The Carnegie Observatories

Carnegie Observatories Lunch Talks, 2006-2007

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

Bring Your Lunch

Contact for program information: Inese Ivans / iii at ociw.edu

September 8
September 15		Huub Rottgering (Leiden) LOFAR - a new low-frequency radio telescope. New directions for studies of powerful radio galaxies as probes of distant proto-clusters
September 22		Michael Cooper (UC Berkeley) Galaxy Environments in DEEP2: The Birth of the Red Sequence
September 29
October 2		PLEASE NOTE THIS TALK IS ON MONDAY Eric Murphy (Yale) The Effect of Star Formation on the FIR-radio Correlation within Galaxies
October 5		PLEASE NOTE THIS TALK IS ON THURSDAY @ 4PM IN THE AUDITORIUM Peter McGregor (ANU) AO-corrected Integral-Field Spectroscopy with the Gemini Telescope
October 6		Nitya Kallivayalil (CfA) The Motions of the Magellanic Clouds About the Milky Way: Towards a Reassessment of some Fundamental Questions
October 13		Jason Kalirai (UCSC) The Stellar Populations of the Andromeda Spiral Galaxy
October 20		Ryan Quadri (Yale) Red, massive galaxies at z~2.5: Evidence for a color-density relation
October 27		Renbin Yan (Berkeley) Galaxies in Transition: AGN activity and Environments of post-starburst galaxies
November 2		PLEASE NOTE THIS TALK IS ON THURSDAY Alicia Soderberg (Caltech) The Progenitors of Stripped-Envelope Explosions
November 6		PLEASE NOTE THIS TALK IS ON MONDAY Natascha Forster Schreiber THE SINS SURVEY: Spatially-resolved dynamics and properties of high-z galaxies from near-IR integral field spectroscopy with SINFONI
November 10		Frank Grundahl (U Aarhus, Denmark) Stellar Oscillations Network Group: Composing a SONG to the music of the stars
November 16		PLEASE NOTE THIS TALK IS ON THURSDAY Kimitake Hayasaki (Kyoto University) New Method of the Supermassive Binary Black Holes Explorer in the Universe
November 17		Leonie Snijders (Leiden University) Young star clusters under the microscope: ground-based mid-infrared observations of the Antennae galaxies
November 30		PLEASE NOTE THIS TALK IS ON THURSDAY Susan Kassin (UCO Lick) The Formation and Evolution of Disk Galaxies From z~1 to Now: Constraints from New Observations
December 1		Mariska Kriek (Leiden University) Clues on Massive Galaxy Formation at z~2.5 from NIR spectroscopy
December 4		PLEASE NOTE THIS TALK IS ON MONDAY Barry Rothberg (STSCI) The Dynamical Properties of Merger Remnants in the Local Universe
December 8
December 15		Jason Melbourne (UCSC) Probing the decline in star formation since z=1 with Adaptive Optics, Spitzer, and HST
January 12		David Floyd (STSCI) AGN host galaxy evolution
January 15		PLEASE NOTE THIS TALK IS ON MONDAY Jeff Crelinsten Einstein's Jury: The Race to Test Relativity
January 22		PLEASE NOTE THIS TALK IS ON MONDAY John Johnson (UC Berkeley) Exploring the Relationship Between Stellar Mass and Planet Occurrence
February 2		Jeff Cooke (UCSD) Weighing in at High Redshift: The Mass of 2.5<5 Galaxies and QSO Absorbers
May 17		PLEASE NOTE THIS TALK IS ON THURSDAY Tammy Bosler (NSF) The Chemical Abundances of the Stellar Populations in the Leo I and Leo II dSph Galaxies
May 18		Nicola Bennert (UC Riverside) The relevance of mergers for fueling AGNs: Answers from quasar host galaxy studies
June 15		Kalliopi Dasyra (IPAC) Evolution of ULIRGs into QSOs: the dynamical point of view
June 22		Bruno Letarte (Caltech) Chemical Analysis of the Fornax Dwarf Galaxy
July 31		PLEASE NOTE THIS TALK IS ON TUESDAY Luis Ho (OCIW) Fun with H I