Carnegie Observatories Lunch Talks
Fridays
- 12:15PM -- Santa Barbara Street Conference Room
Bring Your Lunch
Contact for program information: Marla Geha
/ mgeha at ociw.edu
| Fall 2004 | |
| September 10 | Mike Gladders (OCIW) LDSS-3 and GISMO: New Instruments at Magellan in 2005A/B |
| September 22 (11am) | Tadashi Nakajima A Wide-Field Camera for the du Pont Telescope and a Proposed Survey |
| September 24 | Ari Maller (UMass) How the Galaxy Got its Mass and Other Just So Stories |
| October 8 | Ken Freeman (ANU) Extragalactic Planetary Nebulae |
| October 22 | Francois Schweizer (OCIW) Merger-Induced Starbursts and Some Cosmological Implications |
| October 29 | Michael Blanton (NYU) Extremely Low Luminosity Galaxies in the Field |
| November 5 | Luis Ho (OCIW) Do Intermediate-mass Black Holes Exist? |
| November 12 | Josh Simon (UC Berkeley) Dark Matter in Dwarf Galaxies |
| November 29 (Monday talk) | Bram Venemans (Leiden) Protoclusters Associated with Distant Radio Galaxies |
| December 3 | David Sand (Caltech) A Systematic Search for Gravitationally-Lensed Arcs in the Hubble Space Telescope WFPC2 Archive |
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| Spring 2005 | January 7/8 | Magellan Science Symposium |
| January 14 | Alan McConnachie (IoA) Exploring the Andies |
| January 17 (Monday talk) | Arjen van der Wel (Leiden) Mass-Dependent Evolution of Early-Type Galaxies |
| January 18 | Inese Ivans (Caltech) Construction of the Stellar Halo of the MWG: Chemical Clues |
| January 21 | Justyn Maund (IoA) The Observed Nature of the Progenitors of Core-collapse Supernovae |
| February 8 (Tuesday talk) | Stijn Wuyts (Leiden Observatory) Optical Spectroscopy of Red Galaxies at z>2 |
| February 24 (Thursday talk) | Lifan Wang (LBL) Enhancing Type Ia Supernovae as Standard Candles for Cosmology |
| February 25 | Andreas Koch (Astronomical Institute Basel) The Evolutionary History of the Carina dSph |
| April 8 | Ken Nagamine (UC San Diego) Massive Galaxies and EROs in Cosmological Simulations: Is the Hierarchical Model Wrong? |
| April 15 | Tom Statler (Ohio University) The X-Ray Gas Fundamental Plane of Normal Elliptical Galaxies |
| April 25 (Monday talk) |
Albion Lawrence (Brandeis University) String Theory and Cosmology |
| May 31 (Tuesday talk) |
Agostino Renda (Swinburne University) The Stellar Halo Metallicity - Luminosity Relationship for Spiral Galaxies |
| July 8 | Chris Thom (Swinburne University) Galactic Lint and Local Group Flotsam |
| July 29 | Kai Noeske (UCSC) Studying Dwarf Galaxies out to z=1 in the Ultra Deep Field |
