Astrophysics Colloquia – Spring 2012

Date	Speaker	Topic/Title
1/23/12	Marla Geha Yale, Dept of Astronomy	Ultra-Faint Galaxies Around the Milky Way
1/30/12	Eric Chaisson Harvard-Smithsonian, CfA	Cosmic Evolution and the Arrow of Time
2/6/12	Charles Lada Harvard-Smithsonian, CfA	Star Formation Rates in Molecular Clouds and the Nature of the Extragalactic Scaling Relations
2/13/12	Jim Drake UMD, Dept of Physics	Magnetic reconnection as a cosmic particle accelerator
2/27/12	Marco Velli CIT, Jet Propulsion Lab	Coronal Heating and Solar Wind Models: Tests with Solar Probe Plus and Solar Orbiter
3/5/12	Chris O’Dea RIT, Dept of Physics	Spitzer Observations of Seyfert Galaxies: Infrared Diagnostics of the AGN and Star Formation
3/19/12	Stefi Baum RIT, Ctr for Imaging Science	Double, double toil and trouble, Fire burn, and caldron bubble – Goings On in Cool Core Clusters
3/26/12	Jessica Rosenberg GMU, Dept of Phys & Astronomy	Baryons in Galaxies and the Intergalactic Medium: Tracers of Galaxy Evolution
4/2/12	Merav Opher BU, Astronomy Dept	At the edge of the solar system: Learning how starts interact with their surrounding media
4/9/12	Randy Jokipii UofA, Lunar & Planetary Lab	Turbulent Shocks in Astrophysical Plamas
4/23/12	Marcel Agueros Columbia, Astronomy Dept
4/30/12	Elizabeth Blanton BU, Astronomy Dept