Florida Theoretical Astrophysics Seminar

These weekly lunchtime seminars are on Mondays, at 12.40pm-1.40pm, alternating in the Astronomy (room 217) and Physics (room 2165) Departments.


Fall 2006
Date/Location Speaker Title/Abstract
Sep. 25, Ast. Desika Narayanan (Arizona) The Nature of Molecular Emission in the Earliest Quasars
Oct. 2, Phys. Anthony Gonzalez (UF) Direct Evidence for Dark Matter from the Bullet Cluster 1E0657-56
Oct. 9, Ast. Aravind Natarajan (UF) Can a dark matter caustic form a ring of stars?
Oct. 16, Ast. Stephen Kane (UF) Simulations for Multi-Object Spectrograph Planet Surveys
Oct. 23, Phys. Jane MacGibbon (Univ. N. Florida) Black Hole Entropy Constraints on Varying Fundamental Constants
Nov. 6, Ast. Henrik Beuther (MPIA Heidelberg) Constraining the physics and chemistry of massive star-forming regions through high angular resolution observations.
Nov. 13, Ast. Jason Melbourne (UCSC) Probing the decline in star formation since z=1 with Adaptive Optics, Spitzer, and HST
Dec. 4, Ast. James Hunter (UF) Interfacial Instabilities in the ISM
Dec. 11, Phys. TBD TBD

Previous schedules: Fall 2005 - Spring 2006

For more information contact Jonathan Tan: jt @ astro.ufl.edu