MIT Astrophysics Colloquia - Fall 1998
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 15:
Prof. John Bahcall
Institute for Advanced Study
Solar Neutrinos
September 22:
Prof. Kim McLeod
Wellesley College
Quasar Host Galaxies, and How
They Seem to Know About the Masses of their Monsters
September 29:
Prof. Michiel van der Klis
University of Amsterdam
Kilohertz QPO in Accreting Neutron Stars:
Do Beat Frequency Models Work?
October 6:
Prof. John Mattox
Boston University
Radio Quiet Gamma Ray Pulsars
October 13:
Prof. John Huchra
Harvard University
Extragalactic Globular Clusters
October 20:
Prof. Marc Davis
UC Berkeley
Diffuse Far-IR Emission: A New Sky
Map for Estimation of CMBR Foregrounds and Extragalactic Extinction
October 27:
Dr. Bryan Gaensler
MIT
Supernova 1987A: The Youngest Supernova Remnant
November 3:
Prof. John Wardle
Brandeis University
Electron-Positron Jets in Quasars?
November 10:
Prof. Marie Machacek
Northeastern University
The Lyman Alpha Forest in Hierarchical Cosmologies
November 17:
Dr. Todd Henry
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Beware of Small Beasts Lurking in the Night
November 24:
Dr. Piero Madau
Space Telescope Science Institute
High Redshift Galaxies, Quasars, and the Reionization
of the Universe
December 1:
Dr. Wayne Hu
Institute for Advanced Study
Probing the Dark Side of Cluster Formation
December 8:
Dr. Al Levine
MIT
Results from the RXTE All-Sky Monitor
MIT Astrophysics Colloquia - updated 10/22/98 - rasio@mit.edu