The History of ASTROPHYSICS SEMINARS

 

2014 History

Date Speaker Topic Host
Jan 22, 2014

Graca Rocha

(JPL/Caltech)

Constraining variations of fundamental constants with CMB data

Philip Lubin
Jan 29, 2014

Matthew Kunz

(Princeton)

Thanatology in Protoplanetary Disks

Omer Blaes 
Feb 5, 2014

Joo Heon Yoon

(UC Santa Barbara)

Circumcluster and circumgalactic medium in the Virgo Cluster

Crystal Martin
Feb 12, 2014

Ruth Murray-Clay

(Harvard/SAO)

Origins of Gas Giant Planets

Omer Blaes 
Feb 19, 2014

Jo Bovy

(IAS Princeton)

MAPping the Milky Way: Precision measurements of the chemo-dynamical structure of the Milky Way's disk

Omer Blaes 
Feb 26, 2014

Robert Feldmann

(UC Berkeley)

Star formation and Molecules in Cosmological Simulations

Omer Blaes 
March 5, 2014

Anna Pancoast

(UC Santa Barbara)

XXI century reverberation mapping: inferring black hole mass, geometry and dynamics of the broad line region in active galaxies

Tommaso Treu
March 12, 2014

Iair Arcavi

(LCOGT/KITP)

Two Possible Types of Tidal Disruption Events and Their Fancy for E+A Galaxies

Crystal Martin
Apr 30, 2014

Catherine Grier

(Ohio State)

Investigating the Structure of the Broad Line Region in AGN with Reverberation Mapping

Tommaso Treu
May 21, 2014

Christoph Baranec

(IFA, U. of Hawai'i)

Robotic, Extreme & Beyond: Rayleigh Laser Guide Stars Pioneering the Next Decade of Astronomical Adaptive Optics

Crystal Martin
May 29, 2014

James Bartlett

(JPL, Pasadena, CA)

The Cluster Mass Scale and Planck

Philip Lubin
Oct. 8, 2014

Yue Shen

(Carnegie Observatories)

The diversity of quasars unified by accretion and orientation

Robert Antonucci
Oct. 15, 2014

Adrian Liu

(UC Berkeley)

HERA—The Next Step in Hydrogen Cosmology

Peng Oh
Oct. 22, 2014

Aleks Diamond-Stanic

(U. of Wisconsin-Madison)

Extreme Outflows and the Gas Around Galaxies

Crystal Martin
Oct. 29, 2014

Astrid Lamberts

(U. of Wisconsin-Madison)

Impact of inhomogeneous blazar heating on the intergalactic medium

Peng Oh
Nov. 5, 2014

Wladimir Lyra

(Caltech)

Evolution of circumstellar disks and planet formation

Omer Blaes
Nov. 12, 2014

Karen Olsen

(Univ. of Copenhagen)

Predictions for the CO emission of main-sequence z~2 galaxies

Joseph Munoz
Dec. 3, 2014

Soma De

(ETH Inst. for Astro)

Cosmological Probes after Planck- CMB and neutral hydrogen in the low frequencies

Philip Lubin
Dec. 10, 2014

Jeffrey Fung

(U. of Toronto)

Disk-Planet Interaction: From 2D to 3D

Ruth Murray-Clay
Dec. 16, 2014

Kevin Bundy

(Kavli IPMU, Japan)

How do galaxies grow?

Crystal Martin
Dec. 17, 2014

Alexie Leauthaud

(Kavli IPMU, Japan)

Weak Lensing to the Limit

Crystal Martin

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