Ritter Astrophysical Research Center
Astrophysics Bag Lunch Seminar

NOTE CHANGE OF DAY AND TIME FOR ASTRO BAG LUNCH SEMINAR!!

On every Wednesday, the Astronomy & Astrophysics faculty, postdocs, and students meet in Room 4009 of McMaster Hall (MH 4009). From 12:00-1:00 pm, the scheduled speaker gives a talk about a paper or two on a topic chosen at the beginning of the term. Talks during the same term are chosen to share a common theme.

Reminder to scheduled speakers:  Please send a reminder announcement, including a list of your principal references, to the astronomy bag lunch mailing list no later than the Monday before your talk.  The e-mail address to use is astroseminar at mail.physics.utoledo.edu (replace "_at_" with "@" before sending).

Link to J-D Smith's tips on giving a good talk: http://tir.astro.utoledo.edu/jdsmith/class/bbl_fall2008_intro.pdf

Link to Mike Cushing's overview of topic for Spring 2012 and tips on giving a good talk:  BBlunch2012.pdf

Fall 2012 - Seminal Papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics Related to Current Research

(Organizer: Jon Bjorkman)

Date Speaker Topic
Aug 22
 All / Jon Bjorkman
 Organizational meeting and Overview of Topic
Aug 29 Eric Pelligrini
 Massive Stellar Feedback in 30 Doradus
Sep 05
 Lesley Simanton
 Globular Cluster Systems and Galaxy Formation.
Searle & Zinn 1978, "Compositions of Halo Clusters and the Formation of the Galactic Halo"
Sep 12
 Alex Mulia
 Intermediate Mass Black Holes
Gerssen et al. 2002, "Hubble Space Telescope Evidence for an Intermediate-Mass Black Hole in the Globular Cluster M15.  II.  Kinematic Analysis and Dynamical Modeling"
Sep 19
 Michelle Deady
 Line Formation in Turbulent Media
Gail et al
Sep 26
 None?
 None?
Oct 03
 Johnathan Rice
 Interstellar Molecules: A story of CO and H2
Jenkins et al. 1973; Carruthers 1970; Stecher et al. 1971; Wilson et al. 1970
Oct 10 Cody Gerhartz
 Classical Be Stars: Infrared Excess
Struve 1931; Gehrz, Hackwell, and Jones 1974
Oct 17
 Jimmy Davidson
 TBD
Oct 24
 Joseph Booker
 TBD
Oct 31
 Carl Starkey
 TBD
Nov 07
 Tom Allen
 TBD
Nov 14
 Aditya Togi
 Molecular Gas in Galaxies
Nov 21
 None
 Thanksgiving break
Nov 28
 Justin Brown
 TBD
Dec 05
 None
 Award Ceremony


Schedules from previous terms


last update - 04 Sept 2012