MIT Astrophysics Colloquia - Fall 2002
Tuesdays at 4:00 PM in the Marlar Lounge, Room 37-252
MIT Center for Space Research, 70 Vassar St, Cambridge, MA
Refreshments are served at 3:45 PM.
Sponsored by the Astrophysics Division
of the MIT Department of Physics.
September 10:
Prof. Paul Schechter
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Milli and Micro-Lensing of Macrolensed Quasars
September 17:
Dr. Volker Bromm
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
The Formation of the First Luminous Objects in the Universe
September 24:
Prof. John Huchra
Harvard University
The 2MASS Redshift Survey
October 1:
Prof. Bruno Coppi
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Issue of Angular Momentum Transport
At All Scales in the Universe
October 8:
Prof. Kris Davidson
University of Minnesota
Eta Carinae: The Great Astrophysical Anti-Paradigm
October 15:
Prof. George Clark
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Riccardo Giacconi and the Early Days of X-Ray Astronomy
October 22
Dr. Alessandra Buonanno
Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (CNRS) and
California Institute of Technology
Searching for Gravitational Waves from
Inspiraling Binaries of
Compact Objects
October 29:
Dr. Ken Sembach
Space Telescope Science Institute
Highly-Ionized High-Velocity Gas in the Vicinity of the Milky Way
November 5:
Prof. Frederick Lamb
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
High-Frequency X-Ray Oscillations from Neutron Stars and Black Holes:
Probing Strong-Field Gravity and the Properties of Ultradense Matter
November 12:
Prof. Avishai Dekel
Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University
Feedback to the Rescue of Galaxy Formation in Cold Dark Matter Cosmology
November 19:
Prof. Amy Barger
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Supermassive Black Holes in the Distant Universe
November 26:
Dr. Tracy Clarke
National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Diffuse Radio Emission and Magnetic
Fields in Clusters of Galaxies
December 3:
Prof. Jonathan Arons
University of California, Berkeley
Magnetars in the Metagalaxy: The Origin of
Cosmic Baseballs (Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays)
December 10:
Prof. Scott Tremaine
Princeton University
The Demography of Nuclear Black Holes
MIT Astrophysics Colloquia - updated 10/17/02
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