ASTRO SEMINAR ANNOUNCEMENTS

Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Tel-Aviv University
Israel

Astro Seminars are held every Wednesday,at 14:00
at Holcblat Hall (Room 7) in the Physics Shenkar Building

DATE SPEAKER TITLE
ACADEMIC YEAR 2006/2007 - 1. SEMESTER
01/Nov/2006 Prof. Dan Maoz
Tel-Aviv University
Tracing cosmic metal enrichment with supernovae
08/Nov/2006 Omer Tamuz
Tel-Aviv University
The Deficiency of Transiting Extrasolar Planets: Correlated Noise in Photometric Time Series
15/Nov/2006 Dr. Tal Alexander
Weizmann Institute
The Galactic Center as a Laboratory For the Dynamics of Extreme Mass-Ratio Gravitational Wave Sources
22/Nov/2006 Dr. Ehud (Udi) Nakar
Caltech
Open Questions in the Micro-Physics of Gamma-Ray Burst
06/Dec/2006 Prof. Noam Soker
Technion
Accretion and Jets in the Eta Carinae Massive Binary System
18/Dec/2006
(Monday 13:00)
Dr. Eran Ofek
Caltech
The Transient Sky
21/Dec/2006
(Thursday 14:00)
Prof. Lars Bildsten
UC Santa Barbara
Explosions on and in Accreting White Dwarfs:
From Classical Novae to Supernovae
27/Dec/2006 Prof. Jon Arons
UC Berkeley
The Excitation of Pulsar Wind Nebulae
03/Jan/2007 Orly Gnat
TAU/Caltech
From HVCs to the WHIM:
Non-Equilibrium Ionization in Metal Ion Absorber
10/Jan/2007 Yifat Dzigan ( TAU )

Shay Noter ( TAU )
Comparison of mass and light for individual galaxy lenses n A1689 & A2218

Halo Statistics and a New Alternative to Simulations
18/Jan/2007
(Thursday 14:00)
Prof. Phil Charles
Director, South African Large Telescope (SALT)
Science with SALT
live broadcast
24/Jan/2007 Prof. Eli Waxman
Weizmann Institute
Starburst Galaxies:
Magnetic fields, the FIR-radio Correlation and the Cosmic Gamma & Neutrino Background
ACADEMIC YEAR 2006/2007 - 2. SEMESTER
28/Feb/2007 Prof. Adi Nusser
Technion
07/Mar/2007 Prof. Tsvi Piran
Hebrew University
Quantum Gravity with GRBs - Testing Lorentz Invariance with Gamma-Ray Bursts
14/Mar/2007 Prof. Benz Kozlovsky
Tel-Aviv University
Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy of Solar Atmosphere
12/Apr/2007
(Thursday, 12:30)
Asaf Pe'er
University of Amsterdam
Analysis of the thermal emission component in Gamma-Ray Bursts
18/Apr/2007 Dr. Noam Libeskind
Hebrew University
Some Properties of Satellite Galaxies
25/Apr/2007 Dr. Noah Brosch
TAU
SALT Observations of a Polar Ring Galaxy
02/May/2007 Dovi Poznanski
TAU
Searching for the most distant supernovae
09/May/2007
12:00
Rodolfo Angeloni
Padova
Silicate dust in D-type symbiotic stars: an ISO overview
16/May/2007 Yiftah
TAU
 
30/May/2007 David Raban
Leiden Observatory
Detailed inner structure of the torus of NGC1068 from very high resolution VLT interferometry with MIDI
06/Jun/2007 Smadar Naoz The Early Galaxies
13/Jun/2007 Yuval Birnboim
Hebrew University
Halo-shocks and galaxy evolution