MIT Astrophysics Colloquia - Spring 2005

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 1:
Unraveling Our Origins Through Gamma-Ray Astronomy
Dr. Cornelia Wunderer
University of California, Berkeley
Host: Deepto Chakrabarty

February 8:
The Future of Infrared Space Astronomy
Dr. John Mather
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Host: Ed Bertschinger

February 15:
A Natural Coronagraph for a Pre-Main-Sequence Star
Dr. Joshua Winn
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Host: Ed Bertschinger

February 22:
SETI: Pulling Signals out of Cosmic Noise
Prof. Jill Tarter
SETI Institute
Host: Max Tegmark

March 1:
Multiwavelength Properties of Obscured Quasars
Nadia Zakamska
Princeton University
Host: Paul Schechter

March 8:
The Main Event: A Three Round Fight with Sagittarius A*
Dr. Geoffrey Bower
University of California, Berkeley
Host: Fred Baganoff

March 15:
Probing Dark Energy & Dark Matter with Gravitational Lensing
Prof. Tony Tyson
University of California, Davis
Host: David Hogg

March 22:
Accretion history of Massive Black Holes
Richard Mushotzky
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Host: Mark Bautz

March 29:
Energy Release and Particle Acceleration in Solar Flares
Prof. Terry Forbes
University of New Hampshire
Host: Justin Kasper

April 5:
AGN Heating of the Hot Gas in Galaxy Clusters
Prof. Brian McNamara
Ohio University
Host: Mike Wise

April 12:
Buried Alive: Very Red Quasars and the Hidden Accretion History of the Universe
Prof. David Helfand
Columbia University
Host: Mark Bautz

April 19: Patriot's day
April 21:
THE 2005 BRUNO ROSSI LECTURE IN ASTROPHYSICS
(Joint Physics/Astrophysics Colloquium)

The Highest Energy Cosmic Rays
Prof. James Cronin
University of Chicago


(NOTE: This colloquium is on a THURSDAY)

April 26:
Galaxy Clustering as a Cosmic Yardstick
Prof. Daniel Eisenstein
University of Arizona
Host: Max Tegmark

May 3:
Measuring the CMB Polarization with More Muscle
Dr. John Kovac
California Institute of Technology
Host: Ed Bertschinger

May 10:
Fundamental Astrophysics
Prof. Christopher Stubbs
Harvard University
Host: Max Tegmark

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