Download Institute for Astrophysical Research Seminar Series

Institute for Astrophysical Research Seminar Series
Fall 2001
Sept. 24
Charles Lada (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
Seeing Through the Dark: Infrared Extinction, The Nature of
Dark Clouds
Oct. 1
Jerry Sellwood (Rutgers University)
Maximum Disks and Their Implications
Oct. 15
Michael Pahre (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
The Luminosity, Velocity and Mass Functions of Galaxies
Oct. 22 Butler Burton (University of Leiden and National Radio Astronomy
Observatory)
The Continuing Enigma of the High-Velocity Clouds
Oct. 29
Frank Bash (University of Texas)
The Hobby-Eberly Telescope, The South African Large Telescope, The
Extremely Large Telescope and the Large Atacama Telescope
Nov. 5
Mark Reid (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
What Lurks at the Galactic Center
Nov. 20
Alan Tokunaga (University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy)
Construction of a Facility Instrument for the 8.2-m Subaru Telescope and
Some Recent Results
Dec. 3
John Huchra (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
Two Extragalactic Globular Cluster Systems
Institute for Astophysical Research Seminar Series
Spring 2002
Feb. 4
Larry Marshall (Gettysburg College)
The EVO: A Virtual Educational Observatory
Feb. 25
John Arabadjis (MIT)
Marco Polo and Galaxy Clusters: Stalking Dark Matter
Mar. 25
Richard French (Wellesley College)
Space Telescope Images of Rings of Saturn
Apr. 1
Bruce Carney (University of North Carolina)
Why Do Some Halo Red Giants Rotate Rapidly? Is It
Something They Ate?
Apr. 8
Wes Lockwood (Lowell Observatory)
Sunspots, Starspots, Tomorrow’s Weather
Apr. 17
Mordecai-Mark Mac Low (American Museum of Natural History)
Central Star Formation by Supersonic Turbulence
Apr. 22
Neal Evans (University of Texas, Austin)
From Molecular Cores to Planet-forming Disks with SIRTF
Apr. 29
Letizia Stanghellini (Space Telescope Institute)
Planetary Nebulae in the Magellanic Clouds
Institute for Astrophysical Research Seminar Series
Fall 2002
Sept. 16
Eric Tollestrup (BU/IAR)
SIRTF/GOODS
Sept. 26
Supriya Chakrabarti (BU/CSP)
SPIDR
Sept. 30
Chris Kochanek (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
Detection of CDM Substructure
Oct. 7
Di Li (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
HI Narrow Line Absorption – An Atomic Probe of Molecular Clouds
Oct. 23
Jay Lockman (NRAO)
The Vertical Structure of Neutral Hydrogen in the Galaxy
Oct. 28
Bob Reasenberg (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
Checking the Equivalence Principle While Riding on a Pogo Stick
Nov. 18
Scott Burles (MIT)
Deuterium and Big Bang Nucleosynthesis
Nov. 25
Markos Georganopoulos (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center)
Relativistic and Slowing Down: The Plasma Flow in the Hotspots of
Powerful Radio Galaxies
Dec. 9
Kyzysztof Stanek (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
Gamma-ray Bursts – Is the Mystery Solved?
Institute for Astrophysical Research Seminar Series
Spring 2003
Feb. 3
James Jackson (BU/IAR)
The BU FCRAO Galactic Ring Survey
Feb. 10
Tom Megeath (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
The Role of Massive Stars in the Formation of Young Stellar Clusters
Feb. 18
Matt Beasley (Univ. of Colorado)
A High Spatial Resolution Imaging Spectrograph for Far Ultraviolet
Feb. 24
Giovanni Fazio (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
SIRTF A New View of the Infrared
Mar. 17
Dan Watson (Univ. of Rochester)
High-Resolution Infrared Imaging and Spectroscopy of Young Stellar
Objects and Protoplanetary Disks
Mar. 24
Andrew Harris (Univ. of Maryland)
Galactic and Extragalactic Radio Astronomy Over Very Wide Bandwidths
Mar. 31
Emma Bakes (NASA Ames Research Center)
Finding the Answer to the 35 Year Problem of the Unidentified Infrared
Emission Features
Apr. 7
Sydney Barnes (Yale Univ.)
