MIT Astrophysics Colloquia - Fall 2004
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 14:
Prof. Martin White
University of California at Berkeley
Weak Gravitational Lensing
September 21:
Dr. David Ballantyne
CITA
Neutron Star Superbursts as Probes of Accretion Disk Physics
September 28:
Prof. Rebecca Bernstein
University of Michigan
Detailed Abundances in Extragalactic Globular Clusters
October 5:
Dr. Sergio Colafrancesco
Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma
Cosmic Backgrounds and Blazars
October 12:
Prof. Avi Loeb
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Reionization and 21 cm tomography
October 19:
Prof. Dimitar Sasselov
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
MOST exciting results
October 26:
Dr. Phil Arras
Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara
Seismology of Accreting White Dwarfs
November 2:
Prof. Charles Alcock
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Fishing in the Dark: Searching for Extremely Faint Objects in the Solar System
November 9:
Houjun Mo
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
The Galaxy-Dark Matter Connection
November 16:
Prof. Andrew Hamilton
University of Colorado, Boulder
Observing the insides of black holes
November 23:
Prof. Robert Kirshner
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Supernovae and the Dark Energy
November 30:
Dr. Ari Maller
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
How the Galaxy got its Mass and Other Just So Stories
December 7:
Dr. Scott Chapman
California Institute of Technology
The birth of massive galaxies in the Universe
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