MIT Astrophysics Colloquia - Fall 2003
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
and the MIT Center for Space Research.
September 9:
(No colloquium: internal MIT research symposium)
September 16:
Prof. James Larkin
University of California, Los Angeles
Observing Galaxy Evolution at the Keck Diffraction Limit
September 23:
Dr. Todd Thompson
University of California, Berkeley
Supernovae, Protoneutron Star Winds, and the Origin of the
Heavy Elements
September 30:
Prof. Scott Hughes
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mergers, Gravitational Waves, and the Growth of Black Holes
October 7:
Dr. Dale Frail
National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Diversity in Cosmic Explosions
October 14:
Dr. Masao Sako
Stanford University
High-Resolution X-Ray Spectroscopy of Accretion-Powered
Cosmic Sources
October 21:
Dr. Fabrizio Nicastro
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
The Warm Hot Intergalactic Medium
October 28:
Dr. David Charbonneau
California Institute of Technology
Extrasolar Planets: The Power of the Dark Side
November 4:
Dr. Mike Gladders
Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington
Optically Selected High-Redshift Galaxy Clusters
November 11:
Dr. Anatoly Spitkovsky
Stanford University
Nuclear Hurricanes on Neutron Stars: Dynamics of Type-I X-Ray
Bursts
November 18: THE 2003 BRUNO ROSSI LECTURE IN ASTROPHYSICS
Prof. Roger Blandford
Stanford University
Astrophysical Black Holes: The Current View
November 25:
Dr. Joshua Bloom
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Cosmological Gamma-Ray Bursts: Perspectives and Prospects
December 2:
Dr. Adam Burgasser
University of California, Los Angeles
Seeing Double: The Science Yield of Brown Dwarf Binaries
December 9:
Prof. Vassiliki (Vicky) Kalogera
Northwestern University
The Milky Way Reveals a New Relativistic Binary Pulsar:
Implications for Gravitational Wave Interferometers
MIT Astrophysics Colloquia - updated 11/18/03 - deepto@mit.edu