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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