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.
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