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McWilliams Center for Cosmology Colloquia

Tuesday, December 11, 2012, Rafael Porto (Institute for Advanced Studies), "A tale of Symmetries:  From the Big Bang to Black Holes, 4:30 PM, A301D Doherty Hall, Â鶹´å

Tuesday, December 4, 2012, Daniel Green (Stanford University), "Connecting Primordial Physics and Cosmological Observations, 4:30 PM, A301D Doherty Hall, Â鶹´å

Thursday, November 29, 2012, Phill Marshall (University of Oxford), "Measuring Distance in the Universe with Gravitational Lenses," 4:30 PM, 4303 Gates Hillman Center , Â鶹´å

Tuesday, November 27, 2012, Jure Zupan (University of Cincinnatti), "The Dark Side of Higgs," 4:30 PM, A301D Wean Hall, Â鶹´å

Tuesday, November 13, 2012, Enrico Pajer (Princeton University), "Seeing the Big Bang:  the Imprints of the Very Early Universe," 4:30 PM, A301D Doherty Hall, Â鶹´å

Wednesday, February 29, 2012, Chris Hirata (California Institute of Technology), “Understanding the Cosmic Recombination Epoch," 4:30 PM, A301D Doherty Hall, Â鶹´å

Tuesday, February 28, 2012, Annika Peter (University of California, Irvine), "What the Heck is Dark Matter? One Astrophysicist's Perspective," 4:30 PM, A301D Doherty Hall, Â鶹´å

Astro Seminars

Friday, December 7, 2012, Rosalba Perna, "Gamma-Ray Bursts as Tools for Extragalactic Astrophysics and Cosmology," 8325 Wean Hall, Â鶹´å

Thursday, December 6, 2012, Ludovic Van Waerbeke, "Gravitational lensing with CFHTLensS: results and lessons learned," 8325 Wean Hall, Â鶹´å

Wednesday, December 5, 2012, Jordi Miralda-Esucde (University of Barcelona), "The origin of the cloud of gas falling to the Galactic Center", 8325 Wean Hall, Â鶹´å

Wednesday, December 5, 2012, Oliver Zahn (Berkeley), "New Cosmology from the Microwave Background," 11:30 AM, 8325 Wean Hall, Â鶹´å

Tuesday, December 4, 2012, Yohan Dubois (Oxford), "AGN feedback in hydrodynamical numericqal simulations," 11:00 AM, 8325 Wean Hall, Â鶹´å

Friday, November 16, 2012, Richard Shaw (CITA), "21cm Intensity Mapping with Radio Interferometers," 12:00 PM, 8325 Wean Hall, Â鶹´å

Tuesday, November 6, 2012, Michael Kuhlen, "Most Matter is Dark Matter, but that's not all that Matters," 12:00 PM, 8325 Wean Hall, Â鶹´å

Friday, November 2, 2012, Brad Benson (University of Chicago), "SZ Cluster Surveys: From SPT-SZ to SPTpol to SPT-3G, 12:00 PM, " 8325 Wean Hall, Â鶹´å

Tuesday, October 23, 2012,  Dan Hooper, "Searching for dark matter in the discovery age," 12:00 PM, 8325 Wean Hall, Â鶹´å

Friday, October 19, 2012, Peter Behroozi, “Galaxy Star Formation Efficiency from z=0 to z=8,” 12:00 PM, 7423 Wean Hall, Â鶹´å

Tuesday, October 9, 2012, Christian Reichardt, "By Dawn's Early Light-- what we can learn from the cosmic microwave background about neutrinos and the early Universe," 12:00 PM, 8325 Wean Hall, Â鶹´å

Friday, October 5, 2012, Kendrick Smith, "Constraining the physics of inflation," 12:00 PM, 8325 Wean Hall

Wednesday, September 26, 2012, Anastasia Fialkov, "First stars at z-20:dectable signature in neutral hydrogen due to relative velocity and Lyman-Werner feedback," 12:00 PM, 8325 Wean Hall

Friday, September 21, 2012, Kayvon Fatahalian, "From Simulation to Large-Scale Image Analysis: the Increasingly Similar Needs of Computations in Computer Graphics and Astronomy," 12:00 PM, 8325 Wean Hall

Tuesday, September 11, 2012, Vicent Desjacques (University of Geneva), "Modeling the Clustering of Biased Tracers," 12:00 PM., 8325 Wean Hall, Â鶹´å

Tuesday, May 22, 2012, Surhud More (University of Chicago), "Galaxy-Dark Matter Connection: A Cosmological Perspective," 12:00 PM., 8325 Wean Hall, Â鶹´å

