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Seminars of the Yale Center for Astronomy and
Astrophysics
Please note time
and room change for 2012
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YCAA Seminar
Schedule
2011-12
Previous
seminars: YCAA 10-11
YCAA 09-10 YCAA 08-09
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YCAA seminars Fall 2011 / Spring 2012 |
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Date
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Speaker
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Title
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Fall
2011 |
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Sept. 6 |
Doug Finkbeiner, CfA Harvard
University |
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Sept. 13 |
Frank van den Bosch, Yale
University |
Cosmological Constraints from
a Combined Analysis of Clustering and Galaxy-Galaxy Lensing in the SDSS |
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Sept. 20 |
Alis Deason, Cambridge
University |
Smooth squashed and rotating.
Not the stellar halo we used to know |
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Sept. 27 |
Benny Trakhtenbrot, Tel Aviv
University |
Observing the Growth of the
Most Massive Black Holes at High Redshifts |
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Oct. 4 |
Houjun Mo, UMASS |
Bayesian Inferences of Galaxy
Formation: Tensions between Theory and Observation |
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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 |
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Nov. 1 |
Sahsa
Hinkley, Caltech |
Comparative
Exoplanetary
Science
through
Direct
Imaging |
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Nov. 8 |
Scott Croom, University of
Sydney |
Massively Multiplexed IFU Surveys: Dissecting Galaxy Evolution |
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Nov. 15 |
Elena D'Onghia, Harvard
University |
Dynamics of Spriral Structure
in Disk Galaxies |
| Nov. 22 |
No seminar Fall Recess |
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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 |
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Dec. 6 |
Nadia Zakamska, Johns Hopkins
University |
Observations of Quasar Feedback |
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Dec. 13 |
Ian Dobbs-Dixon, University of
Washington |
Exoplanetary
Atmospheres |
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Dec. 20 |
Fall term ended |
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Dec. 27 |
Winter Recess |
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Jan.3 |
Winter Recess |
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| Spring
2012 |
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Jan. 10 |
Mustafa Amin,
MIT
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Quintessentil Acceleration and its End |
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Jan. 17 |
No Seminar |
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Jan. 24 |
Anthony Gonzalez,
University
of Florida |
High Redshift Galaxy Clusters
from Spitzer and WISE |
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Jan. 31 |
Lloyd Knox, University
of
California, Davis |
Neutrino Fever and How I Recovered |
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Feb. 7 |
Eilat Glikman,
Yale University |
The
Reddest
Quasars:
A
Transitional
Phase
in
Quasars/Galaxy
Co-Evolution |
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| Feb. 21 | Matthew
Turk, Columbia University |
Magnetic Fields and Angular Momentum in Population III Star Formation |
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Feb.28 |
Martin Bureau, University of
Oxford |
Molecular Gas and Star Formation in Early-Type Galaxies |
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Mar. 6 |
Jordi Miralda-Escude,
Barcelona |
Large-Scale Structure with the Lyman-Alpha Forest from BOSS |
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Mar. 13 |
Spring
Recess |
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Mar. 20 |
Scott
Ransom,
NRAO |
Detecting Gravitational Waves (and doing other cool physics) with Millisecond Pulsars |
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Mar.27 |
Jerry Ostriker, Princeton
University |
Feedback form Accreting Black Holes: The
Importance of Momentum Driving |
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Apr. 3 |
Craig Booth |
Feedback and Galaxy Formation from Small Scales to Large:
Insights from Extremely Large Cosmological Simulations |
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Apr. 10 |
Jeyhan Kartaltepe,
National Optical Astronomy Observatory |
A Multiwavelength View of the
Evolution of (Ultra) Luminous Infrared Galaxies over Cosmic Time |
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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 |
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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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