MIT Astrophysics Colloquia - Fall 2006
Tuesdays at 4:00 PM in the Marlar Lounge, Room 37-252
MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
70 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA
Refreshments are served at 3:45 PM.
Sponsored by
the Astrophysics Division of the MIT Department of Physics
and
the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research.
September 12:
What do
Multiple Planet Systems Teach Us About Planet Formation?
Dr. Eric Ford
Harvard/Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Host: Ben Lane
September 19:
The Motions of the Magellanic
Clouds About the Milky Way:
Towards a Reassessment of Some Fundamental
Questions
Dr. Nitya Kallivayalil
Harvard/Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Host: Tali Figueroa
September 26:
Shocks, Bubbles, and Filaments:
the Interaction of Supermassive Black Holes with Cluster Environments
Dr. Bill
Forman
Harvard/Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Host: Mark Bautz
October 3:
Radio Cosmology at MIT:
Observing the Epoch of Reionization with the Mileura Widefield Array
Dr. Miguel Morales
MIT Kavli Institute
Host: Jacqueline Hewitt
October 17:
Brown Dwarfs Young and Old
Dr. Kelle
Cruz
American Museum of Natural History
Host: Adam Burgasser
October 24:
A Direct Empirical Proof of the
Existence of Dark Matter
Dr.
Douglas Clowe
Steward Observatory, University of Arizona
Host: Mark Bautz
October 31:
Detecting Earth-Mass Planets with
Gravitational Microlensing (provisional title)
Professor David
Bennett
University of Notre Dame
Host: Mark Bautz
November 7:
Active Galactic Nuclei
Dr.
Jane Turner
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Host: Herman Marshall
November 14:
Mapping Dark Matter and Dark
Energy Using Gravitational Lensing
Professor
Priya Natarajan
Yale University
Host: Scott Hughes
November 21:
Neutron Star Atmospheres and X-ray
Bursts
Dr. Jean
Cottam
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Host: Tali Figueroa
November 28: Note Special Location: 6-120
Clusters of Galaxies in the First
Half of the Universe from the Spitzer/IRAC Shallow Survey
Dr. Peter
Eisenhardt
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Host: Mark Bautz
Monday, December 4:
Special Joint Astrophysics/LNS Colloquium
Prospects for Dark-Energy
and Inflation Experiments Using Precision Cosmology
Professor Gary Bernstein
University of Pennsylvania
Host: Alan Guth
Special Location:
Pappalardo Room, 4-349, 4:15pm
December 12:
Hot on the Tail of the Elusive
WIMP : Direct Detection Dark Matter Searches Enter the 21st Century
Professor
Tarek Saab
University of Florida
Host: Tali Figueroa
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