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Graduate Student Postdoc Seminar (Spring 2008)

Location: 544 Campbell Hall

Time: Alternate Wednesdays @ 3:00pm (unless otherwise noted)

Talks are 20 minutes + 5 minutes of questions

Past Seminars: fall_2007, spring_2007, fall_2006

13 Feb 2008 Greg Howes: “Kinetic Turbulence in Space and Astrophysical Plasmas”
5 March 2008 Onsi Fakhouri: “Dark Matter Halos are just like you and me: they care about the environment, but can't stop eating.”
and
Maryam Modjaz: “The SN-GRB Connection: What environments & metallicities can tell us”
12 March 2008 Andrey Timokhin: “Force-free pulsar magnetosphere”
Monday 17 March 2008 1-2:30 in 501 Louis Desroches: Practice Qual: “Constraining the co-evolution of black holes and galaxies at low mass”
16 April 2008 Josh Peek: “Hitting the Bull’s-eye: Constraints on the Galaxy’s Ongoing Accretion”
30 April 2008 Linda Strubbe: “Snacktime for SMBH's: Predictions for Optical Transients Surveys”
and
Andrey Timokhin: “On the Nature of QPO in the Tail of SGR Giant Flares”
14 May 2008 Eric Huff: “Harder, Better, Faster, Weaker Lensing”
and
Dovi Poznanski: “TBD”

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