Spring Semester 2012

Date Speaker Title
1/23 Marla Geha, Yale Ultra-Faint Galaxies Around the Milky Way
1/30 Eric Chaisson, CfA Cosmic Evolution and the Arrow of Time
2/6 Charles Lada, CfA Star Formation Rates in Molecular Clouds and the Nature of the Extragalactic Scaling Relations
2/13 Jim Drake, University of Maryland Magnetic reconnection as a cosmic particle accelerator
2/27 Marco Velli, CIT, JPL Coronal Heating and Solar Wind Models: Tests with Solar Probe Plus and Solar Orbiter
3/5 Chris O’Dea, RIT Seyfert Galaxies
3/19 Stefi Baum, RIT, Center for Imaging Science Double, double toil and trouble, Fire burn, and caldron bubble – Goings On in Cool Core Clusters
3/26 Jessica Rosenberg, GMU Baryons in Galaxies and the Intergalactic Medium: Tracers of Galaxy Evolution
4/2 Merav Opher, BU Baryons in Galaxies and the Intergalactic Medium: Tracers of Galaxy Evolution4/2 Merav Opher, BU – At the edge of the solar system: Learning how stars interact with their surrounding media
4/9 Randy Jokipii,  University of Arizona Turbulent Shocks in Astrophysical Plasmas
4/23 Dr. Laura Lopez, MIT Dissecting Supernova Remnants
4/30 Elizabeth Blanton, BU Sloshing, Bubbles, and Active Galactic Nuclei in Clusters of Galaxies (Up Close and Far Away)