Astrophysics Seminar Series
  Spring 2006

All seminars are held on Wednesdays at 11:00am (unless otherwise noted) in the Bloomberg Hall Astrophysics Library.


Date
 Speaker
 Title
January
 11
 Pengjie Zhang
(Shanghai Observatory)
 Cosmic Magnification

18
 Ezequiel Treister
(Yale)
 AGN Unification and the X-ray and Infrared Backgrounds
February
 8
 Raul Jimenez
(U. Pennsylvania)
 The assembly of baryons and metallicity in galaxies: new clues from SDSS

15
Geoff Vallis
(Princeton)
 Turbulence and the Large Scale Circulation of the Atmosphere and  Ocean
March
 1
 David Goldberg
(Drexel University)		 Weak Gravitational Flexion

8
 Derek Fox
(Penn State)
 The Nature of Short-Hard Gamma-Ray  Bursts

15
 Asantha Cooray
(UC Irvine)
 CANCELLED


22
 Mikhail Medvedev
(University of Kansas)
 Astrophysical Shocks: From Large-Scale Structure to Supernovae and Gamma-Ray Bursts


29
 Yipeng Jing
(Shanghai Astronomical Observatory)
 Interpreting the Clustering of Galaxies in the SDSS
April 14
Friday 2pm
 Orly Gnat
(Tel-Aviv University/Caltech)		 From High-Velocity Clouds to the Warm-HotInter-Galactic Medium: Equilibrium and Non-Equilibrium Ionization in Metal Ion Absorbers.

19
 Ben Zuckerman
(UCLA)		 Why SETI Will Fail


26
Marco Martos Nunez
(UNAM)
 
The Secular Effect of a Magnetic Field on Galactic Evolution: Onset of Turbulence, Large Scale Structure and High Energy Events.


27
THURSDAY
Stephen Smartt
(Queen's University Belfast)
Detecting the Progenitors of Core-Collapse Supernovae
May
 3
11:00 am
 		Eric Linder
UC Berkeley/LBNL
 Dark Energy and Dark Gravity
NOTE
CHANGE
OF TIME
 5
FRIDAY
11:30am
 Jeremy Tinker
(KICP, University of Chicago)		 Galaxy Clustering and Cosmology with the Halo Occupation Distribution special
day

17
11:30am
 Norbert Langer (Utrecht)
 Progenitors of Long GRBs
June
 6
2:00pm
 		Houjun Mo
(UMASS)
 Finally, Concordance on All Scales
 special
day

For more information contact Andrew MacFadyen (aim [at] ias.edu) or Zheng Zheng (zhengz [at] ias.edu)

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