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2008
Date & TimeEventTypePresentation
Mon, Jun 09, 2008, 3:10 PM Anatoly Spitkovsky (Princeton)
The Physics of Collisionless Shocks
Seminar PDF Video
Thu, Jun 05, 2008, 2:10 PM Juerg Diemand (UCO/Lick Observatory)
Formation of cold dark matter halos and stellar halos
Seminar PDF Video
Tue, Jun 03, 2008, 2:10 PM Liang Gao (Durham)
The first stars and the nature of dark matter
Seminar PDF Video
Mon, Jun 02, 2008, 3:10 PM John Fregeau (Northwestern)
X-Ray Binaries and the Current Dynamical States of Galactic Globular Clusters
Seminar PDF Video
Mon, May 12, 2008, 3:10 PM Mario Juric (IAS)
Dynamical Origin of Exoplanet Orbital Properties
Seminar PDF Video
Thu, May 08, 2008, 2:10 PM Josh Faber (Rochester Institute of Technology)
Black Hole-Neutron Star Mergers: A progress report
Seminar PDF Video
Mon, May 05, 2008, 3:10 PM Bruce Draine (Princeton)
Dust Masses, PAH Fractions, and Starlight Intensities in the SINGS Galaxies
Seminar Video
Thu, Apr 24, 2008, 2:10 PM Phil Hopkins (Harvard/CfA)
Quasars and Galaxy Mergers: Fueling, Feedback, and Evolution
Seminar PDF Video
Mon, Apr 21, 2008, 3:10 PM Kristen Menou (Columbia)
Exoplanetary Atmospheres
Seminar Video
Mon, Apr 14, 2008, 3:10 PM Michael Strauss (Princeton)
Quasars from z=0 to z=6: Demographics and Clustering as Clues to their Physical Nature
Seminar PDF Video
Thu, Apr 10, 2008, 2:10 PM Jonathan Tan (University of Florida)
The Formation of the First Stars: Foundations for Galaxy and Supermassive Black Hole Formation
Seminar PDF Video
Mon, Mar 31, 2008, 3:10 PM Scott Gaudi (Ohio State)
Microlensing Searches for Planets: Results and Future Prospects
Seminar Video
Mon, Mar 24, 2008, 2:30 PM Andrea Ghez (UCLA)
The Dark Mass at the Center of Our Galaxy
Seminar Video
Thu, Mar 20, 2008, 3:10 PM Edo Berger (Princeton/Carnegie Observatories)
Gamma-Ray Bursts: From Progenitors to Probes
Seminar
Fri, Mar 14, 2008, 2:10 PM RAYMOND & BEVERLY SACKLER VISITING ASTROPHYSICIST TECHNICAL SEMINAR
Kip Thorne (Caltech)

LIGO: The Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory
Seminar
Thu, Mar 13, 2008, 7:30 PM SACKLER PUBLIC LECTURE
Kip Thorne (Caltech)

The Warped Side of the Universe: from the big bang to black holes and gravitational waves
Seminar
Thu, Mar 13, 2008, 2:10 PM Yuri Levin (Leiden)
Magnetar oscillations
Seminar Video
Tue, Mar 11, 2008, 2:10 PM Eiichiro Komatsu (U. Texas at Austin)
The 5-Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations: Cosmological Interpretation
Seminar PDF Video
Fri, Mar 07, 2008, 12:10 PM Richard Matzner (University of Texas, Austin)
Skip, Splash, and Teleology in Binary Black Hole Encounters
Seminar Video
Thu, Mar 06, 2008, 3:10 PM Kai Cai (McMaster)
Large-scale 3D Simulations of Protostellar Jets: Constraining the Disk Wind Model
Seminar Video
Mon, Mar 03, 2008, 3:10 PM Ian Dobbs-Dixon (McGill, CITA National Fellow)
Atmospheric Dynamics of Short-Period Planets
Seminar Video
Fri, Feb 29, 2008, 12:10 PM Amanda Karakas (Mt Stromlo Observatory)
The origin of radioactivities in the early solar system
Seminar Video
Thu, Feb 28, 2008, 9:30 AM Ontario Star Formation Jamboree Workshop
Mon, Feb 25, 2008, 2:10 PM Greg Stinson (McMaster)
Supernova Feedback in SPH Simulations of Galaxy Formation
Seminar Video
Thu, Feb 21, 2008, 2:10 PM Dong Lai (Cornell)
Exciting Waves and Modes in Accretion Disks
Seminar Video
Mon, Feb 04, 2008, 2:10 PM Robyn Levine (Colorado/Fermilab)
From Megaparsecs to Milliparsecs: Modeling a Disk Galaxy with Cosmological Simulations
