ASTR 400/500: GRADUATE SEMINAR SPRING 2008

Meets in HBH 227, Wednesdays from 12:05 pm to 12:55 pm

DATE SPEAKER(S) TITLE
Jan 11 Patrick Hartigan Organizational Meeting (note this is a *Friday*)
Jason Nordhaus (Univ. Rochester) Evolved Star Dynamos and Common Envelopes
Jan 16 Dr. Chris Johns-Krull The Austin Meeting of the American Astronomical Society
Jan 23 Junfeng Wang (Penn State) Chandra/ACIS Observations of Massive Star Forming Regions
Jan 30 Lars Kristensen (Observatoire de Paris-Meudon) The Shocking Truth - the Impact of Young Stars on their Environment
Feb 6 Feng Yuan (Shanghai Observatory) Hot Accretion Flows: Theory and Applications
Feb 13 Dr. Reggie Dufour Science with the New HST after SM4
Feb 20 Feng Yuan (Shanghai Observatory) Summary of Astronomical Research Activities in China
Feb 27 Matthew Baring Bullets from the Sky: the Ballistics of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays
Sarah Story Population Synthesis of Radio and Gamma-ray Millisecond Pulsars from the Galactic Disk
Mar 5 **RECESS**
Mar 12 Ellyn Baines (Georgia State University) Exoplanets, Etc., Using the CHARA Array
Mar 19 Hao Yang Magnetic Fields Measurements of Young Stars in the TW Hydrae Association and Orion Nebula Cluster
Jeffrey Middleton An Optical Spectrographic Survey of Radio-Loud AGN
Mar 26 Markus Boettcher (Ohio Univ.) Coordinated Multiwavelength Studies of the Quasar 3C 279
Apr 2 Dr. Bruce Winstein (U. Chicago) Promise and Challenges in Precision Detection of the Polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background
Apr 9 Jonathan Sick/EJ The Photoionization Structure of NGC 2392: The Eskimo Planetary Nebula
Apr 16 Dr. Greg Shields (UT Austin) Observational Signatures of Recoiling Black Holes in Quasars
Apr 23 Stephanie DeWet A Model of Hot Winds from Classical T Tauri Stars