Room N305, 12:00 - 1:00 Wednesdays
Contact:
Romeel Davé
Assistants/Henchmen:
Ben Weiner,
Michael Meyer
| Date | Speaker | Discussion Topic |
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| Aug 27 | Michael Meyer | How To Give a Bad Talk |
| Romeel Davé | Meet & Greet the Department | |
| Sep 3 |
Dimitrios Psaltis | Noble, Krolik, and Hawley 2008: Direct Calculation of the Radiative Efficiency of an Accretion Disk around a Black Hole |
| Jared Gabor | Dekel et al. 2008: Early Massive Galaxy Formation by Cold Streams Through Hot Haloes | |
| Sep 10 | Jill Bechtold | Watson et al (2008): First Stellar Velocity Dispersion Measurement of a Luminous Quasar Host with Gemini North Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics |
| Ken Wong | Caputi et al. (2008): The close environment of 24 micron galaxies at 0.6< z< 1.0 in the COSMOS field | |
| Sep 17 |
Mike Cooper | Schawinski et al. (2008): Destruction of molecular gas reservoirs in early-type galaxies by AGN feedback |
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| Sep 24 | Ed O. | Learned et al. (2008): The Cepheid Galactic Internet |
| Dennis Just | Lafreniere et al. (2008): Direct Imaging and Spectroscopy of a Planetary Mass Candidate Companion to a Young Solar Analog | |
| Oct 1 |
Dennis Zaritsky | Dong et al. (2008): Spitzer Observations of Star Formation in the Extreme Outer Disk of M83 Werk et al. (2008): Isolated OB Associations in Stripped H I Gas Clouds |
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| Oct 8 |
Joannah Hinz | Gogarten et al. (2008): Young Stars and their Relation to Halpha and UV Emission Timescales in the M81 Outer Disk Weisz et al. (2008): The Recent Star Formation Histories of M81 Group Dwarf Irregular Galaxies |
| Kristian Finlator | Gnedin et al. (2008): Escape of Ionizing Radiation from High-Redshift Galaxies Wise & Cen (2008): Ionizing Photon Escape Fractions from High Redshift Dwarf Galaxies |
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| Oct 15 |
Chad Engelbracht | Ayres (2008): Solar Forbidden Oxygen, Revisited |
| Erik Brogt | Ogilvie (2008): Impact of Context-Rich, Multifaceted Problems on Students Attitudes Towards Problem-Solving | |
| Oct 22 |
Phil Hinz | Lagrange et al. (2008): Extrasolar planets and brown dwarfs around A-F type stars VI. High precision RV survey of early type dwarfs with HARPS |
| Jen Lotz | Daddi et al. (2008): Two bright submillimeter galaxies in a z=4.05 proto-cluster in GOODS-North, and accurate radio-infrared photometric redshifts Schinnerer et al. (2008): Molecular Gas in a Submillimeter Galaxy at z=4.5: Evidence for a Major Merger at 1 Billion Years after the Big Bang |
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| Oct 29 |
INTERNAL | . |
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| Nov 5 |
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| Nov 12 |
Kyle Penner | Koenig et al. (2008): Investigating ChaMPlane X-ray sources in the Galactic Bulge with Magellan LDSS2 spectra |
| Xiaoying Xu | Shen et al. (2008): Quasar Clustering from SDSS DR5: Dependences on Physical Properties | |
| Nov 19 | Laird Close | Kalas et al. (2008): Optical Images of an Exosolar Planet 25 Light-Years from Earth Marios et al. (2008): Direct Imaging of Multiple Planets Orbiting the Star HR 8799 |
| Casey Meakin | Bate (2008): Stellar, brown dwarf, and multiple star properties from hydrodynamical simulations of star cluster formation Price & Bate (2008): The effect of magnetic fields on star cluster formation |
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| Nov 26 | THANKSGIVING | . |
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| Dec 3 |
Yancy Shirley | Caselli et al. (2008): Survey of ortho-H2D+(1_10 - 1_11) in Dense Cloud Cores |
| Suresh Sivanandam | Holden et al. (2008): The Ellipticities of Cluster Early-type Galaxies from z~1 to z~0: No Evolution in the Overall Distribution of Bulge-to-Disk Ratios |
Please sign up by contacting Romeel . For students who take JC for credit, please talk to Romeel about your paper selection at least two weeks in advance.
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