Journal Club

Journal Club meets Mondays at 1pm in the "collaboration space" of the IT Collaboratory Building (Bldg. 17, new north wing, 2nd floor). We review the previous-week's postings on arXiv. Everyone is welcome. If you wish to participate, please post the title of your paper on the journal club page.

Astro Tea

Astro Tea is currently held on Thursdays at 11:00, in Room 2240, CIS. We meet to keep abreast of ongoing research at RIT.

2006-2007 Astrophysics Seminars

Astrophysics seminars are held on Mondays at 4:00pm unless otherwise noted. Tea is served at 3:45 in the first-floor lobby.

Additional seminar information is maintained by the UofR: Link


Date

Speaker, Title

Location

Sep 10 Henrik Spoon (Cornell) "Probing the central power sources of ULIRG nuclei using Spitzer-IRS" 76-1275
Sep 12 Janna Levin (Barnard) "Chaos and black hole binaries" 75-3110
Sep 17 David Berger (Michigan) "The Highest Resolution Measurements of Cool Stars" 76-1125
Oct 8 Tim Heckman (Johns Hopkins) "Co-Evolution of Galaxies and Black Holes: A Local Perspective" 76-1275
Oct 9 Craig Sarazin (U Virginia) "X-ray Binaries and Globular Clusters in Elliptical Galaxies" 76-1275
Oct 22 Nathan Smith (UC Berkeley) "Precursors to supernova explosions and extraordinary deaths of very massive stars" 76-1275
Nov 5 Antonella Nota (STScI) "Star Formation in the Small Magellanic CLoud: Does the Environment Matter?" 76-1275
Nov 12 Jong-Hak Woo (UCSB) "Cosmic Evolution of Black Holes and Galaxies: Eggs before Chickens?" 76-1275