A New Paradigm for the Rotational Evolution of Solar and Late-type Stars
Apr. 23
Johannes Staguhn (Goddard Space Flight Center)
Astronomical Observations with New Instruments for Far-Infrared and
Submillimeter Imaging and Spectroscopy
Apr. 28
Niel Brandt (Penn State Univ.)
The Cosmic X-ray Background and Results from the 2 Ms Chandra Deep
Field – North Survey
Institute for Astrophysical Research Seminar Series
Fall 2003
Sept. 8
F. Peter Schloerb (FCRAO/Univ. of Mass.–Amherst)
The Large Millimeter Telescope
Sept. 15
Jim Jackson (IAR)
The Galactic Ring Survey
Sept. 25
Leslie Sage (Nature)
How to Get Published in “Nature”
Sept. 29
Tom Bania (IAR)
The He3 Project
Oct. 14
Dan Clemens (IAR)
The Mimir Instrument: Science, Capabilities & Status
Nov. 10
James Moran (Harvard-Smithsonian CFA)
First Scientific Results with the Submillimeter Array
Nov. 17
Ronak Shah (IAR)
The Boston University-Five College Radio Astronomy Observatory
Galactic Ring Survey: 13CO Survey of the Inner Galaxy
Dec. 1
Jessica Rosenburg (Univ. of Colorado)
The Connections Between Galaxies & the Intergalactic Medium
Dec. 8
Tereasa Brainerd, (IAR)
Mass-to-Light Ratios of Galaxies in the Two Degree Field Redshift
Survey (2dFGRS)”
Dec. 15
Rafael Guzman (Univ. of Fl)
A Multiwavelength Survey of Luminous Compact Blue Calaxies from z
=3 to z = 0”
Institute for Astrophysical Research Seminar Series
Spring 2004
Jan. 13
Alan Marscher (IAR)
Relativistic Jets in Blazars: Tales of Multiwaveband Variability
Jan. 20
Svetlana Jorstad (IAR)
Extended X-Ray/ Radio Jets in Quasars
Jan. 27
Herman Marshall (MIT)
X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy of Relativistic Jets from
Black Holes
Feb. 3
Dimitar Sasselov (Harvard/CfA)
The Exoplanet OGLE-TR-56b: Small Orbit, Large Radius
Feb. 10
Ken Janes (IAR)
Stellar Activity and Other PRISM Science
Feb. 27
Richard Binzel (MIT)
Asteroids Come of Age
Mar. 2
Deepto Chakrabarty (MIT)
Clocking Millisecond X-Ray Pulsars: A Speed Limit for the Fastest
Spinning Stars in the Universe
Mar. 16
Sally Oey (Lowell Observatory)
Consequences of Massive Star Feedback in Star-Forming Galaxies
Mar. 23
Amanda Bosh (IAR/Lowell Observatory)
Planetary Rings: Saturn and Uranus
Mar. 30
Stephen Levine (US Naval Observatory)
Asymmetric Galaxies and a Look at the LMC
Apr. 6
Don Backer (UC Berkeley)
Observations and Model of the PSRJ0737-3039 Double Pulsar System
Apr. 13
Ben Lane (MIT)
High-precision astrometry for finding planets
Apr. 26
Lisa Prato (UCLA)
