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 2008-09
Previous seminars:YCAA 08-09
YCAA 06-07
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| Sept 9 | Francesco Shankar, Ohio State University | Constraining the Eevolution of Super-Massive Black Holes |
| Sept. 16 | Mark Dijkstra, CfA, Harvard University |
Lyman Alpha Emitting Galaxies as a Probe of the High-z Universe |
| Sept. 23 | Kevin Schawinski, Yale University | Observing AGN Feedback in Action |
| Sept. 30 | Ryan Hickox, CfA, Harvard University | Clustering and Host Galaxies of Active Galactic Nuclei |
| Oct. 7 | Neil Nagar, Universidad de Concepcion,Chile | A Multicomponent Source Model for UltraHigh Energy Cosmic
Rays: Nearby Powerful Radiogalaxies, Transients?, and Something Else |
| Oct. 14 | Yuexing Li, CfA, Harvard University | Galaxies and Quasars in the Epoch of Reionization |
| Oct. 21 | Roy Kilgard, Wesleyan University | The Biggest Small Black Holes |
| Oct. 28 | Kyoung-Soo Lee, Yale University |
Constraining the Nature of Star Formation at High Redshift |
| Nov. 4 | Mauro Giavalisco, UMASS | Further Steps Toward Understanding Galaxy Evolution |
| Nov. 11 | Douglas Rudd, IAS, Princeton University | Pn Scatter in Simulated Galaxy Cluster Mass-Observable Relations |
| Nov. 17 Note: Monday at 2:30 pm | Marcelo Alvarez, Stanford University | Cosmic H II Regions: From the First Stars and Black Holes to the Present-day Universe |
| Nov. 18 | Desika Narayaran, CfA, Harvard University | The Formation and Evolution of Submillimeter Galaxies |
| Nov. 25 | No seminar Fall Recess | No seminar Fall Recess |
| Dec. 2 | Andrew Zentner, University of Pittsburgh | Theory Program to Exploit Weak Gravitational Lensing to Constrain Dark Energy |
| Dec. 9 | Christopher Thom, University of Chicago | Where are all the Baryons? Searching for the Missing Mass in OVI |
| Dec. 16 | David Schlegel, | Using Baryon Acoustic Oscillations to Measure Dark Energy |
| Dec. 23 | No seminar Winter Recess | No seminar Winter Recess |
| Jan. 20, 2009 | Sean Matt, University of Virginia | Accretion Powered Stellar Winds and the Angular Momentum Problem |
| Jan.27 | Brant Robertson University of Chicago Bifocals for Baryonic Physics: Toward Successful Models of High-Redshift Galaxy Formation |
Bifocals for Baryonic Physics: Toward Successful Models of High-Redshift Galaxy Formation |
| Feb. 3 | Adam Bolton, University of Hawaii, IfA |
On the Mass of Massive Galaxies |
| Feb. 6 Note different day, Friday | Joseph Hennawi,University of California, Berkeley |
Quasars Probing Quasars: Understanding the Physics of Massive Galaxy Formation |
| Feb.10 | Sam Waldman, MIT |
Attometer Astrophysics: Gravitational Wave Astronomy with LIGO |
| Feb. 17 | Richard Alexander, Leiden |
The Evolution and Dispersal of Protoplanetary Discs |
| Feb. 24 | Nikhil Padmanabhan, LBNL |
TBA |
| Mar. 3 Astro candidate | Thibaut Decressin, Bonn | Massive Stars in Globular Clusters:Links between Chemistry and Dynamics |
| Mar. 10 | Spring Recess | |
| Mar. 17 | Spring Recess | |
| Mar. 24 | Kai Noeske, CfA, Harvard University | The New Picture of Star Formation Histories in Field Galaxies: Towards a Consistent Picture from Observations and Theory |
| Mar. 31 | Jeremiah Ostriker, Princeton University | Making massive galaxies, is feedback necessary to make them "red and dead"?" |
| Apr. 7 | Ian Dell Antonio, Brown University | Clusters of Galaxies and Large Scale Structure seen through Weak Gravitational Lensing |
| Apr. 14 | Philip Hopkins, Univ. of California, Berkeley | Galaxy Collisions: A Factory for Quasars, Feedback, Ellipticals, and even Disk? |
| Apr. 15 Note Wednesday | Philipp Podsladlowski, Oxford University | The Origin of the UV Upturn in Elliptical Galaxies |
| Apr. 17 Rescheduled to Apr. 30 AstronomyColloquium |
Min Yun, UMASS | Dust Obscurd Star Formation and AGN Activities at z>1 |
| Apr. 21 | Dimitri Veras, University of Florida | Formation, Survival, and Detectibility of Planets beyond 100 AU |
| Apr. 28 | Michael Garcia, Smithsonian Astronomical Observatory | The International X-ray Observatory |
| May 5 | Harvey Moseley, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | Searching for the First Stars: The Cosmic Near Infrared Background |
| May 12 | Rosalba Perna, University of Colorado, Boulder |
Gamma-ray Bursts as Cosmological Tools |
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