University of Toronto Astronomy Colloquia



	ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIA

Spring 2011

Jan 21	Dr. Mike Jura (UCLA) *The Composition of Extrasolar Asteroids*
Jan 24 Mon, 3PM MP 202	Dr. Nicholas Law (Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics,U of T) *Small Stars, Giant Planets, and a Really Big Survey: The PTF Search for Planets Around M-dwarfs*
Jan 28	Marc-Antoine Miville-Deschenes (IAP, Paris) *Planck Early Results : a (biased) guided tour*
Jan 31 Mon, 4PM MP 103	Dr. David Sand (Harvard/UCSB) *Supernovae in galaxy clusters with the Multi-Epoch Nearby Cluster Survey and the future of time domain astrophysics with robotic spectroscopy*
Feb 03 Thu, 3PM MP 202	Dr. Shelley Wright (UCB) *Observing Galaxy Evolution: The Exciting Promise of Adaptive Optics Instrumentation*
Feb 04	Dr. David Law (UCLA) *Galactic Archaeology with the Sagittarius Stellar Tidal Stream*
Feb 07 Mon, 4PM MP 103	Dr. Karin Oberg (Harvard) *Pathways to chemical complexity during star- and planet-formation*
Feb 10 Thu, 3PM	Dr. Nick Konidaris (Caltech) *The Evolution of the ISM in "Red and Dead" Galaxies & Spectroscopic Transient Followup*
Feb 18	Dr. Warren Brown (CFA) *Black Holes and Hypervelocity Stars*
Feb 25	Dr. Genevieve Graves (Berkeley) *Galaxy Evolution in 3D: Mass, Dissipation, and Truncation*
Mar 04	Dr. Matthew Hedman (Cornell University) *The Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn and Curious Corrugations in Saturn's Rings*
Mar 11	Dr. Remy Indebetouw (University of Virginia) *Resolved Massive Star Formation in Extragalactic Molecular Clouds*
Mar 16 Wed, 3PM	Dr. Alyssa Goodman (Harvard University) *Making Sense of High-Dimensional Data and Visualizations*
Mar 18	Dr. Natalie Batalha (NASA Ames) *Catching Shadows: Kepler's Year-Two Transit Census*
Mar 25	Dr. Eugene Chiang (UC Berkeley) *Planetesimal Formation*
Apr 01	Dr. Dan Marrone (University of Arizona) A Close Look at Sagittarius A*
Apr 08	Dr. Christopher Carilli (NRAO) *Radio astronomical studies of galaxy formation: the dense gas history of the Universe and the ALMA/EVLA revolution*
Apr 15	Dr. Adam Leroy (NRAO) *The HERACLES and THINGS View of Gas and Star Formation in Nearby Galaxies*
Apr 29	Dr. Ignas Snellen (Leiden University) *The Atmospheres of Transiting Extrasolar Planets*
May 06	Dr. Megan Eckart (NASA Goddard) *Microcalorimeter Arrays for X-ray Astrophysics: Astro-H SXS and TES Detector Development*
Jun 03 Cody Hall	Dr. Jill Tarter (SETI Institute) *setiQuest - A Global Community Search for Evidence of Extraterrestrial Technologies: It Could Change The World*
Jun 10	Dr. Jason Rowe (NASA Ames) *Photometry is the new Spectroscopy: Results from the Kepler Mission*
Jun 28 Tue	Dr. Guinevere Kauffmann (Max-Planck-Institut) *What can be Learned from the Atomic and Molecular Gas Scaling Relations of Nearby Galaxies?*

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.

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Student seminars

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Physics colloquia

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

Current colloquia: 2011B