MIT Astrophysics Colloquia - Spring 2007
Tuesdays at 4:00 PM in the Marlar Lounge, Room 37-252
MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
70 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA
Refreshments are served at 3:45 PM.
Sponsored by
the Astrophysics Division of the MIT Department of Physics
and
the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research.
Special Seminar Thursday February 1, 3pm:
THE
COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND BEYOND THE ACOUSTIC PEAKS
Dr. Chao-Lin Kuo
California Institute of Technology
Host: Deepto Chakrabarty
February 6:
FEEDBACK IN STARBURST GALAXIES
Dr. Todd Thompson
Princeton University
Host: Deepto Chakrabarty
Special Seminar Friday February 9, 3pm:
THE ACCRETION HISTORY OF BLACK
HOLES IN GALACTIC NUCLEI
Prof.
Priya
Natarajan
Yale University
Host: Deepto Chakrabarty
February 13:
DYNAMICS OF BINARY STARS AND THEIR
PLANETS
Dr.
Eric Pfahl
Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics/UC Santa Barbara
Host: Deepto Chakrabarty
Special Seminar Friday February 16, 3pm:
MEASURING THE INFLUENCE OF
MAGNETIC FIELDS ON
ASTROPHYSICAL PLASMAS: TWO NEW VIEWS
Dr.
Justin
Kasper
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Host: Deepto Chakrabarty
February 20:
SEARCHING FOR STOCHASTIC
GRAVITATIONAL-WAVE BACKGROUND WITH LIGO: RESULTS
AND IMPLICATIONS
Dr.
Vuk Mandic
California Institute of Technology
Host: Deepto Chakrabarty
February 27:
LIGHT AND SHADOWS FROM DARK MATTER
Dr. Stefano Profumo
California Institute of Technology
Host: Deepto Chakrabarty
March 6:
THE SPACE INTERFEROMETRY MISSION
Taking the Measure of the Universe
Dr. Ron Allen
Space Telescope Science Institute
Host: Bernie Burke
March 13:
ASTROPHYSICS AND COSMOLOGY WITH
HESS
Prof. Felix
Aharonian
Max-Plank Institut fur Kernphysik
Host: Fred Baganoff
March 20:
HEATING COOLING FLOWS AND
TRUNCATING GALAXY FORMATION
Prof.
James
Binney
University of Oxford
Host: Paul Schechter
April 3:
RADIO OBSERVATIONS OF COSMIC
REIONIZATION AND THE MOST DISTANT GALAXIES
Dr. Chris
Carilli
National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Host: Bernie Burke
April 10: NOTE SPECIAL ROOM FOR
THIS COLLOQUIUM: GRIER ROOM
34-401B
SIMULATING MERGING GALAXIES: THE
INFRARED VIEW
Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti
Harvard
Host: Ed Bertschinger
April 17:
THE MASS FUNCTION OF LOCAL
ACTIVE BLACK HOLES
Dr.
Jenny Greene
Princeton
Host: Ron Remillard
April 24:
THE STELLAR HALO OF THE ANDROMEDA
SPIRAL GALAXY AND ITS DWARF SATELLITES
Prof.
Puragra Guhathakurta
University of California, Santa Cruz
Host: Paul Schechter
May 1:
REIONIZATION: WHEN, WHERE,
AND HOW?
Prof. Steven
Furlanetto
Yale University
Host: Miguel Morales
May 8:
HOW LUMINOUS WAS THE GALACTIC
SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLE IN THE PAST?
Fred
Baganoff
MKI
Host: Tali Figueroa
May 15:
DARK MATTER CAUSTICS
Dr. Roya Mohayaee
Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris
Host: Ed Bertschinger
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