MIT Astrophysics Colloquia - Spring 1999
Colloquia are on Tuesdays at 4:15 PM in the Marlar Lounge (Room 37-252),
MIT Center for 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.
February 9:
Dr. Scott Burles
University of Chicago
Deuterium, Big-Bang Nucleosynthesis, and Baryon
Counting
February 16:
Prof. Lars Bildsten
University of California, Berkeley
Gravitational Radiation from Accreting Neutron Stars:
Implications for Millisecond Pulsar Formation and LIGO
February 23:
Dr. Scott Trager
Observatories of the Carnegie Institute of Washington
The Timescales of Galaxy Formation: The Stellar Evidence
March 2:
Dr. Patrick Slane
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Young Pulsars, Fast and Slow: The Story Told by Supernova Remnants
March 9:
Dr. Joel Kastner
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Our Emerging View of the Nearest Region of Recent Star Formation
March 16:
Dr. Katherine Blundell
University of Oxford
The Birth Function and Redshift-Age Relation of Radio Galaxies
March 23:
NO COLLOQUIUM
(Spring Break)
March 30:
Prof. August Evrard
University of Michigan
Large-Scale Structure in Virtual Worlds: A Status Report
April 6:
Prof. Chung-Pei Ma
University of Pennsylvania
Weighing Superclusters
April 13:
Dr. Michael Werner
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
SIRTF: The Space Infrared Telescope Facility
April 20:
Eliot Quataert
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Low Radiative Efficiency Accretion: Microphysics
and Applications to Low Luminosity AGN
(special Patriot's Day colloquium)
April 27:
Prof. Andrea Ghez
University of California, Los Angeles
The Frequency and Effects of Young Companion Stars
May 4:
Prof. Lars Hernquist
Harvard University
Cooling of Ultra-Magnetized Neutron Stars
May 11:
Dr. Andrew Fruchter
Space Telescope Science Institute
Gamma-Ray Bursts, Their Hosts, and High-Redshift Galaxies
May 18:
Prof. Roger Chevalier
University of Virginia
Supernova Shock Phenomena and Gamma-Ray Bursts
May 25:
Dr. Amri Wandel
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The Mass-Luminosity Relation in Active Galactic Nuclei
(special "post-season" colloquium)
MIT Astrophysics Colloquia - updated 04/11/99 - deepto@space.mit.edu