Colloquium Schedule
Astronomy department colloquia this semester will be held on Wednesdays at 4:15pm unless otherwise noted.
Fall 2019
| Date | Speaker and Institution | Title (subject) |
|---|---|---|
| September 25 | Michael Eracleous, Penn State University |
An optical astronomer contemplates astrophysics with low-frequency gravitational waves
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| October 16 | Michael Blanton, New York University | Galaxy archaeology with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey |
| October 23 | Jeff Linsky, JILA, University of Colorado and NIST | Problems and Challenges concerning Activity and Models of Host Stars |
| October 30 | Mackenzie Jones, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics | Where do supermassive black holes hide? |
| November 6 | Bryan Terrazas, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics |
Exploring the link between star formation activity and black hole mass in the centers of galaxies
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| November 20 | Andreas Zezas, University of Crete |
Characterization and demographics of X-ray binaries in nearby galaxies
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