Theoretical Astrophysics Seminar
Theoretical Astrophysics Seminar
The Physics Department Astrophysics Seminar is normally held at
4:00pm on Friday in Room 2165 of the New Physics Building.
Students may receive credit for attending this seminar by
registering for PHY 6391.
Astronomy Department Colloquium
Astrophysics Lunch Seminars
Other Physics Department Seminars
Schedule Fall 2005
- August 24
Astronomy Department Colloquium, 4:05pm, CLB 130
Speaker: Peter Hammersly (GTC Project Office Tenerife)
Title: "The current status of the GTC"
- September 2
Astronomy Department Colloquium, 4:05pm, CLB 130
Speaker: Pablo Perez-Gonzalez
(University of Arizona - Steward Observatory)
Title: "Spitzer view on the evolution of star-forming galaxies
from z=0 to z=3
September 3 Football (Wyoming)
- September 7
Astronomy Department Colloquium, 4:05pm, CLB 130
Speaker: Stephen Kane (UF)
Title: "Cool Neptunes & Hot Jupiters: Planet Detection
using Microlensing and Transits"
September 10 Football (Lousiana Tech)
- Tuesday, September 13
Astronomy Department Colloquium, 4:05pm, BSSC 7
Speaker: Qui-He Peng (Nanjing University)
Title: "A New Explosion Mechanism for Core Collapsed Supernovae"
- Thursday, September 15
Astronomy Department Colloquium, 4:05pm, BSSC 7
Speaker: Eric Perlman (JCA, U Maryland Baltimore County)
Title: "Discovering the Physics of AGN Jets"
September 17 Football (Tennessee)
- September 21
Astronomy Department Colloquium, 4:05pm, CLB 130
Speaker: Bob Millis (Lowell Observatory)
Title: "The Discovery Channel Telescope"
- September 28
Astronomy Department Colloquium, 4:10pm, CLB 130
Speaker: Katia Matcheva (UF)
Title: "Learning from Giants: exploring Jupiter and Saturn"
October 8 Football (Mississippi State, Homecoming)
- October 12
Astronomy Department Colloquium, 4:10pm, CLB 130
Speaker: Jason Harris (Arizona)
Title: "Stellar Archaeology in the Magellanic Clouds"
- October 19
Astronomy Department Colloquium, 4:10pm, CLB 130
Speaker: Phil Arras (KITP, UCSB)
Title: "Seismology of Accreting White Dwarfs"
- October 21
Speaker:
Eirini Messaritaki
(UWM)
Title: "Searching for gravitational waves from coalescing
binaries in data from the LIGO detectors"
Abstract
Host: Steve Detweiler
- October 26
Astronomy Department Colloquium, 4:10pm, CLB 130
Speaker: Antonio Marin-Franch (UF)
Title: "Surface-Brightness Fluctuations in Stellar Populations:
IAC-Star Models for the Optical and Near-IR Wavelengths"
- October 27
Physics Department Colloquium, 4:05pm, 1002
Speaker: Kate Scholberg (Duke University)
Title: "Neutrino Oscillations: Status and Prospects"
October 29 Football (Georgia, @JAX)
- November 2
Astronomy Department Colloquium, 4:10pm, CLB 130
Speaker: Ricardo Piorno Schiavon (Virginia)
Title: "Stellar Population Synthesis in the Blue, from
Galactic Clusters, through Nearby Galaxies, to the Distant Universe"
- November 4
Speaker:
Hume Feldman
(U Kansas)
Title: "A New Method of Measuring
the Peculiar Velocity Power Spectrum"
Abstract
Host: Jim Fry
November 5 Football (Vanderbilt)
- November 2
Astronomy Department Colloquium, 4:10pm, CLB 130
Speaker: Mark Krumholz
Title: "Turbulence, Feedback, and
the Global Evolution of Giant Molecular Clouds"
- November 9
Astronomy Department Colloquium, 4:10pm, CLB 130
Speaker: Mark Krumholz (Princeton)
Title: "Turbulence, Feedback, and
the Global Evolution of Giant Molecular Clouds"
- November 11 Veteran's Day
- November 16
Astronomy Department Colloquium, 4:10pm, CLB 130
Speaker: Chris Churchill (New Mexico State)
Title: "Gas Kinematics Galaxy Morphology
Connection at 0.4 < z < 1.0"
- November 18
Speaker:
Ted Baltz
(KIPAC)
Title: "Measuring Dark Matter Properties at High-Energy Colliders"
Abstract
Host: Laura Baudis
- November 24 Thanksgiving
November 26 Football (Florida State)
- November 30
Astronomy Department Colloquium, 4:10pm, CLB 130
Speaker: Dejan Vinkovic (IAS)
Title: "Multigrain dust
a new physics of protoplanetary disks"
- December 7
Astronomy Department Colloquium, 4:10pm, CLB 130
Speaker: Jim Hough (Hertfordshire)
Title: "Detecting the polarization signature of extrasolar planets"
Schedule Spring 2006
Background: First Light Image,
Sloan Digital Sky Survey
19981999,
19992000,
20002001,
20012002,
20022003,
20032004,
20042005
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Questions, comments, suggestions:
bernard@phys.ufl.edu,
fry@phys.ufl.edu.