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
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Date |
Speaker & Title
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Jan. 12 |
Organization |
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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? |
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Jan. 26 |
Jason Kalirai (V – STScI): Stellar Evolution, Mass Loss, and Dead Stars |
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Feb. 2 |
Paul Scowen (V - ASU): Moving Towards Widefield High Resolution Imaging From Space |
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Feb. 9 |
Pat Hartigan (R): Fluid Dynamics of Stellar Jets in Real Time
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Feb. 16 |
Dan Jaffe (V - UT Austin): Young Brown Dwarfs Help us Understand Star and Planet Formation |
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Feb. 23 |
Joel Green (V - UT Austin): A Spitzer/Herschel Study of the Environment of Outbursting Young Stars |
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Mar. 9 |
Zorawar Wadiasingh (G): Wei Chen (G): |
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Mar. 16 |
Matthew Levy (G): Danny Shanaberger (U): |
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Mar. 23 |
Alexander Henderson (G): GEANT4 Simulations of Pair Plasma Creation Guy Hilburn (G): Applying the Shearing Box Approximation to Accretion Disc Models |
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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 |
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Apr. 6 |
Pete Gonthier (V - Hope College): Simulating the Radio and Gamma-ray Pulsars from the Galactic Disk in the Fermi Era |
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Apr. 13 |
Steve Hawley (V): Abundances in 'Green Pea' Star-forming Galaxies |
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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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