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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 21 Andrew Benson (Caltech)
Theoretical Predictions for Galaxy Clustering in CDM Universes: How it works and what you can believe (Abstract)
October 5 Fiona Hoyle (Drexel University)
The Power Spectrum of the 2dF QSO Survey(Abstract)
November 2 Soeren Larsen (UCO/Lick)
Young Massive Clusters in Normal Galaxies
November 30 Marla Geha (UC Santa Cruz)
Internal Dynamics of Dwarf Elliptical Galaxies(Abstract)
December 14 Andy Sheinis (UC Santa Cruz)
ESI, IFU's and QSO's(Abstract)
January 11 Kurtis Williams (UC Santa Cruz)
Observational Constraints on White Dwarf Physics
January 16* Richard McDermid (University of Durham) [*Note: Wednesday]
The kinematics and Stellar Populations of Early-Type Galaxies(Abstract)
January 22* Shri Kulkarni (Caltech) [*Note: Tuesday]
Time Domain Astronomy with Focus on Explosive Events
February 8 Dr. Chi Yuan (Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy & Astrophysics)
Analyzing the Central Regions of Nearby Galaxies
February 22 James Bullock (Ohio State University)
Cosmology and the Local Group
March 8 Michael Murphy (University of New South Wales)
A Varying Fine Structure Constant?: New Results
March 15 Ian Parry (Cambridge, IoA)
CIRPASS: A Medium Resolution Near-IR Spectrograph
April 19 Donald Lynden-Bell (Cambridge, IoA)
What Newton knew and we don't
May 24 Sarah Gallagher (Penn State University)
The View Through the Wind: X-ray Observations of Broad Absorption Line Quasars(Abstract)
May 29* Scott Gaudi (Institute for Advanced Study) [*Note: Wednesday]
Microlensing Searches for Extrasolar Planets(Abstract)