Astronomy Colloquia 2012/13
Talks are held at 11:30am in Sears 552 unless otherwise noted.
| Sep 5 | Ralph Schoenrich (OSU) |
Galactic structure and rotation |
| Sep 19 | Jim Schombert (UOregon) |
Elliptical Families: The Star Formation History of the Universe's Most Boring Galaxies |
| Oct 3 | Brad Holden (UCSC) |
Quiescent Galaxies through the Ages |
| Oct 11 | David Thompson (NASA Goddard) |
Gamma-ray Pulsars with the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope Joint Physics/Astronomy Colloquium: 4:15pm in Rockefeller 301 |
| Oct 31 | Rachel Kuzio de Naray (CWRU Astronomy) |
Low Surface Brightness Galaxies as Probes of Dark Matter |
| Nov 14 | Joshua Pepper (Vanderbilt) |
The State of Exoplanet Discovery |
| Nov 28 | Steve Rodney (STScI) |
Chasing Type Ia Supernovae in the Early Universe with the Hubble Space Telescope |
| Jan 16 | Federico Lelli (Groningen) |
Dynamics of starbursting dwarf galaxies |
| Feb 6 | Eric Bell (UMichigan) |
The effects and importance of galaxy merging in a cosmological context |
| Feb 20 | Casey Papovich (Texas A&M) |
Postponed until a future date |
| Feb 27 | Zheng Zheng (Utah) |
A Theoretical Exploration of Lyman-alpha Emitting Galaxies |
| Mar 21 | Mario Mateo (UMichigan) |
The Southern Spectroscopic Survey Telescope (Note special date/time: Thu at noon) |
| Apr 11 | Megan Donahue (Michigan State) |
High Redshift Galaxies, Supernovae, and Cluster Dark Matter with the CLASH Project (Note special date/time: Thu at noon) |