MIT Astrophysics Colloquia - Spring 2004

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.

February 3:

Prof. Charles Gammie
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Numerical Models of Black Hole Accretion Flows

February 10:

Dr. Scott Ransom
McGill University

The Incredible Double-Pulsar Binary J0737-3039: A Pulsar "Holy Grail" At Last

February 17:

Prof. Dimitar Sasselov
Harvard University

Jupiter-Like Planets Around Other Stars: A Closer Look

February 24:

Dr. Justin Kasper
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics in the Heliosphere

March 2:

Prof. Joachim Wambsganss
Universitat Potsdam

The Other Microlensing: Compact Objects in Front of Quasars

March 9:

Dr. Scott Gaudi
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Microlensing Searches for Extrasolar Planets

March 16:

Dr. Giovanni Fazio
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Recent Results from the Spitzer Space Telescope: A New View of the Infrared Universe

March 30:

Prof. Amber Miller
Columbia University

Bumps, Wiggles, and Holes in the Sky: Exploring the Early Universe

April 6:

Prof. Marten van Kerkwijk
University of Toronto

Puzzles Posed by the Nearest Neutron Stars

April 13:

Prof. Todd Tripp
University of Massachusetts at Amherst

The Search for Missing Baryons in the Warm-Hot Intergalactic Medium

April 27:

Prof. Julio Navarro
University of Victoria

Galaxy Formation and the Formation of the Galaxy

May 4:

Prof. Chris Martin
California Institute of Technology

The Galaxy Evolution Explorer: Results From the First Year

May 11:

Prof. Rebecca Bernstein
University of Michigan

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