Feb. 22

 

 

Seminars of the Yale Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics

Please note time and room change for 2012 seminars.
There is a series of meetings to discuss the collaborative activities of the center. These meetings  take place on  Tuesdays at 2:30 pm  in room 305 BASS unless otherwise noted. Tea will be served at 2:00-2:30pm on the 2nd floor BASS foyer.

A Bubbling Galaxy Center


Credit: Jeffrey Kenney (Yale) et al., WFPC2, HST NASA

YCAA Seminar Schedule 2011-12

Previous seminars:  YCAA 10-11    YCAA 09-10    YCAA 08-09    YCAA 07-08    YCAA 06-07

 

YCAA seminars Fall 2011 / Spring 2012 

Date

Speaker

Title

Fall 2011



Sept. 6

Doug Finkbeiner, CfA Harvard University


Sept. 13

Frank van den Bosch, Yale University

Cosmological Constraints from a Combined Analysis of Clustering and Galaxy-Galaxy Lensing in the SDSS

Sept. 20

Alis Deason, Cambridge University

Smooth squashed and rotating. Not the stellar halo we used to know

Sept. 27

Benny Trakhtenbrot, Tel Aviv University

Observing the Growth of the Most Massive Black Holes at High Redshifts

Oct. 4

Houjun Mo, UMASS

Bayesian Inferences of Galaxy Formation: Tensions between Theory and Observation

Oct. 11

Lisa Winter, Colorado

Star Formation and Outflows in a Sample of Local Active Galaxies

Oct. 18 Deborah Sijacki, Harvard University

Moving Mesh Cosmology: The Hydrodynamics of Galaxy Formation

Oct. 25 Gil Holder, McGill
Gravitational Lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background

Nov. 1

Sahsa Hinkley, Caltech

Comparative Exoplanetary Science through Direct Imaging

Nov. 8

Scott Croom, University of Sydney

Massively Multiplexed IFU Surveys: Dissecting Galaxy Evolution

Nov. 15

Elena D'Onghia, Harvard University

Dynamics of Spriral Structure in Disk Galaxies

Nov. 22

No seminar Fall Recess

Nov. 29

Keivan Stassun, Vanderbilt University

Empirical Constraints on the Formation and Evolution of Low-Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs: A Pan-chromatic and Data-intensive Approach

Dec. 6

Nadia Zakamska, Johns Hopkins University

Observations of Quasar Feedback

Dec. 13

Ian Dobbs-Dixon, University of Washington
Exoplanetary Atmospheres

Dec. 20

 Fall term ended



Dec. 27

Winter Recess


Jan.3

Winter Recess


Spring 2012


Jan. 10

Mustafa Amin, MIT                                                 

Quintessentil Acceleration and its End

Jan. 17

No Seminar



Jan. 24

Anthony Gonzalez, University of Florida

High Redshift Galaxy Clusters from Spitzer and WISE

Jan. 31

Lloyd Knox, University of California, Davis

Neutrino Fever and How I Recovered

Feb. 7

Eilat Glikman, Yale  University

The Reddest Quasars: A Transitional Phase in Quasars/Galaxy Co-Evolution


Feb. 14


Stephanie LaMassa, Yale University


Hidden Black Holes: Finding Obscured AGN and Investigating Their Relationship to the Host Galaxy

Feb. 21 Matthew Turk, Columbia University
Magnetic Fields and Angular Momentum in Population III Star Formation

Feb.28

Martin Bureau, University of Oxford

Molecular Gas and Star Formation in Early-Type Galaxies

Mar. 6

Jordi Miralda-Escude, Barcelona

Large-Scale Structure with the Lyman-Alpha Forest from BOSS

Mar. 13

Spring Recess


Mar. 20

Scott Ransom, NRAO

Detecting Gravitational Waves (and doing other cool physics) with Millisecond Pulsars


Mar.27

Jerry Ostriker, Princeton University

Feedback form Accreting Black Holes: The Importance of Momentum Driving

Apr. 3

Craig Booth

Feedback and Galaxy Formation from Small Scales to Large: Insights from Extremely Large Cosmological Simulations

Apr. 10

Jeyhan Kartaltepe, National Optical Astronomy Observatory

A Multiwavelength View of the Evolution of (Ultra) Luminous Infrared Galaxies over Cosmic Time

Apr. 17

Nico Cappelluti INAF Oss. Astronomico, Bologna,Italy

The Nature of the Unresolved Cosmic Soft X-Ray Background. Population Synthesis Model of its Fluctuations.
Apr. 24

Laura Brenneman, CfA, Harvard Universtiy

Measuring Black Hole Spins in AGN: Current Status and Future Prospects

May 1

Ed Moran, Wesleyan University

Black Holes in the Milky Way's Backyard
May 8
Kathy Cooksey, MIT
Tracking the Evolution of Strong 1.5 < z < 4.5 CIV Absorbers with Thousands of Systems
May 29 Madhusudhan Nikku, Yale University
Chemical Characterization of Extrasolar Planets



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