group - Special Seminar (NOTE DATE) 4:00pm   Topic: TBA Speaker: Michal Heller/Pontifical Academy of Theology Room: David Rittenhouse Laboratory (DRL) (209 S. 33rd St.), Room A4 Tuesday, November 25 Institute for Advanced Study Astrophysics Seminar 11:00am   Topic: TBA Speaker: Günther Hasinger/Max-Planck-Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics Room: Bloomberg Hall Astrophysics Library Institute for Advanced Study Bahcall Lunch 12:30pm   Room: Dilworth Room Wednesday, November 26 Princeton University Wunch Talk 12:30pm   Topic: TBA Speaker: Josh Simon/California Institute of Technology Room: Peyton Hall, Room 33 (Old Tea Room) Monday, December 1 Princeton University Astrophysics Monday Seminars 12:00pm   Topic: TBA Speaker: Josh Simon/California Institute of Technology Room: Peyton Hall, Room 33 Rutgers Monday Astrophysics Research Seminars 12:00pm   Topic: TBA Speaker: Saurabh Jha/Rutgers University Room: Serin Hall, Room 385E Tuesday, December 2 Institute for Advanced Study Astrophysics Seminar 11:00am   Topic: The Highest Magnetic Field Neutron Stars Speaker: Vicky Kaspi/McGill University Room: Bloomberg Hall Astrophysics Library Institute for Advanced Study Bahcall Lunch 12:30pm   Room: Dilworth Room Wednesday, December 3 Princeton University Wunch Talk 12:30pm   Topic: TBA Speaker: Rachel Mandelbaum/Institute for Advanced Study Room: Peyton Hall, Room 33 (Old Tea Room) Rutgers University Physics/Astronomy Colloquium 4:45pm   Topic: Large Synoptic Survey Speaker: Zeljko Ivezic/University of Washington Room: Physics Lecture Hall Thursday, December 4 Institute for Advanced Study Informal Astrophysics Seminar 11:30am   Topic: TBA Speaker: Mark Vogelsberger/Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics Room: Bloomberg Hall Astrophysics Library Princeton University Princeton Center for Theoretical Science - Big Bang and Beyond Program Public Lecture 4:30pm   Topic: Quantum Cosmology and the Initial Singularity Speaker: James Hartle/University of California, Santa Barbara Room: Jadwin Hall, Room A-10 Friday, December 5 Princeton University Princeton Center for Theoretical Science - Big Bang and Beyond Program Micro-Symposium 10:00am   Topic: Cosmic Singularities Speaker: See all details - http://pcts.princeton.edu/pcts/bigbang/bigbang.html/ Room: PCTS, Jadwin Hall, 4th floor Monday, December 8 Princeton University Astrophysics Monday Seminars 12:00pm   Topic: TBA Speaker: Ben Dilday/Rutgers University Room: Peyton Hall, Room 33 Tuesday, December 9 Institute for Advanced Study Astrophysics Seminar 11:00am   Topic: Titan Unveiled Speaker: Ralph Lorenz/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab Room: Bloomberg Hall Astrophysics Library Institute for Advanced Study Bahcall Lunch 12:30pm   Room: Dilworth Room Wednesday, December 10 Princeton University Wunch Talk 12:30pm   Topic: TBA Speaker: Jenny Greene/Princeton University Room: Peyton Hall, Room 33 (Old Tea Room) Friday, December 12 Rutgers University Astrophysics Seminar 3:00pm   Topic: TBA Speaker: Michael Blanton/New York University Room: Serin Hall, Room 385E Monday, December 15 Princeton University Astrophysics Monday Seminars 12:00pm   Topic: Observations of Transiting Hot-Jupiter Atmospheres Speaker: Jean-Michel Desert/Institute d'Astrophysique de Paris Room: Peyton Hall, Room 33 Wednesday, December 17 Princeton University Wunch Talk 12:30pm   Topic: TBA Speaker: John Johnson/Institute for Astronomy at the University of Hawaii Room: Peyton Hall, Room 33 (Old Tea Room) Thursday, February 12 Princeton University Sackler Lecture in Astrophysics / Princeton Center for Theorectical Science - Big Bang and Beyond Program Public Lecture 7:30pm   Topic: The Inflationary Universe Speaker: Alan Guth/Massachusetts Institute of Technology Room: McDonnell, Room A-02 Friday, February 13 Princeton University Princeton Center for Theorectical Science - Big Bang and Beyond Program Micro-Symposium 10:00am   Topic: Eternal Inflation Speaker: Various (see all details http://pcts.princeton.edu/pcts/bigbang/bigbang.html)/Various Affiliations Room: Jadwin Hall

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