STScI Science Colloquia Spring 2006

The Spins of Stellar Remnants: From White Dwarfs to GRBs (Hi Bandwidth)
Presenter: Norbert Langer (Utrecht University)
Duration: 1 hour
Event date: 2006/07/19
The Spins of Stellar Remnants: From White Dwarfs to GRBs (Lo Bandwidth)
Norbert's presentation (pdf)

Evolution of Bars over Eight Billion Years: Impact on Disk Galaxies
Presenter: Shardha Jogee (U of Texas)
Duration: 1 hour
Event date: 2006/05/24
Supporting Material

Clusters, Stars, Disks, and Planets
Presenter: Lynne Hillenbrand (Caltech)
Duration: 1 hour
Event date: 2006/05/17
Supporting Material

Probing Dark Matter Halos with Gravitational Lensing (Hi Bandwidth)
Presenter: Neal Dalal (CITA)
Duration: 1 hour
Event date: 2006/05/03
Neal's ppt (ppt)
Probing Dark Matter Halos with Gravitational Lensing (Lo Bandwidth)

The Architecture of Planetary Systems revealed by Debris Disk Imaging (Hi Bandwidth)
Presenter: Paul Kalas (Berkeley)
Duration: 1 hour
Event date: 2006/04/26
The Architecture of Planetary Systems revealed by Debris Disk Imaging (Lo Bandwidth)
Paul's presentation (powerpoint)

The Origin of Elliptical Galaxies (Hi Bandwidth)
Presenter: Sandy Faber (UCO/Lick Obs.)
Duration: 1 hour
Event date: 2006/04/19
The Origin of Elliptical Galaxies (Lo Bandwidth)
Sandy's ppt (powerpoint)

Successes and Problems with the Standard Cosmology (Hi Bandwidth)
Presenter: Jim Peebles (Princeton U)
Duration: 1 hour
Event date: 2006/04/12
Successes and Problems with the Standard Cosmology (Lo Bandwidth)
Jim's pdf (pdf)

Seeing the Light from Extrasolar Planets
Presenter: David Charbonneau (Harvard)
Duration: 1 hour
Event date: 2006/04/05

Constraining Early Universe Physics with Cosmological Data (High Bandwidth)
Presenter: Hiranya Peiris (U of Chicago)
Duration: 1 hour
Event date: 2006/03/29
Low Bandwidth webcast
Hiranya's pdf (pdf)

Globular Clusters and the Formation Histories of Their Host Galaxies (high bandwidth)
Presenter: Steve Zept (Michigan State U)
Duration: 1 hour
Event date: 2006/03/22
Steve's talk (low bandwidth)
Steve's ppt (powerpoint)

Supermassive Black Holes in Deep Surveys
Presenter: Meg Urry (Yale)
Duration: 1 hour
Event date: 2006/03/15
Supporting Material

The First DIRECT Distance to a Detached Eclipsing Binary in M33
Presenter: Alceste Bonanos (DTM, CIW)
Duration: 1 hour
Event date: 2006/03/08
Supporting Material

Habitats for Life in Glacial Environments
Presenter: Brent Christner (Montana State U)
Duration: 1 hour
Event date: 2006/03/01
Brent's ppt (ppt)
Brent's movie (mpeg)

Observational Constraints on Models of Giant Planet Formation
Presenter: Jeff Valenti (STScI)
Duration: 1 hour
Event date: 2006/02/22
Jeff's ppt (ppt)
Jeff's eclipse movie (mp4)
Jeff's exosphere movie (mp4)
Jeff's transit movie (mpeg)

The Local Equivalent of the High Redshift Universe
Presenter: Judy Cohen (Caltech)
Duration: 1 hour
Event date: 2006/02/15
Supporting Material

Deep Impact: Results from a 'Simple' Experiment
Presenter: Mike A'Hearn (U of Maryland)
Duration: 1 hour
Event date: 2006/02/08
Supporting Material

Dark Matter and Dark Energy
Presenter: Rocky Kolb (Fermilab)
Duration: 1 hour
Event date: 2006/02/01
Supporting Material

The Extended Stellar Halo of the Andromeda Spiral Galaxy
Presenter: Raja Guhathakurta (UCO/Lick Obs.)
Duration: 1 hour
Event date: 2006/01/25
Raja's ppt (ppt)
Raja's movie (mpeg)

Gas Inflow and Secular Evolution in Disk Galaxies
Presenter: Michael Regan
Duration: 1 hour
Event date: 2006/01/18
Supporting Material