+ View the NASA Portal Search JPL   2012 Astrophysics and Exoplanet Science Colloquia and Seminars See seminar/colloquium abstract (click on title of talk) for location and time. Coffee and snacks will be available 10-15 minutes prior to the start time, unless it's a lunchtime event, in which case you are welcome to bring your lunch. Other Years: 2011 2013 Date   Series   Speaker   Title   Thu   Dec 13     Jamie Bock (JPL)   New Results from CIBER (THIS TALK HAS BEEN POSTPONED)   Mon   Dec 10     Leslie Hunt (INAF)   Scaling Relations of Metallicity, Stellar Mass, and Star-formation Rate in Low-metallicity Starbursts   Thu   Dec 6     Ali Vanderveld (Univ. Chicago)   Testing the Concordance Cosmology with Weak Gravitational Lensing   Mon   Dec 3     Andres Asensio (IAC)   Clumpy Dusty Tori in AGN: A Bayesian Perspective   Thu   Nov 29     James Lloyd (Cornell)   Super-Earth or Super-Venus?   Mon   Nov 26     Francisco Muller-Sanchez (UCLA)   Measuring Gas Flows in Nearby AGN with AO Integral Field Spectroscopy (THIS TALK HAS BEEN POSTPONED)   Mon   Nov 19     Various (see Agenda)   JPL Astrophysics Science Fair     Thu   Nov 15     Andreas Ross (Carnegie Mellon Univ.)   Gravitational Radiation from Compact Binaries with Effective Field Theory   Thu   Nov 8     Daniel Grin (IAS, Princeton)   New Light on Cosmic Initial Conditions and Dark Matter   Mon   Nov 5     Henry Lin (CPMHS)   A Generalized Holographic Model of Cosmic Acceleration   Thu   Nov 1     Joaquin Vieira (Caltech)   High Redshift Starburst Galaxies Revealed by SPT, ALMA, and Gravitational Lensing   Mon   Oct 29     David Harvey (Univ. Edinburgh)   Using Global Competitions to Better Understand Dark Matter   Mon   Oct 29     Joan T. Schmelz (Univ. Memphis)   Unconscious Bias in Hiring, Promotions, and Tenure (THIS IS A SCIENCE DIVISION SEMINAR)   Mon   Oct 22     Hyosun Kim (ASIAA)   A New Method of Determining the Characteristics of Evolved Binary Systems Revealed in the Observed Circumstellar Spirals   Thu   Oct 11     Michael Werner (JPL)   Spitzer’s Greatest Hits   Thu   Sep 27     Moshe Elitzur (Univ. Kentucky)   WISE Colors: What do they Mean?   Mon   Sep 24     Hiroshi Kobayashi (Nagoya Univ.)   Planet Formation and Debris Disks   Mon   Sep 17     Chihway Chang (SLAC)   From Cosmology to CCDs – Weak Lensing Systematics and LSST   Thu   Aug 9     Anthony Gonzalez (Univ. Florida)   An Infrared View of Galaxy Clusters at High Redshift   Mon   Aug 6     Tomida Kengo (Princeton)   3D RMHD Simulations of Protostellar Collapse   Thu   Jul 19     Hanno Rein (IAS)   Formation of Multi-planetary Systems - Success and Failure of Planetary Migration Theory   Thu   Jul 12     Jessie Christiansen (NASA Ames)   Towards Determining eta-Earth: Characterizing the Kepler Survey Completeness   Thu   Jun 21     Hai Fu (UCI)   Merger-Induced Black Hole Accretion and Star Formation: Observations vs. Simulations   Thu   Jun 14     Steve Kahn (Stanford Univ./SLAC)   The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, A Stage IV Dark Energy Experiment   Tue   May 29     Marcos Lopes-Caniego (Univ. Cantabria)   Mining the Herschel-ATLAS: Submillimeter-selected Blazars in Equatorial Fields   Thu   May 10     Joaquin Vieira (Caltech)   High-Redshift, Strongly Lensed Submillimeter Galaxies   Thu   May 3     Barth Netterfield (Univ. Toronto)   Blast, BlastPol, Spider and Ballooning   Thu   Apr 26     Bharat Ratra (Kansas State Univ.)   Dark Energy: Constant or Time Variable? (and Other Open Questions)   Tue   Apr 24     Evan Keane (MPIfR)   Fast Radio Transients – The Past, the Present and LOFAR   Thu   Apr 19     John Johnson (Caltech)   The Caltech Exolab   Mon   Apr 16     Rolf Kuiper (JPL)   Radiation Pressure Feedback in Massive Star Formation - The Radiation Pressure Barrier and Radiation-pressure-dominated Outflow Cavities   Thu   Apr 12     Rogier Windhorst (Arizona State Univ.)   How Will JWST Measure First Light, Reionization, and Galaxy Assembly: Science and Project Update as of 2012   Mon   Apr 9     Toshiya Namikawa (Tokyo Univ.)   Full-sky Lensing Reconstruction of Gradient and Curl Modes from CMB Maps   Thu   Apr 5     Lifan Wang (Texas A&M Univ.)   An Optical / IR Observatory on Antarctic Plateau   Mon   Apr 2     Alina Kiessling (JPL)   SUNGLASS: A New Weak-lensing Simulation Pipeline   Thu   Mar 29     Kirk Gilmore (SLAC, Stanford Univ.)   The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST)   Mon   Mar 26     Eric Huff (U.C. Berkeley)   Magnification and Cosmic Shear in the SDSS   Thu   Mar 22     Dimitri Mawet (ESO)   High Contrast Imaging and Coronagraphy at ESO   Mon   Mar 19     Jonas Kuhn (JPL)   Digital Holography: Principle and Applications   Mon   Mar 12     Julian Merten (JPL)   Creation of Cosmic Structure in Clusters of Galaxies   Mon   Mar 5     Marie Ygouf (UJF Grenoble)   Simultaneous Exoplanet Detection and Instrument Aberration Retrieval in Multispectral Coronagraphic Imaging   Thu   Mar 1     Alan Boss (Carnegie Inst. Science)   Kepler, Microlensing, and Direct Imaging: New Constraints on Exoplanet Formation Theories   Mon   Feb 27     Satoshi Okuzumi (Nagoya Univ.)   Rapid Coagulation of Porous Dust Aggregates Outside the Snow Line   Thu   Feb 16     Christoph Mordasini (MPIA Heidelberg)   Planetary Population Synthesis: Comparing Observations and Theory   Thu   Feb 9     Tony Piro (Caltech)   Multi-Messenger Studies of Gamma-Ray Bursts   Mon   Feb 6     Masahiro Takada (IPMU)   Subaru HSC and PFS Projects   Thu   Feb 2     Ruth Murray-Clay (SAO)   Planet Formation at Wide Separations   Wed   Feb 1     Steven Tingay (Curtin Univ. Tech.)   The Murchison Widefield Array: A Low Frequency Precursor for the Square Kilometre Array   Mon   Jan 30     Chris Ormel (U.C. Berkeley)   Core Accretion: Contrasting Planetesimal-driven and Fragment-driven Scenarios   Mon   Jan 23     Kate Randall (CSIRO)   AGN and Stellar Contributions to Galaxy Luminosities   Thu   Jan 19     Dave Redding (JPL)   Active Optics for Low-Cost Astronomical Space Telescopes   Site Manager: Webmaster: CL 08-3220