Colloquium Schedule   Spring 2006
Wednesday, 4:15pm, Pupin 1332   (Cheese & Wine after the colloquium, Pupin 1402)
Date	Speaker Affiliation	Title [Abstract]	Hosted by
Jan 18	Rennan Barkana Tel Aviv Univ.	Star Formation, Extinction and the First Objects [ABSTRACT]	Zoltan Haiman
Jan 25	Roman Scoccimaro NYU	Large Scale Structure, Galaxies and Cosmological Parameters [ABSTRACT]	Jacqueline van Gorkom
Feb 1	Andrei Beloborodov Columbia	Magnetars and their coronae [ABSTRACT]	Jacqueline van Gorkom
Feb 8	Caleb Scharf Columbia	Planets, Moons and Microbes [ABSTRACT]	Kristen Menou
Feb 15	Ray Jayawardhana Toronto	Exploring Young Brown Darfs [ABSTRACT]	Kristen Menou
Feb 22	Isabelle Baraffe ENS Lyon & AMNH	Birth and Fate of Hot Jupiters and Hot Neptunes [ABSTRACT]	Joe Patterson
Feb 24 (FRIDAY)	Ed van den Heuvel University of Amsterdam	Jeffrey BISHOP Lecture (4:30pm)	David Helfand
March 1	Paul Schechter MIT	Gravitational Micro-Lensing of Quasars at Unit Optical Depth [ABSTRACT]	Zoltan Haiman
March 8	Chris Reynolds Maryland	Radio-Galaxy Feedback and The Cores of Galaxy Clusters [ABSTRACT]	Zoltan Haiman
March 22	Don Neill Univ. of Victoria	How Far and How Often: Cosmology and SN Ia Rates with the SNLS [ABSTRACT]	Jacqueline van Gorkom
March 29	Todd Thompson Princeton	The Birth of Neutron Stars and Magnetars [ABSTRACT]	Kristen Menou
April 5	Ue-Li Pen CITA	Searching for First Light in the Universe [ABSTRACT]	Jacqueline van Gorkom
April 12	Roelof de Jong STScI	Comparing Dynamical and Stellar Population Mass-to-Light Ratios [ABSTRACT]	Jacqueline van Gorkom
April 19	Carlos Badenes Rutgers	Light from the Ashes: Constraints on the Physics of Type IA Supernovae from the X-ray Spectra of Young Supernova Remnants  [ABSTRACT]	Kristen Menou
April 26	Tiziana Di Matteo Carnegie Mellon	The Role of Black Holes in Galaxy Evolution [ABSTRACT]	Kristen Menou
May 3	Aeree, Andrei, Ryan Columbia	Graduating Student Talks at 3:15pm!! [ABSTRACT]	Department