University of Toronto Astronomy Colloquia



	ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIA

Spring 2007

Jan 12	Dr. Alexie Leauthaud (Marseille) *First Lensing Results from the COSMOS Survey* Host: Kevin Bundy
Jan 26	Dr. Jeff Crelinsten (Impact Group) *Einstein's Jury: The Race to Test Relativity* Host: John Percy
Feb 2	Prof. James Graham (Berkeley) *The Signature of Primordial Grain Growth in the Polarized Light of the AU Microscopii Debris Disk* Host: Ray Jayawardhana
Feb 9	Prof. Harvey Richer (UBC) *White Dwarfs in Globular Star Clusters* Host: Chris Matzner
Feb 16	Dr. Buell Januzzi (NOAO) *A Different View of the Evolution of Galaxies and Large Scale Structure* Host: Colin Borys
Mar 2	Dr. Mark Sullivan (Toronto) *Type Ia Supernovae as Probes of Dark Energy* Host: Ray Carlberg
Mar 9	Dr. Nathan Smith (Berkeley) *Feedback from Massive stars and Triggered Star Formation in Orion and Carina* Host: Norm Murray
Mar 16	Prof. Els Peeters (UWO) *Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons as Astrophysical Probes* Host: Ernie Seaquist
Mar 23	Prof. Marta Volonteri (Michigan) *The role of environmental hazards in building up massive black holes* Host: Ray Jayawardhana
Mar 30	Prof. Douglas Leonard (SDSU) *The Geometry of Supernova Explosions* Host: Andy Howell
Apr 13	Dr. Anna Watts (MPA-Garching) *Neutron star seismology - towards a relativistic Richter scale* Host: Marten van Kerkwijk
Apr 20	Prof. Isabelle Baraffe (Lyon) *Birth and fate of hot-Jupiter and hot-Neptune planets* Host: Ray Jayawardhana
Apr 26 2pm, Cody Hall	Prof. Gilles Chabrier (Lyon) *Dense astrophysical plasmas : from giant planets to neutron stars* Joint CITA seminar / Astro colloquium Host: Chris Thompson
May 11 2pm, Cody Hall	Dr. Alessandro Morbidelli (Nice) *Crucial dynamical phases in solar system formation* Host: Roman Rafikov
June 13 Wed 2pm Cody Hall	Dr. William Wall (INAOE, Mexico) *Comparison of 13CO Line and Far-Infrared Continuum as a Diagnostic of Dust and Molecular Gas Physical Conditions --- Implications for the N(H2)/I(CO) Conversion Factor* Host: Peter Martin

Last modified: 21 Oct 2008, 14:11:23

Dae-Sik Moon (moon@astro) / Yanqin Wu (wu@astro) / Ray Jayawardhana (rayjay@astro) / Marten van Kerkwijk (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