*Tech = Technological Institute (2145 Sheridan Road)
**Db = Dearborn Observatory (2131 Tech Drive)
Summer Quarter 2013
| Date/Time | Visitor | Host | |
| Aug. 30 Tech F227A 2:00pm |
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Jörg Weingrill Open clusters are an ideal testbed for the calibration of stellar ages using gyrochronology. We used CoRoT to observe the open cluster IC4756. With its unprecedented photometric precision stellar activity amplitudes down to 0.03 magnitudes are observable. CoRoT observed the cluster for almost 73 days in LRc06, some targets were covered by the observing run LRc05. Over 200 target-stars show signatures of periodic variations caused by stellar rotation. By combining radial-velocity-membership information with photometric measurements we will be able to compare age-determinations stated by different theories. First results of stellar ages as well as the underlying data reduction will be presented in this talk. |
Aaron Geller |
Spring Quarter 2013
| Date/Location | Speaker / Seminar | |
| April 8 Tech LR5 4:00pm |
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Andrew Brown University of Southampton Computing beyond a million processors: Biologically-inspired massively-parallel architectures |
| April 30 Db 23 4:00pm |
Leo Singer California Institute of Technology The Road to Multimessenger Astronomy with Advanced LIGO |
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| May 16 Db 23 4:00pm |
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Neil Cornish Montana State University Pulsar Timing Observations of Black Hole Binaries |
| May 23 Db 23 12:00pm |
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Dieter Hartmann Clemson University Gamma Ray Bursts: A Brief History and Discussion of their Use as Probes |
Winter Quarter 2013
| Date/Location | Speaker | Seminar |
| Jan. 14 Tech F160 2:00pm |
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Kaitlin Kratter University of Colorado, Boulder Looking Ahead: Planets and their Binaries |
| Jan. 18 Tech F160 2:00pm |
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Claude-André Faucher-Giguère University of California, Berkeley The Physics of Galaxy Formation: Gas, Stars, & Black Holes |
| Jan. 22 Tech F160 4:00pm |
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Aristotle Socrates IAS Tides and Hot Jupiters |
| Jan. 23 Db 23 11:00am |
John E. Vaillancourt |
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| Jan. 28 Tech F160 2:00pm |
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Shane Davis University of Toronto The Thermal Stability of Radiation Dominated Accretion Flows |
| Feb. 1 Tech F160 2:00pm |
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Bence Kocsis Harvard University Zooming in on Galactic Nuclei at the Dawn of Gravitational Wave Astrophysics |
| Feb. 4 Tech F160 2:00pm |
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Leslie Rogers Caltech Formation, Interior Structure and Habitable Zone of Super-Earth and Sub-Neptune Exoplanets |
| Feb. 7 Tech F160 2:00pm |
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Aaron Boley University of Florida Exploring the Solar System's Violent Past: Combining Through Astrophysics and Meteoritics |
| March 13 Tech F160 4:00pm |
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Andrew Youdin JILA, University of Colorado The Origin of Planetesimals |
Fall Quarter 2012
| Date/Location | Speaker | Seminar |
| Sept. 14 Db 23 11:00am |
Richard de Grijs Peking University Star Cluster Formation and Early Evolution: the Big Picture |
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| Nov. 12 Db 14 11:00am |
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Belinda Wilkes Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Probing star formation and nuclear structure in high-z, 3CRR Radio Sources |
| Nov. 26 Db 14 11:00am |
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John W. Hewitt UMBC/NASA Goddard Probing Galactic cosmic-ray accelerators in gamma-rays with Fermi-LAT |
Past CIERA Special Seminars