Colloquium Schedule
Colloquia are held in SW221 at 4:00 p.m. (unless noted below)Colloquium Teas are held in SW113 at 3:30 p.m. (unless noted below)
Academic Year 2013-2014
Speaker |
Title |
Date |
|---|---|---|
Department Welcome Tea |
August 27 | |
| Brian Fields (University of Illinois) |
A Bitter Pill: The Primordial Lithium Problem | September 17 |
| Danielle Lucero (University of Cape Town) |
KAT-7 Science Verification, MeerKAT and Beyond |
October 8 |
| David Morrison (SETI Institute and NASA Ames Research Center) |
Edmondson Lecture: The Chelyabinsk Meteor: A Cosmic |
October 14 |
David Morrison |
Edmondson Colloquium: Exploring Near-Earth-Asteroids: Science, Astronaut Destinations, Planetary Defense | October 15 |
| Szabolcs Meszaros (Indiana University) |
The APOGEE Survey | November 12 |
| Daryl Haggard (Northwestern University) |
G2 as a Probe of Sgr A*'s Hot Environs: A View from Chandra and VLA | November 19 |
| Eric Bell (University of Michigan) |
The Effects and Importance of |
December 3 |
| Mike Boylan-Kolchin (University of Maryland) |
Galaxy Formation and Dark Matter in the Local Volume |
December 10 |
| Patricia Moravec (Indiana University) |
Undergraduate Honors Colloquium |
January 14 |
| Ralf Kotulla (University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee) |
Reducing WIYN Imaging Data - Status and Recent Progress with the ODI and WHIRC Pipelines |
January 28 |
| Claude-Andre Faucher-Giguere (Northwestern University) |
Feedback-Regulated Star Formation on Galactic and Cosmological Scales | February 11 |
| Jonathan Bird (Vanderbilt University) |
New Insights from the Milky Way and Simulated Assembly Histories: Disk Galaxies May Form Upside-Down | February 18 |
| Eric Feigelson (Pennsylvania State University) |
MYStIX: A New Look at Clustered Star Formation |
February 25 |
| Eric Feigelson (Pennsylvania State University) |
Astrostatistics Tea Room SW 113 12:15PM |
February 26 |
| Mercedes Lopez-Morales (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) |
The Study of Exoplanetary Atmospheres: Present and Future | March 11 |
| Heather Jacobson (MIT) |
The Zoology of Metal-Poor Stars: Latest News From the SkyMapper Survey |
March 19 |
| Warren Skidmore (Thirty Meter Telescope) |
Thirty Meter Telescope: The Next Generation of Ground Based Optical/Infra Red Observatory |
March 25 |
| Harriet Dinerstein (University of Texas) |
The Chemical Diversity of Planetary Nebulae: Nature and Nurture. |
April 1 |
| Richard de Grijs (Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Peking University) |
Not-So-Simple Stellar Populations in Local Group Star Clusters | April 8 |
| Megan Donahue (Michigan State University) |
The CLASH Survey: Early Results on Clusters of Galaxies, High Redshift Galaxies, and Supernova |
April 22 |
| Annual Department Awards Ceremoony 4:00 to 5:30 p.m. SW113 |
April 24 | |
| Jongsuk Hong (Indiana University) |
Black Hole Binaries in Galactic Nuclei and Gravitational Waves". | April 29 |
| Jay Strader (Michigan State University) |
Black Holes in Globular Clusters |
May 13 |