Young Low-mass Star & Brown Dwarf Binaries: Dynamical Mass
Ratios and Masses
Apr. 27
Lynn Matthews (CfA)
Extraplanar Gas in Low Surface Brightness Galaxies
May 3
Christopher Conselice (Calif. Inst. of Technology)
Galaxy Formation: Stars, Dark Matter and Morphology
May 6
Elizabeth Blanton (U. Virginia)
Radio Sources in Clusters of Galaxies: Impact On the X-ray-Emitting
ICM and Probes of High-z Systems
Institute for Astrophysical Research Seminar Series
Fall 2004
Sept. 7
David Goldberg (Drexel University)
Galaxy Flexion: Gravitational Lensing to Second Order
Sept. 14
Christine Jones (Harvard/CfA)
The Impact of AGN Outbursts on Hot Gas in Elliptical Galaxies
Sept. 21
Robert Kirshner (Harvard/CfA)
The Accelerating Universe: Exploding Stars and Dark Energy
Sept. 28
Bob Millis and Tom Sebring (Lowell Observatory)
The Discovery Channel Telescope
Oct. 5
Dan Clemens (IAR)
Mimir -- Our Near-Infared Imager, Spectrometer, and Polarimeter on the
Perkins Telescope
Oct. 12
Oleg Gnedin (Ohio State)
Formation of Globular Clusters in Hierarchical Cosmology
Oct. 26
Svetlana Jorstad (IAR)
Highly Variable Apparent Speed of the Quasar 3C 279
Nov. 2
Alexey Vikhlinin (Harvard/CfA)
Cosmology with Chandra Cluster Data
Nov. 16
Dawn Peterson (UVA)
The Pre--Main Sequence and Brown Dwarf Populations of OMC 2/3:
A Multiwavelength Study
Nov. 30
Ben Oppenheimer (American Museum of Natural History)
The Lyot Project: Toward Exoplanet Imaging and Spectroscopy
Dec. 7
Kris Sellgren (Ohio State)
Spitzer Space Telescope Observations of the Reflection Nebula NGC
7023
Institute for Astrophysical Research Seminar Series
Spring 2005
Jan. 28
Dan Harris (CfA)
The Jets of the Radio Galaxies M87 and 3C 120
Feb. 1
Phil Uttley (NASA/GSFC)
Variability of Radio-Quiet AGNs and the AGN/X-Ray Binary Connection
Feb. 15
Anil Bhardwaj (NASA/MSFC)
X-Rays from Solar System Bodies
Feb. 25
Luis Ho (Carnegie Observatory)
Black Hole Demographics in the Local Universe
Mar. 1
Martin Elvis (CfA)
Quasar Winds
Mar. 15
Glenn Ciolek (RPI)
MHD Shocks & Waves in Dusty Clouds
Mar. 22
Randy Phelps (NSF)
Newborn Stars, Old Open Clusters and the Evolving Scientific
Workforce
Apr. 5
Bruck Carney (U. North Carolina)
Apr. 12
Tim Slater (U. Arizona)
Are You Teaching if No One Is Learning? Impact of Astronomy Education
Research on ASTRO 101
Apr. 26
Pavel Denisenko (Dartmouth Col.)
Nucleosynthesis in Low-Mass Red Giants
Institute for Astrophysical Research Seminar Series
Fall 2005
Sept. 13
Heidi Newberg (RPI)
Will the real stellar halo please stand up?
