UW - Madison Astronomy Colloquium Schedule


Spring 2008

  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

HOST

1/22/08

No Colloquium

 

1/29/08

No Colloquium

 

1/31/08

Special Talk

Noon

Leisa Townsley Penn State "Not Your Grandmother's HII Regions: An X-ray Tour of Massive Star- forming Regions" Ed Churchwell

2/5/08

 

2/12/08

Yancy Shirley

University of Arizona

"The Evolution of the Earliest Stages of Low-mass
Star Formation"

Eric Wilcots

2/14/08

Special Talk

3:30 PM

Jason Harris NOAO

"Stellar Archaeology: Galaxy Evolution from the Ground Up"

Eric Wilcots

2/19/08

Richard Townsend

University of Delaware- Bartol Research Institute

"Illuminating the Glowing Magnetospheres of Massive, Luminous Stars" Eric Wilcots
2/26/08 Jason Kalirai University of California - Santa Cruz

"The Stellar Populations of the Andromeda Spiral Galaxy"

Eric Wilcots

2/28/08

Special Talk

3:30 PM

6515 Sterling

Josh Simon CALTECH "Dark Matter in Dwarf Galaxies" Eric Wilcots

3/4/08

Christy Tremonti

University of AZ- Steward Observatory

"Gone with the Wind: Galactic Outflows driven by Stars and Quasars and their Impact on Galaxy Evolution"

Eric Wilcots

3/11/08

Mike Kuhlen

Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton

"Dark matter substructure in the Milky Way"

3/18/08

SPRING BREAK

No Colloquium

3/25/08

Jay Lockman

NRAO

"Smith's Cloud: The Most Interesting Hydrogen Cloud in the Local Universe"

Snezana Stanimirovic

4/1/08

D.J. Pisano

NRAO

"A Multiwavelength Study of Luminous Compact Blue Galaxies over 8 Billion Years"

Eric Wilcots

4/8/08

Roger Chevalier

University of Virginia

"The Death and Afterlife of Massive Stars"

Eric Wilcots

4/15/08

Katherine Rhode

University of Indiana

"Globular Clusters, Galaxy Formation, Dark Matter, and Black Holes "

Matt Bershady

4/22/08

Debra Shepherd

NRAO

"Outflows from massive (proto) stars and evidence for an 'improved' evolutionary sequence"

Ed Churchwell

4/29/08

Michelle J. Creech-Eakman

New Mexico Tech - Department of Physics, Socorro

 

"Magdalena Ridge Observatory Interferometer - A Fully Optimized Aperture Synthesis Array"

Ed Churchwell

5/6/08

*Andrew Baker

Rutgers University

"Molecular Gas in High-Redshift Galaxies "

Amy Barger

 

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