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Astronomy Department Colloquia
Astronomy Department Colloquia are held on Thursdays at 4:10 pm in room 807 Dennison Bldg, unless otherwise noted. Cookies and tea are served at 3:45 pm in Dennison 845 (OWL room). Click on the date for more details, including the abstract when available.
Maps and directions to the department. For more information contact Kayhan Gultekin.
| Winter 2009 Full Schedule | |||
| Date | Speaker | Topic | Affiliation |
| Thu Jan 15 2009 | Elena Gallo | TBA | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| Thu Jan 22 2009 | Charles Steidel | TBA | California Institute of Technology (Caltech) |
| Thu Feb 05 2009 | S. Alan Stern | TBA | Southwest Research Institute |
| Thu Feb 19 2009 | Andrea Ghez | Bringing our Galaxy's Supermassive Black Hole and its Environs into Focus with Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics | UCLA |
| Thu Mar 05 2009 | Dick Durisen | Can Gas Giant Planets Form by Gas-Phase Gravitational Instabilities? | Indiana University |
| Thu Mar 12 2009 | Gary Bernstein | TBA | University of Pennsylvania |
| Thu Mar 19 2009 | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| Thu Mar 26 2009 | Ethan Vishniac | The Origin of Magnetic Fields in Galaxies: What Should We Expect to See at High Redshifts? | McMaster University |
| Thu Apr 02 2009 | Fred Adams | TBA | University of Michigan |
| **Tue Apr 07 2009 | Lynne Hillenbrand | TBA | Caltech |
| Thu Apr 16 2009 | Harvey Tananbaum | TBA | Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics |
See a list of Past Colloquia.
