| Date |
Speaker |
Affiliation |
Topic/Title |
| 1/25/16 |
Herman Marshall |
MIT |
Opening the Field of Soft X-ray Polarimetry |
| 2/1/16 |
Rachel Lash Maitra |
Wentworth Institute of Technology |
Why Quantum Gravity Matters: Quantum Avoidance of the Big Bang Singularity |
| 2/8/16 |
Michael Nowak |
MIT |
Are Black Holes as Simple as They Used to Be? |
| Tuesday 2/16/16 |
Atish Kamble |
CfA |
Radio Supernovae in the local Universe |
| 2/22/16 |
Yukitoshi Nishimura |
UCLA |
Joint Space Physics Seminar
Solar wind-magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling through auroral observations |
| 2/29/16 |
Lorenzo Sironi |
CfA |
The Journey of High-Energy Photons in Blazar Jets |
| Spring Recess 3/7/16 |
|
No Seminar |
|
| 3/14/16 |
Ian Stephens |
BU IAR |
Using the MALT90 Survey to Investigate Chemical Anomalies and to Compare Galactic to Extragalactic Star Formation |
| 3/21/16 |
Prof. Ramesh Narayan |
Harvard University |
Numerical Simulations of Black Hole Accretion |
| 3/28/16 |
Josep Miquel Girart |
ICE, Spain |
Magnetic fields in star forming regions: from dense core to disk scales. |
| 4/4/16 |
Savvas Koushiappas |
Brown University |
Dark matter searches in dwarf galaxies and the case of Reticulum II |
| 4/11/16 |
James Steiner |
MIT |
A NICER View of Spinning Black Holes |
| Wednesday 4/20/16 |
Justin Finke |
Naval Research Laboratory |
Constraining Intergalactic Radiation and Magnetic Fields with Gamma Ray Observations |
| 4/25/16 |
Dipankar Maitra |
Wheaton College |
Testing Our Understanding of Accretion Physics near Compact Objects: Lessons Learned from the Brief But Violent Outburst of V404 Cygni During 2015 June-July |