| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE |
|---|---|---|
| 11/Mar/2015 | Dr. Ravit Helled (TAU, Planetary Sciences) | Giant planet formation & internal structure: current knowledge and open questions (Abstract) |
| 18/Mar/2015 | Prof. Yoel Rephaeli (TAU) | Energetic Particles and Magnetic Fields in Galaxy Clusters (Abstract) |
| 25/Mar/2015 | Dr. Iair Arcavi (KITP, UCSB) | The First Optical Characterization of Tidal Disruption Events and Their Surprising Host Galaxy Preference (Abstract) |
| 15/Apr/2015 | Dalya Baron (TAU) | Studying the ISM with SDSS extragalactic spectra (Abstract) |
| 29/Apr/2015 | No seminar | |
| 3/May/2015 | Prof. Reinhard Genzel (MPE and UC Berkeley; Harvey Prize winner) | Special seminar (Sunday 11:10-12:00, Kaplun 118)
The formation and evolution of massive star forming disks (Abstract) |
| 6/May/2015 | Dr. Lara Nava (Hebrew U.) | Advancing our knowledge on Gamma-Ray Burst physics and relativistic shocks through modeling of afterglow radiation (Abstract) |
| 13/May/2015 | Shmuel Bialy (TAU) | Molecules at the Era of First Metal Enrichment (Abstract) |
| (17/May/2015) | Prof. Rogier Windhorst (Arizona State and JWST) | Astronomy-related Physics Colloquium
(Sunday 16:10, Melamed Hall) How the James Webb Space Telescope will measure First Light, Reionization, and Galaxy Assembly: The New Frontier after Hubble |
| 18/May/2015 | Prof. Chris McKee (UC Berkeley) and other speakers | Special seminar day (Monday 9:30 - 17:30, Kaplun 118) (Full schedule) |
| 20/May/2015 | Dr. Caterina Lani (TAU) | Investigating the links between galaxy structure and environment in the high redshift Universe (Abstract) |
| 25/May/2015 | Prof. Rogier Windhorst (Arizona State and JWST) | Special seminar (Monday 10:10-11:00, Kaplun 324)
Hubble Space Telescope Observations of Escaping Lyman Continuum Radiation from Galaxies and Weak AGN at Redshifts 2.3 < z < 5: (How) Did they Reionize the Universe? (Abstract) |
| 27/May/2015 | Prof. Robert Kirschner (Harvard) and other speakers | Supernovae & Cosmology Mini-Workshop + special colloquium (Wednesday 9:00 - 20:00, Auditorium, The Capsule Building, The Porter School of Environmental Studies) (Full schedule) |
| (31/May/2015) | Prof. Rennan Barkana (TAU) | Astronomy-related Physics Colloquium
(Sunday 16:10, Melamed Hall) Observing the First Stars with 21-cm Cosmology |
| 3/Jun/2015 | Prof. Shay Zucker (TAU, Planetary Sciences) | A Novel Approach for Periodicity Detection in Sparse Datasets (Abstract) |
| 10/Jun/2015 | Prof. Eve Ostriker (Princeton) | Dynamics of Prestellar Core Formation (Abstract) |
| (14/Jun/2015) | Prof. Eve Ostriker (Princeton) | Astronomy-related Physics Colloquium
(Sunday 16:10, Melamed Hall) Brilliant past, luminous future: the evergreen lives of star-forming galaxies |
| 17/Jun/2015 | Dr. Or Graur (NYU and American Museum of Natural History) | Digging for Treasure: supernovae in SDSS spectra explain the rate-mass relation (Abstract) |
| 24/Jun/2015 | Prof. Kunihito Ioka, Institute of Particle and Nuclear Studies, KEK, Tsukuba, Japan | Special seminar (usual time and place, but after
the semester) Electromagnetic Counterparts to Gravitational Waves (Abstract) |
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE |
|---|---|---|
| 29/Oct/2014 | Dr. Omer Bromberg (Princeton, Spitzer Fellow) | On the nature of long GRB jets and how they can can be used to study the properties of "true" short GRBs (Abstract) |
| 30/Oct/2014 | Dr. Andy Fruchter (STScI) | Special seminar (Thursday 11:10 - 12:10, Kaplun 324)
Refusing to go quietly; gamma-ray bursts and their progenitors |
| 2/Nov/2014 | Prof. Michel Fich (U. of Waterloo, Canada) | Special seminar (Sunday 12:10 - 12:50, Kaplun 205, replacing astro-coffee)
CCAT: The Next Generation Submillimeter Survey Telescope (Abstract) |
| 5/Nov/2014 | Dr. Noemie Globus (TAU) | Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays: Gamma Ray Burst Messengers? (Abstract) |
| 12/Nov/2014 | Dr. Daniel Capellupo (TAU) | A New Look at AGN Accretion Discs and Black Hole Spin (Abstract) |
| 19/Nov/2014 | Dr. Noam Libeskind (Potsdam) | Dwarf galaxies in the Local Group: insights and unresolved issues (Abstract) |
| 26/Nov/2014 | Dr. Assaf Horesh (Caltech) | The Era of Time Domain Radio Astronomy (Abstract) |
| 3/Dec/2014 | Prof. Amir Levinson (TAU) | Gravitational radiation from cosmic explosions (Abstract) |
| 10/Dec/2014 | Prof. Marta Volonteri (IAP, Paris) | Growing black holes and galaxies across cosmic time (Abstract) |
| 17/Dec/2014 | Dr. Asaf Pe'er (UCC, Ireland) | A paradigm shift in understanding Gamma-ray bursts (Abstract) |
| 24/Dec/2014 | Dr. Ruxandra Bondarescu (U. of Zurich) | Probing general relativity, alternative theories of gravity, and relativistic geodesy with atomic clocks (Abstract) |
| 31/Dec/2014 | Prof. Mark Krumholz (UCSC) | The Origin of Stellar Masses (Abstract) |
| 7/Jan/2015 | Lev Tal-Or (TAU) | Confirmation of planetary and low-mass stellar-companion candidates detected in CoRoT and Kepler lightcurves [Ph.D. seminar] (Abstract) |
| 14/Jan/2015 | Yossi Shvartzvald (TAU) | How common are snowline-region planets? First results from a second generation microlensing survey [Ph.D. seminar] (Abstract) |
| 21/Jan/2015 | Dr. Guillaume Molodij (CNRS, France) | Multi-wavelength spectropolarimetric observations to understand the solar magnetic activity and its feedback on the interplanetary medium (Abstract) |