MIT Astrophysics Colloquia - Fall 2007

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 11:
Mars Exporation Rovers: Overview of Geologic, Geochemical, and Mineralogic Results
Prof. Jim Bell
Cornell
Host: Walter Lewin

September 18:
Probing Accretion Disks and Streams in Interacting Binaries with Tomography
Prof. Mercedes Richards
Penn State
Host: Ed Bertschinger

September 25:
Nearby, Thermally Emitting Neutron Stars:
      Laboratories for Extreme Physics

Dr. David Kaplan
  MIT
Host: Deepto Chakrabarty

October 2:
"QUaD" - Polarization of the CMB
Prof. Clem Pryke
Chicago
Host: Tali Figueroa

October 9:
Dark Matter and its Detection
Prof. Peter Fisher
MIT
Host: Tali Figueroa

October 16:
Peeking into a Neutron Star: Neutrons, Condensates, or Quarks?
Prof. Feryal Ozel
Univ. Arizona
Host: Walter Lewin

October 23:
Dwarf Galaxies: the Building Blocks of Structure Formation
Dr. Brant Robertson
Chicago
Host: Walter Lewin

October 30:
Highlights of Observations with the Spitzer
      Space Telescope

Prof. Giovanni Fazio
Harvard CfA
Host: Walter Lewin

November 6:
Cosmic Evolution of Black Holes and their Host Galaxies
Dr. Jong-Hak Woo
UC Santa Barbara
Host: Walter Lewin

November 13:
New Insights and Opportunities from Thermonuclear X-ray Bursts
Dr. Tod Strohmayer
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Host: Walter Lewin

November 20:
Star Formation in the Mid-Infrared, and implications for
the high redshift Universe

Prof. Daniella Calzetti
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Host: Rob Simcoe

November 27:
Gravitational Lensing - Three Recent Results
Prof. Saul Rappaport
MIT
Host: Tali Figueroa

December 4: (Special Joint Seminar between MKI and LNS)
Recent Bolocam Results
Prof. Sunil Golwala
Caltech
Host: Tali Figueroa

December 11:
Some Physics on the Path to Extrasolar Earths
Dimitar Sasselov
Harvard University
Host: Josh Winn

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