UW - Madison Astronomy Colloquium Schedule

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Summer / Fall 2007

Colloquia are held on Tuesdays in Sterling Hall 6515 at 3:45 pm, with refreshments served in the library at 3:30 pm .

DATE	SPEAKER	INSTITUTE	TITLE
7/23/07	Dr. Charles Woodward	University of Minnesota, Department of Astronomy	"Comets - Views from Deep Impact and Spitzer"
9/4/07	Mike Gladders	University of Chicago	"Optically Selected High-Redshift Galaxy Clusters: Recent Results and Developments "
9/11/07	Dr. Nadia Zakamska	Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton	"The Search for Obscured Quasars"
9/18/07	Dave Pooley	UW Astronomy Dept Postdoc	"X-Ray and Optical Flux Ratio Anomalies in Quadruply Lensed Quasars: Zooming in on Quasar Emission Regions"
9/25/07	Andrew West	University of California- Berkeley	"Big Science from Little Stars: The Activity and Kinematics of Low-Mass Stars"
10/2/07	Jason Harris	Steward Observatory	"Magellanic Mystery Tour"
10/9/07	Bruce Elmegreen	IBM Watson Research Center	"Star Formation in High Redshift Galaxies"
10/16/07	Miguel Morales	MIT Kavli Institute	" Observing the Epoch of Reionization with the MWA"
10/23/07	No Colloquium
10/30/07	David Trilling	Steward Observatory	"The Formation of Planetary Systems: The View from Spitzer"
10/31/07 SPEC TALK	Eric Bell	MPIA-Heidelberg	"The Evolution of disk galaxies in a dark matter-dominated Universe".
11/6/07	Chris Mihos	Case Western Reserve University	"Using Intracluster Light to Probe Galaxy Clusters "
11/13/07	Chung-Pei Ma	University of California - Berkeley	"Mergers of Dark Matter Halos and Galaxies in Lambda-CDM Cosmology"
11/20/07	Merav Opher	George Mason University	"Unraveling the Direction of the Local Interstellar Magnetic Field: Implications for the Solar System, The ISM Turbulence and Magnetohydrodynamic Instabilities"
11/27/07	Jason Kalirai	UC- Santa Cruz, UCO Lick Observatory	"Stellar Remnants as Cosmological Probes"
12/4/07	Riccardo Giovanelli *	Cornell University	"HI Cosmology in the Local Universe
12/11/07	John Salzer	Wesleyan University	"KISS - Heavy Metal"
12/18/07

*Planning to attend ISM or Galaxies Lunch Wednesday at Noon.