Theoretical Astrophysics Seminars 2012-2013

Seminars are held at 4:00 PM
in the Dearborn Observatory Room 23 (2131 Tech Drive) unless otherwise noted


Spring Quarter 2013

  Date    Speaker / Seminar
  April 11 Dr. Alexandros Gianninas
    University of Oklahoma
    The ELM Survey: Searching for Type Ia Progenitors and Gravitational Wave Sources
  April 30 Fabio Antonini
    Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics
    Explaining the Orbits of the S-stars at the Galactic Center

    *At 2:00pm

Fall Quarter 2012

  Date    Speaker / Seminar
  Oct. 4 Bekki Dawson
    Harvard University
    Some Assembly Required: Nature's Instruction Booklet for Planetary Migration
  Oct. 11 Sean T. McWilliams
    Princeton University
    Electromagnetic Precursors to Compact Object Mergers
  Oct. 25 Tim Morton
    California Institute of Technology
    Enabling the Kepler Exoplanet Census
  Nov. 8 Tim Linden
    University of California, Santa Cruz
    Understanding High Energy Gamma-Ray Emission from the Galactic Center
  Nov. 15 Jill P. Naiman
    University of California, Santa Cruz
    The Curious Case of Multiple Main Sequences in Stellar Clusters
  Dec. 6 Josh Faber
    Rochester Institute of Technology
    The Present and Future for the Einstein Toolkit



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Past Theoretical Astrophysics Seminars