University of Toronto Astronomy Colloquia



	ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIA

Spring 2009

Jan 9	Prof. Jean-Luc Margot (UCLA) *Solar System Binaries* Host: Yanqin Wu
Jan 16	Prof. Luigi Gallo (Saint Mary) *Narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaixes: revealing the innermost regions of active galaxies* Host: Dae-Sik Moon
Jan 23	Prof. Ue-Li Pen (CITA) *21cm cosmology* Host: Yanqin Wu
Jan 30	Dr. Laura Ferrarese (HIA) *The Structure of Early-Type Galaxies from the ACS Virgo and Fornax Cluster Surveys* Host: Dae-Sik Moon
Feb 9 MP102	Prof. Peter Michelson (Stanford) *A New View of the High-Energy Universe: Results from the first 6 months of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope* Host: Dick Bond
Feb 13	Dr. Marcus Janson (Toronto) *High-conrtast imaging searches for planets around Eps Eri and Eps Ind* Host: Ray Jayawardhana
Feb 20	(Reading week)
Feb 27	Dr. Elena D'Onghia (CfA) *The origin of dwarf spheroidal galaxies* Host: Ray Carlberg
Mar 6	Prof. Scott Hughes (MIT) *Exploiting the two-body problem in general relativity* Host: Samaya Nissanke
Mar 13	Prof. Alice Shapley (UCLA) *The Metallicities and Physical Conditions in Star-forming Galaxies at High-Redshift* Host: Dae-Sik Moon
Mar 20	Prof. Luis Ho (Carnegie) *The Coevolution of Black Holes and Galaxies: Recent Developments* Host: Howard Yee
Mar 27	Prof. Roger Chevalier (Virginia) *Pulsar nebulae and their high energy emission* Host: Marten van Kerkwijk & Dae-Sik Moon
Apr 3	Dr Andrew West (MIT) *Galactic Stratigraphy, Magnetic Activity and the Kinematics of M dwarfs: Probing the Evolution and Structure of the Milky Way with it's Smallest Constituents*
Apr 28 Tue, 3PM!	Prof. James Graham (Berkeley) *Direct Detection of Exoplanets: The Gemini Planet Imager & Fomalhaut b* Host: Dunlap Institute
May 14 Thu, 3PM!	Prof. Steve Eikenberry (U. Florida) *Exploring Black Hole Astrophysics in the Infrared* Host: Dunlap Institute

Last modified: 01 May 2009, 12:55:06

Yanqin Wu (wu@astro) /Dae-Sik Moon (moon@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