MIT Astrophysics Colloquia - Spring 1998
All colloquia are on Tuesdays, at 4:15 PM in the Marlar Lounge,
Center for Space Research (MIT Room 37-252).
Refreshments are served at 3:45 PM.
February 10, 1998
Prof. Doug Eardley
UC Santa Barbara
Unsteady Accretion Flows
February 17, 1998
Dr. Mark Tegmark
Institute for Advanced Study
Precision Cosmology
February 24, 1998
Dr. Peter Garnavich
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
High Redshift Supernovae and the Fate
of the Universe
March 3, 1998
Prof. Jonathan Lunine
University of Arizona
Migration of Jupiters to become 51 Peg B's:
Is it a given?
March 10, 1998
Prof. Bernard Schutz
Albert Einstein Institute, Potsdam
The New Gravitational Wave Astronomy:
What Might We See First?
March 17, 1998
Prof. Peter Goldreich
Caltech
Pulsating White Dwarfs
March 31, 1998
Prof. Maurice van Putten
MIT
Formation of Fronts and Knotted Structures
in Astrophysical Jets
April 7, 1998
Prof. Chris Kochanek
Harvard University
The Optical Properties of Gravitational Lenses
April 14, 1998
Dr. Jill Tarter
SETI Institute
SETI at the End of the Twentieth Century
April 28, 1998
Prof. Steve Beckwith
Max Planck Inst. fur Astronomie
Discovering the First Galaxies
May 5, 1998
Dr. Vicky Kalogera
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Formation and Kinematics of LMXBs
and their
Link to Millisecond Pulsars
May 12, 1998
Dr. Buell Jannuzi
NOAO
Pushing The Frontier to Redshift Zero:
The HST Quasar Absorption Line Key Project
MIT Astrophysics Colloquia - updated 2/19/98 - rasio@mit.edu