Spring 2002
January
14, 2002 Simon White Structure Formation in a Cold
MPA Garching Dark Matter Universe
February, 2002 Romeel Davé Intergalactic Baryons: Linking
University
of Arizona Cosmology and Galaxy Formation
February 25, 2002 Pieter
van Dokkum Formation and
Evolution of Early-Type
Caltech Galaxies
March, 2002 Andreas Burkert The Origin of Elliptical Galaxies and
University of Wisconsin the Merging History of the
Universe
April 1, 2002 Peter Goldreich Origin
and Evolution of Extrasolar
Caltech Planetary Systems
April 29, 2002 Sarbani
Basu Solar Cycle Related Changes
in the Sun
Yale University
Fall, 2002
October 14, 2002 Robert Weaver Massively Parallel Simulations with
Los Alamos
National Laboratory DOE's ASCI Supercomputers: An
Overview
of the Los Alamos Crestone
Project
September 23,
2002 Mark Marley Clouds and Chemistry in the
NASA Ames Research Center Atmospheres of the L and T Dwarfs
September 30, 2002 Rennan Barkana Studying the Reionization
of the
Tel Aviv
University Universe with Recent and Future Observations
October 7, 2002 Tim
McKay Constraining the Halo Occupancy
University of Michigan With SDSS Data
December 9, 2002 Arieh Konigl Formation
and Early Evolution of
University of Chicago Protostellar Accretion Disks
Spring 2003
February 10, 2003 Didier
Saumon From Microliters of Deuterium
Los Alamos
National Laboratory to Jupiter’s
Core
February 17,
2003 Dayal
Wickramasinghe Magnetic
Fields in Compact
Australian National Univ. Stars: and the Evolution of CV’s
UCLA
March 10, 2003 Aigen Li Interstellar
Dust: What
University of Arizona Can We Learn from
SIRTF?
Cosmic
Rays
April 7, 2003 Martin White Holes in the Microwave Sky
UC Berkeley
April 21, 2003 Lars Bildsten Thermal
and Nuclear Evolution
Fall, 2003
September 8, 2003 TAP Reception
California Institute of Technology Collapsars- Gamma-Ray Bursts from
Rotating Stars
October 6, 2003 Steward Internal Symposium (no TAP
colloquium)
October
20, 2003 Tom Abel Frontiers
in the Understanding of
Pennsylvania State
University the Origin of
Structure in the
Universe
November 3, 2003 Janet
Luhmann Solar System Magnetic Field Topologies
UC Berkeley and their Consequences: Lessons for
Extrasolar Planetary Systems?
November 17, 2003 Andy Gould New Results on Galactic
Structure
Ohio
State University
December
1, 2003 Ramesh
Narayan Black
Hole X-ray Binaries and Type
Harvard
University I Bursts
Spring 2004
February 23, 2004 John Chambers Modeling the Formation of
SETI
Institute, Mountain View, CA Habitable
Planets
Princeton University Clustering,
Weak Lensing and Ly-alpha Forest
March 22, 2004 Richard Young The Galileo
Probe: How It Has
Nasa Ames Research Center Changed
Our Understanding of Jupiter
University of Kansas
April
19, 2004 Idit Zehavi Galaxy
Clustering in the SDSS
University of Arizona Redshift
Survey
Hebrew University Formation
Fall, 2004
October 4, 2004 Saul Rappaport Black Hole
Binaries as Ultra-
MIT luminous
X-Ray Sources
October 25, 2004 Keith Dienes The Fifth Dimension: It’s Closer
University
of Arizona Than You Think
November 1, 2004 Daniel Eisenstein Dark Energy and
Cosmic Sound
University of Arizona
Space Telescope Science
Inst. Formation Mechanisms and
Observational
Constraints
December 6, 2004 Priscilla Frisch Black The Sun and the
Interstellar
University
of Chicago Medium
Spring 2005
University of Rochester Circumstellar Disks
March 7, 2005 Chris Fryer Asymmetries
in Stellar Collapse and
Los Alamos
National Laboratory Their Effects on Nucleosynthesis
March 21, 2005 Romeel Davé Simulations of High-Redshift
University of Arizona Galaxy Formation
April 11, 2005 Matias
Zaldarriaga 21
cm Fluctuations: A New
Harvard University Window for Cosmology
April 25, 2005 Matthew Baring Gamma-Ray
Bursts and High
Rice University Energy
Cosmic Rays: Environments for Diffusive Acceleration at Relativistic Shocks
May 9, 2005 Norm Murray Radiation
Pressure, Starburst Disks,
Canadian Institute for and AGN Fueling
Theoretical Astrophysics
Fall, 2005
August 29, 2005
Martin White Gravitational
Lensing
UC Berkeley
September 12, 2005 Juan Maldacena QCD, Strings
and Black Holes: The
Institute for Advanced Study Large N Limit of Field Theories and
Gravity
September 26, 2005 David R. Ballantyne Connecting Galaxy
Evolution, Star
University of Arizona Formation
and the X-ray Background
October 10, 2005 Anatoly Spitkovsky Extreme Magnetospheres
Stanford University
October 31, 2005 Burkhard Militzer First
Principles Simulation of
Carnegie Institution of Washington Materials in Giant Planet Interiors
November 14, 2005 Steve Furlanetto Measuring the
Topology of
California Institute of Technology Reionization
December 5, 2005
Phil Armitage Migration
of Extrasolar Planets
University of Colorado
Spring 2006
January 23, 2006 Angela
Olinto The Mystery of Ultra-high Energy
University of Chicago Cosmic Rays
February 20, 2006 Renu Malhotra Bombardment
History of the
University
of Arizona Terrestrial
Planets
March 27, 2006 Phil Hopkins Black Hole
Feedback: Uniting
Harvard University Mergers, Quasars, and Red Galaxy
April
24, 2006 Fred Adams The Effects of Groups/Clusters on
The University of Michigan Nascent Solar Systems
May
8, 2006 Bryan Gaensler Magnetars and Their Environments
Harvard University