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Aug. 18, 2008 |
Fabio Iocco |
INAF-Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri |
Dark matter annihilation effects on the first stars
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Sept. 1, 2008 |
No Talk |
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Labor Day Holiday
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Sept. 15, 2008 |
Norm Murray |
CITA |
Superbubbles and X-Rays
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Sept. 22, 2008 |
Omer Blaes |
UC Santa Barbara |
The Thermodynamics of Radiation Pressure Supported Accretion Disks with
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Sept. 29, 2008 |
Phil Arras |
University of Virginia |
The Role of Tides in the Spin and Thermal Evolution of Hot Jupiters
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Oct. 6, 2008 |
Hagai Perets |
Weizmann Inst. |
Stellar Dynamics near Massive Black Holes: Young Stars, Hypervelocity Stars, and Gravitational Wave Sources
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Oct. 13, 2008 |
Fulai Guo |
UC Santa Barbara |
AGN Feedback Heating in Clusters of Galaxies
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Oct. 20, 2008 |
Hilke Schlichting |
Caltech |
On the Origin of Planetary Spins & the Formation of Kuiper Belt Binaries
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Oct. 27, 2008 |
Adrienne Erickcek |
Caltech |
Inflationary Origins of the Cosmic Power Asymmetry
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Nov. 3, 2008 |
Marc Sarzi |
University of Hertfordshire |
The Sources of Ionisation for the Gas of Early-type Galaxies
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Nov. 10, 2008 |
TBD |
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Nov. 17, 2008 |
Aristotle Socrates |
IAS |
The Eddington Limit in Cosmic Rays: Why Galaxies are Faint while Supermassive Black Holes are Small
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Nov. 24, 2008 |
Ryan Lang |
MIT |
Measuring massive black hole binaries with gravitational waves
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Dec. 1, 2008 |
Sebastian Heinz |
University of Wisconsin |
Black hole "scatology": Studying the exhaust from microquasar jets
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Dec. 8, 2008 |
Dan Fabrycky |
Harvard |
Dynamics of Transiting Exoplanets
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