MIT Astrophysics Colloquia - Spring 2002
Tuesdays at 4:00 PM in the Marlar Lounge, Room 37-252
MIT Center for Space Research, 70 Vassar St, Cambridge, MA
Refreshments are served at 3:45 PM.
Sponsored by the Astrophysics Division
of the MIT Department of Physics
and the MIT Center for Space Research.
January 15: SPECIAL JANUARY COLLOQUIUM SERIES
Dr. Yanqin Wu
Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics
Tidal Evolution of Close-In Exo-Planets
January 17: SPECIAL JANUARY COLLOQUIUM SERIES
Dr. Ben Owen
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Gravitational Radiation Instability
of Neutron Star r-Modes
Note: this is a special THURSDAY colloquium
January 22:SPECIAL JANUARY COLLOQUIUM SERIES
Dr. Scott Hughes
Institute for Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara
Listening to Black Holes with Gravitational Waves
January 30:SPECIAL JANUARY COLLOQUIUM SERIES
Dr. Pieter van Dokkum
California Institute of Technology
Early-Type Galaxies: Old Stars in Young Galaxies
Note: this is a special WEDNESDAY colloquium
February 5:
Dr. Ingrid Stairs
National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Pulsars: Astrophysical Insights from a Variety of Observations
February 12:
Prof. Thomas Bania
Boston University
The Saga of Helium-3
February 19:
Prof. Q. Daniel Wang
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
High Energy Phenomena and Processes
in the Galactic Center Region
February 26:
Dr. Gerard Kriss
Space Telescope Science Institute
FUSE Observations of Ionized Helium in the Intergalactic Medium
March 5:
Prof. Alyssa Goodman
Harvard University
Star Formation Then and Now
March 12:
Dr. Ian Glass
South African Astronomical Observatory
Mira and Related Variables
March 19:
Dr. Nicole Lloyd-Ronning
Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics
Gamma Ray Bursts: Inside and Out
March 26:
No colloquium: MIT Spring Break
April 2: SPECIAL LOCATION: Room 4-370
Prof. Lam Hui
Columbia University
Large Scale Structure from Redshift 2 to 5
Note LOCATION CHANGE: Room 4-370
April 9:
Prof. John Cowan
University of Oklahoma
Neutron-Capture Element Abundances
in Halo Stars
and the Age of the Galaxy
April 16:
Dr. Manasse Mbonye
University of Michigan
Cosmology with an Interacting Dark Energy
April 23:
(to be announced)
April 30:
Prof. Fred Hamann
University of Florida
Quasar Element Abundances as Probes of Galaxy Evolution
May 7: THE 2002 BRUNO ROSSI LECTURE IN ASTROPHYSICS
Prof. Rashid Sunyaev
Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik
Disk Accretion onto Neutron Stars: The Boundary Layer
and Ways to Distinguish Black Holes from Neutron Stars
May 14:
Prof. Timothy McKay
University of Michigan
Galaxies and Mass: SDSS Measurements on Halo Scales
MIT Astrophysics Colloquia - updated 01/23/02 - deepto@mit.edu