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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