| Date |
Speaker |
Affiliation |
Title |
Host |
| Sept 9 |
Victoria M. Kaspi |
McGill University |
(Anomalous) X-ray Pulsars |
Brandt |
| Sept 17 |
Pat Hall |
Princeton/Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile |
A Broad Absorption Line Quasar Renaissance with the SDSS |
Schneider |
| Sept 25 |
Greg Tarle |
Michigan |
Shedding Light on Dark Energy with SNAP |
Coutu |
| Oct 1 |
No Colloquium Scheduled |
Attend lunch talks this week! |
Attend lunch talks this week! |
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| Oct 8 |
Charles Alcock |
Penn |
Fishing in the Dark: Searching for Extremely Faint Objects in the Outer Solar System |
Charlton |
| Oct 13-15 |
Bob Kirschner |
Harvard/CfA |
Marker Lectures |
Ramsey |
| Oct 16 |
Charles L. Bennett |
NASA |
Microwave Background Cosmology from the WMAP Space Mission |
Coutu |
| Oct 22 |
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| Oct 29 |
Steinn Sigurdsson |
PSU |
An Old and Distant Planet: Observations and Theory of the Companions to PSR M4A |
Charlton |
| Nov 5 |
Eric Feigelson |
PSU |
A Tour of Star Formation with Chandra |
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| Nov 12 |
Jeff Hester |
ASU |
The Crab Nebula: The Gift that Keeps On Giving |
Mori |
| Nov 19 |
Michael Eracleous |
PSU |
Charlton |
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| Dec 3 |
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| Dec 10 |
RESERVED |
| Date |
Speaker |
Affiliation |
Title |
Host |
| Jan. 14 |
RESERVED |
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| Jan. 21 |
RESERVED |
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| Jan. 28 |
Holland Ford |
Johns Hopkins | RESCHEDULED APRIL 14 | Gronwall |
| Feb. 4 |
Michele Thornley |
Bucknell/STScI |
Gas and Dust in Nearby Spirals: Recent Results from Surveys |
Durrell |
| Feb. 11 |
Steve Zepf |
Michigan State |
Constraining Galaxy and Low-Mass X-Ray Binary Formation with Globular Cluster Systems |
Charlton |
| Feb. 18 |
Chris O'Dea |
STScI |
HST Ultraviolet Observations of
the Central Nebulae in Clusters of Galaxies |
Feigelson |
| Feb. 25 |
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| March 3 |
Marten van Kerkwijk |
U. Toronto |
The Puzzling Spectra of Neutron Stars |
Pavlov |
| March 10 |
No Colloquium |
Spring Break |
Spring Break |
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| March 17 |
Michael Shao |
JPL |
The SIMS Mission and Planet Detection |
Ge |
| March 24 |
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| March 30 |
Daniel Wang |
U. Mass |
Ultraluminous X-ray Sources in Nearby Galaxies |
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| April 7 |
Tom Brown |
STScI |
M31 halo star formation history and variable stars |
Wade |
| April 14 |
Holland Ford |
STScI |
ACS Observations of the Evolution of Galaxies and Clusters of Galaxies from z~6 to the Present |
Gronwall |
| April 22 |
Anneila Sargent |
Caltech |
Good Carma: Millimeter-wave Interferometer Observations of Star Formation |
Feigelson |
| April 28 |
Liliya Williams |
U. Minnesota |
Dark Matter Halos of Galaxies: How Did They Form, and What Accounts for Their Density Distribution?
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Sigurdsson |
| May 11 |
Gary Hill |
U. Texas |
Ramsey |