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Fall 2007

Sept 14
Dr. Mark Brodwin (NOAO)
Galaxy Clusters at 0 < z < 2 in the IRAC Shallow Cluster Survey
Host: Bob Abraham
Sept 21
Prof. Adam Frank (Rochester)
New Perspectives on Protostellar Outflows in 3 Acts
Host: Chris Matzner
Sept 28
Prof. Joe Mohr (Illinois)
The Evolution of the Intracluster Medium in Massive Galaxy Clusters from z=1.3 to z=0.2
Host: Howard Yee
Oct 5 Dr. Nitya Kallivayalil (MIT)
The Motions of the Magellanic Clouds About the Milky Way: New Insights into an Enigmatic System
Host: Ray Jayawardhana
Oct 12
Prof. Art Wolfe (UCSD)
Star Formation in Neutral Gas Reservoirs at High Redshift
Host: Chris Matzner
Oct 19
Prof. Mary Putman (Michigan)
Fuel for Galaxy Disks
Host: Yanqin Wu
Oct 26
Dr. Mike Muno (Caltech)
Massive Stars and Magnetars
Host: Dae-Sik Moon
Nov 2
Prof. Howard Yee (Toronto)
The Red-Sequence Cluster Survey
Nov 9 Dr. Vincent Geers (Leiden-->Toronto)
PAHs in Disks around Young Solar-Type Stars: New Results from Spitzer and VLT
Host: Kevin Bundy
Nov 16
Prof. Andy Gould (Ohio State)
Recent Developments in Gravitational Microlensing
Peter Martin
Inaugural Karl W. Kamper Memorial Lecture
Host: 4pm ** Note special time **
Nov 23
Prof. Laura Parker (McMaster)
Mapping Dark Matter with Weak Lensing
Host: Ray Carlberg
Nov 30 Prof. Simon White and Prof. Rocky Kolb
Toronto Dark Energy Smackdown - a Debate on the Future of Astronomy
2pm, MP102 ** Note special location **

Host: Bob Abraham
Dec 7
Dr. Carles Badenes (Princeton)
The Persistence of Memory: Insights on Type Ia Supernova explosions and progenitors from the X-ray Spectra of Young Supernova Remnants
Host: Chris Matzner

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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