MIT Astrophysics Colloquia - Fall 2000
Tuesdays at 4:15 PM in the Marlar Lounge, Room 37-252
MIT Center for Space Research, 70 Vassar St, Cambridge, MA
Refreshments are served at 4:00 PM.
Sponsored by the Astrophysics Division
of the MIT Department of Physics.
September 12:
Prof. Shri Kulkarni
California Institute of Technology
Gamma-ray Bursts: Progress and Problems
September 19:
Dr. Bryan Gaensler
MIT
Neutron Stars in Supernova Remnants - Paradigm Lost?
September 26:
Dr. Martin Elvis
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
What Quasars Really Look Like:
Unifying all the Emission, Absorption and Reflection Regions
October 3:
Prof. Paul Schechter
MIT
Gravitational Microlensing in Multiply Imaged Quasars:
One Astronomer's Noise is Another Astronomer's Signal,
and Vice Versa
October 10:
Dr. Harvey Tananbaum
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Recent Results from the Chandra X-ray Observatory
October 17:
Prof. Ed Bertschinger
MIT
How the Microwave Background Got Perturbed
October 24:
Prof. Jackie Hewitt
MIT
Prospects for Observing the Collapse, Reheating, and Reionization
of the Post-Recombination Neutral Hydrogen
October 31:
Prof. Deepto Chakrabarty
MIT
Millisecond Spins in Accreting Neutron Stars:
Bursts and Pulses of Progress and Surprise
November 7:
Prof. Avi Loeb
Harvard University
Gamma-ray Bursts and the Early Universe
November 14:
Dr. Giuseppina Fabbiano
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
First Chandra Observations of Galaxies
November 21:
Dr. Jeff McClintock
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Galactic Black Holes Today
November 28:
Prof. Josh Grindlay
Harvard University
Chandra Zooms into 47 Tuc: The Ultimate Compact Binary Production Site?
December 5:
Dr. Alycia Weinberger
UCLA
The Evolution of Dusty Circumstellar Disks
December 12:
Dr. Jason Prochaska
Carnegie Observatories
Probing Galaxy Formation in the Early Universe with
the Damped Lya Systems
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