Sept. 20
Robert Simon (University of Cologne)
Submillimeter and far-infrared Astronomy at KOSMA: Preparing for
Herschel and SOFIA
Sept. 27
Igor Drozdovsky (Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias)
The stellar structures around disk galaxies
Oct. 4
Nathan Smith (University of Colorado)
Eta Carinae and the LBVs: Extreme Mass Loss from Luminous Evolved
Stars
Oct. 18
Peter McCullough (Space Telescope Science Institute)
The XO Planet Finding System
Oct. 21
Joao Yun (University of Lisbon)
Building on Astronomy Research Group from Scratch: Tale of a
Portuguese BU Alumnus
Oct. 25
Beth Willman (New York University)
A Little Light, A Lot of Relevance: the least luminous galaxies
Oct. 28
Greg Sivakoff (UVA)
Low Mass X-ray binaries in galaxies
Nov. 1
Eric Gawiser (Yale University)
The MUSYC census of Protogalaxies at z=3
Nov. 4
Freeman Dyson, Professor Emeritus (Institute for Advanced Study at
Princeton)
Gravitons
Nov. 8
Jill Rathborne (BU/IAR)
Infrared Dark Clouds: precursors to star clusters
Nov. 29
Robert Zinn (Yale University)
The QUEST RR Lyrae Survey and the New Virgo Stellar Stream
Dec. 6
Eileen Friel, NSF
Institute for Astrophysical Research Seminar Series
Spring 2006
Jan. 31
Charles Lada (CFA)
Origins of Star Formation Research from Aristotle to Ambartsumian
Feb. 7
Tereasa Brainerd (BU)
New constraints on CDM halos from satellite galaxies and weak lensing:
the view from room 514B
Feb. 28
David DeVorkin (NASAM)
Beyond Stardrek- Women who changed the Universe
Mar. 14
Jonathan McKinney
General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations of Jet Formation
and Large-Scale Propogation from Black Hole Accretion Systems
Mar. 20
George Jacoby (NOAO)
The Luminosity of Type Ia SNe and the Future of the Sun
Mar. 28
Mike Cushing (University of Arizona)
Clouds and Chemistry: Probing the Atmospheres of Ultracool Dwarfs
with
Spitzer
Apr. 4
Philip Myers (CFA)
Observations and Models of Young Stellar Clusters
Apr. 11
David Soderblom (STScl)
The Sun at 1,000 Light Years: Can we see our future in the stars?
Apr. 18
Rick Pogge (Ohio State University)
Measuring supermassive black holes in AGN- A progress report
Institute for Astrophysical Research Seminar Series
Fall 2006
Sept. 1
Paul Vanden Bout (National Radio Astronomy Observatory)
Studies of Dense, Star-forming Gas in High-Z Galaxies: Star Formation at
Cosmic Dawn
Sept. 26
Svetlana Jorstad (IAR/BU)
Polarimetric Studies of AGNs at High Frequencies
Oct. 3
Riccardo Giovanelli (Cornell University)
ALFALFA: the Extragalactic HI Arecibo Legacy Survey
Oct. 17
Mark Reid (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA)
Mapping the Milky Way: Parallax and Proper Motions with the VLBA
Oct. 24
Jeffrey McClintock (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA)
The Spin of the Near-Extreme Kerr Black Hole GRS 1915+105
Oct. 31
Erik Rosolowsky (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA)
Connecting Local and Global Star Formation
Nov. 6
Tracy Clarke (Naval Research Laboratory)
Cavities and Relics: Low Frequency Observations of Galaxy Clusters
Nov. 7
Margaret Hanson (University of Cincinatti)
Revealing our Galaxy's Massive Star
Nov. 14
Paul Schechter (MIT)
Gravitational Micro-Lensing of Quasars at Unit Optical Depth
Nov. 28
Thomas Bania (IAR/BU)
The Cosmic Abundance of 3-Helium
Dec. 5
Alyssa Goodman (Harvard University)
Tasting the COMPLETE Survey of Star-Forming Regions
Institute for Astrophysical Research Seminar Series
Spring 2007
Jan. 23
Justin Kasper (MIT)
Breaking the Ionospheric Barrier: The Mileura Wide-field Array and the
Return of Low Frequency Radio Astronomy
Jan. 30
