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14 results for "CfA Colloquium"

14 results for "CfA Colloquium"

Prizes and Awards

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Department Awards Bok Prize Lecture Trumpler Prize Fireman Fellowship (Graduate) Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize Leo Goldberg Prize Peirce Fellowship Eric Keto Prize Center for Astrophysics Lectures Endowed Lectures Bok Prize Lecture pH Lecture Lecar Prize...

CFA Colloquium: Roman Rafikov (Princeton)

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Speaker: Roman Rafikov (Princeton) Title: Metal-rich white dwarfs as signposts of planet formation Abstract: Recent Spitzer observations have revealed presence of near-IR excesses in spectra of more than a dozen of metal-rich white dwarfs. These excesses...

Education and the History of Astronomy

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History Not only is astronomy the oldest science with a rich and instructive history, but many of its most important observations are available only in archival data (such as the HCO plate stacks of nearly 500,000 glass plate photographs) or in historical...

CFA Colloquium: Dan Fabrycky (UC Santa Cruz)

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Title:New Views on Extrasolar Planetary Systems from Kepler Abstract:Kepler is a time-domain survey of unprecedented photometric precision, constantly measuring the flux from 150,000 stars for 3.5 years in search of Earth-like planets transiting them...

Astronomy Colloquium: Brenda Matthews

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Speaker: Brenda Matthews (Herzberg Institute) Title: Results from the Herschel DEBRIS Survey Abstract: Debris disks are second-generation dusty disks observed around main sequence stars. They are generated by ongoing collisions between larger planetesimal...