
Astronomy FLASH
FALL 2006
Fridays 12:30 pm
ISB 102
September 22, 2006
"The Status of the Universe as seen from the UCO Director's Office "
Mike Bolte (UCSC)
September 29, 2006
"The Motions of the Magellanic Clouds About the Milky Way: Towards a Reassessment of some Fundamental Questions"
Nitya Kallivayalil (CfA)
Host: Lin
October 6, 2006
"2D Study of Carbon Ignition in Type 1A Supernovae"
Haitao Ma (UCSC, 2nd year project talk)
Advisor: Woosley
October 13, 2006
"Atmospheric Flows on Hot Jupiters "
Jonathan Langton (UCSC)
Host: Laughlin
October 20, 2006
"The Formation and Evolution of Disk Galaxies from z~1 to Now: Constraints from New Observations"
Susan Kassin (UCSC)
Host: Faber
October 27, 2006
"The Dynamical Stability of the Solar System"
Konstantin Batygin (UCSC)
Host: Laughlin
November 3, 2006
"The Internal Structure & Evolution of Galaxies through Gravitational Lensing and Stellar Dynamics"
Leon Koopmans (Kapteyn Astron Inst)
Hosts: Illingworth and Epps
November 17, 2006
"Feedback in Starburst Galaxies"
Todd Thompson (Princeton)
Hosts: Mathews and Epps
December 1 , 2006
"The JPL Terrestrial Planet-finder (TPF) Program"
Joe Wampler (UCSC/Max Planck)
Host: Epps
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