Arizona Theoretical Astrophysics Program
Colloquia

LPL 308, 4:00 - 5:00, Alternate Mondays
Refreshments at 3:45 in the LPL Lobby

Coordinators: Romeel Davé and Adam Showman

2007-08 Schedule

Date Speaker Title
Sep 10 Brad Hansen (UCLA) Phase Curves for Hot Jupiters
Sep 24
Bill Hubbard (LPL) A New View of Jupiter's Mantle and Core with a First-Principles Equation of State
Oct 8
Jeremy Bailin (McMaster) How Spherical Is The Invisible Cow? (Measuring the Shapes of Dark Matter Halos)
Oct 22 Neal Turner (JPL) Planet Formation and the Dead Zone
Nov 5 Ben Chandran (UNH) The Origin of the Solar Wind
Nov 19
Dimitrios Psaltis (Arizona) Modeling the Growth of Supermassive Black Holes with MHD Simulations of Accretion Flows
Dec 3
Peng Oh (UCSB) Signatures of Heating in the Intergalactic and Intracluster Medium
Jan 21
Iro Tasitsiomi (Princeton) Lyman-alpha radiative transfer and cosmological applications
Feb 4
Giora Shaviv (Haifa) A model for Lyman alpha galaxies
Feb 18
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Mar 3
Charlie Conroy (Princeton) Using LCDM to Understand Galaxy Evolution
Mar 17
Lars Bildsten (KITP) Explosions in Accreting White Dwarfs: From Novae to Supernovae
Mar 31
Kathryn Johnston (Columbia) Making Sense of the Local Group
Apr 14
Desika Narayanan (CfA) Molecular Star Formation Rate Indicators in Galaxies: A More "Fundamental" Kennicutt-Schmidt Law?
Apr 28
Adam Showman (LPL) Atmospheric dynamics of giant planets inside and outside the solar system


2006 TAP colloquia
2005 and prior TAP colloquia (pdf)
Past Steward/NOAO colloquia

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