Center for the Study of Cosmic Evolustion

Spring 2008 Seminars

Wednesdays at 1:40PM, Room 1400 Biomedical and Physical Sciences Building

Refreshments at 1:20PM

 

Date
(2008)

Speaker Title
9 Jan Alicia Soderberg (Princeton)

Joint with NSCL

A Radio View of the Connection between GRBs and SNe
16 Jan Warren Brown (Harvard) Hypervelocity Stars Ejected from the Galactic Center
17Jan Brian O'Shea (LANL)

SPECIAL SEMINAR     11:00 AM,1400 BPS

The Formation of the First Protogalaxies
23 Jan Ken Cavagnolo, Nathan DeLee & Eric Pellegrini (MSU) What We're Doing To Get Out of Here
29Jan Arielle Phillips(Amherst College)
SPECIAL SEMINAR     11:00 AM,1400 BPS
Chasing a WHIM (Warm-Hot Intergalactic Medium):
The changing picture of an important baryon reservoir
30 Jan Leisa Townsley (Penn State) Not Your Grandmother's HII Regions: An X-ray Tour of Massive Star-forming Regions
6 Feb Rupali Chandar (Toldeo) The Life-cycle of Star Clusters
13 Feb Ted Bergin (Michigan) Spitzer Studies of Star Formation and its Effects
20 Feb Chris Mihos (Case Western) Using Intracluster Light to Probe Galaxy Clusters
27 Feb David Hogg (NYU)CANCELLED Fundamental physics and observations of galaxies
29 Feb Suzanne Hawley (Washington)

SPECIAL SEMINAR, 1:30PM, 1425 BPS

Hot Activity on Cool Stars: M Dwarfs in theSDSS
12 Mar Bob Blum (NOAO) The Incredible Shrinking Milky Way
 
19 Mar Andy Gould (Ohio State) Microlensing: From Dark Matter to Planets
 
26 Mar Chris O'Dea (RIT) A Spitzer Census of Star Formation in Brightest Cluster Galaxies
2 Apr Mike Gladders (Chicago) Strong Lensing by Optically-Selected Galaxy Clusters
9 Apr Ellen Zweibel (Wisconsin) Origin & Evolution of Galactic Magnetic Fields
16 Apr Carles Badenes (Princeton) The Persistence of Memory: Things We Have Learned about Type Ia Supernovae from their Supernova Remnants
 
23 Apr Senior Thesis Presentations Senior Talks

For information or special accommodations please email Shawna Prater at prater at pa.msu.edu.