Astronomy & Astrophysics Seminar (AU) Spring 2011

 

Wednesday, 12:05-12:55 pm in HBH 227

Organizer: Christopher M. Johns-Krull <cmj@rice.edu>, HBH 352, ext. 3531

http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~cmj/au.html

Last Update: 01/12/2011

 

 

 

Date

Speaker & Title

 

Jan. 12

Organization

Jan. 19

Jeffery Reep (G): The RHESSI Satellite and the Positron Annihilation Line

David Alexander (R): Do return currents dominate the energy losses in large solar flares?

Jan. 26

Jason Kalirai (V – STScI): Stellar Evolution, Mass Loss, and Dead Stars

Feb. 2

Paul Scowen (V - ASU): Moving Towards Widefield High Resolution Imaging From Space

Feb. 9

Pat Hartigan (R): Fluid Dynamics of Stellar Jets in Real Time

Feb. 16

Dan Jaffe (V - UT Austin): Young Brown Dwarfs Help us Understand Star and Planet Formation

Feb. 23

Joel Green (V - UT Austin): A Spitzer/Herschel Study of the Environment of Outbursting Young Stars

Mar. 9

Zorawar Wadiasingh (G):

Wei Chen (G):

Mar. 16

Matthew Levy (G):

Danny Shanaberger (U):

Mar. 23

Alexander Henderson (G): GEANT4 Simulations of Pair Plasma Creation

Guy Hilburn (G): Applying the Shearing Box Approximation to Accretion Disc Models

Mar. 30

Wilson Cauley (G): U-Band Study of the Accretion Properties in the sigma Orionis Star-Forming Region

Sarah Story (G): Magnetic Pair Creation Attenuation in Pulsars

Apr. 6

Pete Gonthier (V - Hope College): Simulating the Radio and Gamma-ray Pulsars from the Galactic Disk in the Fermi Era

Apr. 13

Steve Hawley (V): Abundances in 'Green Pea' Star-forming Galaxies

Apr. 20

Xuhui Chen (G): Time-dependent simulation of red blazars: External Compton Model

Jacob Palmer (G): Observing the Carina Nebula

 

(U): Undergraduate student (G): Graduate student (R): Rice Faculty or Researcher (V): Visitor

 

Every seminar consists of one 40-minute presentation or two 20-minute presentations.

 

 

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