Astronomy and Astrophysics Seminar Schedule

Spring 2007
Seminars are typically held in ESS 123 from 3:00-4:00 PM. Friday seminars will be held at 1:00 PM in ESS 450.
Date Speaker
Tuesday, January 23, 2007 (2:30pm) Alan Calder, Stony Brook University
A Mechanism for the Type Ia Supernovae Explosion
Thursday, February 1, 2007 (2:30pm) Natalia Ivanova, CITA
Neutron Stars in Globular Clusters
Wednesday, February 21, 2007 Ginny McSwain, Yale
The Great Escape: A Tale of Runaway Binary Stars and Their Evolution
Wednesday, March 14, 2007 @1pm Chas Beichmann, Michelson Science Center
From Nearby Planets to Dark Energy: Science with the Space Interferometer Mission (SIM)
Wednesday, March 28, 2007 @1pm David Hogg, NYU
The Growth of Galaxies
Wednesday, April 4, 2007 Semester Break

Wednesday, April 11, 2007 Alice Shapley, Princeton University
Seeds of the Morphology-Density Relation at z>2?
Wednesday, May 2, 2007 (cancelled) Jenica Nelan, Yale
Elliptical Galaxies: Ages, Metallicities, and Formation History