University of Toronto Astronomy Colloquia



	ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIA

Spring 2010

Jan 22	Prof. Greg Laughlin (UC Santa Cruz) *Major Updates to the Galactic Planetary Census*
Jan 29 Cody Hall	Dr. Jonathan Sievers (CITA) *Recent Results from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope*
Feb 05	Ivan Semeniuk (DI) *News of the Universe: The Art, Science & Business of Astronomical Reporting in a Changing Media Landscape*
Feb 12 Cody Hall	Prof. Jerry Sellwood (Rutgers University) *New Developments in Spiral Structure Theory*
Feb 26 Cody Hall	Prof. Pawel Artymowicz (U of T) *Migrations: bodies in disks, computing platforms...*
Mar 05	Prof. Duncan Brown (Syracuse University) *Gravitational-Wave Astronomy with LIGO*
Mar 12	Dr. Mariska Kriek (Princeton) *A Deep View on the Early Universe: Extreme Makeovers & Overweight Galaxies*
Mar 19 Cody Hall	Prof. Alex Wolszczan (Penn State University - Center for Exoplanets and Habitable Worlds) *Planets around evolved stars*
Mar 26	Dr. Linda Smith (STScI) *The Starburst Galaxy M82*
Apr 09	Prof. Chuck Steidel (Caltech) *Exploration of the Circum-Galactic Medium at High Redshifts*
Apr 16	Dr. Pawel Pietrukowicz (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center) *Galactic Bulge in 3D. The VVV project.*
Apr 23	Dr. Jim Hesser (DAO - HIA) *Beyond The International Year Of Astronomy 2009*
Apr 30 11AM Cody Hall	Dr. Andrej Prsa (Villanova University) *Artificial intelligence approaches to modeling eclipsing binary stars*

Last modified: 07 Sep 2011, 10:42:27

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

Physics colloquia

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

Current colloquia: 2011B