Group Meetings this Summer will be held on Wednesdays from Noon to 1:45 PM in Dearborn Observatory Room 23.

Please contact Ilya Mandel if you would like to volunteer to present something or suggest a topic for discussion. We can accommodate any format, from short informal talks on recent research results to journal-club style discussions and special seminars by visitors.


The arXiv Reading Group will be held on Mondays from 1:00 - 2:00 PM in Dearborn Observatory Room 23.

Please contact Will Farr for more information. Prior reading of the arXiv is *not* required; willingness to comment on/explain abstracts and papers in your area to the other people in the group as they come up *is*.

October 28, 2009
Group Meeting (Noon)

This week we will hear from Ilya Mandel and Will Farr. They will give a tutorial on Bayesian inference methods and a very short update on rates at the end.

October 26, 2009
arXiv Reading Group (Noon)

Don't forget to come to the upstairs conference room today at noon to talk about the recent arXiv. Bring any interesting papers you have found! See you at noon.

October 21, 2009
Group Meeting (Noon)

One of our new postdoctoral fellows, Will Farr, will give a talk.

October 14, 2009
Group Meeting (Noon)

Vivien Raymond will give a talk on his recent work.

October 9, 2009
Special Theoretical Astrophysics Seminar

Tim Linden (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Title: The Prospects for Indirect Detection of Dark Matter - Analysis of the WMAP Haze
When: Friday, October 9, 2009 from Noon to 1PM
Where: Dearborn Observatory, 2^nd floor conference room.

October 7, 2009
Group Meeting (Noon)

Two of our new postdoctoral fellows, Paul Kiel and Diego Fazi, will give talks.

September 19, 2009
Special Group Meeting(11AM - Noon)

we will have a special theory group meeting with this week's seminar speaker, Shirley Ho (visiting from Berkeley). Shirley is a cosmologist who studies large-scale structure formation in the Universe, especially through the distortions it causes in the CMB (the SZ effect), and its imprint on the Lyman Alpha forest. It should be a very interesting discussion!

Please come prepared to give a brief summary of what you are working on, and with any questions you have about Shirley's research. The meeting will be held in the downstairs conference room.

September 30, 2009
Group Meeting (Noon)

Megan Morscher and our visitor Chris Belczynski will give talks.

September 24, 2009
Special Theoretical Astrophysics Seminar

Smadar Naoz (Tel Aviv University)

Title: The First Generation of Galaxies and 21cm Fluctuations
When: Thursday, September 24, 2009 from 3PM to 4PM
Where: Dearborn Observatory, 2^nd floor conference room.

September 23, 2009
Group Meeting (Noon)

Loren Hoffman will talk about her recent results and Astro Seminar Speaker Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz lead an informal discussion.

September 15, 2009
Group Meeting (1PM to 2PM)

A virulent illness known as "qualifiers" have knocked out this week's speakers :), but we'll get to hear from them in a few weeks. We'll use the chance to catch up on astro-ph, so please make a special effort to bring some interesting articles!

If there's time at the Loren Hoffman will briefly discuss the review article "Computer simulations of cosmic reionization," by Hy Trac and Nick Gnedin.

September 8, 2009
Group Meeting (1PM to 2PM)

David Ackerman will present some results from his summer project, Francesca Valsecchi will present some new results and then we'll discuss astro-ph. Please bring some good papers! We'll also take a little time to discuss fall group meetings, so please check your schedule if you'll be around this fall.

September 1, 2009
Group Meeting (1PM to 2PM)

Stefan Umbreit will lead a tutorial on N-body methods, and then Tsing-Wai Wong and Ben Farr will share some of their recent results. If there's any time leftover we'll discuss some interesting astro-ph articles.