Fall Semester 2014

Date Speaker Affiliation Topic/Title
Monday, 9/8 James Jackson BU High Mass Star Formation
Monday, 9/15 Alicia Soderberg Harvard University Supernova forensics
Monday, 9/22 Karin Oberg Harvard University Dust Chemistry
Monday, 9/29 Ranga-Ram Chary IPAC/Caltech CSI-Los Angeles: The Growth of Distant Galaxies and Reionization
Monday, 10/6 Jim Moran Center for Astrophysics Galactic Center Event Horizon Telescope
Tuesday, 10/14 Cara Battersby Center for Astrophysics Infrared Dark Clouds
Monday, 10/20 Greg Stinson MPIA A Critical Mass Scale in Galaxy Formation
Monday, 10/27 Edo Berger Harvard University Short-Duration Gamma-Ray Bursts and the Electromagnetic Counterparts of Gravitational Wave Sources
Monday, 11/3 Charlie Lada Center for Astrophysics Schmidt’s Conjecture and Star Formation in GMCs and Galaxies
Monday, 11/10 Phil Myers Center for Astrophysics How Stars Acquire Their Mass
Monday, 11/17 Lincoln Greenhill Center for Astrophysics The Large Aperture Experiment to Detect the Dark Age (LEDA)
Monday, 11/24 David Spergel Princeton Two Epochs of Cosmic Acceleration
Monday, 12/1 Paula Aspell WGBH NOVA science
Monday, 12/8 Deepto Chakrabarty MIT Probing the Neutron Star Equation of State Through X-ray Timing