Welcome!
Welcome to the web page for the Astronomy Seminar. This is a graduate-level seminar intended for students pursuing their PhD in Astronomy, but other students who are interested in the subject are also welcome to register. Students who participate should have a solid undergraduate foundation in Astronomy at the level of ASTR 314.
Every student will be responsible for leading a "journal club"-style discussion of two papers during the semester. All students are expected to read all papers in depth and actively participate in the discussions.
Instructor
Prof. Lucas Macri
Seminar location and times
- Munnerlyn Conference Room
- Wednesdays, 9:30-10:00
Papers to be discussed and discussion leaders
- Sep 9: Joy Chavez, "High-resolution optical spectroscopy of a newly-discovered post-AGB star with a surprising metallicity in the globular cluster M79", astro-ph/0906.3706
- Sep 16: Samantha Hoffmann, "A new distance to M33 using blue supergiants and the FGLR method", astro-ph/0909.0032
- Sep 23: Amy Jones, "Physical properties and environments of nearby galaxies" astro-ph/0908.3071
- Sep 30: John Krause, "High-redshift elliptical galaxies: are they (all) really compact?" astro-ph/0909.3088
- Oct 7: Heath Shipley, "Star formation and AGN activity in SDSS cluster galaxies" astro-ph/0909.3522
- Oct 14: Adam Tomczak, "Improved constraints on the gravitational lens Q0957+561. II. Strong lensing" astro-ph/0909.1807
- Oct 21: Joy Chavez, "Velocity Dispersion Profile of the Milky Way Halo" astro-ph/0910.2242
- Oct 28: Samantha Hoffmann, "A near-infrared survey of Miras and the distance to the Galactic Centre" astro-ph/0907.2761
- Nov 4: Amy Jones, "Clustering of Radio Galaxies and Quasars" astro-ph/0910.3667
- Nov 11: John Krause, "Heavily Obscured AGN in Star-Forming Galaxies at z~2" astro-ph/0911.0003
- Nov 18: Heath Shipley, "Optical and near-IR spectroscopy of candidate red galaxies in two z~2.5 proto-clusters" astro-ph/0911.1717
- Nov 25: No seminar (Thanksgiving)
- Dec 2: Adam Tomczak, "The Nearby Damped Lyman-alpha Absorber SBS 1543+593: A Large HI Envelope in a Gas-Rich Galaxy Group"astro-ph/0604.0220
- Dec 9: No seminar (Finals)
- Dec 16: Special seminar by Ashley Pagnotta (LSU): "T Pyxidis: A Recurrent Nova that is NOT a Type Ia Supernova Progenitor" abstract & see also astro-ph/0906.0933