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Astrophysics Seminars for Fall 2006 Past Astrophysics Seminars |
Seminars are at 4:00 PM on Tuesdays. Seminars will be held in the conference room on the second floor of Dearborn Observatory, unless otherwise noted (MAP) |
| DATE | SPEAKER | INSTITUTION | TITLE/TOPIC | HOST |
| Sept. 21 *Thursday |
Prof. Mike Eracleous | PSU | Double Peaked Emission Lines and What They Tell Us About the Accretion Disks of Active Galaxies | Vicky Kalogera |
| Sept. 26 | Prof. Stephan Meyer | University of Chicago | Three years of WMAP | Mel Ulmer |
| Oct. 3 | Prof. Stanislav Boldyrev | University of Wisconsin-Madison | Magnetohydrodynamic turbulence: theory, modelling, observations | Farhad Yusef-Zadeh |
| Oct. 10 | Prof. Tiziana di Matteo | Carnegie Mellon University | The formation and evolution of a cosmological population of black holes and galaxies | Vicky Kalogera |
| Oct. 17 | Dr. Marta Volonteri | University of Cambridge, UK | Building up massive black holes | Fred Rasio |
| Oct. 24 | Prof. Stan Peale | UCSB | Mercury’s Rotation and Interior | Fred Rasio |
| Oct. 31 | Prof. Snezana Stanimirovic | University of Wisconsin-Madison | Recent Results From GALFA: 'GoldenEye' On Disk/halo Interfaces | David Meyer |
| Nov. 14 | Dr. Jennifer Hoffman | University of California, Berkeley | Polarized Line Profiles as Diagnostics of Circumstellar Geometry in Type IIn Supernovae | Vicky Kalogera |
| Nov. 21 | Dr. Alberto Vecchio | University of Birmingham, UK | Gravitational Wave Astronomy and Cosmology with LISA | Vicky Kalogera |
| Nov. 28 *1:00PM |
Dr. Hiroshi Matsuo | National Astronomical Observatory of Japan | Latest results from ASTE and AKARI: The 10-m Submillimeter-wave Telescope and the Japanese Infrared Satellite | Giles Novak |