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Astrophysics Seminars for Fall 2008 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. 23 | Dr. Matt Haffner | University Wisconsin Madison | Physical Conditions of Diffuse Ionized Gas | Dave Meyer |
| Sept. 30 | Dr. James Jackson | Boston University | Snakes in the Plane: High-mass Star Formation in Filamentary Infrared Dark Clouds | Farhad Yusef-Zadeh |
| Oct. 7 | Dr. Anuj Sarma | DePaul University | High Angular Resolution Observations of Magnetic Fields in Star Forming Regions | Giles Novak |
| Oct. 14 | Dr. Ramesh Narayan | Harvard University | Measuring Black Hole Spin | Vicky Kalogera |
| Oct. 21 | Dr. Mike Gladders | University of Chicago | Strong Lensing by Optically-Selected Galaxy Clusters | Mel Ulmer |
| Nov. 11 | Dr. Glenn van de Ven | Institute for Advanced Study | Dynamics of Galaxies and Globular Clusters Unraveled with Two-Dimensional Stellar Kinematics | Loren Hoffman |
| Nov. 18 | Dr. Brant Robertson | University of Chicago | The Role of Dissipative Physics In Galaxy Formation | Fred Rasio |