AstroCoffee meets Fridays at 1pm in STC 267D

Fall 2011 Schedule

  • September 9 -- students present their summer research work, plans for the semester

  • September 16 -- No astro coffee

  • September 23 -- No astro coffee, welcoming new people to the department reception

  • September 30 -- Anna Sajina presents her new paper on the IR SEDs of starbursts and quasars

  • October 7 -- Ken Olum will discuss what he's learned at "100 Year Starship Public Symposium" http://www.100yss.org, i.e. we'll discuss the future possibilities for interstellar travel

  • October 14 -- Alex Pope (UMass Amherst) visit -- the status of the Large Millimetre Telescope

  • October 21 -- Cemille Marsan presents "Confronting theoretical models with the observed evolution ofthe galaxy population out to z=4" arxiv.org/abs/1109.3457

  • October 28 -- Katie Thorne presents "GOODS-Herschel: the impact of galaxy-galaxy interactions on the far-IR properties of galaxies" by Hwang et al. 2011, arXiv:1109.1937

  • November 4 -- Bernardo Cavalleri (visiting graduate student from Milan, Italy) will discuss his research project on radio galaxies in CMB experiments (i.e. Planck)

  • November 11 -- No AstroCoffee, Veterans' Day

  • November 18 -- Stephane Courteau (Queens University) visit

  • November 25 -- No AstroCoffee, Thanksgiving

  • December 2 -- Beth Willman (Haverford College) visit -- the status of the LSST

  • December 9 -- Greg Snyder from the CfA presents his work on mid-IR AGN diagnostics from merger simulations

    • Spring 2012 Schedule

  • January 20 -- summary of the Austin meeting of the American Astronomical Society

  • January 27 -- Eric Roebuck presents "Exoplanets"

  • February 3 -- Ken Olum presents "Detection of Pristine Gas Two Billion Years after the Big Bang" http://arXiv:1111.2334

  • February 10 -- Lars Hernquist (Harvard) visit

  • February 17 -- No AstroCoffee

  • February 24 -- Cemille Marsan presents "Echoes from an old outburst" http://arxiv.org/abs/1112.2210

  • March 2 -- Anna Sajina presents "The discovery of new Cosmic Radio Background" a review of Fixsen et al. 2011, ApJ, 734,5

  • March 9 -- Katie Thorne presents "The structure and evolution of Thorne-Zytkow Objects" http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1992ApJ...386..206C

  • March 16 -- No AstroCoffee

  • March 23 -- No AstroCoffee -- spring break

  • March 30 -- Noah Kurinsky presents "A Monte Carlo approach to evolution of the far-infrared luminosity function with BLAST" by Marsden et al. 2011, MNRAS, 417, 1192

  • April 6 -- No AstroCoffee

  • April 13 -- summer plans discussion

  • April 20 -- No AstroCoffee

  • April 27 -- Ken Olum presents "A new probe of the small-scale primordial power spectrum: astrometric microlensing by ultracompact minihalos" by Li et al. 2012, arXiv:1202.1284