| Date: |
Speaker/Title: |
| 01/21/09: |
Edo Berger (Harvard University)
The Transient Sky: From Gamma-Ray Bursts to Pan-STARRS
Host: Andy Fruchter |
| 01/28/09: |
Jennifer Lotz (National Optical Astronomy Observatories)
Galaxy Mergers: Reconciling Observations with Simulations
Host: Nor Pirzkal |
| 02/04/09: |
Julianne Dalcanton (University of Washington)
The ACS Nearby Galaxy Survey Treasury: Stellar Populations with HST
Host: Roelof de Jong |
| 02/11/09: |
Ken Sembach (Space Telescope Science Institute)
Rethinking the Cosmic Web
Host: Mike Fall |
| 02/18/09: |
Frans Pretorius (Princeton University)
When Black Holes Collide
Host: Steve Lubow |
| 02/25/09: |
Sandra Faber (University of California at Santa Cruz)
Bahcall Lecture - Title: The Galaxy-forming Main Sequence
Host: Bob Williams |
| 03/04/09: |
Chris Carilli (National Radio Astronomy Observatory)
Radio Observations of the First Galaxies and Cosmic Reionization
Host: Tommy Wiklind |
| 03/11/09: |
Mark Voit (Michigan State University)
Mysteries of Galaxy Cluster Cores
Host: Brad Whitmore |
| 03/18/09: |
Ray Jayawardhana (University of Toronto)
Exploring Young Brown Dwarfs
Host: Christine Chen |
| 03/25/09: |
Chris McKee (University of California at Berkeley)
Formation of the First Stars
Host: Jason Tumlinson |
| 04/01/09: |
Ramesh Narayan (Harvard University)
Measuring Black Hole Spin
Host: Marco Chiaberge |
| 04/08/09: |
Priya Natarajan (Yale University)
Is There an Upper Limit to Black Hole Masses?
Host: Harry Ferguson |
| 04/15/09: |
John Carlstrom (University of Chicago)
New Results from the South Pole Telescope
Host: Massimo Stiavelli |
| 04/22/09: |
Alex Szalay (Johns Hopkins University)
Non-Linear Effects in the Large-Scale Distribution of Galaxies
Host: Mike Fall |
| 04/29/09: |
Lawrence Krauss (Arizona State University)
Are Fundamental Cosmological Questions Falsifiable?
Host: Mario Livio |
| 05/06/09: |
No Colloquium
STScI Spring Symposium
Host: None |
| 05/13/09: |
Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz (University of California at Santa Cruz)
Dead "Miniquasars" in the Nearby Universe
Host: Jason Kalirai |
| 05/20/09: |
Eve Ostriker (University of Maryland)
Galactic Star Formation Rates: Feedback and Environmental Effects
Host: Margaret Meixner |
| 05/27/09: |
Adam Burrows (Princeton University)
The Mechanism of Core-Collapse Supernova Explosions: Hints From the Computational Frontier
Host: Neill Reid |