Astrophysics
Informal Seminar
Series
Fall 2007
All
seminars are held on Thursdays
at 11:30 am (unless otherwise noted) in the
Bloomberg Hall Astrophysics Library.
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
comments |
|
| September | 13 |
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| 20 |
Martin Pessah (IAS) |
Turbulent, Magnetized, MRI-driven Accretion Disks:
Beyond the Standard α-disk Models |
||
| 27 |
Ruth Murray-Clay (UC Berkeley) |
Three problems in planet formation: the Kuiper belt, hot Jupiters, and transitional disks | ||
| October | 3 Wednesday @ 11:00 am!!! |
Mir Abbas Jalali (Sharif Institute of Technology) |
The origin of instabilities in stellar systems | |
| 11 |
Phil Hopkins (CfA Harvard) |
Quasars in a Cosmological Context: Fueling, Self-Regulation, and Feedback | ||
| 18 |
Louie Strigari (UC Irvine) |
Dark matter, small-scale structure, and dwarf galaxies | ||
| 25 |
Sarah E. Robinson (UC Santa Cruz) |
CHON ices and the Formation of Saturn | ||
| November | 1 |
Jaiyul Yoo (CfA Harvard) |
From Galaxy Clustering to Dark Matter Clustering | |
| 8 |
Art Congdon (Rutgers) |
Microlensing of an extended source by a power-law mass distribution | ||
| 15 |
Julio Chaname (STScI) |
Constraining dark matter using (resolved) stars in Local Group galaxies | ||
| 22 |
Thanksgiving |
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| 29 |
Rachel Mandelbaum (IAS) |
Lessons about galaxy formation and cosmology from weak lensing | ||
| December | 6 |
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| 13 |
Greg Novak (UC Santa Cruz) |
Multiple galaxy mergers, and cosmological context, and elliptical galaxy formation | ||
| 20 |
Z. Lucas Uhm (Columbia University) |
Relativistic blast waves and GRB afterglows |
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| 27 |
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| January | 3 |
Bence Kocsis (CfA) |
Astrophysical applications of gravitational waves |
|
| 10 |
Anne-Marie Weijmans (Leiden) |
Cold and warm gas in NGC 2974: inferring the shape of its dark matter halo |
If you would like to give a talk, please contact Michael Kuhlen (mqk [at] ias.edu) and/or Margaret Pan (mpan [at] ias.edu).
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