| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title | Host |
|
Feb. 2, 2009 |
Peng Oh |
UCSB |
Helium Reionization: A Testbed for Ideas about Reionization
|
Parrish |
|
Feb. 9, 2009 |
Stuart Bale |
Berkeley |
Short Wavelength Fluctuations in Solar Wind Turbulence
|
Local |
|
Feb. 16, 2009 |
No Talk |
. |
President's Day
|
. |
|
Feb. 23, 2009 |
Andrew Youdin |
CITA |
Getting the Ball Rolling: The Early Stages of Planet Formation
|
Oishi |
|
Mar. 2, 2009 |
Jonathan Braithwaite |
CITA |
Formation and Evolution of Magnetic Fields in Neutron Stars
|
Piro |
|
Mar. 9, 2009 |
Andy Howell |
UCSB/Las Cumbres |
Dark Energy, supernova evolution, dimming metals, and super-Chandra explosions: Latest results from the SNLS
|
Modjaz |
|
Mar. 16, 2009 |
Alessandra Buonanno |
U. Maryland |
Modeling Analytically the Dynamics and Gravitational-Wave Emission of Coalescing Binary Black Holes
|
Parrish |
|
Mar. 23, 2009 |
Eugene Churazov |
MPA |
Non-Thermal Pressure in Early-Type Galaxy Atmospheres and AGN Feedback
|
Parrish |
|
Mar. 30, 2009 |
Yoram Lithwick |
CITA |
Dynamics Of Protoplanetary Disks (and of Cosmological Haloes)
|
Chang |
|
April 6, 2009 |
Serguei Komissarov |
U. Leeds |
Blandford-Znajek Mechanism, Collapsars, and GRB jets
|
Sharma |
|
April 13, 2009 |
Daisuke Nagai |
Yale |
Thermodynamics of Galaxy Clusters and Beyond
|
Zhang |
|
April 20, 2009 |
Bruce Buffett |
Berkeley |
Numerical Models of Planetary Dynamos
|
Local |
|
April 27, 2009 |
Laura Birzan |
Penn. State |
Radio-induced cavities in the ICM: from quenching cooling in cluster cores to a universal scaling relation between jet power and radio power
|
Parrish |
|
May 4, 2009 |
Chris Matzner |
U. Toronto |
Environmental Effects in Star System Formation
|
Smith |
|
May 11, 2009 |
Elena Rossi |
Hebrew University |
Supermassive black-hole binaries: the first light
|
Chang |
|
Aug 31, 2009 |
Jerry Nelson |
UCSC |
Fall 2009
|
TBD |
