Astro seminar

Fall 2006

The astro seminar is a platform for all researchers in Astrophysics, i.e. grad students, PHD students, instructors, postdocs, professors [did I forget anybody?], to present their work or (as in a journal club) a paper they find interesting.

Guidelines

Work in progress is fine and most probably more interesting to the audience than completely finished projects where you know all the answers.
Not everybody in the audience works in your field, so technicalities should be minimized in favour of physical ideas.
Bring your lunch if you like (but don't munch and slurp too loudly…)

Plan

The seminar starts at 12.00.
Time slots are 30 minutes for the talk, plus 15 minutes for questions and discussion.
Please send me the title of your talk, together with a useful reference (if applicable) at least 8 days ahead of your talk, so I can properly announce it.

Date	Speaker Title	Reference
Wed 13-Sep-2006	—
Wed 20-Sep-2006	Dennis Leahy Pulse shape modeling for accreting millisecond pulsars
Wed 27-Sep-2006	Wolfgang Dobler How round is a (quark) star?
Wed 04-Oct-2006	Phil Langill Adaptive Optics – where are we now, where are we heading?
Wed 11-Oct-2006	Julie Grant Compact Polarized Radio Sources
Wed 18-Oct-2006	Nicole Kaiser Estimating the spatial density of near-Earth asteroids
Wed 25-Oct-2006	David Ballantyne A Possible Link Between the Galactic Center HESS Source and Sgr A*
Wed 01-Nov-2006	Rachid Ouyed Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays and extra dimensions
Wed 08-Nov-2006	David Hobill Gravitational Lensing and the Binary Pulsar System PSR J0737-3039AB
Wed 15-Nov-2006	Coire Cadeau Modelling Pulse Profiles of Millisecond X-ray Pulsars
Wed 22-Nov-2006	Jeroen Stil The fractional polarization of faint polarized radio sources
Wed 29-Nov-2006	Nicole Wityk Quark Stars as Inner Engines of Gamma Ray Bursts: Energetics, Duration and Lightcurves
Wed 06-Dec-2006	Jo-Anne Brown He said, she said: The quest for the truth about the Galactic magnetic field

Venue

Meeting room SB 605D

Sign up

To sign up for a talk, contact Wolfgang Dobler at Wolfgang.Dobler@ucalgary.ca, see him in SB 527B, or call him at 220-6367.

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Last updated 06-Sep-2006 by Wolfgang Dobler
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