Spring 2006 - Coordinated by Larry Rudnick
Held in Physics 210 at 3:35pm on Fridays
(unless otherwise noted)
| January 20 | Dr. Andrew Cole, U Minnesota, Astronomy |
| Title: "K Giants and the G Dwarf Problem in the Large Magellanic Cloud" | |
| Host: E. Skillman | |
| January 27 | Dr. Tracey DeLaney, CfA |
| Title: "Time Variability in the X-ray Nebula Powered by Pulsar B1509-58" | |
| Host: L. Rudnick | |
| February 3 | Dr. J. Christopher Howk, Notre Dame |
| Title: "Studying the Cosmic Evolution of Galaxies Through Their Gas" | |
| Host: A. Cole | |
| February 10 | No colloquium this week |
| February 17 | Dr. Fred Lo, NRAO |
| Title: "Mega-masers and Dark Energy" | |
| Host: L. Rudnick | |
| February 24 | Dr. JD Smith, U. of Arizona |
| Title: "Spitzer SINGS a New Song" | |
| Host: L. Rudnick | |
| March 3 | Dr. Michelle Creech-Eakman, New Mexico Tech |
| Title: "Magdalena Ridge Observatory Interferometer: A Facility Class Optical Imaging Interferometer" | |
| Host: T.J. Jones | |
| March 10 | Dr. Tom Roellig, NASA/Ames Research Center |
| Title: "Spitzer Spectroscopy of Low-Mass Dwarfs - Clouds and Chemistry at the Bottom of the IMF" | |
| Host: R. Gehrz | |
| March 17 | Spring break - no colloquium |
| March 24 | Dr. Karl E. Haisch, Utah Valley State College |
| Title: "New Observational Frontiers in the Multiplicity of Young Stars" | |
| Host: E. Polomski | |
| March 31 | Dr. Christopher S. Reynolds, U. Maryland |
| Title: "Radio-Galaxy Feedback in the Cores of Galaxy Clusters" | |
| Host: J. Ennis | |
| Arpil 7 | Dr. John Weiss, Space Science Inst/CICLOPS |
| Title: "Gravity's Playground: New Views of Saturn's Rings with Cassini" | |
| Host: K. Delain | |
| April 14 | Dr. Douglas Arnold, U Minnesota, Inst for Math |
| Title: "Numerical Simulation and Gravitational Astronomy" | |
| Host: R.M. Humphreys | |
| April 21 | Dr. Adam Frank, U. Rochester |
| Title: "Hypersonic Swizzle Sticks: Proto-Stellar Jets and Turbulence in Molecular Clouds" | |
| Host: T.W. Jones | |
| April 28 | Dr. Tim Young, U. North Dakota |
| Title: "An Optical Afterglow Model For Bright Linear Type II Supernovae" | |
| Host: L. Williams |