{"id":1706,"date":"2019-02-14T11:20:09","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T16:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/iar\/?page_id=1706"},"modified":"2019-02-14T11:20:09","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T16:20:09","slug":"spring-semester-2016","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/iar\/events\/previous-seminars\/spring-semester-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring Semester 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Date<\/th>\nSpeaker<\/th>\nAffiliation<\/th>\nTopic\/Title<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
1\/25\/16<\/td>\nHerman Marshall<\/td>\nMIT<\/td>\nOpening the Field of Soft X-ray Polarimetry <\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2\/1\/16<\/td>\nRachel Lash Maitra<\/td>\nWentworth Institute of Technology<\/td>\nWhy Quantum Gravity Matters: Quantum Avoidance of the Big Bang Singularity <\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2\/8\/16<\/td>\nMichael Nowak<\/td>\nMIT<\/td>\nAre Black Holes as Simple as They Used to Be? <\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tuesday<\/strong> 2\/16\/16<\/td>\nAtish Kamble<\/td>\nCfA<\/td>\n Radio Supernovae in the local Universe <\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2\/22\/16<\/td>\nYukitoshi Nishimura<\/td>\nUCLA<\/td>\nJoint Space Physics Seminar<\/strong> <\/em>
\nSolar wind-magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling through auroral observations <\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2\/29\/16<\/td>\nLorenzo Sironi<\/td>\nCfA<\/td>\nThe Journey of High-Energy Photons in Blazar Jets <\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Spring Recess<\/strong> 3\/7\/16<\/td>\n<\/td>\nNo Seminar<\/em><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3\/14\/16<\/td>\nIan Stephens<\/td>\nBU IAR<\/td>\nUsing the MALT90 Survey to Investigate Chemical Anomalies and to Compare Galactic to Extragalactic Star Formation<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3\/21\/16<\/td>\nProf. Ramesh Narayan<\/td>\nHarvard University<\/td>\nNumerical Simulations of Black Hole Accretion <\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3\/28\/16<\/td>\nJosep Miquel Girart<\/td>\nICE, Spain<\/td>\nMagnetic fields in star forming regions: from dense core to disk scales.<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4\/4\/16<\/td>\nSavvas Koushiappas<\/td>\nBrown University<\/td>\n Dark matter searches in dwarf galaxies and the case of Reticulum II<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4\/11\/16<\/td>\nJames Steiner<\/td>\nMIT<\/td>\nA NICER View of Spinning Black Holes<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday<\/strong> 4\/20\/16<\/td>\nJustin Finke<\/td>\nNaval Research Laboratory<\/td>\nConstraining Intergalactic Radiation and Magnetic Fields with Gamma Ray Observations<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4\/25\/16<\/td>\nDipankar Maitra<\/td>\nWheaton College<\/td>\nTesting Our Understanding of Accretion Physics near Compact Objects: Lessons Learned from the Brief But Violent Outburst of V404 Cygni During 2015 June-July <\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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