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The Carnegie Observatories

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

Carnegie Observatories Lunch Talks

Carnegie Observatories Lunch Talks

Fridays

12:15PM -- Santa Barbara Street Conference Room

Bring Your Lunch

Contact for program information: Andy McWilliam / andy@ociw.edu



September 1 Harald Kuntschner (Durham)
The Evolution of Early-Type Galaxies
September 8 Romeel Dave (Princeton)
The History of Intergalactic Baryons
October 6 John Monnier (CfA)
Interferometry with a Keck Telescope (Abstract)
October 27 Thaisa Storchi Bergmann (Instituto de Fisica, UFRGS, Brasil)
Nuclear star-formation in Seyfert 2 galaxies (Abstract)
November 10 Arunav Kundu (Yale)
New Insights from an HST Study of the Globular Cluster Systems of 60 Early Type Galaxies (Abstract)
November 17 Pauline Barmby (CfA, Harvard)
Globular cluster ages and the formation of M31(Abstract)
December 1 Ranga Chary (U.C. Santa Cruz)
Constraining the Cosmic Ray Electron Distribution and the Halo Dark Matter from the High Energy Gamma Ray Background (Abstract)
December 15 Solange Ramirez (Caltech)
Exploring Stellar Fe abundances at the Galactic Center (Abstract)

2001

January 4* Aaron Barth (Center for Astrophysics) [*Note: Thursday]
Measuring Black Hole Masses using Ionized Gas Kinematics (Abstract)
January 5 Greg Rudnick (Steward Obs and Max-Planck IfA)
The Rest-frame Optical Properties of Galaxies Out to z=3 (Abstract)
January 5* Bryan Miller (Gemini Observatory, Chile) [*Note: 4pm Golden Auditorium]
Current Status of the Gemini Project
January 12 Caryl Gronwall (Johns Hopkins University)
The KPNO International Spectroscopic Survey for Nearby Emission-Line Galaxies(Abstract)
January 16* Christopher Conselice (U. Wisconsin & STScI) [*Note: Tuesday]
The Physical Classification of Galaxies
May 11 Amos Yahil (SUNY, Stony Brook)
Large Liquid Mirror Telescopes
May 25 Lam Hui (Columbia University)
The Lyman-alpha forest from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (and elsewhere)