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Spring 2008 Galaxy Lunch Series

Topic for this semester: "Groups and Clusters"

Look here for a list of suggested topics.

Fridays 12:15 p.m. in 622 Space Sciences 
Organizers: Martha Haynes, Sabrina Stierwalt & Ann Martin

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Date

Speaker

Topic

Suggested Reading

Jan 25th 

Everyone

Who we are and what we do

Bring a transparency of your favorite extragalactic object.

Feb 1st

Jason Wright PDF

STAR LUNCH

Feb 8th

Joe Adams PDF

STAR LUNCH

Feb 15th

Gordon Stacey

Feb 22nd

Sabrina Stierwalt

Tidal Tails, Intergalactic Rings, and Near-field Cosmology in the Leo Group

Feb 29th

Thomas Nikola

Starburst Galaxies in Cluster-feeding Filaments Unveiled by Spitzer

Fadda et al. 2008

Mar 7th

Nobody, because it's . . . .

Orientation Weekend

Mar 14th

Rachel Bean

What Can We Learn About Dark Matter From the Cosmos?

Mar 21st

Nobody, because it's . . .

Spring break!

Mar 28th

Phil Muirhead

STAR LUNCH

Apr 4th

Greg Sloan PDF

What Do Interstellar Organics Really Look Like?

Sloan et al. 2007

Apr 11th

Jeronimo Bernard-Salas

An Infrared View of 30Doradus

Apr 18th

Carl Ferkinhoff

A Visit to the Galaxy Zoo: Galaxy Spins, Biases, and Isotropy, Oh My!

Land et al 2008

Apr 25th

Ben Zuckerman (UCLA)

The Search for Intelligent Life in the Universe: Why SETI Will Fail

May 2nd

Riccardo Giovanelli

Optically Dark Mini-halos or Garden-Variety High Velocity Clouds?

Last modified: Tue November 27 1:37 pm EDT 2007 by ann