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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: 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

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