CURRENT EVENTS AT THE VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY ASTRONOMY DEPARTMENT
Presentations at the Astronomy Department
Visit our observatory! OPEN from 7:00 to 9:00 PM EST -- 8:00 to 10:00 PM DST Mon. thru Thur. when classes are in session.
Please call Larry DeWarf our observatory director, in
advance if you plan to visit with a group of people. The phone number is
(610) 519-4820.
Astronomy & Astrophysics Department - Sponsored Colloquium
All colloquia are held in Mendel Hall except as noted, Villanova University, Villanova, PA
Call the department office, (610)519-4820, for more information.
DATE: Friday April 20,2007
TITLE:
SPEAKER: Dr. Dirk Schulze-Makuch
FROM:Dept of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Washington State University
TIME/PLACE: 4:30PM Location Mendel 102 -- Refreshments 4:00PM 4th Floor Mendel, Room 455
DATE: Tuesday April 3,2007
TITLE: Magnetic Activity in M Dwarf Stars: Observations With SDSS
SPEAKER: John Bochanski VU Class of 02, PhD Candidate
FROM:Dept of Astronomy and Astrophysics University of Washington
TIME/PLACE: 5:00PM Location Mendel 103 -- Refreshments 4:30PM 4th Floor, Mendel 455
DATE: Friday March 30,2007
TITLE: Worlds in Transit
SPEAKER: Dr. Kailash Sahu
FROM:Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore
TIME/PLACE: 4:30PM Location Mendel 103 -- Refreshments 4:00PM 4th Floor, Mendel 455
DATE: Friday February 23, 2007
TITLE: Artificial Intelligence Approaches to Modeling Eclipsing Binary Stars
SPEAKER: Dr Andrej Prsa
FROM:University of Ljubljana, Slovenia / Villanova University
TIME/PLACE: 4:30PM Location: 103 Mendel-- Refreshments 4:00PM 4th Floor, Mendel 455
DATE: Friday December 1, 2006
TITLE: Novae, Supernovae and Hypernovae: Nature's Threee Greatest Explosions
SPEAKER: Dr Edward Sion
FROM: Villanova University
TIME/PLACE: 12:00-1:30PM Location: Fedigan Room SAC-- RSVP 610-519-7325
DATE: Friday December 1, 2006
TITLE: Weighting Neutron Stars
SPEAKER: Dr David Nice
FROM: Bryn Mawe College
TIME/PLACE: 3:00PM Location 213 Mendel-- Refreshments 2:30PM
DATE: Friday November 17, 2006
TITLE: The Kepler Mission: Searching for Earthlike Planets
SPEAKER: Dr Yoji Kondo
FROM: NASA
TIME/PLACE: 4:00PM Location 341 Mendel-- Refreshments 3:30PM 4th Floor Mendel
DATE: Friday November 10, 2006
TITLE: Dark Energy or Worse
SPEAKER: Dr Sean Carroll
FROM: Dept of Physics, California Institute of Technology
TIME/PLACE: 5:00PM Location 103 Mendel-- Refreshments 4:30PM 4th Floor Mendel
DATE: Tuesday April 25, 2006
TITLE: X-Ray Emissions from Massive Stars
SPEAKER: Dr David Cohen
FROM: Dept of Physics and Astronomy, Swarthmore College
TIME/PLACE: 5:00PM Location 103 Mendel-- Refreshments 4:30PM 4th Floor Mendel
DATE: Wednesday April 19, 2006
TITLE: Turbulent Mixing of Metals by Massive Stars in the ISM
SPEAKER:Dinshaw S. Balsara
FROM: University of Notre Dame
TIME/PLACE: 5:00PM Location 103 Mendel-- Refreshments 4:30PM 4th Floor Mendel
DATE: Friday March 17, 2006
TITLE: Accretion in Magnetic Cataclysmic Variables: Models and Observations
SPEAKER: Dr Kinegunda Belle
FROM: Los Alamos National Laboratory
TIME/PLACE: 5:00PM Location 103 Mendel-- Refreshments 4:30PM 4th Floor Mendel
DATE: Friday February 17, 2006
TITLE: Classical Novae: Things That Go Pop in The Night
SPEAKER: Dr. Karen Vanlandingham
FROM: West Chester University
TIME/PLACE: 4:00PM Location 103 Mendel-- Refreshments 3:30PM 4th Floor Mendel
DATE: Wednesday December 7, 2005
TITLE: Evolution of Close, Interacting Binaries: Magnetic vs Non-Magnetic
SPEAKER: Dr. Steve B. Howell
FROM: WIYN Observatory and NOAO
TIME/PLACE: 4:00PM Location 341 Mendel-- Refreshments 3:30PM 4th Floor Mendel
DATE: Friday November 18, 2005
TITLE: Solar Surface Convection and Helioseismology
SPEAKER: Professor Manfred Cuntz
FROM: University of Taxas at Arlington
TIME/PLACE: 4:00PM Location 103 Mendel-- Refreshments 3:45PM 4th Floor Mendel