Astro seminar

Winter 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 11-Jan 2006	—
Wed 18-Jan-2006	Jeroen Stil Exploring the Galapagos. A Tale of Turtles, Penguins, and Sharks.	Ch. Darwin “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life”, J. Murray, London (1859)
Wed 25-Jan-2006	Maya Paczuski Avalanches in astrophysical plasmas
Wed 1-Feb-2006	David Hobill Searching for higher dimensions with gravitational lensing
Wed 8-Feb-2006	Brian Niebergall Spin Evolution and Magnetic Field Decay of Quark Stars
Wed 15-Feb-2006	Julie Grant Searching for extragalactic radio sources
Wed 22-Feb-2006	— [Reading week]
Wed 1-Mar-2006	Phil Langill The Latest Discoveries in Astronomy — a review
Wed 8-Mar-2006	Jeroen Stil The signature of large stellar wind bubbles in polarization images of diffuse Galactic radio emission
Wed 15-Mar-2006	Jean-Pierre De Villiers Accretion discs embedded in external magnetic fields
Wed 22-Mar-2006	René Plume Spectral Line Surveys: The Molecular Inventory of Star Formation
Wed 29-Mar-2006	David Gibson Finding Sites of Massive Star Formation Through Chemical Evolution
Wed 5-Apr-2006	Jan Staff The early afterglow of of Gamma Ray Bursts
Wed 12-Apr-2006	Rachid Ouyed
Wed 19-Apr-2006	Denis Leahy

Venue

Meeting room SB 605D

Sign up

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

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Last updated 10-Jan-2006 by Wolfgang Dobler
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