Astrophysics Seminar Series
Winter 2004

All seminars are held on Wednesdays at 2pm (unless otherwise noted) in the Bloomberg Hall Astrophysics Library 


Date

Speaker

Title

January

7
Victor Flambaum
Do fundamental constants of nature vary with time and distance?
9 (Fri! 11AM)
Kristin Burgess
Using the Lyman-alpha Forest to Measure the Mean Optical Depth of the Universe
14
Zheng Zheng
Constraining Galaxy Bias and Cosmology Using Galaxy Clustering Data
28
Andrew MacFadyen
GRBs and Asymmetric Supernovae from Rotating Massive Stars

February

19 (Thu! 2PM)
Ignacio Mosqueira
On planet-satellite formation
25
Fred Lamb
Probing dense matter and strong gravity using high-frequency X-ray oscillations

March

10
Michael L. Sitko
Cosmic Dust from the Cradle to the Grave: Adventures in Dirt Astrophysics
24
Jordi Miralda-Escude
Stars plunging into quasar accretion disks and the M-sigma relation

April

7 (4PM!)
Masataka Fukugita & Jim Peebles
Cosmic Energy Inventory: A new view of the Universe
14
Bhuvnesh Jain
Gravitational Lensing and Dark Energy
21
Steve Furlanetto
Observing Neutral Hydrogen in the Reionization Epoch
28
William Lee
Resonances in Accretion Disks as the Origin of Kilo Hertz Quasi Periodic Oscillations in Low-Mass X-Ray Binaries

May

26 (11AM!)
Arlin Crotts
The ALPACA Optical Imaging Survey: Deep, Wide, Frequent, Multiband


Contact Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz (enrico@ias.edu) or Roman Rafikov (rrr@ias.edu) if you would like to invite someone (perhaps yourself!) to give a talk.


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