APS Colloquia

Colloquia for Spring 2015

Date Speaker Institution Talk Title Contact
12 Jan Desika Narayanan Haverford The Complex Interplay between star formation and galaxy evolution at low and high-redshift Oppenheimer
19 Jan No talk today Martin Luther King Day
26 Jan Melvyn Davies Lund Observatory The Ecology of the Galactic Center Begelman
02 Feb Joshua Eisner Univ of Arizona (and JILA Visiting Fellow) Imaging the Youngest Exoplanets Mike Shull
09 Feb Michael Eracleous Penn State University Using the Broad Emission Lines of Quasars To Study the Dynamics of Gas in the Accretion Flow Comerford
16 Feb Fran Bagenal APS/LASP Demographics of Astrophysical, Planetary and Space Sciences: 25 Year Perspective Fran Bagenal
23 Feb Joshua Pepper Lehigh University From Small Dark Shadows to Pale Blue Dots: The Next Steps in Exoplanet Discovery and Characterization JM Desert
02 Mar Karin Sandstrom University of Arizona The Interstellar Medium in M31 - Small-Scale Processes in an Extragalactic Context Comerford
09 Mar Brice Ménard Johns Hopkins University De-projecting astronomical surveys JM Desert
16 Mar Maryam Modjaz NYU Stellar Forensics with Explosions: Supernovae, Gamma-Ray Bursts, and their Environments Comerford
23 Mar No talk today Spring Break
30 Mar Nick Schneider APS/LASP First Results on Mars and the Siding Spring Meteor Shower from MAVEN’s Imaging UV Spectrograph Fran Bagenal
06 Apr Brent Tully University of Hawaii The Laniakea Supercluster of Galaxies Duncan
13 Apr Fiona Harrison Caltech Science Highlights from the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR): Bringing the High Energy Universe into Focus Comerford
14 Apr Axel Brandenburg Nordita Rethinking basic concepts of solar convection and sunspot formation Mark Rast
16 Apr Philip Judge High Altitude Observatory, NCAR Surprises in solar physics from the point of view of Newton and Maxwell Mark Rast
20 Apr Evgenya L. Shkolnik Lowell Observatory Studying Planets from the Inside Out with Exoplanetary Magnetic Fields JM Desert
23 Apr Egidio Landi Degl'Innocenti Università degli Studi di Firenze The Physics of Astronomical Polarization Mark Rast
27 Apr Mark Boslough Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM Reassessing impact risk after the airburst over Chelyabinsk, Russia Fran Bagenal

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