University of Toronto Astronomy Colloquia



	ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIA

Second half of 2005

Sep 16	Prof. Deepto Chakrabarty (MIT) *The Spin and Magnetic Evolution of Old Neutron Stars: A Rotational Speed Limit for Millisecond Pulsars* Host: Marten van Kerkwijk
Sep 23	Prof. Rocky Kolb (Fermi Lab & Univ. of Chicago) *Thoughts on Dark Matter, Dark Energy, Inflation* Host: Ray Carlberg
Sep 30	Prof. David Helfand (Columbia Univ.) *The Youngest Neutron Stars* Host: Marten van Kerkwijk
Oct 7	Prof. Stan Owocki (Barthol Research Inst., Univ. of Delaware) *Winds that Sail on Starlight* Host: Tom Bolton
Oct 14	Prof. Debra Fischer (San Fransisco State Univ.) *On the Frontiers of Planet Hunting* Host: Norm Murray
Oct 21	Dr Dirk Froebrich (Dublin Inst. for Advanced Studies) *Star Formation in small clouds* Host: Aleks Scholz
Oct 28	Prof. Roman Rafikov (CITA) *Origin of Giant Planets*
Nov 4	Prof. Bill Herbst (Wesleyan Univ.) *Rotation of Low-Mass Pre-main Sequence Stars* Host: John Percy
Nov 11	Prof. Martha Haynes (Cornell) *ALFALFA: The Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA Survey* Host: Ue-Li Pen
Nov 25	Prof. Julio Navarro (Univ. of Victoria) *Galaxy Formation, and the Formation of the Galaxy* Host: Bob Abraham
Dec 2	Dr Roeland van der Marel (STScI) *Structure and Kinematics of the Large Magellanic Cloud* Host: Howard Yee
Dec 9	Prof. Charles Gammie (UIUC) *Numerical Models of Black Hole Accretion Flows* Host: Marten van Kerkwijk
Dec 16	Prof. Shantanu Basu (UWO) *From Clouds to Cores to Protostars and Disks: New Insights from Numerical Simulations* Host: Peter Martin

Last modified: 19 Dec 2005, 12:30:00
Marten van Kerkwijk / MP 1404D / 416-946-7288 / mhvk@astro

Colloquia are Fridays, at 2 PM, in Cody Hall. They are followed by refreshments in the lounge, AB 201.

Instructions for speakers

Schedule with abstracts

Schedule without abstracts

Student seminars

Physics colloquia

Past colloquia: 2003A, 2003B, 2004A, 2004B, 2005A, 2005B, 2006A, 2006B, 2007A, 2007B, 2008A, 2008B, 2009A, 2009B, 2010A, 2010B, 2011A

Current colloquia: 2011B