MIT Astrophysics Colloquia - Summer 1998

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 16:

Dr. Simon Portegies Zwart
University of Tokyo

Star Cluster Ecology with GRAPE


June 23:

Dr. Sallie Baliunas
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Sun-like Stars and Their Planets


June 30:

Dr. Maxim Markevitch
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

ASCA Measurements of the Gas Temperature in Galaxy Clusters and Their Interpretation


July 7:

Prof. Krishna Rajagopal
M.I.T.

The Many Phases of QCD: Physics at Neutron Star Densities and Big Bang Temperatures


July 14:

Dr. Michael Pahre
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

The Global Properties of Elliptical Galaxies and Their Evolution


July 21:

Prof. Edmund Bertschinger
M.I.T.

Evidence for Neutrino Mass and its Cosmological Consequences


July 28:

Dr. Ann Esin
Caltech

Spectral States of Galactic Black Hole Binaries


August 4:

Dr. Lincoln Greenhill
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Water Maser AGN


August 11:

Note Change:

Prof. Rainer Weiss
M.I.T.

Recent Developments in Gravity Wave Detectors


MIT Astrophysics Colloquia - updated 8/2/98 - rasio@mit.edu