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Contributing to basic research in astronomy since 1904, as a part of the Carnegie Institution for Science


Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series, 2010


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

Winter/Spring 2010



January 12 Michael Kuhlen (U.C. Berkeley)
Unraveling the Mystery of Dark Matter (Abstract)
January 19 Naveen Reddy (NOAO)
The Luminosity and Dust Distributions of High-Redshift Galaxies and Their Implications for the Cosmic Star Formation History (Abstract)
January 26 Marta Volonteri (U. Michigan)
Constraining the Formation and Growth of Massive Black Holes (Abstract)
February 2
No Colloquium
February 9
Dominik Riechers (Caltech)
The Formation and Gaseous Evolution of Massive Galaxies Back to <1 Billion Years after the Big Bang (Abstract)
February 16
Kathryn Johnston (Columbia U.)
Tales from Tails - Science Enabled by Large Scale Stellar Surveys (Abstract)
February 23
Pieter van Dokkum (Yale)
The Complex History of Massive Galaxies (Abstract)
March 2
Gaspar Bakos (CfA)
TBD (Abstract)
March 9
David Sand (CfA)
TBD (Abstract)
March 16
Scott Gaudi (Ohio State U.)
The Demographics of Exoplanets (Abstract)
March 23 Avishai Dekel (HU Jerusalem)
TBD (Abstract)