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

Carnegie Observatories Lunch Talks, Fall 2008 - Spring 2009


Unless otherwise noted, talks are on Fridays at 12:15PM in the conference room at 813 Santa Barbara Street.

Bring lunch.

Contact:  Dr. Jane Rigby,    jrigby [at] ociw.edu

Info for speakers

Talks and abstracts from past years

August 1


Myungshin Im (Seoul National U)
Supermassive Black Holes of Quasars at World's End (or Beginning)
August 22
12:30pm
Auditorium


Robert Kennicutt (U Cambridge)
Building a Better Toolbox for Measuring Star Formation in Galaxies
Note change in time & location
Sept 26


Genevieve Graves (UC Santa Cruz)
Dissecting the Red Sequence: Star Formation Histories and Structure of Early Type Galaxies
Oct 10


Hai Fu (Caltech)
Extended Emission-Line Regions: Remnants of Quasar Superwinds?
Oct 17


Jose Luis Prieto (Ohio State)
Massive Stars:  Life and Death
Oct 24


Moire Prescott (U. Arizona)
Exploring Sites of Galaxy Formation: Large Lya Nebulae at z~2-3
Note venue change to OCIW auditorium.
MONDAY Oct 27


Nate Bastian (IoA Cambridge)
Star and cluster formation from quiescent to extreme environments
Oct 31


Rik Williams (Leiden)
The growth of quiescent galaxies over the past 11 Gyr
Nov 7


Evan Kirby (UC Santa Cruz / Lick Obs)
Uncovering Extremely Metal-Poor Stars in the Milky Way's Ultra-Faint Dwarf Spheroidal Satellite Galaxies
Nov 14


Matt Kistler (Ohio State)
Examining a massive star just before, during, and after its core collapse
Nov 21


Christopher Thom (U Chicago)
Where are all the Baryons? Searching for the Missing Mass in OVI
Nov 28


No Talk
Thanksgiving
TUES Dec 2 (AUDITORIUM)


Ralf Kotulla (U. Hertfordshire)
Two complementary approaches of galaxy formation and evolution studies with GALEV
Dec 5


Jennifer Lotz (NOAO)
Reconciling Observations of the Galaxy Merger Rate
Dec 12


Dale Kocevski (UC Davis)
Studying Galaxy Evolution in High Redshift Large-Scale Structures with the ORELSE Survey
MONDAY Dec 15


John Kormendy (U. Texas)
Structure and Formation of Elliptical and Spheroidal Galaxies
Jan 9


Anca Constantin (CfA)
Lessons on galactic nuclear activity from voids
MONDAY Jan 12 (AUDITORIUM)


Alan McConnachie (HIA, Victoria)
Stars, galaxies and cosmology in the near field: the Local Group as a laboratory for galaxy formation
Jan 16


Oleg Gneden (U. Michigan)
Stars but no burst:  Dwarf galaxies are simpler, quieter than thought
Feb 6

No OCIW lunch talk (room in use)
No talk
Feb 9

David Martinez-Delgado (Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias)
A Survey of Stellar Tidal Streams in Nearby Galaxies
Feb 20


Kostas Tassis (JPL)
Star Formation from AU to Mpc Scales:  Simulating the Formation and Evolution of Stars and Galaxies
Feb 27 (AUDITORIUM)


Laura Hainline (U MD)
Evolutionary Constraints for Submillimeter Galaxies From
Uncontaminated Estimates of Stellar Mass and Luminosity

March 6


Vasiliki Pavlidou (U Chicago)
Deciphering the Gamma-ray Background: Starforming Galaxies, AGN, and the search for Dark Matter in the GeV Band
March 20

Rachel Kuzio de Naray (UC Irvine)
Probing the Dark Matter Halos of LSB Galaxies with Integral Field Spectroscopy
March 27

Alyson Brooks (Caltech)
The Evolution of Disk Galaxies Over Cosmic Ages
March 30

Jifeng Liu (CfA)
Toward the dynamical masses for ultraluminous X-ray sources
April 3

Nate McCrady (UCLA)
The Mass Functions of Young Massive Star Clusters: Adaptive Optics in Crowded Fields
April 6

Brad Whitmore (STScI)
Special demonstration: The Hubble Legacy Archive
April 10

Amanda Mainzer (JPL)
The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
April 17

No Talk (postdoc retreat)

April 24


Oliver Guyon (Subaru)
Adaptive Optics at Subaru and plans for GMT
May 8


Shri Kulkarni (Caltech)
Transients
May 14

Joe Hennawi (UC Berkeley)
Strong Gravitational Lensing By Clusters of Galaxies: Theory, Surveys, and Observations
May 15

No talk
(Carnegie Science Day)
May 22

Judd Bowman (Caltech)
On the Doorstep of Reionization

May 29

David Law (UCLA)
Kiloparsec-Scale Kinematics in High-Redshift Star-Forming Galaxies
June 4, 4pm, AUDITORIUM

David Hogg
(TBA)




June 19

Eric Murphy (IPAC)
Intracluster Shocking of the ISM in Virgo Cluster Spirals: Modified FIR-Radio Relations
June 26

Kartik Sheth (Caltech, IPAC)
The Spitzer Survey of Stellar Structures in Galaxies
MONDAY, July 13

Greg Shields (Texas)
Black Hole Recoil Candidates in SDSS