Astronomy & Astrophysics Seminars
Spring 2017

Wednesdays at 11:00AM, Room 1400 Biomedical and Physical Sciences Building

 

 

Date
(2017)

Speaker Title
11 Jan Adam Jacobs (MSU) The Explosive Possibilities of Sub-Chandrasekhar Mass White Dwarfs (abstract)
18 Jan Eric Bell (UM) What Drives the Evolution of Galaxies Like the Milky Way? (abstract)
25 Jan Craig Heinke (Alberta) Neutron Star Radius Measurements Using Quiescent LMXB's in Globular Clusters: Progress and Problems (abstract)
01 Feb NO SEMINAR NO SEMINAR
08 Feb Jenny Greene (Princeton) The Centers of Dwarf Galaxies: From Ultra-Diffuse to Central Black Holes (abstract)
15 Feb Arash Bahramian (MSU) Population of X-ray Binaries in Globular Clusters (abstract)
22 Feb Raffaella Margutti (Northwestern) Astronomical Transients that Defy all Classification Schemes (abstract)
01 Mar Mark Peacock (MSU) The IMF and Globular Clusters of Local Early-Type Galaxies (abstract)
08 Mar (SPRING BREAK) No Seminar
15 Mar CANCELLED Mike Zingale (Stony Brook) Computational Challenges of Modeling X-ray Bursts and Type Ia Supernovae (abstract)
22 Mar TBD  

30 Mar

(4:10pm)

COLLOQUIUM

Roberto Abraham

Early Results from the Dragonfly Telephoto Array (abstract)

05 Apr Mike Zingale (Stony Brook) Computational Challenges of Modeling X-ray Bursts and Type Ia Supernovae (abstract)
12 Apr Andy Howell (LCOGT/UCSB) A New Window Into Supernovae and Their Progenitors with Las Cumbres Observatory (abstract)
13 Apr

COLLOQUIUM

Tim Heckman

4:10 COLLOQUIUM
19 Apr TBD  
26 Apr Thesis Presentations  

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