MIT Astrophysics Colloquia - Fall 1997
All colloquia are on Tuesday, at 4:15 PM in the Marlar Lounge,
Center for Space Research (MIT Room 37-252).
Refreshments are served at 3:45 PM.
September 9:
Dr. Lynne Hillenbrand
UC Berkeley
Star Formation in The Orion Nebula Cluster
September 16:
Prof. Ethan Vishniac
University of Texas (Austin)
The Decline From Outburst: What Does Cooling Wave Theory
Tell Us About Accretion Disk Viscosity?
September 23:
Dr. Mike Zucker
M.I.T.
The LIGO Detectors: Challenges and Solutions
September 30:
Prof. Edwin Turner
Princeton University
Gravitational Lenses and the Age of the Universe
October 7:
Prof. Reinhard Genzel
Max Planck Institute (Garching)
The Dark Mass in the Center of the Milky Way
October 14:
Prof. Ira Wasserman
Cornell University
From Bombs to Bombast: The Continuing Enigma of
Gamma Ray Bursts
October 21:
Prof. Don Backer
UC Berkeley
The Population of Neutron Star - Helium White Dwarf Binaries
in the Galactic Disk
October 28:
Prof. Jonathan Grindlay
Harvard University
X-ray Sources in Globular Clusters
November 4:
Dr. Wendy Freedman
Carnegie Observatories
Measuring Cosmological Parameters
November 11:
Dr. David Hogg
Institute for Advanced Study
Studies of Faint Galaxies with Keck and HST
November 18:
Dr. Matt Holman
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Dynamics of Planetary Systems
November 25:
Dr. Shadia Habbal
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
The Impact of Ulysses and SOHO Observations on Our
Understanding of the Solar Wind
December 2:
Prof. Lyman Page
Princeton University
Measuring the
Anisotropy in the Cosmic Microwave Background
December 9:
Dr. Robert Noyes
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Detecting Extrasolar Planets
MIT Astrophysics Colloquia - updated 9/9/97 - rasio@mit.edu