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

Academic Year 2010/11 1. SEMESTER 2. SEMESTER

DATE	SPEAKER	TITLE
ACADEMIC YEAR 2010/2011 - 1. SEMESTER
27/Oct/2010	Dr. Udi Nakar TAU	BABY SUPERNOVAE - FROM SHOCK BREAKOUT TO RECOMBINATION
03/Nov/2010	Dr. Avi Shporer UC St. Barbara	NLTT 11748 - THE FIRST ECLIPSING DETACHED DOUBLE WD BINARY
10/Nov/2010	Prof. Ehud Bahar Technion	On the soft X-ray opacity towards high redshift GRBs and QSOs and the diffused intergalactic medium
17/Nov/2010	Dr. Ohad Shemmer U. of N. Texas	Solving the Mystery of Weak Emission Line Quasars at High Redshift
24/Nov/2010	Dr. Andrea Morandi TAU	UNDERSTANDING THE PHYSICS OF GALAXY CLUSTERS
01/Dec/2010	Dr. Uri Keshet Harvard	Dynamical and nonthermal processes in galaxy clusters
08/Dec/2010	Dr. Silvia Tommasin TAU	Mid-Infrared Spectroscopy of Active Galaxies
15/Dec/2010	Dr. Doron Chelouche Haifa University	WHAT'S BETWEEN MAGNETARS, DARK MATTER AND QCD?
22/Dec/2010	Ely Kovetz TAU	GIANT RINGS IN THE CMB SKY
29/Dec/2010	Dr. Assaf Pe'er Harvard	THERMAL AND NON-THERMAL EMISSION IN THE PROMPT PHASE OF GRBs
05/Jan/2011	Dr. Orly Gnat Caltech	NON-EQUILIBRIUM IONIZATION PROCESSES: CIRCUM-GLACATIC CONDUCTION FRONTS AND INTERGALACTIC SHOCKS
12/Jan/2011	Dr. Daniel Wolf Savin Columbia Astro Lab	THE GENESIS PROJECTS: LABORATORY STUDIES IN MOLECULAR ASTROPHYSICS FROM THE FIRST STAR TO THE BEGINNINGS OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
19/Jan/2011	Dr. Dovi Poznanski Berkeley	SUPERNOVA SCIENCE IN THE ERA OF MASSIVE SURVEYS
ACADEMIC YEAR 2010/2011 - 2. SEMESTER
23/Feb/2011	Adi Zitrin TAU	A VERY SIMPLE STRONG-LENSING ANALYSIS METHOD AND IMPORTANT IMPLICATIONS
02/Mar/2011	Prof. Jacco Vink Uni. Utrecht	OBSERVATIONAL SIGNATURES OF ACTIVE COSMIC RAY ACCELERATION IN SUPERNOVA REMNANTS
16/Mar/2011	Prof. Ralph Neuhaueser Uni. Jena	NEUTRON STAR WORK IN JENA
23/Mar/2011	Dr. Meir Shimon TAU	FORECAST FOR NEUTRINO MASS CONSTRAINTS FROM SZ SURVEYS
30/Mar/2011	Dr. Shy Genel TAU	Dark Matter Halos and z~2 Galaxies: Mergers, Smooth Accretion, and Feedback
13/Apr/2011	Dr. Joshua Carter CfA	STELLAR AND PLANETARY CHARACTERIZATION WITH KEPLER
27/Apr/2011	Prof. Tsvi Piran Hebrew University	RADIO REMNANTS OF COMPACT BINARY MERGERS
04/May/2011	Reut Evenstein TAU	MODELING THE GAS IN cD GALAXIES
11/May/2011	Dr. Carles Badenes TAU & Weizmann	The Quest for Type Ia Supernova Progenitors
18/May/2011	Gilad Svirsky TAU	Probing Soft Gamma Repeaters (SGRs) and Dust in Intervening Molecular Clouds by Analyzing X-ray Echoes from SGR Bursts
25/May/2011	Yevgeny Tsodikovich TAU	TRIMOR - 3 dimensional correlation technique to analyse multi-order spectra of triple stellar systems: Application to HD 188753