Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series, 2008/2009
Tuesdays -- 4PM -- William T. Golden Auditorium (unless otherwise noted)
Coffee served at 3:30
Contact for program information: Andrew McWilliam (andy[at]ociw.edu)
Spring 2009
| March 24 | Robert Gehrz (University of Minnesota) The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) (Abstract) |
| March 31 | Thomas J. Cox (CfA) Uncovering the Formation History of Elliptical Galaxies (Abstract) |
| April 7 | Andrew Benson (Caltech) Modelling the Origins of the Hubble Sequence (Abstract) |
| April 14 | Angelle Tanner (JPL) Toward Alien Horizons: The Study of Exoplanet Atmospheres through Transit Spectroscopy (Abstract) |
| April 21 | Karl Gebhardt (U. Texas, Austin) HETDEX Pilot Survey Results: z=2 Lyman-alpha Emitters and the Instrument VIRUSB (Abstract) |
| April 28 | Anna Frebel (CfA) What the most metal-poor stars tell us about the early Universe (Abstract) |
| April 30** | Richard Mushotzky (NASA/GSFC) [**Note: Thursday Colloquium] The Hard X-ray View of AGN- Recent X-ray, Optical and IR Results from the Swift BAT Survey (Abstract) |
| May 5 | Todd Boroson (NOAO) Finding the Goodies in the SDSS Quasar Archive (Abstract) |
| May 12 | Geoff Marcy (UC Berkeley) On Rocky Exoplanets (Abstract) |
| May 19 | Casey Papovich (Texas A&M) Witnessing the Formation of Galaxies at High Redshift (Abstract) |
| May 26 | Mario Mateo (U. Michigan) The Complex Evolution of Simple Systems (Abstract) |
| June 2 | Jay Anderson (STScI) Proper Motions at the Center of Omega Centauri (Abstract) |
| June 5 ** | David Hogg (NYU) [** NOTE: Friday Colloquium] What if the Milky Way isn't integrable and isn't phase-mixed? (Abstract) |
| June 16 ** | Avi Loeb (Harvard/ITC) [** NOTE: Special Summer Colloquium] Testing Gravity Throughout the Universe and Around Black Holes (Abstract) |