Spring 2014

210 Wheeler Hall, 12:40-1:30 every Thursday

Please email Paul Kalas and Josh Bloom to volunteer or make changes.

January 23:

• • Claude-Andre Faucher-Giguere "Black hole-driven galactic winds."

  • Lauren Weiss "The Mass-Radius Relation for 65 Exoplanets Smaller than 4 Earth Radii"

  • Doug Finkbeiner: "An update on the gamma-ray excess at the Galactic center"

January 30:

• • Ken Shen "MESA for dummies (like me)"

  • Chung-Pei Ma "The MASSIVE Survey"

  • Gaspard Duchene: "FIRST, the secret story behind the leaked picture"

February 6:

• • Paul Shellard "Planck Non-Gaussianity and Inflation"

  • Pat Kelly "Host Galaxies of Fast-Ejecta Core-Collapse Supernovae."

  • Dyas Utomo "How Dead are Quiescent Galaxies?"

Febuary 13:

• • Martin White "The Zeldovich Approximation"

  • Dan Fabrycky "Stellar Misalignment in Multiplanet Systems"

  • Isaac Shivvers "The very nearby SN 2014J: Discovery and early results"

February 20:

• • Reinhard Genzel "The GRAVITY VLT(I) experiment: goals and status"

  • Andreu Font "Measurement of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations in the Lyman alpha Forest of distant quasars from BOSS"

  • Mario Juric "Asteroid Linking Algorithms: A Different Proposal"

February 27:

• • Cristobal Petrovich "On the formation of eccentric Warm Jupiters."

  • Mike McCourt "Do Galaxy Clusters Boil?"

  • Michael Cooper “The Size Evolution of Massive Galaxies”

March 6:

• • Evan Scannapieco "Triggering High-Redshift Star Formation with Galaxy Outflows"

  • Robert Feldmann "What quenches star formation in massive galaxies at high redshift?"

  • Melissa Graham "Clues To The Nature of SN 2009ip from Photometric and Spectroscopic Evolution to Late Times"

March 13:

• • Nick Hand "Detecting the Cross-Correlation of CMB Lensing and Galaxy Lensing"

  • Aaron Parsons "Converging on Detecting Cosmic Reionization"

  • Note prospective visit day.

March 20:

• • Gregg Hallinan "The Caltech HIgh-speed Multi-color CamERA (CHIMERA)"

  • Linda Strubbe "Outreach in Nigeria: An astronomy short course for West African undergraduates"

  • Uros Seljak "Detection of B mode polarization by the BICEP2 collaboration"

April 3:

• • Richard Ellis "Metallicity Gradients: A New Probe of Galaxy Evolution and Assembly"

  • Ryan Janish "First Kinematic Results from the MASSIVE Survey"

  • Laurence Sabin "The morphological issue(s) with post-AGB stars and planetary nebulae"

April 10:

• • Brendan Bowler "The Elusive Majority of Young Moving Groups"

  • Davide Martizzi "Brightest cluster galaxies in cosmological hydrodynamical simulations”

  • Dick McCray "A few on-line toys for learning astrophysics" [scatter.colorado.edu/STEM-TPSoft/]

April 17:

• • Selma de Mink "Twenty new massive runaway stars in the Tarantula Survey: evidence for two ejection mechanisms?"

  • Jon Mauerhan "Spectropolarimetry of SN2009ip's 2012 explosion - direct evidence for aspherical circumstellar material"

  • Jack Steiner "Accretion Lags in Black-Hole X-ray Binaries"

April 24:

• • Omer Bromberg "Direct observational evidence for the collapsar model in gamma-ray bursts and how to really tell a long burst from a short one"

  • James McBride "Bent Jets Reveal a Stripped Interstellar Medium in NGC 1272"

  • Lucio Mayer "Orbital decay of massive black hole binaries in a clumpy interstellar medium"

May 1:

• • Andrew Youdin "The Dynamical Puzzles Posed by Pluto’s Minor Moons"

  • Mate Adamkovics "Shielding by water and OH in FUV and X-ray irradiated protoplanetary disks"

  • Bekki Dawson "Tidal dissipation of hot Jupiter spin-orbit misalignment"