Astrophysics Colloquium



Colloquium meetings are held in the Physics & Astronomy Building (PAB) in Room 4-330 from 3:30-4:30pm every Wednesday of the academic season.



Spring 2008 Schedule

Ned Wright


         Date    
Speakers
Titles
April 2 Stuart Shaklan
JPL
Achieving micro-arcsecond astrometric precision with SIM Planetquest (abstract)
April 9 Bryan Penprase
Pomona College
Keck ESI and HIRES Observations of Low-metallicity DLA and Lyman Alpha Forest Absorption Systems
April 16 David Tytler
UCSD
Absorption in Pairs of QSOs: Absence of QSO feedback and winds from galaxies (abstract)
April 23 Simon Radford
Caltech
Cornell Caltech Atacama Telescope (abstract)
April 30 Dana Backman Epsilon Eridani's Debris Disk Structure and Dynamics: Hints of Planets from Spitzer and CSO Data
May 7 Elena Pierpaoli
USC
Learning Lessons from the Cosmic Microwave Background: Present and Future Parameter Estimation (abstract)
May 14 Peter Eisenhardt
JPL
Clusters of Galaxies in the First Half of the Universe from the IRAC Shallow Survey
May 21 Daniel Stern
JPL
Obscured Quasars at High Redshift (abstract)
May 28 Jane Rigby
Carnegie
Lensed Star-Forming Galaxies and Obscured AGNs
June 4 Davy Kirkpatrick Caltech/IPAC Low Gravity Effects in Brown Dwarfs


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