University of Toronto Astronomy Colloquia



	ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIA

First half of 2006

Jan 11 We.3PM MP 137!	Prof. Tim Slater (Arizona) *Are You Really Teaching Astronomy IF No One is Actually Learning?* Host: John Percy
Jan 13	Dr Suzanne Aigrain (IoA) *The Monitor project: Transits and rotation in young open clusters* Host: Ray Jayawardhana
Jan 20	Prof. Mike Brown (Caltech) *Sedna and the birth of the solar system* Host: ASX & Yanqin Wu
Jan 27	Prof. Matt Bershady (Univ. of Wisconsin/UofT) *Progenitors of Dwarf Elliptical Galaxies*
Feb 3	Prof. Norm Murray (CITA) *Radiation Pressure, Starburst Disks, and AGN Fueling*
Feb 17	Dr Gregg Wade (Royal Military College) *What is the origin of magnetism in intermediate-mass and high-mass stars?* Host: Tom Bolton
Feb 24	Dr Dawn Erb (CfA) *Mass, Metallicity, Kinematics and Star Formation in Galaxies at z~2* Host: Norm Murray
Mar 3	Prof. Scott Kenyon (CfA) *Formation and Evolution of Planets and Debris Disks* Host: Ray Jayawardhana
Mar 10	Dr Beate Stelzer (Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo) *X-rays probing the limits of stellar dynamos: from hot stars to brown dwarfs* Host: Ray Jayawardhana
Mar 17	Prof. Janna Levin (Barnard College) *Black hole pairs, chaos, and gravitational waves* Host: Marten van Kerkwijk
Mar 24	Prof. Eugene Chiang (Berkeley) *Rings in Resonance: The Kuiper Belt and Beyond* Host: Yoram Lithwick
Mar 31	Prof. Philipp Podsiadlowski (Oxford) *Pulsar Kicks and the Formation of Compact Objects* Host: Natasha Ivanova
Apr 7	Prof. Frits Paerels (Columbia Univ.) *X-ray Spectroscopy of the Intergalactic Medium* Host: Marten van Kerkwijk
Apr 14	No colloquium: Good Friday
Apr 21	Prof. Hsiao-Wen Chen (Chicago) *GRB Afterglows as a New Probe of the ISM and IGM at High Redshift* Host: Ray Jayawardhana
Apr 28	Prof. Susana Lizano (Univ. Nac. Aut. de Mexico) *Dissipation of the magnetic field during the gravitational collapse to form stars* Host: Chris Matzner
May 5	Prof. Rachid Sunyaev (MPA & Space Res. Inst., Moscow) *The sky in the hard X-Rays.* Host: CITA/Sackler
May 12	Dr Debra Shepherd (NRAO) *Links between star and planet formation* Host: Marten van Kerkwijk
May 19	No colloquium: Too many people away
May 26	Dr Subu Mohanty (CfA) *A Disk around the Planetary Mass Companion to a Brown Dwarf* Host: Ray Jayawardhana

Last modified: 15 Aug 2006, 16:30:12
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

CITA 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