Seminar PDF Video
Thu, Jan 31, 2008, 2:10 PM Dmitri Uzdensky (Princeton)
Magnetized Coronae of Stars and Accretion Disks
Seminar PDF Video
Mon, Jan 28, 2008, 3:00 PM Andrea Urban (U. of Texas, Austin)
Understanding the Origin of the IMF through Star Formation Simulations with Thermal Physics
Seminar Video
Thu, Jan 24, 2008, 2:10 PM Stefan Hilbert (MPA)
Ray-tracing through the Millennium Simulation
Seminar PDF
Mon, Jan 21, 2008, 3:10 PM Andrei Mesinger (Yale)
Interpreting Probes of the Reionization Epoch
Seminar Video
Thu, Jan 17, 2008, 2:10 PM Jeremy Tinker (Chicago)
Reverse-Engineering the Galaxy Formation Problem
Seminar Video
Tue, Jan 15, 2008, 1:10 PM Randall Cooper (Harvard)
Oscillations During Type I X-ray Bursts: Why We See Them, and Why We Don't
Seminar Video
Mon, Jan 14, 2008, 3:10 PM Nadia Zakamska (IAS)
The search for obscured quasars
Seminar Video
Thu, Jan 10, 2008, 2:10 PM Doron Chelouche (IAS)
Exploring the Universe Through a Slit
Seminar Video
Tue, Jan 08, 2008, 2:10 PM Eric Johnson (Princeton)
Dynamical Tides in the Atmospheres of Hot Jupiters
Seminar PDF Video
Thu, Dec 13, 2007, 2:10 PM Jo Dunkley (Princeton)
Inflation and dark matter: beyond WMAP
Seminar
Tue, Dec 11, 2007, 12:30 PM Elena Rossi (JILA, Colorado)
Growing Supermassive Black Holes by z = 6 with "Quasistars"
Seminar Video
Mon, Dec 10, 2007, 3:10 PM Roman Scoccimarro (NYU)
Nonlinear Evolution of Acoustic Oscillations
Seminar PDF Video
Thu, Dec 06, 2007, 2:10 PM Caroline Zunckel (Oxford)
Reconstructing the history of dark energy using maximum entropy
Seminar Video
Wed, Dec 05, 2007, 12:30 PM Erik Spence (ETH Zurich)
Measurements and Simulations of the Madison Dynamo Experiment
Seminar Video
Mon, Dec 03, 2007, 3:10 PM Phil Nicholson (Cornell)
Through a glass darkly: Saturn's enigmatic B ring
Seminar Video
Fri, Nov 30, 2007, 2:10 PM Special Astrophysics Colloquium: Simon White and Rocky Kolb debate the future direction of astronomical research
The Toronto Dark Energy Smackdown: A debate on the future direction of astronomy
Seminar PDF Video
Wed, Nov 28, 2007, 4:10 PM Simon White (MPA)
Galaxy halos at (very) high resolution
Seminar
Tue, Nov 27, 2007, 12:30 PM Alison Farmer (CfA)
Saturn in a Spin
Seminar PDF Video
Mon, Nov 26, 2007, 3:10 PM Daniel Holz (LANL)
Graviational-wave standard sirens and cosmology
Seminar PDF Video
Tue, Nov 20, 2007, 12:30 PM Mustafa Amin (Stanford)
A framework for probing gravity and dark energy on cosmological scales
Seminar Video
Thu, Nov 15, 2007, 2:10 PM Tristan Smith (Caltech)
Local gravity and the cosmos: using local tests of modified gravity to probe cosmological physics
Seminar Video
Mon, Nov 12, 2007, 3:10 PM Carlos Lousto (Rochester Institute of Technology)
Binary Black Hole Mergers
Seminar
Thu, Nov 08, 2007, 2:10 PM Adam Lidz (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA)
Probing Hydrogen Reionization
Seminar Video
Wed, Nov 07, 2007, 12:30 PM Matija Cuk (UBC, CITA National Fellow)
Excitation of Lunar Eccentricity by Planetary Resonances
Seminar Video
Mon, Nov 05, 2007, 3:10 PM Kendrick Smith (Cambridge)
Detection of Gravitational Lensing in the Microwave Background
Seminar
Thu, Nov 01, 2007, 2:10 PM Daniel Ceverino (New Mexico State)
Stellar Feedback and Galaxy Formation
Seminar
Mon, Oct 29, 2007, 3:10 PM Mark Neyrinck (IfA, Hawaii)
Cosmological Wiggles and Plateaux in Power-Spectrum Covariance
Seminar Video
Mon, Oct 22, 2007, 3:10 PM Zheng Zheng (IAS)
What Can We Learn about Galaxy Evolution from Galaxy Clustering?
