Colloquia and Seminars
McWilliams Center for Cosmology Colloquium
Tuesday, September 1, 2009, Dr. Piero Madau, University of California Santa Cruz, "The First Galaxies and Seed Black Holes", 4:30 PM, Doherty Hall A301D
Friday, December 5, 2008, Dr. Hy Trac, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, "Cosmic Reionization of Hydrogen: Simulating the Inhomogeneous Radiative Transfer of Ionizing Photons from Early Galaxies", 2:30 PM, Doherty Hall A301D
Friday, December 2, 2008, Dr. Lucio Mayer, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Zurich, "The Key Role of Baryonic Physics in Cosmic Structure Formation: From Galaxy Formation to Mergers of Supermassive Black Holes", 3:30 PM, Doherty Hall A301D
Friday, November 21, 2008, Dr. Priya Natarajan, Yale University, "Mapping Dark Matter and Dark Energy with Gravitational Lensing", 2:30 PM, Doherty Hall A301D
Tuesday, November 18, 2008, Dr. Michael Kuhlen, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, "Galactic Cold Dark Matter Substructure Prospects for Indirect Detection", 3:30 PM, Doherty Hall A301D
Friday, November 14, 2008, Dr. Sarah Shandera, Columbia University, "Non-Gaussianity: Probing the Fundamental Picture of Inflation", 2:30 PM, Doherty Hall A301D
Friday, November 7, 2008, Dr. Nikhil Padmanabhan, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, "A Cosmic Yardstick: Measuring Dark Energy with Baryon Oscillations", 2:30 PM, Doherty Hall A301D
Friday, October 31, 2008, Dr. Hu Zhan, UC Davis, "Illuminating the Dark Universe: A Quest for Physics Beyond the Standard Model", 3:00 PM, Doherty Hall A310
Astro Lunch Seminar
Held on alternate Fridays at CMU and PITT
Friday, May 8, 2009, Trevor Stevens, West Virginia Wesleyan College, "Gravitational Radiation from Phase Transitions", 12:00 PM, Wean 8327, CMU
Friday, April 17, 2009, Andrei Gruzinov, New York University, "The Origin of Cosmic Magnetic Fields", 12:00 PM, Wean 8327, CMU
Friday, April 10, 2009, Regina Schulte-Ladbeck, Univ. Pittsburgh, "First Attempt at Assessing Astronomy 0089: Stars and the Cosmos", 12:00 PM, 319 Allen Hall, PITT
Friday, March 27, 2009, Serena Bertone, UC Santa Cruz, "Mapping the Intergalactic Medium in Emission at Low and High Redshift", 12:00 PM, 106 Allen Hall, PITT
Friday, March 20, 2009, Gabriel Altay, CMU, "Numerical Radiative Transfer Modeling of a Quasar Proximity Zone", 12:00 PM, Wean 8327, CMU
Friday, February 27, 2009, Serena Bertone, UC Santa Cruz, "Mapping the Intergalactic Medium in Emission at Low and High Redshift", 12:00 PM, 106 Allen Hall, PITT
Friday, February 20, 2009, Lado Samushia, Physics Department, Kansas State University, "'Measuring' Quintessence: Constraining Scalar Field Dark Energy with Cosmological Observations", 12:00 PM, Wean Hall 8327, CMU
Friday, February 13, 2009, Federica Bianco, Harvard Center for Astrophysics, University of Pennsylvania, "Chasing Shadows: Occultation Surveys of the Outer Solar System", 12:00 PM, 106 Allen Hall, PITT
Friday, February 6, 2009, Sean O'Neill, University of Maryland, "The Evolution of Relic Bubbles and Jet-Blown Structures in Galaxy Cluster Environments", 12:00 PM, Wean Hall 8327, CMU
Friday, January 23, 2009, Suchetana Chatterjee, University of Pittsburgh, "Feedback from Active Galactic Nuclei in the Extended Groth Strip", 12:00 PM, Wean Hall 8327, CMU
Friday, January 16, 2009, Mei-Yu Wang, "Phenomenology of Unstable Particle Dark Matter", and Andrew Zentner, "PAMELA/ATIC Results for High-Energy Positron Fluxes and Possible Interpretations as Dark Matter Annihilations", 12:00 PM, Allen Hall 319, PITT (note room change)
Friday, December 5, 2008, Fulai Guo, UC Santa Barbara, 1:00 PM, Wean Hall 8327, CMU
Friday, November 21, 2008, Devdeep Sarkar, UC Irvine, "A Journey Through the Clumpy Universe", 1:00 PM, Wean Hall 8327, CMU
Friday, November 14, 2008, Enrique Gaztanaga, 1:00 PM, Allen Hall 318, PITT
Friday, October 24, 2008, Duncan Lorimer, West Virginia University, "Searches for Transient Radio Bursts of Cosmological Origin", 1:00 PM, Wean Hall 8327, CMU
Astrostatistics Seminar
Announcing a monthly AstroInformatics Seminar Series.
Thursday, November 5, 2009, AstroInformatics Seminar, Jeff Schneider, CMU "Active Learning for fitting Astrophysical Simulation models to Observational data", 1:00 PM, 6501 Gates Hillman Center, CMU
Friday, March 20, 2009, Joey Richards, Statistics Department, CMU, "Accurate Parameter Estimation for Star Formation History in Galaxies", 1:30 PM, Baker Hall 232Q, CMU
