Seminars of the Yale Center for Astronomy and AstrophysicsPlease note new time.There is a series of meetings to discuss the collaborative activities of the center. These meetings take place on Tuesdays at 12:00 noon in room 263 J.W. Gibbs unless otherwise noted. |
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YCAA Seminar Schedule 2006-2007 2005-20062004-2005
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| August 21 | Daniel Christlein,Yale University | Luminosity Functions from MUSYC: A Method for Recovering Luminosity Functions from Photometric Samples |
| September 11 | Grant Wilson, University of Massachusetts | Millimeter Wavelength Exploration of Submillimeter Galaxies |
| September 18 | Ivy Wong, Yale University, Astronomy Dept. | Star Formation and Galaxy Evolution of the Local Universe Based on HIPASS |
| September 25 | Roderik Overzier, Johns Hopkins University | Lyman Break Galaxies Far and Near |
| October 2 | Tamara Bogdanovic, University of Maryland | Alignment of the Spins of Supermassive Black Holes Prior to Coalescence |
| October 9 Astronomy Colloquium 2:00 pm | Joan Centrella, NASA/Goddard | Binary Black Holes, Gravitational Waves, and Numerical Relativity |
| October 16 | Prajval Shastri, Indian Institute of Astrophysics | The AGN Unification Paradigm: Some Empirical Tests |
| October 23 | Sukanya Chakrabarti,CfA, Harvard University | The Infrared View of Galaxy Simulations |
| October 24 Wed. Special Seminar 2:00 pm | Anne Bauer, Yale University | AGN Variability in the Palomar-QUEST Sky Survey |
| October 30 | Adam Muzzin, Yale University, Astronomy Dept. | Spitzer Observations of Distant Galaxy Clusters |
| November 6 Astronomy Colloquium 12:00 noon | Daniela Calzetti, University of Massachusetts - Amherst | Star Formation in the Mid-Infrared, and implications for the high redshift Universe |
| November 8 YCAA seminar 2:00 pm | Jong-Hak Woo, University of California, Santa Barbara | Cosmic evolution of black holes and their host galaxies: eggs before chickens? |
| November 13 | Debra Fischer, San Francisco State University | Centauri Dreaming |
| November 20 | Thanksgiving Recess | |
| November 27 | Michael Wood-Vasey, CfA, Harvard University | Determining the Nature of Dark Energy: The Latest Results from ESSENCE and the Future of Observational Cosmology with Pan-STARRS, SPT, LSST, JDEM, and Other Acronyms |
| December 4 | Alice Shapley, Princeton University | The Metallicities and Physical Conditions in Star-forming Galaxies at High-Redshift |
| December 5 | Tamara Davis,University of Copenhagen | Dark Energy: is the simplest model really the best? |
| December 11 Note: 2:00 pm | Gary Bernstein, University of Pennsylvania | Cosmological Information from Weak Gravitational Lensing |
| December 18 | No seminar | |
| January 8 | No seminar Recess | |
| January 15 Note: 2:00 pm | Tobias Marriage, Princeton University | A New Generation of CMB Experiments |
| January 17 Note: 2:00 pm | Isa Oliveira, Caltech/Leiden | Disk Evolution in the Serpens Molecular Cloud |
| January 22 Note: 2:00 pm | Jason Prochaska, Univ. California, Santa Cruz | Characterizing the ISM of High-z Star-forming Galaxies with GRB Afterglow Spectroscopy |
| January 29 Note: 2:00 pm | Priya Natarajan, Yale University | High redshift black holes: formation and evolution |
| February 5 Note: 2:00 pm | Brad Johnson, Oxford University | Measuring the Beginning of the Universe |
| February 12 Note: 2:00 pm | Vasiliki Pavlidou, Chicago/KICP | Deciphering the Gamma ray Sky: GeV Astronomy in the Era of GLAST |
| February 19 | Pieter Van Dokkum, Yale | Direct evidence demonstrates the hierarchical assembly of massive galaxies |
| February 26 | Daisuke Nagai, Caltech | Clusters of Galaxies as Cosmological Probes |
| March 4 | Rachel Mandelbaum, Institute for Advanced Study | Weak gravitational lensing as a cosmological probe |
| March 11 | Recess students | |
| March 18 | Recess students | |
| March 25 | No seminar scheduled | |
| April 1 | No seminar scheduled | |
| April 8 | Erin Bonning, Yale University | Recoiling Black Holes in Quasars |
| April 15 | Richard Easther, Yale University | The Observational Fingerprints of Inflation |
| April 22 | Ari Maller, City Tech/CUNY | The Intrinsic Properties of Galaxies |
| April 25 Note: 3:00 pm | Kartik Sheth, Spitzer Science Center | The Redshift Evolution of Galactic Bars, Bulges & Disks from COSMOS:
Quantifying the Assembly of the Hubble Sequence |
| April 29 | No seminar scheduled | |
| May 6 Postponed | Kyoungsoo Lee, Yale University | Understanding the Nature of Star Formation at High Redshifts with Clustering |
| May 21 Note: Wed. | Richard Munoz, Univ. of Virginia | Mapping Galactic Halo and Dwarf Spheroidal Structure with Giant Stars |
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