Spring Semester 2011

Date Speaker Title
Monday, January 24, 2011 Markos Georganopoulos, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Current Issues in Understanding Extragalactic Relativistic Jets
Monday, January 31, 2011 Anna Frebel, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Stellar Archaeology: New Science with Old stars
Monday, February 7, 2011 Sylvain Veilleux, University of Maryland, College Park Galactic Winds and Their Cosmological Implications
Monday, February 14, 2011 Michael Person, MIT Occultation Studies of the Outer Solar System
Tuesday, February 22, 2011 Christy Tremonti, University of Wisconsin, Madison High Velocity Outflows in Post-starburst Galaxies: the smoking gun for quasar feedback?
Monday, February 28, 2011 Travis Barman, Lowell Observatory Clouds and Chemistry in the Atmospheres of HR8799b and 2M1207b
Monday, March 7, 2011 Elena D’Onghia, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics The Formation of Stochastic Spiral Arms in Disk Galaxies
Monday, March 21, 2011 Mark Krumholz, University of California, Santa Cruz Simulations of Massive Star Formation
Monday, March 28, 2011 Héctor Arce, Yale University Stellar feedback during star formation
Monday, April 4, 2011 Manasvita Joshi, Boston University Multiwavelength Studies of Fermi-LAT Blazars
Monday, April 11, 2011 Matt Browning, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics Stellar Interiors
Thursday, April 21, 2011 Tom Wilson, Naval Research Laboratory Sub-mm CO lines
Monday, April 25, 2011 Tim Paglione, The City University of New York (CUNY) Star Formation on Galactic Scales
Monday, May 2, 2011 Claudia Cyganowski, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics The Early Stages of Massive Star Formation