Department of Astrophysics
Tel-Aviv University

ASTRO SEMINAR ANNOUNCEMENTS

See also School of Physics & Astronomy - Astronomy and Astrophysics Seminars

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

Academic Year 2011/12 1. SEMESTER 2. SEMESTER

Seminars from previous years:


DATE SPEAKER TITLE
ACADEMIC YEAR 2011/2012 - 1. SEMESTER
02/Nov/2011 Dr. Eyal Neistein
MPE
What can we learn from the abundance and clustering of galaxies?
09/Nov/2011 Yanir Hainick
TAU
Love Triangles in Space - Hypervelocity Stars on Eccentric Orbits
23/Nov/2011 Prof. Frank van den Bosch
Yale
Cosmological Constraints from a Combined Analysis of
Clustering and Galaxy-Galaxy Lensing in the SDSS
30/Nov/2011 Dr. Eran Ofek
Weizmann Inst.
The Palomar Transient Factory - results and the future
21/Dec/2011
Special Seminar
11:10
Prof. Avi Loeb
Harvard University
Future Frontiers in Astrophysics: Suggestions for Young Researchers
21/Dec/2011
Special Colloqium
Melamed Hall, 14:00
Prof. Robert Kirshner
Harvard University
The Nobel Surprise: How exploding stars led to dark energy
28/Dec/2011 Dr. Boaz Katz
Institute for Advanced Study
Super-eccentric hot Jupiters and High energy emission from Supernovae
18/Jan/2012 Benny Trakhtenbrot
TAU
Observing the Growth of the Most Massive Black Holes at High Redshifts
25/Jan/2012 Dr. Orly Gnat
Hebrew University
Following the Footsteps of the Missing Baryons
01/Feb/2012 Prof. Michal Ostrowski
Jagiellonian Uni., Krakow
Abstract
ACADEMIC YEAR 2011/2012 - 2. SEMESTER
07/Mar/2012 Dr. Simone Dall'Osso
Hebrew University
The Decaying magnetic field of magnetars: evidence and inference
14/Mar/2012 Dr. Raanan Nordon
TAU
The 'main sequence' of star-forming galaxies and its evolution since z=2.
How do galaxies build up their stellar mass?
28/Mar/2012 Dr. Karen Lewis
Monash U.
The Detectability of Moons of Transiting and Pulsar Planets
04/Apr/2012 Simchon Faigler
TAU
The BEER algorithm for photometric detection of non-eclipsing short-period binaries - First discoveries
02/May/2012 Oren Slone
TAU
The effects of disc winds on the SED and BH growth rate of AGNs
09/May/2012 Prof. Richard Ellis
Caltech
Keck Spectroscopy of 3 < z < 8 Lyman Break Galaxies
16/May/2012 Rivay Mor
TAU
The AGN Star-Formation Connection. An IR perspective
23/May/2012 Prof. Sara Beck
TAU
Gas Kinematics and the Evolution of Embedded Star Clusters: Heavy Metal and High Resolution
06/Jun/2012 Prof. Shaul Hanany
U. Minnesota
 
13/Jun/2012
  • Prof. Sara Seager (MIT)
  • Prof. David Charbonneau
    (Harvard U.)
  • Sackler Prize Colloqium
    20/Jun/2012 Prof. Nahum Arav
    Virginia Tech. U.