MIT Astrophysics Colloquia - Summer 1997

Summer colloquia will be on Tuesday morning, at 11 AM in the Marlar Lounge, Center for Space Research (MIT Room 37-252), preceded by coffee and cookies at 10:30 AM.


June 10:

Dr. Timothy Kallman
NASA/ Goddard Space Flight Center

Accretion Disk Winds and Emission Lines from X-ray Binaries


June 17:

Dr. Ue-Li Pen
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Simulations of Galaxy Clusters


June 24:

Dr. Rennan Bar-Kana
Institute for Advanced Study

Cosmological Applications of Gravitational Lensing


July 1:

Prof. Piet Hut
Institute for Advanced Study

Modeling Dense Stellar Systems: Towards PetaFLOPs Computations


July 8:

Prof. Walter Lewin
M.I.T.

The Latest Developments of the GRB Fever


July 15:

Dr. Katherine Blundell
Oxford University

The Linear-Size Evolution of Classical Double Radio Sources


July 22:

Dr. Ludmila Kiseleva
IoA, Cambridge University

Dynamical Effects in Hierarchical Triple Systems


July 29:

Prof. Abraham Loeb
Harvard University

The End of the Dark Ages and the Renaissance of Enlightenment at High Redshifts


August 5:

Dr. Greg Bryan
Princeton University

Cosmology and Supercomputing: Results from four years of the GC3


August 12:

Dr. Joan Najita
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Infrared Spectroscopy of Protoplanetary Disks


MIT Astrophysics Colloquia - updated 8/1/97 - rasio@mit.edu