The Carnegie Observatories

Carnegie Observatories Lunch Talks, 2007-2008

Fridays -- 12:15PM -- Santa Barbara Street Conference Room unless stated otherwise

Bring Your Lunch

Contact for program information: Jane Rigby / jrigby at ociw.edu

2007 - 2008

September 7		Josh Simon (Caltech) Dark Matter in Dwarf Galaxies
September 14		NO TALK SCHEDULED
September 17 Monday		Masa Imanishi (NOAJ) Luminous buried AGNs in the local universe
September 21		Ryan Foley (UC Berkeley) Utilizing Composite Spectra of Type Ia Supernovae
September 27 Thursday		Christopher Thom (U Chicago) The Gaseous Halo of the Milky Way
October 4 Thursday		Sebastiano Cantalupo (ETH Zurich) The bright Ly-alpha side of the high-z Intergalactic Medium
October 5		Richard Cool (U Arizona) Constraining the Evolution of the Most Massive Galaxies Since z~1
October 19		Andreas Koch (UCLA & Carnegie Observatories) Kinematic and chemical contraints on the formation of M31's halo
October 26		Brian Siana (IPAC) Evidence for an Evolving Escape Fraction: New Results from Deep HST Searches for Escaping Lyman Continuum at z~1
November 2		Kuenley Chiu (U Exeter) The discovery of the ionizing sources at high redshift -- galaxies, AGN, and their link to star formation regulation
November 9		Karin Menendez-Delmestre (Caltech) Unveiling the powering mechanisms in submm galaxies: a multi-wavelength view
November 12 Monday 12:00pm		Sarah Hansen (U Chicago) Galaxy Content in Groups and Clusters from the SDSS Note change in day & time
November 16		Glenn Kacprzak (New Mexico State U) Unraveling Galaxy Formation From Extended Halo Gas and Galaxy Disk Kinematics
November 23		Thanksgiving Holiday
November 26 Monday		Ezequiel Treister (ESO Chile) The Evolution of AGN Obscuration
November 30		Yen-Ting Lin (Princeton U) Fundamental properties of cluster galaxies and their redshift evolution
December 6 Thursday		Frank Bigiel (MPI Heidelberg) The Resolved Star Formation Law in THINGS
December 7		Antonio Pipino (U Oxford) What chemo+hydro simulations tell us about the radial properties of the stellar populations in Ellipticals and Bulges
December 10 Monday		Yujin Yang (U Arizona) How Do Galaxies Get Their Baryons? Gas Accretion and Mergers from the Early Universe to z~0
December 21		Winter Holidays
December 28		Winter Holidays
January 16 Wednesday		Arjen van der Wel (John Hopkins U) The Morphology - Density Relation and Its Evolution Revisited
January 25		NO TALK SCHEDULED
February 1		Taro Sato (UC - Santa Barbara) Host Galaxies of Low-ionization Outflows in z < 0.6 Galaxies from AEGIS/DEEP2
February 11 Monday		Howard Bond (STScI) The V838 Monocerotis Light Echo and the New Class of Luminous Transients
February 19 Tuesday		Josh Frieman (Fermilab/U Chicago) First Results from the SDSS-II Supernova Survey
March 14		NO TALK SCHEDULED
March 17 Monday		Ryan Hickox (CfA) Obscuration and clustering of AGN in the 9 deg2 Bootes survey
March 21		NO TALK SCHEDULED
April 2 Wednesday		Arunav Kundu (MSU) Low Mass X-ray Binaries, Black Holes, and the Globular Cluster Connection
April 4		Alicia Soderberg (Princeton U) A Paradigm Shift for Supernova Disocvery and Study
April 11		Ian Roederer (U Texas) Nucleosynthesis of the Heaviest Atoms in the Universe: Clues to Understanding the Early Galaxy
April 18		NO TALK SCHEDULED
May 2 Auditorium		Davor Krajnovic (Oxford U) Internal structure of galaxies along the red sequence
May 13 Tuesday Auditorium		Claudia Maraston (U Portsmouth) Further Applications of Stellar Population Models Note change in day & location
May 16		NO TALK SCHEDULED
June 20		Dennis Zaritsky (U Arizona) The History of the Magellanic Clouds
June 27		Ann Zabludoff (U Arizona) The Importance of Groups in Galaxy Evolution
July 4		Independence Day Holiday
July 10 Thursday		Carles Badenes (Princeton U) The Persistence of Memory: What Supernova Remnants Tell Us about Type Ia Supernova Explosions and Their Progenitor Systems
July 11		Sydney Barnes (Lowell Obs) Gyrochronology: An Improved Way of Deriving the Ages of Cool Main Sequence Stars
July 18		NO TALK SCHEDULED
July 25
August 1		Myungshin Im (Seoul National U) Supermassive Black Holes of Quasars at World's End (or Beginning)
August 8
August 15
August 22 12:30pm Auditorium		Robert Kennicutt (U Cambridge) Building a Better Toolbox for Measuring Star Formation in Galaxies Note change in time & location
August 29