The Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series
Tuesdays -- 4:00 pm -- William T. Golden Auditorium (unless otherwise noted)
Coffee served at 3:30 pm
Contact for program information: Barry F. Madore
You can find a listing of previous colloquia here.
Clicking the title links to the abstract.
| Date | Speaker | |
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| September 18, 2012 - 4:00pm |
Prof. Rob Simcoe (MIT) Heavy-Element Enrichment in the Early Universe Observed with FIRE |
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| September 25, 2012 - 4:00pm |
Dr. Alan McConnachie (NRC Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics) Stars, galaxies and cosmology in the Local Group, Or, What PAndAS sees in the sky |
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| October 2, 2012 - 4:00pm |
Prof. Michael Blanton (NYU) The Future of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey |
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| October 9, 2012 - 4:00pm |
Prof. Stacy McGaugh (University of Maryland) Empirical Laws of Galactic Rotation |
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| October 16, 2012 - 4:00pm |
Prof. Sara Ellison (University of Victoria) Galaxy mergers: starbursts, AGN and the luminous IR galaxy connection |
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| October 23, 2012 - 4:00pm |
[Staff Retreat] Note: No Colloquium this week |
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| October 29, 2012 - 4:00pm |
Prof. Gáspár Bakos (Princeton) HATs of various sort *** MONDAY *** |
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| November 6, 2012 - 4:00pm |
Prof. Antony Readhead (Caltech) The QU Imaging ExperimenT (QUIET) |
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| November 27, 2012 - 4:00pm |
Prof. Brice Ménard (Johns Hopkins University) Gas and dust in the intergalactic space |
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| December 4, 2012 - 4:00pm |
Dr. Matt Bradford (JPL/Caltech) Probing the History of Dense Gas and Dust in the Universe: New Instrumentation for Far-IR / Submillimeter Spectroscopy of Galaxies |
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| December 6, 2012 - 4:00pm |
Prof. Rebecca Bernstein (UCO/Lick Observatory) **THURSDAY*** Detailed Chemical Abundances of Extragalactic GCs: Abundances in the LMC, M31, and first results in NGC 5128 |
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| December 11, 2012 - 4:00pm |
Dr. Joseph Lazio (JPL/CIT, LUNAR/NLSI) The Dark Ages Radio Explorer |
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| December 13, 2012 - 4:00pm |
Prof. Kevin Bundy (IPMU) **THURSDAY** Building massive galaxies: Hierarchical assembly from panoramic surveys and the coming era of integral field spectroscopy |
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| January 14, 2013 - 4:00pm |
Prof. David Weinberg (The Ohio State University) **MONDAY** A Cosmological Random Walk |
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| January 22, 2013 - 4:00pm |
Prof. Kevork Abazajian (UC Irvine) Dark Matter Detected in the Galactic Center? |
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| February 5, 2013 - 4:00pm |
Alyson Brooks (University of Wisconsin) The Influence of Baryons in Interpreting the Cosmological Model |
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| February 12, 2013 - 4:00pm |
Prof. Charlie Conroy (UCSC) From the IMF to the S-Process in Early-Type Galaxies |
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| February 19, 2013 - 4:00pm |
Prof. Asantha Cooray (UC Irvine) The Dusty Universe Unveiled by the Herschel Space Observatory |
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| February 26, 2013 - 4:00pm |
Dr. Alan Dressler (Carnegie Observatories) Galaxy and Structure Evolution in the IMACS Cluster Building Survey |
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| March 7, 2013 - 4:00pm |
Prof. Lars Hernquist (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) **THURSDAY** Cosmology on a Moving Mesh |
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| March 12, 2013 - 4:00pm |
Dr. Jon Gardner (NASA GSFC) The James Webb Space Telescope |
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| March 19, 2013 - 4:00pm |
Prof. James Binney (University of Oxford) Extracting science from surveys of our Galaxy |
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| March 26, 2013 - 4:00pm |
Prof. Norm Murray (CITA) Rapid Star Formation and Feedback |
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| April 3, 2013 - 4:00pm |
Dr. Maria Bergemann (MPA) **WEDNESDAY** Quantitative spectroscopy of cool stars and evolution of the Galaxy |
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| April 9, 2013 - 4:00pm |
Dr. Rik Williams (Carnegie Observatories) Galaxy and group evolution in the thermal era |
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| April 16, 2013 - 4:00pm |
Prof. Connie Rockosi (UC Santa Cruz, UCO/Lick Observatory) Testing Inside-Out Formation of the Milky Way Halo |
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| April 23, 2013 - 4:00pm |
Scott Sheppard (DTM) Completing the Inventory of the Outer Solar System |
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| May 7, 2013 - 4:00pm |
Dr. Charles Lawrence (NASA JPL) The Universe According to Planck, Part 1 |
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| May 14, 2013 - 4:00pm |
Dr. Davy Kirkpatrick (IPAC) Cold Brown Dwarfs with WISE: Y Dwarfs and the (Sub)Stellar Mass Function |
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| May 21, 2013 - 4:00pm |
Prof. Annika Peter (UC Irvine/The Ohio State University) The Dark Side of Dark Matter |
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| May 28, 2013 - 4:00pm |
Prof. Risa Wechsler (KIPAC/Stanford University) Connecting galaxy formation and the dark universe using the growth and distribution of dark matter halos |
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| June 4, 2013 - 4:00pm |
Dr. John H. Debes (STScI) Getting WIRED about Dust and Substellar Objects Orbiting White Dwarfs |
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| June 11, 2013 - 4:00pm |
Dr. Bianca Poggianti (INAF) The evolution of galaxy sizes |
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| October 29, 2013 - 4:00pm |
Dr. Chris Hayward (Heidelberger Institut für Theoretische Studien) TBA |