Fermilab Theoretical Astrophysics Seminars


"Curia II" is on the 2nd floor of Wilson Hall, in the South-West corner.
"3 East - Theory Conference Room" is on the 3rd floor of Wilson Hall, in the North-East corner.


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For questions, contact Kev Abazajian





FALL 2001


Informal Lunch Seminar
Monday 17 September, 1:00 pm, 3 East
Pat Crotty (Chicago) - The Earth as a High-Energy Neutrino Filter
prcrotty@oddjob.uchicago.edu


Informal Lunch Seminar
Monday 24 September, 1:00 pm, 3 East
Diego Harari (Buenos Aires) - Magnetic lensing of ultra-high energy cosmic rays

Monday 24 September, 2:30 pm, Curia II
Tom Theuns (Cambridge) - Reionization of the Universe
tt@ast.cam.ac.uk


Informal Lunch Seminar
Monday 1 October, 1:00 pm, 3 East
Scott Dodelson (Fermilab) - Estimating power-spectra in the SDSS

Monday 1 October, 2:30 pm, Curia II
David Merritt (Rutgers) - Black holes, dark matter and galaxy evolution
merritt@physics.rutgers.edu


Monday 8 October, 2:30 pm, Curia II
Amy Barger (Wisconsin) - Cosmic census of AGN and the acretion history of supermassive black holes
barger@ifa.hawaii.edu


Informal Lunch Seminar
Monday 15 October, 1:00 pm, 3 East
Grant Mathews (Notre Dame) - New paradigms for nucleosynthesis in the early Universe and the first generation of stars
gmathews@nd.edu

Monday 15 October, 2:30 pm, Curia II
Grant Mathews (Notre Dame) - The case for neutrino degeneracy in the early Universe
gmathews@nd.edu


Monday 22 October, 2:30 pm, Curia II
Nicole Bell (Fermilab) - Relic neutrino asymmetries and big bang nucleosynthesis
nfb@fnal.gov


Informal Lunch Seminar
Monday 29 October, 1:00 pm, 3 East
Sergio Palomares-Ruiz (Valencia) - Atmospheric neutrinos: passage through the earth and active versus sterile at Super-K

Monday 29 October, 2:30 pm, Curia II
Eric Gawiser (San Diego) - Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Bang?
egawiser@ucsd.edu


Informal Lunch Seminar
Monday 5 November, 1:00 pm, 3 East
Martin Makler (CBPF, Brazil) - Large scale structure: local approximations and beyond

Monday 5 November, 2:30 pm, Curia II
Kurt Adelberger (CfA) - Star-forming galaxies and the intergalactic medium at 1 < z < 5
kadelber@cfa.harvard.edu


Monday 12 November, 2:30 pm, Curia II
Andrew Benson (Caltech) - The Effects of Photoionization on Galaxy Formation
abenson@astro.caltech.edu


Note special time
Monday 19 November, 11:00 am, Curia II
Rachel Bean (Imperial College) - Constraining dark energy
r.bean@ic.ac.uk


Monday 26 November, 2:30 pm, Curia II
Gregory Huey (QMW) - Robustness of the quintessence scenario in particle cosmologies
ggh@sas.upenn.edu


Informal Lunch Seminar
Monday 3 December, 1:00 pm, 3 East
Will Kinney (Columbia) - Can we see quantum gravity on the sky?
kinney@physics.columbia.edu

Monday 3 December, 2:30 pm, Curia II
Mike Pahre (CfA) - The luminosity, velocity and mass functions of galaxies
mpahre@cfa.harvard.edu


Informal Lunch Seminar
Monday 10 December, 1:00 pm, 3 East
Chuck Keeton (Chicago) - Lens galaxies versus CDM
ckeeton@oddjob.uchicago.edu

Monday 10 December, 2:30 pm, Curia II
Neal Dalal (San Diego) - Detection of CDM substructure
ndalal@ucsd.edu



SPRING 2002


Monday 14 January, 2:30 pm, Curia II
Massimo Ricotti (Univ. of Colorado) - Radiative Feedback from Galaxy Formation: the fate of the first galaxies
Massimo.Ricotti@Colorado.EDU

** Note special day **
Wednesday 16 January, 2:30 pm, Curia II
Pengjie Zhang (CITA) - Probing the state of missing baryons by the Sunyaev Zel'dovich effect
zhangpj@cita.utoronto.ca


Wednesday 21 January
No Seminar - MLK Holiday


Informal Lunch Seminar
Monday 28 January, 1:00 pm, 3 East
Evalyn Gates (Adler/Chicago) - Old white dwarfs, thick disks and the SDSS
gates@oddjob.uchicago.edu

Monday 28 January, 2:30 pm, Curia II
George Fuller (San Diego) - Update on Neutrino Physics, Supernovae, and Nucleosynthesis
gfuller@ucsd.edu


