Spring Semester 2007
Date | Speaker | Title |
Tuesday Jan 23 | Justin Kasper, MIT | Breaking the Ionospheric Barrier: The Mileura Wide-field Array and the Return of Low Frequency Radio Astronomy |
Tuesday Jan 30 | Elizabeth Blanton, Boston University IAR | Radio Sources in Clusters of Galaxies: Impact on the ICM and Probes of High-z Systems |
Tuesday Feb 6 | Karl Gordon, University of Arizona | Spitzer Observations of the Aromatic Features: New Insights from Spectroscopy and Imaging |
Tuesday Feb 13 | Adam Burgasser, MIT | Substellar Noir: Brown Dwarf Binaries and the Mystery of the L/T Transition |
Tuesday Feb 20 | Monday Class Schedule, No Seminar | |
Tuesday Feb 27 | Bob Rood, University of Virginia | The Nature of Technological Civilizations: How to Search for Unicorns |
Tuesday Mar 6 | Bob Benjamin, University of Wisconsin at Whitewater | Infrared Galactic Cartography: Constraints on the Stellar Disk, Bar, and Spiral Arms |
Tuesday Mar 13 | No Seminar (Spring Break) | |
Tuesday Mar 20 | Geoffrey Landis, NASA Glenn Research Center | Three Years on Mars: the Mars Exploration Rovers Mission |
Tuesday Mar 27 | David Helfand, Columbia University | MAGPIS: Finding Magnetars, Dark Accelerators, and Other Shiny Trinkets in a Galactic Plane Radio Survey |
Tuesday Apr 3 | Brian Chaboyer, Dartmouth College | The Space Interferometry Mission: Parallaxes, Planets & More |
Tuesday Apr 10 | Kevin Marvel, Executive Officer, American Astronomical Society | Astronomy and the FY 2008 Budget |
Wednesday Apr 11 | Martin J. Rees, Cambridge University | Scanning Cosmological Horizons |
Tuesday Apr 17 | David Charbonneau, Center for Astrophysics | The Era of Comparative Exoplanetology |
Monday Apr 23 | Jim Heasley, Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii | The Pan-STARRS Project |
Tuesday Apr 24 | Steve Snowden, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | The diffuse X-ray background: from Earth’s exosphere to the edge of the Universe |
Tuesday May 1 | Maxim Markevitch, Center for Astrophysics | Novel methods of measuring some interesting properties of intergalactic gas in clusters |