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
Talks and abstracts from past years
2007 - 2008
| August 1 |
Myungshin Im (Seoul National U) Supermassive Black Holes of Quasars at World's End (or Beginning) |
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| August 22 12:30pm Auditorium |
Robert Kennicutt (U Cambridge) Building a Better Toolbox for Measuring Star Formation in Galaxies Note change in time & location |
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| Sept 26 |
Genevieve Graves (UC Santa Cruz) Dissecting the Red Sequence: Star Formation Histories and Structure of Early Type Galaxies |
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| Oct 10 |
Hai Fu (Caltech) Extended Emission-Line Regions: Remnants of Quasar Superwinds? |
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| Oct 17 |
Jose Luis Prieto (Ohio State) Massive Stars: Life and Death |
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| Oct 24 |
Moire Prescott (U. Arizona) Exploring Sites of Galaxy Formation: Large Lya Nebulae at z~2-3 Note venue change to OCIW auditorium. |
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| MONDAY Oct 27 |
Nate Bastian (IoA Cambridge) Star and cluster formation from quiescent to extreme environments |
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| Oct 31 |
Rik Williams (Leiden) The growth of quiescent galaxies over the past 11 Gyr |
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| 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 |
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| Nov 14 |
Matt Kistler (Ohio State) Examining a massive star just before, during, and after its core collapse |
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| Nov 21 |
Christopher Thom (U Chicago) Where are all the Baryons? Searching for the Missing Mass in OVI |
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| Nov 28 |
No Talk Thanksgiving |
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| Dec 2 |
Ralf Kotulla () TBD |
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| Dec 5 |
Jennifer Lotz (NOAO) Reconciling Observations of the Galaxy Merger Rate |
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| Dec 12 |
Dale Kocevski (UC Davis) Studying Galaxy Evolution in High Redshift Large-Scale Structures with the ORELSE Survey |
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| Jan 9 |
Anca Constantin (CfA) Supermassive Black Hole Accretion in Cosmic Voids? |
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| Feb 6 |
Rachel Kuzio de Naray (UC Irvine) Probing the Dark Matter Halos of LSB Galaxies with Integral Field Spectroscopy |
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| Feb 20 |
Kostas Tassis (JPL) Star Fromation from AU to Mpc Scales: Simulating the Formation and Evolution of Stars and Galaxies |
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| March 6 |
Vasiliki Pavlidou (U Chicago) TBD |
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