UW - Madison Astronomy Colloquium Schedule


Spring 2009

  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 NAME

1/28/09 WED NOON

Klaus Dolag

MPA Garching

"Magnetic Fields and Cosmic Rays in Galaxy Clusters"

Ellen Zweibel

2/3/09

Caty Pilachowski

Indiana University Bloomington

"The Incredible Omega Centauri - A laboratory for Chemical Enrichment"

Emily Freeland (WOWSA)

2/10/09

Paul Martini Ohio State

"The Evolution of AGN in Clusters of Galaxies"

Andrew Sheinis

2/17/09

Ethan Vishniac

John Hopkins University

"From Little Acorns- The Magnetization of Galactic Disks"

Alex Lazarian

2/19/09 SPECIAL TALK 4275 Chamberlin 3:45 PM

Randall Smith Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics "Science with the International X-ray Observatory" Sebastian Heinz

2/24/09

Hakeem Oluseyi

Florida Institute of Technology

"Structure and Generation of the Solar Transition Region"

Andrew Sheinis

3/3/09

Anand Narayanan UW Astronomy

"The Origins and Evolution of Weak Mg II Quasar Absorption Line Systems"

 

3/10/09

Kathryn Johnston Columbia University "The Local Group Manifesto " Laura Chomiuk (WOWSA)

3/12/09 Whitford Lecture 2103 Chamberlin Hall 3:45 PM

Adam Riess JHU and STSci "A Brief History of Cosmic Expansion and Acceleration" Richard Townsend

3/17/09

SPRING BREAK

 

 

3/24/09

Bryan Gaensler

University of Sydney

"The Magnetic Universe Revealed Through Radio Polarimetry"

Snezana Stanimirovic

3/31/09

NO SPEAKER

 

 

4/7/09

Margaret Hanson

University of Cincinnati, Department of Physics

"Massive Star Clusters in the Milky Way: The known and the known unknowns "

Jay Gallagher

4/10/09 SPECIAL TALK 12:00 to 1:00 pm 6515 Sterling

Nidhal Guessoum American University of Sharjah,
United Arab Emirates
"Positron Annihilation Radiation from the Center of our Galaxy" Richard Townsend

4/14/09

Jungyeon Cho

UW Astronomy

"Polarized FIR Emission from T Tauri Disks"

Alexander Lazarian

4/21/09

Ann Zabludoff

University of Arizona

"A Census of Baryons in Groups and Clusters of Galaxies"

Eric Wilcots

4/28/09

Kelley Holley-Bockelman

Vanderbilt University

"How Black Holes Get Their Kicks"

Blakesley Burkhart (WOWSA)

5/5/09

Mateusz Ruszkowski

University of Michigan

"Powering of cooling cores in clusters of galaxies "

Sebastian Heinz

 

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