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

Carnegie Observatories Lunch Talks, 2005-2006


Fridays -- 12:15PM -- Santa Barbara Street Conference Room

Bring Your Lunch

Contact for program information: Edo Berger / eberger at ociw.edu

Spring 2006

January 6
George Becker (Caltech)
A Search for Neutral Gas at the Edge of Reionization: Metal Absorption Lines at z ~ 6
January 27
Andreas Koch (University of Basel)
Anisotropies in the Distribution of M31 Satellites
February 3
Nicola Bennert (UC Riverside, IGPP)
The Narrow-Line Region in Active Galaxies
February 8
Marc Seigar (UC Irvine)
Constraining Dark Matter Halo Profiles and Galaxy Formation Models Using Spiral Arm Morphology
February 10
Cliff Senkbeil (UTAS)
Interstellar Scintillation of Active Galactic Nuclei
February 17
Doug Finkbeiner (Princeton)
WMAP Microwave Emission Interpreted as Dark Matter Annihilation in the Inner Galaxy
February 24
Stephane Courteau (Queen's University)
Puzzles in the Structure of Spiral Galaxies
March 31
Philip Hopkins (CfA)
Black Hole Feedback: Uniting Mergers, Quasars, and Red Galaxy Formation
April 7
Nick Seymour (IPAC)
A Comprehensive Spitzer Survey of Radio Galaxies: Stellar Masses from z=1-5.2
May 26
Emma Ryan-Weber (IoA)
Gas-Rich Galaxies in a Gas-Rich Cosmic Web
June 30
Renyue Cen (Princeton)
Cosmological Reionization
August 11
Andrew Gould (Ohio State University)
Microlensing Planets: Cold Neptunes and Beyond