Elizabeth Blanton (IAR/BU)
Radio Sources in Clusters of Galaxies: Impact on the ICM and Probes of
High-z Systems
Feb. 6
Karl Gordon (University of Arizona)
Spitzer Observations of the Aromatic Features: New Insights from
Spectroscopy and Imaging
Feb. 27
Bob Rood (University of Virginia)
The Nature of Technological Civilizations: How to Search for Unicorns
Mar. 6
Bob Benjamin (University of Wisconsin at Whitewater)
Infrared Galactic Cartography: Constraints on the Stellar Disk, Bar, and
Spiral Arms
Mar. 20
Geoffrey Landis (NASA Glenn Research Center)
Three Years on Mars: the Mars Exploration Rovers Mission
Mar. 27
David Helfand (Columbia University)
MAGPIS: Finding MagnetAccelerators, and Other Shiny Trinkets in a
Galactic Plane Radio Survey
Apr. 3
Brian Chaboyer (Dartmouth College)
Ages of Old Star Clusters in the Milky Way
Apr. 10
Kevin Marvel, Executive Officer (American Astronomical Society)
Astronomy Policy and the FY 2008 Budget
Apr. 11
Lord Martin J. Rees (Cambridge University)
Scanning Cosmological Horizons
Apr. 17
David Charbonneau (Center for Astrophysics)
The Era of Comparative Exoplanetology
Apr. 23
Jim Heasley (Institute for Astronomy University of Hawaii)
The Pan-STARRS Project
Apr. 24
Steven Snowden (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)
The Diffuse X-ray Background, from Earth's Exosphere to the Edge of the
Universe OR One Astronomer's Signal is Another Astronomer's
Contamination
May 1
Maxim Markevitch (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA)
Novel Methods of Measuring Some Interesting Properties of Intergalactic
Gas in Clusters
Institute for Astrophysical Research Seminar Series
Fall 2007
Sept. 18
Jay Lockman (NRAO)
The ongoing formation of the Milky Way: High Velocity clouds plunging
into the Galaxy
Sept. 25
Alberto Bolatto (University of Maryland)
The Primitive Universe, Near and Far
Oct. 2
Giles Novak (Northwestern University)
The Galactic Magnetic Field and its Role in Star Formation
Oct. 16
Kelsey Johnson (University of Virginia)
Are Super Star Clusters Actually Super?
Oct. 23
Irena Stojimirovic (BU/IAR)
Parsec-scale Outflows from Low-Mass YSOs
Oct. 30
James Jackson (BU/IAR)
Infrared Dark Clouds: The Birth of Star Clusters
Nov. 6
Amalia Hicks (University of Virginia)
Missing Baryons: Recent Results from X-ray Observations of HighRedshift Clusters
Nov. 13
Ian Dell'Antonio (Brown University)
Lensing/Dark Matter
Nov. 20
Keivan Stassun (Vanderbilt University)
A Synthesis of Fundamental Issues in the Formation and Early Evolution
of
Low Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs
Nov. 27
Daniela Calzetti (University of Massachusetts)
Star Formation in the Mid-Infrared, and implications for the high redshift
Universe
Dec. 4
Josh Winn (MIT)
The Transits of Exoplanets
Institute for Astrophysical Research Seminar Series
Spring 2008
Jan. 29
Michael Meyer (University of Arizona)
Two Tails of a Distribution Function: The Initial Mass Functions of
Extreme Star Formation
Feb. 5
Paul Ho (Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Taipei
Harvard- Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
From the SMA to ALMA
Feb. 12
Paul Green (University of Arizona)
Factory Trawling the X-ray Sky: The Chandra Multiwavelength Project
(ChaMP)
Feb. 26
Steve Longmore (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA)
The Evolutionary Sequence of Protostellar Cores
Mar. 18
Sara Seager (MIT)
Exoplanets: Interiors, Atmospheres, and the Search for Habitable Worlds
Apr. 1
James Slavin (NASA/GSFC)
MESSENGER Mission
Apr. 8
Hans Zinnecker (Astrophysical Institute of Potsdam (AIP))
Do all (massive) stars form in clusters?
