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) |