Seminar Video
Mon, Oct 15, 2007, 3:10 PM Shirley Ho (Princeton)
What can we do with CMB as a backlight?
Seminar
Thu, Oct 04, 2007, 2:10 PM Peter Goldreich (IAS)
Tidal Evolution of Rubble Piles
Seminar Video
Mon, Oct 01, 2007, 3:10 PM Ruth Murray-Clay (UC Berkeley)
Three Problems in Planet Formation: The Kuiper Belt, Hot Jupiters, and Transitional Disks
Seminar PDF
Thu, Sep 27, 2007, 2:10 PM Radford Neal (University of Toronto)
A Critique of Anthropic Reasoning, with Applications to Cosmology and the Fermi Paradox
Seminar
Mon, Sep 24, 2007, 11:00 AM CITA Jamboree Other
Fri, Sep 21, 2007, 12:30 PM Jennifer Siegal-Gaskins (U Chicago)
Signatures of LCDM Substructure in Tidal Debris
Seminar PDF
Thu, Sep 20, 2007, 2:10 PM Chung-Pei Ma (Berkeley)
Mergers of Dark Matter Halos and Massive Galaxies in a LCDM Universe
Seminar
Mon, Sep 17, 2007, 3:10 PM Katie Mack (Princeton)
Primordial Black Holes in the Dark Ages
Seminar PDF
Thu, Sep 13, 2007, 2:10 PM Marc Kamionkowski (Caltech)
Statistical Isotropy and Alternative Gravity
Seminar
Tue, Aug 28, 2007, 9:00 AM CITA/CIFAR Focus Group on Gravitational Waves and Numerical Relativity Workshop
Mon, Aug 13, 2007, 3:10 PM Richard Easther (Yale University)
Searching for the End of Gravity's Rainbow
Seminar
Thu, Aug 09, 2007, 2:10 PM Yuri Lyubarsky (Ben-Gurion University)
Physics of Pulsar Wind Nebulae
Seminar PDF
Fri, Jun 29, 2007, 2:10 PM Peng Oh (UC Santa Barbara)
New Views of the High-Redshift Universe
Seminar PDF
Wed, Jun 27, 2007, 2:10 PM Z. Lucas Uhm (Columbia University)
Relativistic Blast Waves and GRB Afterglows
Seminar PDF
Mon, Jun 25, 2007, 3:10 PM Jounghun Lee (Seoul National University)
The Tidal Effect on the Cosmic Voids and Its Cosmological Implications
Seminar PDF
Thu, May 24, 2007, 2:10 PM Rob Crittenden (Portsmouth)
Dark Energy and the CMB
Seminar PDF
Mon, May 14, 2007, 3:10 PM Bob Rutledge (McGill)
Neutron Star Mass/Radius Measurements and the Dense Matter Equation of State
Seminar PDF
Fri, May 11, 2007, 3:10 PM Rachel Bean (Cornell)
Constraining Modified Gravity Theories of Dark Energy
Seminar PDF
Mon, May 07, 2007, 3:10 PM Dimitrios Giannios (MPA Garching)
Flares in GRB Afterglows from Delayed Magnetic Dissipation
Seminar PDF