Apr. 15
Ned Wright, UCLA
IR Cosmology
Apr. 22
Robert Mathieu (University of Wisconsin)
Open Clusters: Open Windows on Stellar Dynamics
Apr. 29
Julio Navarro (University of Massachusetts)
Dark Matter
May 6
Bruno Guidordoni (Observatory of Lyon, France)
Simulating Galaxy Formation
Institute for Astrophysical Research Seminar Series
Fall 2008
Sept. 9
Alan Marscher (BU/IAR)
Probing Deeply Into the Inner Jets of Blazars
Sept. 23
Soren Meibom (Center for Astrophysics)
The Rotational Evolution of Low-Mass Stars
Oct. 7
Max Tegmark (MIT)
New Clues About Inflation, Dark Matter and Dark Energy
Oct. 21
Lisa Prato (Lowell Observatory)
Young Planets in Visible and Infrared Light: Spots' Tricks
Oct. 28
Jason Wright (Cornell University)
Nov. 4
Elliot Horch (Southern Connecticut State University)
Fainter and Closer: New High-Resolution Imaging Capabilities at the
WIYN Telescope
Nov. 18
Dava Sobel, Author
The Drama of Copernicus: How He Was Convinced to Publish his Crazy
Idea
Nov. 25
Gerritt Verschuur (University of Memphis)
Intermediate and High-Velocity "Clouds" A New Look at an Old Problem
Dec. 2
Ellen Zweibel (University of Wisconsin)
The Origin and Evolution of Astrophysical Magnetic Fields
Dec. 9
Tim Beers (Michigan State University)
SEGUE-1, SEGUE-2, and the Future
Institute for Astrophysical Research Seminar Series
Spring 2009
Jan. 20
Warren Brown (CfA)
Hypervelocity Stars and Massive Black Holes
Jan. 27
Dan Clemens (IAR)
GPIPS and other fun with the Perkins Telescope
Feb. 10
Andrew West (MIT)
From Foreground Trash to Bountiful Treasure: Galactic Stratigraphy,
Magnetic Activity and the Kinematics of M dwarfs in the Sloan Digital Sky
Survey
Feb. 17
Nathan Smith (UC Berkeley)
Eruptive Mass Loss in Massive Stars and Precursors to the Most
Luminous Supernova Explosions
Feb. 23
Riccardo Schiavon (Gemini)
The History of Star Formation of Early-Type Galaxies
Feb. 24
Stella Kafka (CalTech)
Magnetic Activity on CV Secondaries: Nature or Nurture?
Mar. 6
Peter Frinchaboy (University of Wisconsin)
Stellar Tracers: Probing Physics and Galactic Structure
Mar. 17
Cornelia Lang (University of Iowa)
The Galactic Center
Mar. 24
Ed Berschinger (MIT)
Dark Energy or Modified Gravity?
Mar. 31
Peter Barnes (University of Florida)
The CHAMPS Mopra Molecular Line Survey
Apr. 7
Peter Schloerb (University of Massachusetts)
LMT
Apr. 14
Gregor Tucker (Brown University)
BLAST
Apr. 21
Richard French (Wellesley University)
Saturn or Pluto
Apr. 28
Evan Skillman (University of Minnesota)
The Recent Star Formation Histories of Nearby Galaxies
Institute for Astrophysical Research Seminar Series
Fall 2009
Sept. 8
Elizabeth Blanton (Boston University)
Active Galactic Nuclei in Clusters of Galaxies: Cooling Flows, Feedback,
and High-z Systems
Sept. 15
Martin Elvis (Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory)
The Quasar Continuum: New Connections
Sept. 29
Edo Berger (Harvard University)
Gamma-Ray Bursts: A New Probe of the High-Redshift Universe
Oct. 6
Eileen Friel (Lowell Observatory)
Open Clusters: Their Role in the Galaxy
Oct. 8
James Green (University of Colorado)
Probing the Inter-Galactic Medium with the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph
Oct. 20
Joshua Winn (MIT)
Exoplanets and their Odd Orbital Inclinations
Oct. 28
John Johnson (University Hawaii)
Retired A Stars and their Planets
Nov. 3
John Bochanski (MIT)
Our 15 Million Nearest Neighbors: M Dwarfs & the Local Milky Way
Nov. 12
Randy Kimble (NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center)
A Powerful New Imager for HST: Performance and Early Results of Wide
Field Camera 3
Nov. 17
Aneta Siemiginowska (Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory)
X-ray Jets and Evolution of Extragalactic Radio Sources
Dec. 1
B.-G. Anderson (NASA-Ames Research Center)
The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA): Status
and Science overview
Dec. 8
David Wilner (Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory)
Planet Forming Disks