ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIA Fall 2006
Talks usually on Wednesday afternoons at 4 p.m. in Florida Gym (FLG) room 280
Refreshments served 30min before talk in Bryant (BSSC) room 217
Accretion and Jets in the Eta Carinae Massive Binary System
Star Formation and the Role of Magnetic Fields
Meet the Astronomy Department
The Physical Properties of Nuclear Star Clusters in Spiral Galaxies as Revealed with HST/STIS: Dependence of Age and Mass on Hubble Type
The Engineering Side of Dust: Micrometeoroids and the Risk They Pose to Spacecraft
Ensemble Learning for Independent Component Analysis of galactic spectra: Method and Applications
The AGN obscuring torus - end of the "bagel" paradigm?
Resonance Rings in Early SB Galaxies: Estimating Pattern Speed, Disk Star Formation, Mass Density and M/L
Three-Year WMAP Observations: Method and Results
Early-type galaxies and their sometimes not so old globular clusters
Formation of the Galaxies: the First Billion Years
Surveying the Formation of Low-Mass Stars
The SINGS Spitzer Legacy: Seeing Nearby Galaxies in a New Light
Thanksgiving
The Star Formation and Chemical Evolution Histories of Galaxies
Population III stars and the formation of the first protogalaxies
Debris Disks in Open Clusters