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Graduate Student Postdoc Seminar

Location: 544 Campbell Hall
Time: Alternate Fridays @ 4:00pm (unless otherwise noted)

Past Seminars: Fall 2006, Spring 2006, Fall 2005, Spring 2005, Fall 2004



26 Jan 2007
Joe Hennawi: "Shedding (Quasar) Light on Optically Thick Absorption Line Systems"

9 Feb 2007
John Johnson: "Exploring the Relationship Between Stellar Mass and Planet Occurrence"

23 Feb 2007
Pancho Ramos Stierle: "Preparing for Kepler: Simulating Stellar Microvariability"
and
Prateek Sharma: "Collisionless plasma effects in Sgr A*"

9 Mar 2007
Dan Perley: "Observations of bright and early gamma-ray burst afterglows: challenges to the standard model"

16 Mar 2007
Michael Cooper: "Star formation, environment, and the final chapter in my thesis"
and
Andrew West: "An update and more mysteries surrounding the most numerous stellar constituents of the Milky Way"

6 Apr 2007
Ruth Murray-Clay: "Photoevaporative Mass Loss From Hot Jupiters"

20 Apr 2007
Renbin Yan: "Galaxies in Transition: AGN Signatures and Environments of Post-starburst Galaxies"

4 May 2007
Josh Goldston: "Ongoing Galactic Accretion: Simulations and Observations of Condensed Gas in Hot Halos"
and
Mike Boylan-Kolchin: "Modeling Galaxy Merging Timescales"

Monday
14 May 2007
Julie Comerford: "The Growth and Properties of Elliptical Galaxies and Clusters" (Practice Qual)