Seminars of the Yale Center for Astronomy and AstrophysicsThere is a series of meetings to discuss the collaborative activities of the center. These meetings take place on Tuesdays at 12:00 noon in room 263 J.W. Gibbs. |
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YCAA Seminar Schedule 2004-2005 YCAA Seminars 2002-2004
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| August 31 | Galen Gisler | Supercomputer calculations of the meteor impact that killed the dinosaurs |
| September 7 | Daniel Christlein | Disentangling Luminosity, Morphology, Stellar Age, Star Formation, and Environment in Galaxy Evolution |
| September 21 | Ariyeh(Ari) Maller, UMASS | How the Galaxy got its Mass and Other Just So Stories |
| September 28 | Michael Faison, Yale | The Structure of the Cold ISM on 10-100 AU Scales |
| October 5 | Ken Nagamine, (CfA/UCSD) | Massive galaxies at z=1-3 in cosmological hydrodynamic simulations: Is hierarchical CDM model wrong? |
| October 12 | Sebastian Jester, Femilab | Disks and jets in AGN-How much do we really know? |
| October 19 | Taotao Fang, Berkeley | Probing the Warm-Hot Intergalactic Medium |
| October 26 | Francesca Pannesa, Silvia Piranomonte, Italy | "Multi-wavelength study of a sample of Seyfert galaxies"
Francesca Panessa "The Sedentary Multi-frequency Survey of High Energy Peaked BL Lacs"
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| November 2 | Dana Dinescu, Yale | Fornax Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy: A Connection between the Orbit and the Star Formation History |
| November 9 | TBA | TBA |
| November 16 | Ginny McSwain, Yale | The Evolution of Massive Stars: the "Be Star" and Microquasar Phenomena |
| November 23 | TBA | TBA |
| November 30 | TBA | TBA |
| December 7 | TBA | TBA |
| December 14 | TBA | TBA |
| January 18 | Michael Gladders, Carnegie Observatories | Optically Selected Galaxy Clusters at High Redshift |
| January 25
Room 263 JWG |
Hiranya Peiris, University of Chicago | Constraining Early Universe Physics using Cosmology: Present and Future |
| February 1
Room 263 JWG |
Hsiao-Wen Chen, MIT | Unmasking Damped Lyman-alpha Absorbing Galaxies |
| February 2
Special YCAA Seminar Room 502 JWG |
Hubert Lampeitl, Fermilab | SDSS Supernova Survey |
| February 3
Room 263 JWG |
Dae-sik Moon, Caltech | Experimental Efforts to Study Core-Collapse Supernovae and Associated Objects in the Infrared and Optical |
| February 8
Room 263 JWG |
Steven Furlanetto, Caltech | Measuring the Topology of Reionization |
| February 10 | Caleb Scharf, Columbia University | A (Partial) History of Baryons |
| March 1 | Dragan Huterer, University of Chicago | Is the large-scale microwave background cosmic? |
| March 3 | Jeremiah P. Ostriker, Princeton University | Hot Gas in Galaxies and Clusters |
| March 22 | Zhaoming Ma, Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics and Dept. of
Astronomy & Astrophysics,
University of Chicago |
Effects of photometric redshift uncertainties on weak lensing tomography |
| March 29 | George Helou, Caltech Spitzer Science Center and IPAC | Recent Extragalactic Results from Spitzer |
| April 5 | David Ballantyne, University of Toronto | Superbursts Light up the Neutron Star Environment |
| April 19 | Rose Finn, University of Massachusetts | Star-formation in z~0.8 Galaxy Clusters |
| April 26 | Casey Watson, Ohio State University | The Star Formation and Nuclear Accretion Rates of Normal Galaxies in the AGN and Galaxy Evolution Survey |
| July 6 Note: Wednesday Room 502 JWG |
Giovanni Carraro YCAA/Universidad de Chile |
Open clusters in the Third Galactic Quadrant |
| July 12 Tuesday Room 502 JWG | Andrew Young
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Iron Lines as a Probe of Strong Gravity |
| July 19 Tuesday Room 502 JWG | Mike Eracleous
Penn State University |
Double Peaked Emisson Lines and what they tell us about the Accretion Flows in Active Galaxies |
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