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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