CfA Colloquium Schedule Spring 2012
 
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Date Speaker Topic Host
01/26/12 Alexander Jones
(NYU)
The Antikythera Mechanism

[Video of the Presentation]
Owen Gingerich
02/02/12 Jonas Zmuidzinas
(Caltech / JPL)
Toward Megapixel-Scale Instrumentation for CCAT

[Video of the Presentation]
Edward Tong
02/09/12 Andrew West
(BU)
The ABCs of Low-Mass Stars

Ruth Murray-Clay
02/16/12 Tom Dame
(CfA)
The Milky Way as a Grand Design Spiral

Patrick Thaddeus
02/23/12 Jurgen Blum
(IGEP Braunschweig)


Sean Andrews
03/01/12 Raymond Pierrehumbert
(U. of Chicago)


03/08/12
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03/15/12 Mike Gladders
(U. Chicago)


03/22/12 Daniel Eisenstein
(Harvard)


03/29/12 Phil Hopkins
(UC Berkeley)


04/05/12
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04/12/12 Lyman Page
(Princeton)


04/19/12 Chris Hirata
(Caltech)


04/26/12 James Bartlett
(U. Paris Diderot)


05/03/12 pH Lecturer TBD
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pH Lecture:
05/10/12 Chris Mihos
(Case Western)


05/17/12 Donald Kurtz
(U. Central Lancashire)


05/24/12 Craig Heinke
(U. Alberta)
Evidence for Neutron Superfluidity in Neutron Star Cores

Additional Information
Time: Tea - 3:30 PM
Talk - 4:00 PM
Location: Phillips Auditorium, Building D, Center for Astrophysics (unless noted otherwise) [Directions]
Information and instructions for Colloquium speakers.
Information for local hosts.
Organizing Committee: Ruth Murray-Clay and Alexey Vikhlinin
Webmaster: Ruth Murray-Clay
 
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