Location: Center for Astrophysics
Time: Tuesdays at 4:00pm
Refreshments are provided. Talks begin at 4:15.
The research forum is also a graduate course: Astronomy 301hf.
Course instructor for the year 2007-08 is Prof. Julia C. Lee (office: B-429).
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE | ROOM |
| Feb. 5 | Dr. Rosanne Di Stefano | Type Ia Supernovae, Accretion-Induced Collapse, and Ultraluminous X-Ray Sources: What do they have in common? | Pratt |
| Feb. 12 | Dr. Maxim Markevitch | Sloshing of cool gas in galaxy clusters, WHIM around galaxies, and other interesting X-ray projects | Pratt |
| Feb. 19 | Dr. Slavko Bogdanov | (Pulsar) Timing is Everything: General Relativity, Planets, Spacecraft Navigation, and Supranuclear Densities | Pratt |
| Feb. 26 | Dr. Hadi Hadizadeh | Cultural Revolution of 1980-87 in Iran | Phillips |
| Mar. 4 | Eliza Miller-Ricci | Extrasolar Super-Earths - How We Can Learn About Our Larger Cousins Orbiting Distant Stars | Pratt |
| Mar. 11 | Postdoc-Student Mixer | - | Phillips |
| Mar. 18 | Dr. Matt Holman | Pan-STARRS-1 and the Outer Solar System | Pratt |
| Mar. 25 | - | Spring Break | - |
| April 1 | Dr. Doug Finkbeiner | From Dust to Dark Matter: What we can learn about fundamental physics from Galactic emission | Pratt |
| April 8 | Dr. Warren Brown | Extremely Metal Poor Galaxies | Pratt |
| April 15 | Dr. Ron Walsworth | Overview of Research in the Walsworth Group (* NOTE: Talk will begin promptly at 4pm, refreshments afterward) | Pratt (w/ lab tour) |
| April 22 | Sasha Tchekhovskoy | Simulations of Electromagnetic Jets from Gamma-ray Burst Engines | Pratt |
| April 29 | Dr. Michael Meyer | Recognizing the Right Tool for the Job: Current Research Opportunities in the Origins of Stars, Planets, and Life | Pratt |
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE | ROOM |
| Sept. 25 | CfA Mixer | Short talks by members of the CfA | Phillips |
| Oct. 2 | Dr. Julia Lee | Fun with X-ray Observations of Black Holes: from Dust to Accretion Disks | Pratt |
| Oct. 9 | Dr. Robert Kirshner | Exploding Stars for Fun and Profit | Pratt |
| Oct. 16 | Dr. David Latham | Kepler and HARPS-North: Upcoming Opportunities for Extrasolar Planet Research | Pratt |
| Oct. 23 | Philip Hopkins | What is AGN Feedback and Why do we Care? | Pratt |
| Oct. 30 | Dr. Alyssa Goodman | Three Stories of Star Formation: Are any of them true? | Pratt |
| Nov. 6 | Dr. Lori Allen | Star formation, the structure and kinematics of young stellar clusters, Schmidt Laws, and Josh Beckett | Pratt |
| Nov. 13 | Randall Cooper | Oscillations During Type I X-ray Bursts on Accreting Neutron Stars | Pratt |
| Nov. 20 | Dr. James Moran | Masers in the Ionized Envelope of the Weird Star MWC349A | Pratt |
| Nov. 27 | Dr. Jeffrey McClintock | First and Future Measurements of Black Hole Spin | Pratt |
| Dec. 4 | Dr. Dimitar Sasselov | Lessons about Super-Earth habitability from boiling a jar of milk | Phillips |
| Dec. 11 | Dr. Patrick Slane | Shocking Secrets About Stellar Explosions: Stars Spill Their Guts | Pratt |
| Dec. 18 | Jonathan Devor | Life experience as a graduate student | Pratt |
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE | ROOM |
| Feb. 6. | Post-doc Mixer | Short talks by CfA post-docs | Pratt |
| Feb. 13 | Dr. Giovanni Fazio | Looking for the First Galaxies and the First Stars | Pratt |
| Feb. 20 | Dr. Josh Grindlay | Surveys for isolated black holes and compact binaries | Pratt |
| Mon Feb. 26 | Ryan Hickox | Finding obscured quasars with Spitzer and Chandra | Phillips |
| Mar. 6 | Dr. Chris Stubbs | Fundamental Physics with Astrophysical Techniques | Pratt |
| Mar. 13 | Loren Hoffman | Black hole systems in galactic nuclei | Pratt |
| Mar. 20 | Dr. Dave Charbonneau | Probing the Atmospheres of Transiting Planets | Pratt |
| Mar. 27 | - | Spring Break | - |
| April 3 | Joel Hartmann | A Deep Optical Variability Survey of an Open Cluster | Pratt |
| April 10 | Dr. Lincoln Greenhill | Instruments for 21cm Cosmology | Pratt |
| April 17 | Julie Nantais | Galactic Archaeology: Using Globular Clusters to Understand the Formation and Evolution of Galaxies |
Pratt |
| April 24 | Maryam Modjaz | The SN-GRB Connection: Environments and Host Metallicities |
Pratt |
| May 1 | Dr. Kate Kirby | Laboratory Astrophysics in Forefront Astronomy and at the CfA | Pratt |
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE | ROOM |
| Sept. 26 | CfA Mixer | Short talks by members of the CfA | Phillips |
| Oct. 3 | Dr. Avi Loeb | Three Open Problems in Astronomy which Should Matter to Physicists | Pratt |
| Oct. 10 | Dr. Doug Finkbeiner | Astrophysical signals of WIMP dark matter annihilation: Prospects for detection |
Pratt |
| Oct. 17 | Dr. Matt Holman | A census of the outer solar system with Pan-STARRS-1 | Phillips |
| Oct. 24 | Dr. Alyssa Goodman | Why the Problem of Star Formation on ~pc Scales Cannot be Solved without Simulations | Pratt |
| Oct. 31 | Dr. Jim Moran | Looking Deeply into the Accretion Disk around the Black Hole in the Galactic Center | Pratt |
| Nov. 7 | Dr. Ramesh Narayan | Black Hole Spin | Pratt |
| Nov. 14 | Jonathan Foster | In Dust We Trust | Pratt |
| Nov. 21 | Nitya Kallivayalil | Some old and new ideas about the Magellanic Clouds, and what they mean for the Milky Way | Pratt |
| Nov. 28 | Dr. Rosanne Di Stefano | YourLSST and YourPan-STARRS: What we can learn from all-sky monitoring |
Pratt |
| Dec. 5 | Dr. David Wilner | Debris Disks around Nearby Stars | Phillips |
| Dec. 12 | Dr. Dan Fabricant | The Giant Magellan Telescope | Pratt |
About Research Forum
The Research Forum is held weekly during the academic year. The time listed above is when refreshments are available; talks usually begin 15 minutes later. Anyone at the CfA is encouraged to attend and participate in the discussion. To maintain an informal atmosphere and to facilitate discussion, speakers are encouraged to limit their talks to about forty minutes and to use minimal visual aids (usually one transparency/handout). Talks are organized by the second-year graduate students. |