Graduate Student Postdoc Seminar

Location: 544 Campbell Hall

Time: Alternate Tuesdays @ 3:30pm (unless otherwise noted)


12 Sep 2006 Fall Welcome: Featuring Snacks
3 Oct 2006 Jason Wright: “Characterizing Exoplanetary Systems: The Search for Solar System Analogs”
10 Oct 2006 Greg Howes: “Magnetized Turbulence in Black Hole Accretion Disks”
24 Oct 2006 John Johnson: “Measuring the Spin-Orbit Alignment of Exoplanetary Systems”
and
Bryan Johnson: “MHD Shearing Box: New Methods and Results”
7 Nov 2006 Brian Metzger: “Protoneutron Star Winds with Magnetic Fields and Rotation: Consequences for Supernova Diversity, Gamma-Ray Bursts,and the Galactic Abundance of Very Heavy Elements”
and
Dan Kocevski: “Understanding The X-ray Properties of Gamma-ray Bursts”
21 Nov 2006 Jesse Leaman: “The Nearby Supernova Rate”
28 Nov 2006 Stella Offner: Practice Qual “Numerical Studies of Low Mass Star Formation”
5 Dec 2006 Aaron Parsons: “The Precision Array for Probing the Epoch of Reionization (PAPER): System Design, Preliminary Results, and Prospects”
and
Nathan Smith: “The formation of SN1987A's nebula, bipolar ring nebulae around blue supergiants, and implications for SN progenitors”