PENN Astrophysics Group: Seminars

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Seminars are Wednesdays 4:00pm from Jan 2005 in DRL A5

Journal Club meets Fridays 1:00pm in DRL 4E19.
Departmental Colloquia every second Wednesday of each month 4:00pm in DRL A4.

2004-2005 Seminars

• September 8
  Charles Keeton (Rutgers University) Publications
  "Do lens galaxies contain substructure?"
  Host: Bhuvnesh Jain
   
• September 15: Departmental Colloquium
   
• September 17 NOTE UNUSUAL DATE/PLACE/TIME 1.00 pm room 4E19
  Jordi Miralda-Escude' (Ohio State University) Publications
  "Star captures by quasar accretion disks: a possible explanation of the M-sigma relation"
  Host: Raul Jimenez
   
• September 22
  
  
   
• September 29
  Louis Strolger (STScI) Publications
  "Supernovae and the Accelerating/Decelerating Universe"
  Host: Gary Bernstein
   
• October 8 NOTE UNUSUAL DATE/PLACE/TIME 1.00 pm room 4E19
  Peng Oh (Santa Barbara) Publications
  "3 Sigma Peaks: Self-Regulating Star Formation at Low and High Redshift"
  Host: Raul Jimenez
   
• October 13: Departmental Colloquium
   
• October 20
  Coleman Miller (University of Maryland)Publications
  Gravitational Radiation from Inspirals of Intermediate-Mass Black Holes
  Host: Verde
  
   
• October 27
  Thomas Brown (STScI) Publications
  The Age of the Andromeda Halo
  
   
• November 3
  Philip Farese (Princeton) Publications
  First Results from the CAPMAP Experiment
  Host: Devlin
   
• November 10: Departmental Colloquium
   
• November 17
  Giles Novak (Northwestern University) Publications
  Mapping Interstellar Magnetic Fields
  Host: Devlin
   
• November 24
  
  
  
   
• December 1
  Alan Boss (CIW) Publications
  Giant Planet Formation: Core Accretion vs. Disk Instability
  Host: Verde
  
   
• December 8
  Nergis Mavalvala(MIT) Publications
  LIGO detectors and prospects for astrophysical results
  Host: Verde
   

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  2005 Room A5 at 4.00 pm

• January 12: Departmental Colloquium
   
• January 19 Houjun Mo (UMass) Publications
  The galaxy dark matter connection
  Host: Verde
   
• January 26:
   
• February 2: Carlos Pena Garay (IAS) Publications
  Neutrinos as astrophysical probes
  Host: Jimenez
   
• February 9: Departmental Colloquium
   
• February 16 Ben Wandelt (UIUC) Publications
  Testing the Standard Cosmological Paradigm using CMB data
  Host: Verde
   
• February 23: canceled
  
  
   
• March 2 David Merritt (RIT) Publications
  Dynamics of Galactic Nuclei: Beyond the Million-Body Problem
  Host: Jimenez
   
• March 16: Departmental Colloquium
   
• March 23: Hiranya Peiris (KICP, Chicago) Publications
  "Can Cosmology Test Stringy Physics?"
  Host: Verde
   
• March 30 Luciana Bianchi (JHU) Publications
  The GALEX view of the local Universe
  Host: Verde
   
• April 6: Ray Jayawardhana (Toronto)
  Exploring Young Brown Dwarfs
   
• April 13: Departmental Colloquium
   
• April 20: Zoltan Haiman (Columbia) Publications
  How Did the Cosmic Dark Age End?
  Host: Jain