Fall 2003 Galaxy Lunch
 Fridays 12:15 p.m. in 622 Space Sciences 
 Organizers: Martha Haynes, Vassilis Charmandaris & Chris Springob

Note: To join the galaxy lunch mailing list, contact Chris Springob.
Check the previous lunch talks:

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The CU ExtraGalacticGroup Fall 2003 poster

``ENVIRONMENTAL INFLUENCES ON GALAXY EVOLUTION''

August 29th 
Nothing special; let's just meet in SS 622 for lunch -- certainly, we can celebrate the SIRTF launch!

September 5th 
Martha Haynes (Cornell University)
Environmental Influences on Galaxy Evolution: Introduction
Suggested Reading:   Schweizer, 2000, Phil. Trans. Royal Soc. London, Series A, Vol. 358, no. 1772, pp. 2063-2076.

September 12th 
Becky Koopmann (Union College and Cornell University)
Environmental Influences on the Morphology and Star Formation of Bright Spirals in the Virgo Cluster 
Suggested readings:   Kenney & Koopmann 2001, in Gas and Galaxy Evolution, ASP Conf Series 240, 577 and Koopmann & Kenney 1998, ApJ, 497, L75.

September 19th 
Galaxy lunch for this week has been cancelled.
September 26th 
Elise Furlan (Cornell University)
Galaxy Formation: Clues from the Milky Way 
Suggested reading:   Gilmore 2002, astro-ph/0211023

October 3rd 
Amelie Saintonge (Cornell University)
Evolutionary Processes in Clusters - [PDF file]  
Suggested reading:   Moore 2003, astro-ph/0306596

October 10th 
Karen Masters (Cornell University)
Structure Formation in Tidal Tails  - [PDF file]  
Suggested reading:   Knierman et al. 2003, astro-ph/0307383

October 17th 
Kristine Spekkens (Cornell University)
N4654: Gravitational Interaction or Ram Pressure Stripping? - [PDF file]  
Suggested reading:   Vollmer 2003, A&A 398, 525.

October 24th 
Chris Springob (Cornell University)
Dynamical Evolution of Galaxies in Clusters 
Suggested reading:   Gnedin 2003, Astrophys.J. 589, 752

October 31st 
Thomas Nikola (Cornell University)
Molecular Tidal Streamers in M82 
Suggested reading:   Walter et al. 2002, Astrophys.J.(Lett.) 580, L21.

November 7th 
Rick Perley (NRAO)
The Expanded Very Large Array
See:   NRAO's EVLA website

November 14th 
Alex Szalay (JHU)  
Galaxy Clustering in the SDSS

November 21st 
Jagadheep Pandian (Cornell University)
Spectroscopic Evolution of Galaxies in Clusters 
Suggested reading:   Poggianti et al. 1999, ApJ 518,576.

November 28th 
Thanksgiving Break -- No Galaxy Lunch 
December 5th 
Jim Higdon (Cornell University)
Optical counterparts of submillimeter galaxies  
Suggested reading:   Chapman et al 2003, astro-ph/0308197