
Astronomy Colloquium
FALL 2006
Wednesdays 3:45 pm
Natural Sciences Annex 101
September 27, 2006
"Planetary Beginnings: The Inner AU of Protoplanetary Disks "
Josh Eisner (UCB)
Hosts: Prochaska and Bodenheimer
October 4, 2006
"Tracing the Planet-Forming Zones of Circumstellar Disks with Infrared Spectroscopy "
Klaus Pontoppidan (Caltech)
Hosts: Rockosi and Lin
October 11, 2006
"Type Ia Supernovae, Out of the Box"
Daniel Kasen (JHU)
Hosts: Illingworth and Woosley
October 18, 2006
"The Evolution and Dispersal of Protoplanetary Discs"
Richard Alexander (Colorado)
Hosts: Vogt and Lin
October 25, 2006
"The Radio Afterglow of the Giant Flare from SGR 1806-20"
Jonathan Granot (KIPAC, Stanford)
Hosts: Prochaska and Woosley
November 1, 2006
"Star Formation Near and Far"
Jonathan Tan (U Florida)
Hosts: Brodie and Mathews
November 8, 2006
"Super-Eddington Luminosities from Super-Eddington Accretion: Powering Ultra-Luminous X-ray Sources with Stellar Mass Black Holes"
Aristotle Socrates (Princeton)
Hosts: Guha Thakurta and Mathews
November 15, 2006
"An Evolutionary Model For Submillimeter Galaxies"
Sukanya Chakrabarti (CfA, Harvard)
Hosts: Koo and Laughlin
November 22, 2006
"Hot Jupiter Model Atmospheres in the Spitzer Era"
Jonathan Fortney (NASA/SETI)
Hosts: Vogt and Laughlin
November 29, 2006
"From Massive Cores to Massive Stars"
Mark Krumholz (Princeton)
Hosts: Smith and Bodenheimer
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