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