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Carnegie Observatories Lunch Talks, 2007-2008


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

Bring Your Lunch

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

2007 - 2008

September 7

Josh Simon (Caltech)
Dark Matter in Dwarf Galaxies
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 12

NO TALK SCHEDULED
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 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 14

NO TALK SCHEDULED
December 21

Winter Holidays
December 28

Winter Holidays
January 4

NO TALK SCHEDULED
January 11

NO TALK SCHEDULED
January 16
Wednesday

Arjen van der Wel (John Hopkins U)
The Morphology - Density Relation and Its Evolution Revisited
January 18

NO TALK SCHEDULED
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 8

NO TALK SCHEDULED
February 11
Monday

Howard Bond (STScI)
The V838 Monocerotis Light Echo and the New Class of Luminous Transients
February 15

NO TALK SCHEDULED
February 19
Tuesday

Josh Frieman (Fermilab/U Chicago)
First Results from the SDSS-II Supernova Survey
February 22

NO TALK SCHEDULED
February 29

NO TALK SCHEDULED
March 7

NO TALK SCHEDULED
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
March 28


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


April 25


May 2
Auditorium

Davor Krajnovic (Oxford U)
Internal structure of galaxies along the red sequence
May 9


November 12
Tuesday
Auditorium

Claudia Maraston (U Portsmouth)
Further Applications of Stellar Population Models
Note change in day & location
May 16

NO TALK SCHEDULED
May 23


May 30