MIT Astrophysics Colloquia - Summer 1999

(Note that the summer colloquia are in the morning!)

Colloquia are on Tuesdays at 11:15 AM in the Marlar Lounge (Room 37-252),
MIT Center for Space Research, 70 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA
Refreshments are served at 11:00 AM.
Sponsored by the Astrophysics Division of the MIT Department of Physics.

June 1:

Dr. Pavel Kroupa
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

The Stellar Initial Mass Function

June 8:

Dr. Tiziana Di Matteo
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

`Quiescent' Supermassive Black Holes in Elliptical Galaxies

June 15:

Dr. Kate Scholberg
Boston University

SNEWS: The Supernova Early Warning System

(NOTE: Colloquium and tea will be in MIT Room 37-232 this week)

June 22:

Dr. Andrew Melatos
University of California, Berkeley

Magnetic Field Evolution During Polar-Cap Accretion

June 29:

Dr. Alexey Vikhlinin
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

The CfA-IfA-ROSAT Distant Cluster Survey

July 6:

James Lowenthal
University of Massachusetts, Amherst

New Windows on Galaxy History

July 13:

Eric Ford
MIT

Barrett Prize Lecture

Formation and Evolution of Extrasolar Planetary Systems: Ideas at n=20

July 20:

Dr. John Stauffer
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Open Clusters, Brown Dwarfs and the Stellar Age Scale

July 27:

Dr. Laura Grego
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

"Galaxy Cluster Gas Fractions from Measurements of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect

August 3:

Dr. Paul Ray
Naval Research Laboratory

Initial Results From the USA X-Ray Timing Experiment on ARGOS

August 10:

Dr. Fernando Camilo
Jodrell Bank, University of Manchester

A Multitude of Millisecond Pulsars in the Globular Cluster 47 Tuc

August 17:

Dr. Martin Elvis
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

A Structure for Quasar Nuclei

August 24:

Dr. Rupert Croft
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Intergalactic gas, Intergalactic Dust, and Cosmology

August 31:

Dr. Teresa Brainerd
Boston University

Weak Lensing by Numerical Clusters

(NOTE: Colloquium and tea will be in MIT Room 37-232 this week)

MIT Astrophysics Colloquia - updated 05/27/99 - deepto@space.mit.edu, vicky@space.mit.edu