Seminars of the Yale Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics Please 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.

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

YCAA Seminar Schedule  2006-2007  2005-2006   2004-2005  2002-2004

Date	Speaker	Title
Januay 17 Room change 502 JWG Note time change: 1:00 pm	Giuseppe Lodato,University of Cambridge	The dynamics of spinning black holes and misaligned accretion discs
January 20	Ezequiel Treister, Yale/Universidad de Chile	AGN Unification and the Xray and Infrared Background, An Encore PhD Defense
February 14	Jacqueline Chen, University of Chicago	Measurements of Luminous and Dark Substructure in Galactic Halos
February 21	Dusan Keres, University of Massachusetts	Gas Accretion in Galaxies
February 28	Volker Beckmann, Goddard Space Flight Center	The Hard X-ray 20-40 keV AGN Lumiosity Function
March 21	Daniel Harbeck and George Jacoby, NoAO	The State of WIYN and ODI
March 28	Andreea Font, Wesleyan University	Chemical Abundance Distributions in Milky Way-type Galaxy Halos
April 11	Michael Shull, University of Colorado	The First Stars and the Critical Metallicity of the Intergalactic Medium
April 25	Licia Verde, University of Pennsylvania	WMAP Returns
May 2	Jon Fulbright, Johns Hopkins	The Formation of the Galactic Bulge as Derived from Detailed Abundance Ratios
May 9	Nitya Kallivayalil, Harvard, CfA	The Systemic Proper Motions of the Magellanic Clouds and their Orbits around the Milky Way
May 16	Franz Bauer, Columbia University	What does the Cosmic X-ray Background tell us?

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