ASTRO SEMINAR ANNOUNCEMENTS

DATE	SPEAKER	TITLE
ACADEMIC YEAR 2004/2005 - 2. SEMESTER
04/May/2005	Prof. Joe Silk Oxford	What was Population III
Monday,11/Apr/2005 Dror Sadeh room, Kaplun	Mr. Amir Give'on Princeton University	Searching for Earth-Like Planets
30/Mar/2005	Prof. Amir Levinson Tel-Aviv University	Gamma Ray Bursts and X-Ray Flashes: Recent Observations and Some Interpretation
23/Mar/2005	Dr. Noah Brosch Tel-Aviv University	TAUVEX on GSAT-4: The Israeli Space Telescope Mission
16/Mar/2005	Prof. Andrei Gruzinov Physics Dept., New York Univ.	Inflationary Scenarios
09/Mar/2005	Dr. Fabio Pizzolato Technion	The Problem of Cooling Flows in Galaxies
02/Mar/2005	Prof. Daniel Zajfman Physics Dept.,Weizmann & MPI fuer Kern Physic,Heidelberg	Breaking Molecules, Creating Stars
ACADEMIC YEAR 2004/2005 - 1. SEMESTER
19/Jan/2005	Doron Lemze Tel-Aviv University Gai Boger Tel-Aviv University	An X-ray Study of the Infrared Luminous Galaxy NGC 6240 CN and HCN in Interstellar Photodissociation Regions
12/Jan/2005	Prof. Yakov Bekenstein Hebrew University	Milgrom's MOND: Steps to a Theory Behind It
05/Jan/2005	Dr. Shai Kaspi TAU/Technion	High Velocity Outflows in AGN: True or False?
29/Dec/2004	Prof. Re'em Sari Caltech	Formation of the Solar System
15/Dec/2004	Prof. Ofer Biham Racah Institute of Physics Hebrew University	Molecular Hydrogen Formation on Dust Grains in the Interstellar Medium
08/Dec/2004	Dr. Rennan Barkana Tel-Aviv University	Probing Cosmology and the Earliest Galaxies using 21 cm Fluctuations
01/Dec/2004	Prof. Tsevi Mazeh Tel-Aviv University	On the Masses and Periods of Detected Extrasolar Planets
24/Nov/2004	Dr. Tal Alexander Weizmann Institute	The Massive Black Hole as an Atom
17/Nov/2004	Dr. Ehud Nakar Caltech	Gamma-Ray Bursts on the Verge of the Swift Era
10/Nov/2004	Orly Gnat Tel-Aviv University	Ionization of Metals in Low Mass Minihalos
Monday,25/Oct/2004 special seminar Dror Sadeh room	Dr. Howard Smith Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics	Massive Star Formation with Spitzer
20/Oct/2004 no seminar
ACADEMIC YEAR 2003/2004 - 2. SEMESTER
16/Jun/2004	Young-Jun Choi Tel-Aviv University	Kuiper Belt Objects: observation and theory ( PhD thesis )
09/Jun/2004	Avi Shporer Tel-Aviv University	Variability search in M33
02/Jun/2004	Barak Marcus Tel-Aviv University	The mass ratio distribution of close binaries (MSc thesis)
19/May/2004	Prof. Andrea M. Ghez Univ. California,Los Angeles	Unveiling a Supermassive Black Hole at the Center of our Galaxy
12/May/2004	Technion, Phys.Dep.	Hydrodynamic Activity in Keplerian Disks
05/May/2004	Meir Shimon Tel-Aviv University	Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect
28/Apr/2004	Elinor Medezinski Tel-Aviv University	The TAVAS project
14/Apr/2004	Dr. Ehud Behar Technion, Physics Dep.	The splattering blender - AGNs as wind sources
31/Mar/2004	Omer Bromberg Tel-Aviv University	Oscillations in highly magnetized accretion disks surrounding Kerr black holes
24/Mar/2004	Dr. Lev Pustilnik Dr. Gregory Yom Din Israel Cosmic Ray Center	Solar activity reflected in wheat prices (Medieval England and elsewhere)
17/Mar/2004	Prof. Morris Podolak TAU, Geoph. & Planetary Dep.	The snowline in proto-planetary disks
10/Mar/2004	Lukasz Wyrzykowski Warsaw University Astronomical Observatory	OGLE (Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment) General information and recent results
03/Mar/2004	Samuel Schijvarg ELTA	Radar and optical meteor observations
ACADEMIC YEAR 2003/2004 - 1. SEMESTER
28/Jan/2004	Ohad Shemmer Tel-Aviv University	Black Hole Mass, Accretion Rate, and Metal Abundances in Active Galactic Nuclei