Friday, May 18, 2012, Andrey Kravtsov (Chicago), "Title Forthcoming, ", 12:00 PM., 8325 Wean Hall, Â鶹´å

Tuesday, May 8, 2012, Prof U-Li Pen (Canandian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics), "21cm Cosmology, " 12:00 PM, 8325 Wean Hall, Â鶹´å

Tuesday, April 10, 2012, Karen Gibson (Case Western Reserve University), "Searching for the Dark Matter of the Universe in South Dakota," 12:00 PM, 8325 Wean Hall, Â鶹´å

Friday, April 6, 2012, Andrew N. Youdin (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics),“Planet Formation in the age of *Kepler*: Pluto Returns to the Fold,” 12:00 PM, 8325 Wean Hall, Â鶹´å

Thursday, March 29, 2012, Yurii Maravin (KSU), "Recent Results from a Search for Dark Matter Production in the CMS Experiment,"  4:30 PM, 8325 Wean Hall, Â鶹´å

Tuesday, March 27, 2012, Andrew Tolley (Case Western Reserve University), "Connections between Models of Massive Gravity," 12:00 PM, 8325 Wean Hall, Â鶹´å

Friday, March 23, 2012, Alexander Konopelko (Pittsburg State University, KS), “Imaging the Universe in Very High-Energy Gamma Rays,” 12:00 PM, 8325 Wean Hall, Â鶹´å

Friday, March 9, 2012, Axel Brandenburg (NORDITA, Stockholm Observatory), “Solar Magnetic Activity as a Shallow Phenomenon,” 4:30 PM, 8325 Wean Hall, Â鶹´å

Wednesday, March 7, 2012, Alexander Tevzadze (Tbilisi State University, Georgia), “Initial Stages of Planet Formation in Protoplanetary Disks: Origin of Vortices,”  12:00 PM, 8325 Wean Hall, Â鶹´å

Friday, March 2, 2012, Philip Chang (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee), “The Physics and Cosmology of TeV Blazars,”  12:00 PM, 8325 Wean Hall, Â鶹´å

Thursday, March 1, 2012, Mark Pitt (Virginia Tech), "At the Precision Frontier - Testing the Standard Model with Parity-Violating Electron Scattering," 4:30 PM, 8325 Wean Hall, Â鶹´å

Thursday, February 23, 2012, Tobias Marriage (Johns Hopkins University), "Latest Results from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope," 2:00 PM, 8325 Wean Hall, Â鶹´å

Friday, February 17, 2012, Rachel Bean (Cornell University), "Testing Gravity on Cosmic Scales with Large Scale Structure," 12:00 PM, 8325 Wean Hall, Â鶹´å

Tuesday, February 14, 2012, Kevin Bandura (McGill University), "21cm Cosmology with CHIME," 12:00 PM., 8325 Wean Hall, Â鶹´å

Tuesday, February 7, 2012, Jeff Peterson (Â鶹´å), “An Experiment to Measure the 21-cm All-sky Spectrum from Redshift 6 to 30,” 12:00 PM, 8325 Wean Hall, Â鶹´å

Friday, February 3, 2012, Alexander Heger (University of Minnesota - Twin Cities), “Life and Death of the First Stars: The first cosmic explosions and how the Universe started to make heavy elements,” 12:00 PM, 8325 Wean Hall, Â鶹´å

Tuesday, January 24, 2012, Tau Han (University of Pittsburgh and Pitt-PACC), "Missing Energy at the LHC: The Dark Matter Connection," 12:00 PM, 8325 Wean Hall, Â鶹´å

Friday, January 20, 2012, Sarah Shandera (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics), “New Observational Handles on the Primordial Universe,” 12:00 PM, 8325 Wean Hall, Â鶹´å

Astrostatistics Seminars

Thursday, April 26, 2012, Ed Turner (Princeton University), "A Bayesian Analysis of the Astrobiological Implications of the Rapid Emergence of Life on the Early Earth,"232M Baker Hall, Â鶹´å

Friday, March 23, 2012, Paul Freeman (Â鶹´å), General discussion on analyses of galaxy morphology, 1:30 PM, 232M Baker Hall, Â鶹´å

Friday, February 17, 2012, Nick Battaglia and Shirley Ho (Â鶹´å), "Using SDSS-III Quasars to Trace the Dust Content of Galaxy Clusters," 1:30 PM, 232M Baker Hall, Â鶹´å