Astro Lunch Talk Schedule

Spring 2006


Paper for the week of 7 April 2006

Z. Peng et al. "The K-band properties of Seyfer 2 galaxies"

DATE SPEAKER TITLE
01/06/06 No Talk  
01/13/06 No Talk  
01/20/06 Dr. Milos Milosavljevic, Caltech (45 min)  Dissipationless Formation of Giant Galaxies
01/27/06 Scheduling of Talks  
02/03/06 Dr. Risa Wechsler, Univ. of Chicago (45 min)  Halo Assembly, Structure, and Environment
02/10/06 Dr. Elena Pierpaoli, Caltech (45 min)  A new era for galaxy clusters
02/17/06 TBD  TBA
02/24/06 Jose H. Groh, IAG/USP - UPitt (45 min)  AG Carinae: a Luminous Blue Variable with a high rotational velocity
03/03/06 Ramin Skibba, UPitt (20 min)  Exploring the Environmental Dependence of Luminosity and Stellar Mass in the SDSS, Millennium Simulation, and the Halo Model
03/10/06 No Talk  Spring break
03/17/06 Prof. Richard Griffiths, CMU (45 min)  COSMOS - an HST Treasury program
03/24/06 Jeremy Brewer, UPitt (20 min)  A virtual observatory enabled imaging pipeline
03/31/06 Niraj Welikala, UPitt (20 min)  Studying galaxy star formation and its environmental dependence through multi-color pixels.
04/07/06 Suman Bhattacharya, UPitt (20 min)  Studying properties of galaxy clusters and its implication to cosmology
04/14/06 No Talk  Easter
04/21/06 Joerg Colberg, CMU (45 min)  Disentangling the Cosmic Web
04/28/06 No Talk  Last day of class

Papers from past weeks.


N. Smith "The Structure of the Homunculus: I. Shape and Latitude Dependence from H2 and [Fe II] Velocity Maps of Eta Carinae"
Astro Lunch meets Fridays at 12:00 Noon in 106 Allen Hall.

Talks should be prepared so that they last   no more than 20 or 45 minutes.