21/Jan/2004	Prof. Dina Prialnik Tel-Aviv University	Thermal evolution of icy bodies in the Solar System
14/Jan/2004	Prof. Dan Maoz Tel-Aviv University	SN Ia rates vs. redshift: implications for metal enrichment, SN Ia progenitors, and star-formation history
7/Jan/2004	Prof. Eli Waxman Weizmann Institute	Radio afterglows and the GRB-SN association
31/Dec/2003	Prof. Elia Leibowitz Tel-Aviv University	Possible detectio of WD pulsations in old novae
24/Dec/2003	Doron Chelouche Tel-Aviv University	Quasar outflows: connecting theory with observations
17/Dec/2003	Technion	On the nature of low-luminosity AGNs
26/Nov/2003	Prof. David Eichler Ben-Gurion University	Magnetar Emission
19/Nov/2003	Broadhurst, Tom Tel-Aviv University	High-Resolution Imaging and Spectroscopy of Massive Lensing Clusters
12/Nov/2003	Kozlowsky, Benz Tel-Aviv University	Neutrons from solar flares - An improved probe of the Sun
05/Nov/2003	Weingarten, Carmiya	Neighborhoods of star-forming dwarf galaxies
29/Oct/2003	Avishay Gal-Yam Tel-Aviv University	Optical light curves of Gamma-ray bursts
ACADEMIC YEAR 2002/2003 - 2. SEMESTER
04/Jun/2003	Keren Sharon Tel-Aviv University	Supernova counts in HST Fields
28/May/2003	Prof. Ram Brustein Ben-Gurion University	Dark Energy
21/May/2003	Dr. Daniel Wolf Savin Columbia University, (Visiting Weimann)	Atomic Physics at High Redshift and Near Black Holes
19/May/2003	Symposium honoring 2003 Dan David Prize Laureate Prof. John Bahcall IAS Princeton	Web Page
14/May/2003	Mr. Yuval Birnboim Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Virial shocks in halos?
30/Apr/2003	Prof. Avishai Dekel Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Feedback to the Rescue of Galaxy Formation in CDM Cosmology
09/Apr/2003	Prof. Benz Kozlovsky	Annihilation line from solar flares from RHESSI
02/Apr/2003	Prof. Massimo Persic Trieste	X-Ray Emission in Starburst Galaxies
26/Mar/2003	Prof. Amri Wandel Hebrew University of Jerusalem	The BH-host galaxy relation in AGNs
19/Mar/2003	Prof. Hume Feldman Univeristy of Kansas	Velocity Fields as a Probe of the Large Scale Structure of the Universe
12/Mar/2003	Dr. Itzhak Goldman	Dynamics of Gas & Dust in the SMC
ACADEMIC YEAR 2002/2003 - 1. SEMESTER
08/Jan/2003	Dovi Poznanski, Tel-Aviv University	Not Color-Blind: Using Multiband Photometry to Classify Supernovae
SPECIAL! Monday - 06/Jan Kaplun, room 324, 13:00	Prof. Avi Loeb Harvard & IAS	The Nearest and Farthest Supermassive Black Holes in the Universe
01/Jan/2003	Dr. Ofer Lahav Cambridge	The Amplitude of Mass Fluctations: Precision Cosmology?
25/Dec/2002	Dr. Ofer Lahav Cambridge	The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: Cosmological Parameters and Galaxy Biasing
18/Dec/2002	Doron Chelouche Tel-Aviv University	Quasar winds and ghosts
11/Dec/2002	Prof. Hagai Netzer Tel-Aviv University	The Largest Black Holes and the Most Liminous Galaxies
04/Dec/2002	Eran Ofek Tel-Aviv University	Constraints on galaxy mass evolution through the lens redshift distribution
27/Nov/2002	Avishay Gal-Yam Tel-Aviv University	Supernovae in Galaxy Clusters
20/Nov/2002	Prof. Yehuda Hoffman Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Flattening the Halo Density Cusp
06/Nov/2002	Dr. Marcella Contini Tel-Aviv University	AG Pegasi: A New Model for Symbiotic Novae
23/Oct/2002	Prof. Geza Kovacs Budapest	Frequency Analysis of 7700 RR Lyrae Stars in the MACHO Database on the LMC
16/Oct/2002	Prof. Amiel Sternberg Tel-Aviv University	The Compact High Velocity HI Clouds as Dark Matter Mini-Halos