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Fall 2005 Galaxy Lunch Series

Topic for this semester: "Very Small Galaxies: Dwarfs, BCDs, and Other Diminutive Extragalactic Systems"

Look here for a list of suggested topics.

Fridays 12:15 p.m. in 622 Space Sciences 
Organizers: Martha Haynes, Sabrina Stierwalt & Shannon Guiles
Note: To join the galaxy lunch mailing list, contact Sabrina or Shannon.

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Date

Speaker

Topic

Suggested Reading

Sept 2 

Everyone

Who we are and what we do

Bring a transparency of your favorite extragalactic object.

Sept 9th

Yanling Wu

Infrared Properties of Star-forming Dwarf Galaxies ppt

Rosenberg et al 2005

Sept 16th

Gordon Stacey

The Faintest Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxy

Pisano et al 2005

Sept 23rd

Sabrina Stierwalt

Near-Field Cosmology with Local Group Dwarf Spheroidals ppt

Grebel 2005

Sept 30th

Shannon Guiles

Metallic X-Ray Winds in NGC 1569 pdf

Martin et al 2002

Oct 7th

Lei Hao

The Environments of Dwarf Galaxies ppt

No paper

Oct 14th

Brian Kent

Ultra Compact Dwarf Galaxies and Galactic Cannibalism pdf

Hasegan et al 2005

Oct 21st

Tom Oberst

Properties of the Faintest M31 Dwarf Galaxy

Harbeck et al 2005

Oct 28th

Steve Hailey-Dunsheath

Kinematics of the Dwarf Irregular Galaxy GR8 ppt

Begum & Chengalur 2003

Nov 4th

Jason Marshall

The Formation of Tidal Dwarf Galaxies ppt

Duc et al 2004

Nov 11th

Kambiz Fathi (Rochester Institute of Technology)

3D Spectroscopy of Spiral Galaxies: A New Era in Extragalactic Astronomy pdf

Fathi et al 2005

Nov 18th

Jim Higdon

Dark Matter in Dwarf Galaxies: Does it Matter? ps

Botano et al 2004 Mastropietro et al 2005 Coleman et al 2005

Nov 25th

Not any of us, because it's...

Thanksgiving Break

Happy T'day!

Dec 2nd

Sarah Higdon

First Detection of PAHs & Warm Molecular Hydrogen in Tidal Dwarf Galaxies ppt

Higdon, Higdon, & Marshall 2005

Last modified: Wed Dec 7 1:09 pm EDT 2005 by sabrina