Astrophysics Informal Seminars
Spring 2012


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



Date Speaker Title
January5Xuening Bai
(Princeton University)
Magnetorotational-Instability-Driven Accretion in Protoplanetary Disks
6Yingjie Peng
(ETH)
A Global Model for Galaxy Evolution: Simplicity and its Consequences
12Leslie Rogers
(MIT)
Liquid Water Oceans on Sub-Neptune Exoplanets
February2Joanne Cohn
(Berkeley)
Galaxy Clusters: beyond spherical cows
9Christoph Mordasini
(MPIA Heidelberg)
Planetary Population Synthesis: Comparing Planet Formation Theory and Observation
16Simon Portegies Zwart
(Leiden University)
The Astronomical Multipurpose Software Environment and the Ecology of Star Clusters
23Enrico Pajer
(Princeton)
A New Window on Primordial Non-Gaussianity
March1Tim Merlis
(Princeton)
The climate and atmospheric circulation of Earth-like exoplanets
8Dustin Lang
(Princeton)
The Tractor: Using Forward Modeling to Measure Objects in Astronomical Images
15Kfir Blum
(IAS)
Asymmetric Higgsino Dark Matter
22Stefano Profumo
(UCSC)
The Electro-Weak Scale: Key to the Origin of Visible and Dark Matter
29Raphael Flauger
(IAS)
Phenomenology of Axion Monodromy Inflation
April5Dong Lai
(Cornell)
Dynamical Tides in Binaries: Merging White Dwarfs, Kepler KOI-54 and Hot Jupiter Systems
12Jordi Miralda Escude
(Barcelona)
Large-scale Structure with the Lyman-Alpha Forest from BOSS
19Doug Lin
(UC Santa Cruz)
Origin, Evolution, and Destiny of Close-in Planets
26Zhaohuan Zhu
(Princeton)
Planet-disk interaction: from theories to observations
May3Helmut Hofer
(IAS)
Hamiltonian Dynamics and Symplectic Invariants
10Lucianne Walkowicz
(Princeton)
New Light on Stellar Astrophysics with Kepler
June14Neal Dalal
(UIUC)
Dark Matter Halos
19 (NOTE: This is a Tuesday.)Willy Kley
(Tuebingen)
Planet-disk interaction and orbital evolution of planets
21Glenn van de Ven
(MPIA)
Correlation between black hole masses and bulge luminosities not fundamental

Organizers: Hanno Rein (rein@ias.edu) and Cora Dvorkin (cdvorkin@ias.edu).



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