Astronomy Colloquium Calendar

from 01-Aug-1997 to 31-Dec-1997.

All Astronomy Colloquium are held in room CSS 2400 at 16:00-17:00 (4:00-5:00 pm) unless otherwise noted.
Date: Wednesday 10-Sep-97
Time: 16:00-17:00 (4:00-5:00 pm)
Speaker: Dr. Julian Krolik (Johns Hopkins University)
Title: "Confrontation Between Observation and Theory for AGN Accretion Disks"
Date: Wednesday 17-Sep-97
Time: 16:00-17:00 (4:00-5:00 pm)
Speaker: Dr. Anneila Sargent (California Institute of Technology)
Title: "Resolved Disks around Young Stellar Objects"
Date: Wednesday 24-Sep-97
Time: 16:00-17:00 (4:00-5:00 pm)
Speaker: Dr. Paul Schechter (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Title: "The Quadruply Imaged Gravitational Lens PG1115+080: Time Delays and the Hubble Constant"
Date: Wednesday 1-Oct-97
Time: 16:00-17:00 (4:00-5:00 pm)
Speaker: Dr. Reinhard Genzel (Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics)
Title: "The Dark Mass at the Center of the Milky Way"
Date: Wednesday 8-Oct-97
Time: 16:00-17:00 (4:00-5:00 pm)
Speaker: Dr. Kevin Rauch, Dr. Johannes Staguhn, Dr. Pierre Ferruit (Universtity of Maryland)
Title: "New Postdoctoral Fellows' Round-robin"
Date: Wednesday 15-Oct-97
Time: 16:00-17:00 (4:00-5:00 pm)
Speaker: No colloquium this week; October Conference
Title:
Date: Wednesday 22-Oct-97
Time: 16:00-17:00 (4:00-5:00 pm)
Speaker: Dr. Bonnard Teegarden (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)
Title: "Gamma-Ray Bursts: Basking in the Afterglow"
Date: Wednesday 29-Oct-97
Time: 16:00-17:00 (4:00-5:00 pm)
Speaker: Dr. Martin Harwit
Title: "Water Vapor in the Galaxy: Observations with the Infrared Space Observatory, ISO "
Date: Wednesday 5-Nov-97
Time: 16:00-17:00 (4:00-5:00 pm)
Speaker: Dr. James Moran (Harvard University)
Title: "Sub-parsec Scale Warped Disks and Synchrotron Jets in Active Galactic Nuclei"
Date: Wednesday 12-Nov-97
Time: 16:00-17:00 (4:00-5:00 pm)
Speaker: Dr. John Brown (Astronomer Royal of Scotland, University of Glasgow)
Title: "Hard X-rays and Solar Flare Energy Balance"
Date: Thursday 13-Nov-97
Time: 14:00-16:00 (2:00-4:00 pm)
Location: Nyumburu Cultural Center, Multipurpose Room
Speaker: Seth Shostak (SETI Inst.)
Title: The Hunt for Extraterrestrials
Date: Friday 14-Nov-97
Time: 13:00-14:00 (1:00-2:00 pm)
Location: CSS 1224
Speaker: Dr. Rajesh Kochhar (Visiting Fulbright Lecturer Chicago Academy of Sciences and Indian Institute for Astrophysics, Bangalore)
Title: "Western Science and the Indian Response"
Date: Wednesday 19-Nov-97
Time: 16:00-17:00 (4:00-5:00 pm)
Speaker: Dr. Bo Reipurth (University of Colorado)
Title: "Herbig-Haro Jets and their Energy Sources"
Date: Wednesday 26-Nov-97
Time: 16:00-17:00 (4:00-5:00 pm)
Speaker: No Colloquium -- Thanksgiving
Title:
Date: Wednesday 3-Dec-97
Time: 16:00-17:00 (4:00-5:00 pm)
Speaker: Dr. Scott Tremaine (Princeton University)
Title: "The Centers of Elliptical Galaxies"
Date: Wednesday 10-Dec-97
Time: 16:00-17:00 (4:00-5:00 pm)
Speaker: Dr. Malcom Longair (University of Cambridge)
Title:"The 3CR Radio Galaxies Revisited"

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This calendar was automatically generated on 26-Jan-1998.

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