Department of Astronomy

Astronomy Colloquia 2011/12

Talks are held in Sears 552 Wednesdays @11:30am unless otherwise noted.

Aug 31 Nathan Kaib
(Queen's U)		 Sedna as the Footprint of the Sun's Migration in the Milky Way
Sep 14 Benoit Famaey
(U Strasbourg)		 The RAVE stellar velocity gradient in the extended solar neighbourhood
Sep 28 Facundo Gomez
(Michigan State U)		 Looking for signatures of minor mergers in the Milky Way thick disc kinematics
Oct 12 Lee Armus
(SSC / Caltech)		 Luminous Infrared Galaxies in the Spitzer - Herschel Era
Oct 21 Sheila Kannappan
(U North Carolina)		 The Dependence of Gas Richness and Disk Building on Galaxy Mass
Oct 26 Michael Wood-Vasey
(U Pittsburgh)		 Taking Supernova Cosmology into the New Decade
Nov 17 David Weinberg
(OSU)		 Measuring Cosmic Acceleration Note: Thurs @4pm
Nov 23 Heather Jacobson
(Michigan State U)		 Open cluster neutron capture element abundances: clues to the chemical evolution of the Milky Way disk
Feb 16 Kim-Vy Tran
(Texas A&M / Zurich)		 Star Formation in Galaxy Clusters Over the Past 10 Billion Years
Feb 22 Brian O'Shea
(Mich State)		 The Secret Lives of Galaxy Clusters
Mar 8 Marc Pinsonneault
(OSU)		 The Red Revolution: How Seismology of Red Giants is Transforming Stellar Physics and Population Studies Thursday 4:15 Rockefeller 301
Apr 12 Alan McConnachie
(HIA)		 Stars, galaxies and cosmology in the nearby Universe
Thursday 4:15 Rockefeller 301