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Astrophysics Seminars for Fall 2009 Past Astrophysics Seminars |
Seminars are at 4:00 PM on Tuesdays. Seminars will be held in the conference room on the second floor of Dearborn Observatory, unless otherwise noted (MAP) |
| DATE | SPEAKER | INSTITUTION | TITLE/TOPIC | HOST |
| Sept. 22 | Dr. Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz | UC Santa Cruz | Dead "Miniquasars" in Nearby Galaxies | Vicky Kalogera |
| Sept. 29 | Dr. Paolo Gondolo | University of Utah | Dark Stars, or the Effect of Dark Matter on the First Stars | André de Gouvêa |
| Oct. 6 | Dr. Shirley Ho | UC Berkeley | The Signature of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations and Primordial Non-gaussianities on Lyman-alpha Forest | Mel Ulmer |
| Oct. 13 | Dr. Mark Reid | Harvard/Smithsonian CfA | Measuring the Cosmos | Farhad Zadeh |
| Oct. 27 | Dr. Tony Wong | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Star Formation Timescales and Molecular Cloud Evolution | Farhad Zadeh |
| Nov. 3 | Dr. Bruce Balick | University of Washington | Planetary Nebulae: Insight into Outflows | Dave Meyer |
| Nov. 10 | Dr. Scott Gaudi | Ohio State University | The Demographics of Exoplanets with Gravitational Microlensing | Fred Rasio |
| Nov. 17 | Dr. Volker Bromm | University of Texas, Austin | The First Stars and Galaxies | Fred Rasio |
| Nov. 24 | Dr. Steinn Sigurdsson | Penn State | Second Stars: A Third Mode of Star Formation | Loren Hoffman |
| Dec. 1 | Dr. Alessia Gualandris | Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics | Young Stars in the Galactic Center | Fred Rasio |
| Dec. 8 | Dr. Zhi-Yun Li | University of Virginia | TBA | Giles Novak |