Seminars of the Yale Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics

Please note new time for 2010 seminars.
There is a series of meetings to discuss the collaborative activities of the center. These meetings  take place on  Tuesdays at 2:00 pm  in room 263 J.W. Gibbs unless otherwise noted.

Date

Speaker

Title

Sept. 14

Eric Gaidos, University of Hawaii

An Answer for Anaximander: The Search for other Inhabited Worlds

Sept. 21

Aristotle Socrates, Institute for Advanced Study

Thermal Tides: An Explanation for the Inflated Radii of the Hot Jupiters

Sept. 28

William Keel, University of Alabama

Hanny's Voorwerp and its kin - probing the history of active galactic nuclei

Oct. 5

Michael Busha, Stanford University

The Magellanic Clouds in Simulations and Real Life

Oct. 12

Gurtina Besla, CfA, Harvard University

Simulations of the Magellanic Stream in a First Infall Scenario

Oct. 19

John Parejko, Yale University

Environments of Low Luminosity AGN in the Local Universe: The Care and Feeding of Weak AGN

Oct. 29 Friday 3pm

123 KGL

Roger Davies, University of Oxford

Towards a new paradigm for early-type galaxies

Nov. 2

Debra Fischer, Yale University

Towards centimeter per second Doppler precision

Nov. 9

Chris Lintott, Adler Planetarium, Oxford University

What to do with 250,000 Astronomers

Nov. 16

Maryam Modjaz, Columbia University   

Stellar Forensics with Explosions: Supernovae, Gamma-Ray Bursts, and their Environments

Nov. 23

No seminar Fall Recess

Nov. 30   

Daniel Perley, University of California, Berkeley

Exotic Dust and Obscured Star Formation in the Distant Universe Unveiled by Gamma-Ray Bursts

Dec. 7

Kristen Coppin, McGill University

Probing the Evolutionary Sequence of the Formation of Massive Galaxies

Dec. 14

Recess

Dec. 21

No seminar Winter Recess

Jan. 11

Jan 18

Greg Novak, Princeton University

Simulations of Black Hole Fueling and AGN Feedback in Early-Type Galaxies: Toward a Deeper Physical Understanding

Jan. 25

Matt McQuinn, University of California, Berkeley   

Reionization: New Diagnostics and Directions

Feb.1

Viviana Acquaviva, Rutgers University

SED Fitting with Markov Chain Monte Carlo: The How and Why

Feb. 8

Ivy Wong, Yale University

Understanding the evolving Local Universe from a neutral gas perspective

Feb 15

Jeanette Gladstone, U. of Alberta

Multi-wavelength studies of ultraluminous X-ray sources

Feb. 22

Mar. 8

No Seminar Spring Recess

Mar. 22

Boaz Katz, IAS

Supernova Shock Breakouts

Mar. 29

Kyoungsoo Lee, Yale University

How Much/Little do we know about Star Formation at High Redshift?

Apr. 5

Mario Juric, Harvard/CfA

Galactic Structure with Synoptic Surveys: From SDSS to PanSTARRS PS1

Apr. 12

Francesca  Civano, Harvard/CfA

CID-42: A Candidate Recoiling SMBH with Both Imaging and Spectroscopy Signature

Apr. 19

Peter Capak, Caltech

Large Scale Structure and Extreme Star Formation at z>4

Apr. 26

Subo Dong, IAS

Microlensing: Marching Toward a Complete Census of Cold Exoplanet Population

May 3

Britt Lundgren, Yale University

Sixty Thousand Invisible Galaxies: Using Quasar Absorption Features as Probes of Galaxies from z~5

May 10

Amy Reines, Virginia

Surprise! Dwarf Starburst Galaxy Hosts Supermassive Black Hole

May 17

Yuen Shen, Harvard/CfA

Searching for Binary Supermassive Black Holes: from Tens of kpc to kpc Scales

May 24

May 31

Nic Ross, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory

BOSS and the Height of the Quasar Empire

June 7