Arizona Theoretical Astrophysics Program
Colloquia

LPL 308, 4:00 - 5:00, Alternate Mondays (approximately)
Refreshments at 3:45 in the LPL 3rd floor Atrium

Coordinators: Romeel Davé and Adam Showman

2008-09 Schedule

Date Speaker Title
Sep 8 Kyong-Soo Lee (Yale) MAPPING THE DARK MATTER FROM UV LIGHT AT HIGH REDSHIFT: AN EMPIRICAL APPROACH TO UNDERSTAND GALAXY STATISTICS
Sep 22
Mark Richardson (Caltech) Some Coolness Concerning Martian Global Warming or Reflections on the Role of Surface Dust
Oct 6
Volker Bromm (Texas) The First Stars and Galaxies
Oct 13 Arif Babul (Victoria) Working Up the Hierarchy: Impact of AGNs on Groups and Clusters of Galaxies
Oct 27 Doug Finkbeiner (CfA) "Exciting" Dark Matter, positrons, and PAMELA
Nov 10
Jonathan Tan (Florida) Massive Star Formation Through the Universe
Nov 24
Dean Townsley (Arizona) Thermonuclear Supernovae, Their Stellar Origins, and the Makeup of The Universe
Dec 8
Dusan Keres (CfA) How do Galaxies Get Their Gas?
Jan 12
Ari Maller (CUNY) Intrinsic Properties of SDSS Galaxies
Feb 2
Huirong Yan (Arizona) Atomic Alignment- A New Diagnostics of Astrophysical Magnetic Field
Feb 23
Rachel Bean (Cornell) Constraining inflation beyond the slow roll paradigm
Mar 23
Glenn Starkman (Case) Is the Universe Out of Tune?
Apr 6
Piero Madau (Santa Cruz) The Via Lactea Project: A Glimpse into the Invisible World of Galactic Dark Matter
Apr 13
Alex Lazarian (Wisconsin) Fast 3D Reconnection of weakly stochastic magnetic field and its Implications for Solar Flared and Particle Acceleration
Apr 20
Marc Pinsonneault (Ohio State) Absolute Solar Abundances from Helioseismology
May 4
Juna Kollmeier (Carnegie) Lyman-alpha Emission from the High Redshift Intergalactic Medium


Past TAP colloqiua: 2007-08, 2006-07, prior (pdf)
Past Steward/NOAO colloquia

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