PENN Astrophysics Group: Seminars

People Research Seminars Journal Club Department

Fall 2001 Seminars

Spring 2001 Seminars

• Monday, January 29, 4:00pm, DRL 3N6
  Prof. Tom Weiler (Vanderbilt)
  Puzzles in Highest-Energy Cosmic Rays and Possible Solutions
  Host: Ma
  
  
• Monday, February 5, 4:00pm, DRL 3N6
  Prof. Suzanne Staggs (Princeton)
  A Limit on the Polarized Anisotropy of the Cosmic Microwave Background at Subdegree Angular Scales
  Host: Devlin
  
  
• Monday, February 12, 4:00pm, DRL 3N6
  Prof. Ned Wright (UCLA/IAS)
  Cosmic Infrared Background
  Host: Tegmark
  
  
• Monday, February 26, 4:00pm, DRL 3N6
  Prof. David Hogg (NYU)
  Galactic no-hair theorem/Do galaxies evolve?
  Host: Tegmark
  
  
• Friday, March 2, 1:00pm, DRL 4E19
  Prof. Gary Bernstein (Michigan)
  The State of the Art of Weak Gravitational Lensing
  Host: Devlin
  
  
• Monday, March 19, 4:00pm, DRL 3N6
  Prof. Lars Bergström (Stockholm University)
  Indirect detection of particle dark matter
  Host: Tegmark
  
  
• Monday, March 26, 3:30pm, DRL 2N36
  Dr. Angelica de Oliveira-Costa
  The Cosmic Microwave Background: New Challenges
  
  
  
• Monday, April 2, 4:00pm, DRL 3N6
  Dr. Rennan Barkana (CITA)
  Limits on Warm Dark Matter
  Host: Tegmark
  
  
• Monday, April 3, 3:30pm
  Dr. Penny Sackett (Groningen)
  TBA
  Host: Alcock
  
  
• Monday, April 9, 4:00pm, DRL 3N6
  Dr. Jean-Marc Miralles (ESO/Bonn)
  HyperZ, photometric redshifts made easy
  
  
  
• Monday, April 16, 4:00pm, DRL 3N6
  Dr. Eiichiro Komatsu (Princeton)
  Theoretical and observational studies of microwave background bispectrum: the other side of what COBE saw
  Host: Jain
  
  
• Monday, April 23, 4:00pm, DRL 3N6
  Prof. David Bennett (Notre Dame)
  The Galactic Exoplanet Survey Telescope
  Host: Alcock
  
  
• Monday, May 14 30, 4:00pm, DRL 3N6
  Jordi Miralda-Escude
  A Cluster of Black Holes in the center of the Galaxy
  Host: Tegmark