סמינר שבועי באסטרופיסיקה וקוסמולוגיה

Astrolunch Seminars in Astrophysics and Cosmology



Scheduled Seminars:

Speaker:
Prof. Hume Feldman
From:
Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kansas
Title:
Optimal Moments for the Analysis of Peculiar Velocity Surveys
Where:
Kaplun Seminar Room 200
When:
Tuesday, Mar 25, 2003. 12:30 pm
Abstract:
Here

Speaker:
Prof. Giora Shaviv
From:
Dept. of Physics, Technion
Title:
Why ADAFs were never an option for Accretion Disks
Where:
Kaplun Seminar Room 200
When:
Thursday, Apr 3, 2003. 12:30 pm  note special day!



Speaker:
Dr. Nahum Arav
From:
CASA, University of Colorado, Boulder
Title:
Exciting Times for Studying AGN Outflows
Where:
Kaplun Seminar Room 200
When:
Tuesday, Apr 8, 2003. 12:30 pm
Abstract:
Here

Speaker:
Yuval Birnboim
From:
Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University
Title:
"Virial shocks in halos?"
Where:
Kaplun Seminar Room 200
When:
Tuesday, Apr 29, 2003. 12:30 pm



Speaker:
Prof. Amiel Sternberg
From:
Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Tel-Aviv University
Title:
TBA
Where:
Kaplun Seminar Room 200
When:
Tuesday, May 13, 2003. 12:30 pm



Speaker:
Dr. Nir Shaviv
From:
Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University
Title:
Towards a solution to the early faint sun paradox
Where:
Kaplun Seminar Room 200
When:
Tuesday, May 20, 2003. 12:30 pm





Past Seminars:

Speaker:
Dr. Shai Kaspi
From:
Dept of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Tel-Aviv University
Title:
X-ray and UV High-Resolution Spectroscopy of Outflows From Active
Galactic Nuclei
Where:
Kaplun Seminar Room 200
When:
Tuesday, Feb 18, 2002. 12:30 pm
Abstract:
Here

Speaker:
Dr. Ahmad Hujeirat
From:
Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie (MPIA), Heidelberg
Title:
Ion-dominated plasmas and the origin of jets in mega- and micro-quasars
Where:
Kaplun Seminar Room 200
When:
Tuesday, Jan 7, 2002. 12:30 pm
Abstract:
Here

Speaker:
Prof. Steven Kahn
From:
Department of Physics, Columbia University
Title:
High Resolution X-ray Spectroscopy of Active Galactic Nuclei
Where
Kaplun Seminar Room 200
When:
Tuesday, Dec 31, 2002. 12:30 pm

Speaker:
Dr. Ofer Lahav
From:
Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge
Title:
"The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey:
Cosmological Parameters and Galaxy Biasing"
Where:
Kaplun Seminar Room 200
When:
Tuesday, Dec 24, 2002. 12:30 pm

Speaker:
Dr. Brian Keating
From:
Department of Astronomy, California Institute of Technology
Title:
TBA (Related to experimental CMB projects)
Where:
Kaplun Seminar Room 200
When:
Tuesday, Dec 15, 2002. 12:30 pm

Speaker:
Dr. Jonathan Granot
From:
Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton
Title:
Pulsar Wind Bubbles and the Supranova Model for Gamma-Ray Bursts
Where:
Kaplun Seminar Room 200
When:
Tuesday, Oct 29, 2002. 12:30 pm
Abstract:
Here

Speaker:
Dr.Uriel Frisch
From:
Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur, Nice, France
Title:
Back to the early Universe by optimal mass transportation
Where:
Kaplun Seminar Room 200
When:
Sunday, Oct 27, 2002. 12:30 pm       Note special day
Abstract:
Here

Speaker:
Prof. Isaac Shlosman
From:
University of Kentucky
Title:
Dynamical processes in the central kpc and AGN
Where:
Kaplun Seminar Room 200
When:
Tuesday, Oct 15, 2002. 12:30 pm