Monday 4 February, 2:30 pm, Curia II
Patrick Greene (FNAL) - Where it all comes from: Reheating and Preheating after Inflation
pbg@fnal.gov


Informal Lunch Seminar
Monday 11 February, 1 pm, 3 East
Geza Gyuk (Adler/Chicago) - MEGA: Searching for microlensing in M31
gyuk@oddjob.uchicago.edu

Monday 11 February, 2:30 pm, Curia II
Yong-Zhong Qian (Minnesota) - Rocks, Stars, and Galaxies: New Insights into Chemical Evolution of the Universe
qian@physics.umn.edu


Informal Lunch Seminar **note location**
Monday 18 February, 1 pm, 7th Floor X-over
Samir Salim (Ohio State) - Astrometric Microlensing with SIM

Monday 18 February, 2:30 pm, Curia II
Andrey Kravtsov (Chicago) - Constrained simulations of the Local Universe
andrey@oddjob.uchicago.edu


Informal Lunch Seminar **note earlier time**
Monday 25 February, 12:30 pm, 3 East
Jim Chisholm (Chicago) - Stellar-Mass Black Holes in the Solar Neighborhood
jrchisho@midway.uchicago.edu

Monday 25 February, 2:30 pm, Curia II
James Annis (FNAL) - Mass Function Evolution with SDSS Clusters
annis@fnal.gov


Monday 4 March, 2:30 pm, Curia II
Paul Ricker (Chicago) - Dynamical Effects of Mergers between Clusters of Galaxies
ricker@thera.asci.uchicago.edu


Informal Lunch Seminar
Monday 11 March, 12:30 pm, 3 East
Rafael Sorkin (Syracuse) - TBA

Monday 11 March, 2:30 pm, Curia II
Stacy McGaugh (Maryland) - Dynamical Constraints on Galaxy Formation
ssm@astro.umd.edu


Monday 18 March, 2:30 pm, Curia II
Brian Fields (UIUC) - Primordial Nucleosynthesis: Judgment Day and Beyond
bdfields@uiuc.edu


Monday 25 March, 2:30 pm, Curia II
Peter Gorham (Hawaii) - Askaryan's Excess: Tuning in to Cosmogenic Neutrinos
gorham@phys.hawaii.edu


Monday 1 April, 2:30 pm, Curia II
Gary Bernstein (Michigan) - Constraints on Cosmological Parameters from Weak Gravitational Lensing
garyb@astro.lsa.umich.edu


Monday 8 April, 2:30 pm, Curia II
Katie Freese (Michigan) - Cardassian Expansion: A Model in which the Universe is Flat, Matter Dominated, and Expanding
ktfreese@umich.edu


Monday 15 April, 2:30 pm, Curia II
Tony Mezzacappa (Oak Ridge) - The TeraScale Supernova Initiative
mezzacappaa@ornl.gov


Informal Lunch Seminar
Monday 22 April, 12:30pm, 3 East
Stuart Wick (Florida) - Solar Wakes of Dark Matter Flows
wick@phys.ufl.edu

Monday 22 April, 2:30 pm, Curia II
Re'em Sari (Caltech) - Gamma Ray Bursts and Their Afterglows
sari@tapir.caltech.edu


Monday 29 April, 2:30 pm, Curia II
Kathy Romer (Carnegie Mellon) - Searching for High Redshift Clusters with XMM and Viper (Why Bother?)
romer@cmu.edu


Monday 6 May, 2:30 pm, Curia II
Suzanne Staggs (Princeton) - CMB Polarization: How to See It and Why You'd Want To
staggs@PUPGG.PRINCETON.EDU

Joint Particle/Astrophysics Theory Seminar
Thursday 9 May, 2:30 pm, Curia II
Paul Steinhardt (Princeton) - Cyclic Models of the Universe
steinh@princeton.edu


Informal Lunch Seminar
Monday 13 May, 12:30pm, 3 East
None today

Monday 13 May, 2:30 pm, Curia II
Pijush Bhattacharjee (Indian Inst. Astrophys.) - Origin of the Post-GZK Cosmic Rays: Some remarks on the Top-Down scenario

Cancelled: Art Wolfe (San Diego) - CII* Absorption in Damped Lyman-alpha Systems: A New Window on the Star Formation History of the Universe.


Informal Lunch Seminar
Monday 20 May, 12:30 pm, 3 East
Glen Starkman (Case Western) - Very High Resolution X-ray Astronomy With an Occulting Satellite

Monday 20 May, 2:30 pm, Curia II
Tomonori Totani (NAO-Japan/Princeton) - Orphan Afterglows of Collimated GRBs: Rate Predictions and Prospects for Detection
ttotani@princeton.edu


Monday 27 May
No Seminar - Memorial Day


Seminar schedules from previous years:

Academic year 2000-2001

Fall 1999 and Spring 2000

Fall 1998 and Spring 1999

Spring 1998