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Astro Lunch Talks

Winter 2010

Time: Wednesdays 11:30 - 12:30
Location: PHY 308

This seminar is intended to be relatively informal. Eating Lunch and asking lots of questions are both strongly encouraged. Anyone with an interest in astrophysics is welcome to attend.

February 3 Arsen Hajian
Systems Design Engineering, UW		 New Interferometric Technologies for Astrophysics
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I review some advances in interferometric hardware relating to astrophysical remote sensing which also has application in medical imaging. I will summarize the way in which these applications improve the quality of interferometric devices, and discuss the new capabilities offered by the next generation of sensing/imaging hardware. I will restrict the presentation to optical/RF imaging and spectroscopy.
February 10 Student Seminar Chad Greene
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Tracing Galaxy Formation with Stellar Haloes I. Methods
J.Bullock and K. Johnston 2005, ApJ 635, 931
February 17 Anne-Marie Weijmans
Toronto		 tba
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February 24 Student Seminar Mina Rohanzadegan
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The Field of Streams: Sagittarius and Its Siblings
V.Belokurov et al. ApJ 642L, 137
March 3
Bob Abraham
Toronto		 tba
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March 10 Student Seminar Bryan Gillis
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 Stellar Chemical Signatures and Hierarchical Galaxy Formation
K. Venn et al. 2004, AJ 128, 1177
March 17 Town Hall Meeting in Toronto
LRP2010
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March 24
Student Seminar Clif Kirkpatrick
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A Common Mass Scale for Satellite Galaxies of the Milky Way
L. Strigari et al. 2008, Nature 454, 1096
March 31
Gretchen Harris
Waterloo		 tba
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January 6 Sijing Shen
McMaster		 tba
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January 13 David Gilbank
Waterloo		 tba
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January 20 Student Seminar Farbod Kamiab
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 Where Are the Missing Galactic Satellites?
A.Klypin et al. 1999, ApJ 522, 82
Cold Collapse and Core Catastrophe
B.Moore et al. 1999, MNRAS 310, 1147
January 27 Mateusz Ruszkowski
Michigan		 tba
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