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 22 Note time: 2:00 pm | John E. Norris, Mount Stromlo & Siding Spring Observatories, Australian National University | The Chemical Enrichment of omega Centauri |
| September 5 | ||
| September 12 | Andrei Mesinger, Yale | Probing Reionization and Early Structure Formation |
| September 19 | Thomas J. Cox, CfA, Harvard | Galaxy Mergers and the Formation of Elliptical Galaxies |
| September 26 | Megan Eckart, Caltech | Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors: Large Format X-ray Spectral Imagers for the Next Generation of X-ray Telescopes |
| October 2 Note: Monday | Sukyoung Yi, Yonsei University | Black Hole Regulating Star Formation History of Elliptical Galaxies? |
| October 3 | Eric Peng, Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics | Globular Cluster Systems and the Early Evolution of Galaxies |
| October 10 | Mark Krumholz, Princeton University | Turbulence, Feedback and Slow Star Formation |
| October 17 | No seminar | |
| October 24 | Scott Hughes, MIT | The two-body problem in general relativity: Approaches and progress |
| October 31 | Yun Wang, University of Oklahoma | Dark Energy Search |
| November 7 POSTPONED for a later date | Steve Drasco, JPL, Caltech | Gravity-Wave Capture Events in Galactic Nuclei |
| November 8 Note: Wednesday | Sugata Kaviraj, Oxford University | Young Stars in Ancient Galaxies |
| November 14 | Dan Evans, CfA, Harvard | The Origin of X-Ray Emission in the Nuclei of Radio Galaxies |
| November 20 Note: Monday | Keivan G. Stasssun, Vanderbilt University | Building Bridges to Diversity in Physics and Astronomy |
| November 21 | Thanksgiving/Recess | |
| November 27 Note: Monday | Steve Drasco, JPL, Caltech | Gravity-Wave Capture Events in Galactic Nuclei |
| November 28 | Michael Cooper, UC Berkeley | Galaxy Environments in DEEP2: The Birth of the Red Sequence |
| December 1 | Robin Ciardullo, Penn State | VICS: The Virgo Intracluster Stars Program |
| December 5 | Oleg Gnedin, Ohio State | The Life and Death of Star Clusters |
| December 8 | Stijn Wuyts, Leiden | Red Galaxies at z~2.5: Confronting Simulations with Observations |
| December 11 Note: Monday | Rafael Guzman, University of Florida | The GTC 10.4m Telescope: Getting Ready for First Light |
| December 12 | Katherine Rhode, Yale/Wesleyan University | Globular Clusters as Probes of Galaxy Formation and Dark Matter Halos |
| December 19 | Holiday Recess | |
| January 16 Note: 2 pm | Lisa Kewley, University of Hawaii | The Cosmic Star Formation and Metallicity
History of Galaxies |
| January 18 Note: (Astronomy Colloq)Thursday | Tom Brown, STScI | The Formation History of the Andromeda Galaxy |
| January 23 | ||
| January 25 Note: (Astronomy Colloq.)Thursday | Ricardo Schiavon, University of Virginia | New Constraints on the History of Star Formation of Early Type Galaxies |
| January 30 | Chao-Lin Kuo, Caltech | CMB Beyond the Acoustic Peaks |
| February 1 Note: (Astronomy Colloq.)Thursday | Evan Scannapieco, KITP, Univ.California at
Santa Barbara |
AGN Feedback in Structure Formation |
| February 6 Note: 2:00 pm | Marla Geha, Herzberg Institute for Astrophysics, Victoria, Canada | Small Answers to Big Questions: Dwarf Galaxies as Tests of Galaxy Formation Models |
| February 8 Note: (Astronomy Colloq.)Thursday | Jason Tumlinson, Yale | Digging Through the Dark Ages with Galactic Archeology |
| February 13 | Mark Sullivan, University of Toronto | Type Ia Supernovae as Probes of Dark Energy |
| February 15 Note: (Astronomy Colloq.) Thursday | Vuk Mandic, Caltech | Searching for Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background with LIGO: Results and Implications |
| February 20 | Cancelled | |
| February 22 Note: (Astronomy Colloq.)Thursday | Jeff Newman, Univ. of California, Berkeley | DEEP2 and Beyond: Studying the Universe with Surveys |
| February 27 Note: 2pm Astro Colloq. | Eric Mamajek, CfA, Harvard | Fossils of Missing Episodes of Recent Star-Formation in the Sun's Backyard |
| March 1 Note: Cancelled | ||
| March 6 | Marianne Vestergaard, Univ. of Arizona | First Steps Toward Constraining Supermassive Black-Hole Growth and Early Galaxy Evolution |
| March 8 Note: (Astronomy Colloq.)Thursday | Amy Connolly, University of California,
Los Angeles |
Closing in on Ultra-High Energy Cosmogenic Neutrinos with the Radio Detection Technique |
| March 13 | Spring Recess | Spring Recess |
| March 15 | Spring Recess | Spring Recess |
| March 20 | Spring Recess | Spring Recess |
| March 22 | Spring Reces | Spring Recess |
| March 27 | Miguel Morales, Kavli Institute, MIT | Observing the Epoch of Reionization |
| April 11 Note: Wednesday | Myungkook James Jee, Johns Hopkins University | Dark Matter Substructures in Galaxy Clusters Revealed by Gravitational Lensing with the Avanced Camera for Surveys |
| May 2 Note: Wednesday | Chris Packham, University of Florida | Mid-IR Insturmentation and Observations of AGN |
| June 5 Note: 2:30 pm | Britton Smith, Penn State University | The Role of the First Metals in Forming the Second Stars |
| August 21 | Daniel Christlein,Yale University | Luminosity Functions from MUSYC: A Method for Recovering Luminosity Functions from Photometric Samples |
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