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Contributing to basic research in astronomy since 1904, as a part of the Carnegie Institution for Science


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)

Info for speakers

  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)