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