The purpose of the short seminar is to increase awareness of departmental research in the interrelated fields of high energy astrophysics, high energy physics, relativity, and cosmology.
The seminar is a short informal briefing on a current or upcoming research effort the speaker is involved with or would like to get involved with. The preferred format for presentations is through the laptop and projector. Please bring at least 6 slides for your presentation. The slides should offer background and a qualitative explanation of the material and results.
All level of questions from the audience will be welcome and encouraged. The speaker should plan a presentation that will last roughly 20 minutes. Interruptions and informal discussion are expected to extend most seminars, but we will end the meeting by 11:30am. Interested parties will be free to continue the discussion at their will.
Kyle Dawson
(kdawson@astro.utah.edu)
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| Friday January 14, 2011 | Ben Bromley | The Growth of Supermassive Black Holes |
| Friday January 21, 2011 | Anil Seth (Harvard-CfA) | The Histories of Nearby Galaxies |
| Friday January 28, 2011 | Richard Hill (University of Chicago) | Effective Theories in Dark Matter |
| Friday February 4, 2011 | SnowPAC/No meeting | N/A |
| Friday February 11, 2011 | Elena D'Onghia (Harvard-CfA) | Resonant Stripping as the origin of dwarf spheroidal galaxies |
| Friday February 18, 2011 | No Meeting | No Meeting |
| Friday February 25, 2011 | Tim Tait | Understanding New Physics with Effective Theory: A Worked Example |
| Tuesday March 1, 2011 - 9:45AM | Adam Martin | Boosting BSM Higgs Searches |
| Friday March 4, 2011 | Pearl Sandick | Indirect Detection of the First Stars with Dark Matter Spikes |
| Friday March 11, 2011 | Zheng Zheng (Yale University) | Clustering of Galaxies |
| Tuesday March 15, 2011 - 10:30 AM | Yang Bai | Weakly Interacting Stable Pions |
| Friday March 25, 2011 | Spring Break/No Meeting | N/A |
| Friday April 1, 2011 | Priti Shah | Energy Spectrum of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays |
| Friday April 8, 2011 | Peter Brown | Understanding Supernovae using early UV observations |
| Friday April 15, 2011 | Stacy Palen (Weber State) | The Death of Sun-Like Stars |
| Friday April 22, 2011 | Victor Migenes (BYU) | TBD |
END OF SPRING SEMESTER 2011