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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series, 2010-2011


Tuesdays -- 4PM -- William T. Golden Auditorium (unless otherwise noted)

Coffee served at 3:30

Contact for program information: Andrew McWilliam (andy[at]obs.carnegiescience.edu)

Info for speakers



  September  7             Peter Erwin  (MPE Garching)
                                    The Coexistence of Classical Bulges, Pseudobulges, and Supermassive Black Holes


Fall 2010

October   5
Daniela Calzetti (University of Massachusetts)
TBD
October 12 Alan Dressler (Carnegie Observatories)
Faint Ly-alpha Emitters: Galaxy Building Blocks and the Engines of Reionization
October 19 Jason X. Prochaska (U.C. Santa Cruz/Lick Observatory)
TBD
October 26
Not yet scheduled
November  2*
Bruce Elmegreen (IBM)    [*possible date change]
TBD 
November  9
Not yet scheduled

November 16
Jessica Lu (Caltech)
Clarifying our View of Star Formation in Extreme Environments with Adaptive Optics
 
November 23
No Colloquium  -Thanksgiving week

November 30
Michael Brown  (Caltech)
TBD 
December 7
Hans Zinnecker  (SOFIA Observatory, NASA Ames)
Key Issues in Massive Star Formation 
December 14


Casey Meakin (University of Arizona)
TBD

Winter 2011

February     8
Martha Haynes (Cornell University)
TBD  
February   22
Laird Close (University of Arizona)
TBD 
March       15

Hsiao-Wen Chen  (University of Chicago)
TBD 

Spring 2011

June          15
Antonio Aparicio (IAC, Canary Islands)
TBD