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Astronomy Colloquia 2007/8


These talks are held in Sears 552 at 3:00pm unless otherwise noted.

Sep 4 Earle Luck (CWRU) Giants in the Local Region
Sep 18 Anthony Gonzalez (Florida) The Distribution of Baryons in Galaxy Clusters and Groups
Oct 2 Santiago Patiri (CWRU) Cosmic Voids: a useful tool to constrain galaxy formation models and cosmology
Oct 18 Bob Kirshner (Harvard) Fundamentals of Supernova Cosmology (Joint Physics/Astronomy Colloquium; Thu 4:15pm in Rock 301)
Nov 1 Kathryn Johnston (Columbia) Mapping the Local Group (Note special date)
Nov 15 Romeel Dave (Arizona) The Impact of Galactic Outflows Across Cosmic Scales (Note special date and time: Thu @3pm)
Nov 27 Kristine Spekkens (Rutgers) Understanding Nearby Galaxy Structure in a Cosmological Context
Dec 13 Gus Evrard (Michigan) Computing the Cosmos: Illuminating the Dark Side with Clusters of Galaxies (Joint Physics/Astronomy Colloquium; Thu 4:15pm in Rock 301)
Jan 22 Christy Tremonti (Arizona) Can Quasars Quench Star Formation? New clues from the study of fossil galactic winds in post-starburst galaxies
Feb 21 Francesco Shankar (OSU) Constraining the evolution of Super-Massive Black Holes and their Hosts Note: Thurs 3pm
Mar 4 Patrick McDonald (CITA) Probing inflation, dark matter, dark energy, etc. using the Lyman-alpha forest
Mar 20 Pablo Laguna (PSU) Binary Black Holes, Gravitational Bursts and the Issue of the Final Spin (Note special date and time: Thu @3pm)
Mar 25 Jason Tumlinson (Yale) First Light from the Fossil Record: A New Synthesis
Apr 1 Stelios Kazantzidis (OSU) Cold Dark Matter Substructure and Galactic Disks: Morphological and Dynamical Signatures of Hierarchical Satellite Accretion (Note special time: 2:30pm)
Apr 15 John Ruhl (CWRU Physics) The South Pole Telescope (note: date change)
Apr 24 Dieter Hartmann (Clemson) Astronomy with Radioactivities (Joint Physics/Astronomy Colloquium; Thu @4:15pm in Rock 301)