We encourage all HEAD members to be on the lookout for
interesting potential speakers and to communicate their ideas to the
coordinators Anca Constantin (aconstantin@cfa) and Gijs Roelofs (groelofs@cfa).
Speaker |
Date |
Location |
Title |
HEAD
(CfA)
|
1 September 2004 12:30 |
Pratt |
HEAD Dry Run |
Cathy Clemens
(CfA)
|
15 September 2004 12:30 |
Pratt |
NESSIE - the New England Space Science Initiative in
Education - a NASA Education and Public Outreach (E/PO)
program at CfA in collaboration with the Museum of Science
and Tufts
|
David Ballantyne
(University of Toronto (CITA))
|
20 September 2004 12:30 |
Classroom |
Neutron Star Superbursts as Probes of Accretion Disk Physics |
Katrien Steenbrugge
(SRON)
|
22 September 2004 12:30 |
Pratt |
Ionization structure of the warm wind in the AGN NGC 5548: discrete or continuous? |
Silvia Piranomonte
(ASI Science Data Center, Italy)
|
29 September 2004 12:30 |
Pratt |
Sedentary Survey of BL Lacs |
Sergio Colafrancesco
(Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma)
|
6 October 2004 12:30 |
Pratt |
Non-thermal phenomena in galaxy clusters - Radio halos, hard X-rays and gamma rays |
-
( - )
|
13 October 2004 12:30 |
Phillips |
Chandra Fellows Symposium |
Ryan Hickox
( CfA )
|
27 October 2004 12:30 |
Classroom |
Superorbital Variation in X-ray Pulsars: Exploring the Accretion Flow. |
Lukasz Stawarz
( CfA )
|
3 November 2004 12:30 |
Pratt |
Multifrequency Radiation of Extragalactic Large-Scale Jets |
Simone Migliari
( Universiteit van Amsterdam )
|
10 November 2004 12:30 |
Pratt |
Disk-jet coupling in X-ray binaries: neutron stars vs. black holes |
Sudip Bhattacharyya
( University of Maryland )
|
17 November 2004 12:30 |
Pratt |
Implications of Surface Atomic
Spectral Lines from Weakly Magnetized Rotating Neutron Stars |
Anna Szostek
(N. Copernicus Astronomical Center, Warsaw, Poland)
|
24 November 2004 12:30 |
Pratt |
A Study of Cygnus X-3 in X-Rays and the Radio |
Elena Gallo
( Universiteit van Amsterdam )
|
1 December 2004 12:30 |
Pratt |
Accretion modes and jet production in black hole X-ray binaries |
Saku Vrtilek
( CfA )
|
8 December 2004 12:30 |
Pratt |
The Chandra View of X-ray Binaries |
Matteo Perri
( ASI Science Data Center, Frascati, Italy)
|
13 December 2004 12:30 |
Classroom |
Log-parabolic Spectra in Blazars: the BeppoSAX Wide Band X-ray View of
Mkn 421, Mkn 501 and PKS 2155-304 |
Jeroen Homan
( MIT )
|
15 December 2004 12:30 |
Pratt |
Jets and disks: the optical/IR emission states of the black hole X-ray
binary GX 339-4 |
| HEAD |
5 January 2005 12:30 |
Phillips |
Dry-Run Session for AAS |
Gijs Roelofs
(University of Nijmegen, NL)
|
24 January 2005 12:30 |
Classroom |
Compact accreting binaries: the AM CVn stars |
| Scott Wolk |
26 January 2005 12:30 |
Classroom |
Chandra Looks at Regions of Massive Star Formation |
Dan Harris
( CfA)
|
02 February 2005 12:30 |
Pratt |
The Latest news from Chandra (and others) about
the Jets in the Radio Galaxies M87, 3C120 (and others). |
Frank Krennrich
(Iowa State)
|
07 February 2005 14:00
|
Pratt |
TeV Gamma-Ray Observations of Active Galaxies |
Andrew Friedman
(CfA)
|
09 February 2005 12:30 |
Pratt |
The Present and Future of GRB Cosmography |
Hermine Landt
( CfA)
|
23 February 2005 12:30 |
Pratt |
What Types of Jets Does Nature Make? A New Population of Blazars |
Gamil CASSAM-CHENAI
( CEA/Saclay)
|
16 February 2005 12:30 |
Phillips |
Thermal and Nonthermal X-ray Emission in Supernova Remnants |
Dan Schwartz
( CfA)
|
02 March 2005 12:30 |
Pratt |
Chandra Observations of Powerful Relativistic Jets in AGN |
Alastair Sanderson
(University of Illinois)
|
9 March 2005 12:30 |
Pratt |
AGN Shock Heating in the Cool Core Galaxy Cluster Abell 478 |
Alessandro Baldi
( CfA)
|
16 March 2005 12:30 |
Pratt |
The complex hot ISM of the Antennae galaxies
observed with Chandra: discovery of chemical enrichment |
Shami Chatterjee
( CfA)
|
30 March 2005 12:30 |
Pratt |
Relativistic Winds from Neutron Stars: New Surprises from Chandra |
Ronnie Hoogerwerf
( CfA)
|
04 April 2005 12:30 |
Pratt |
The mass, accretion disk, and accretion column of EX Hydrae. Joint Seminar with the Solar, Stellar, and
Planetary Sciences Division |
Yangsen Yao
(UMASS Amherst)
|
13 April 2005 12:30 |
Pratt |
Warm-hot gas in and around the Milky Way:
X-ray absorption line diagnostics |
Jasmina Lazendic
( MIT )
|
20 April 2005 12:30 |
Pratt |
Chandra HETG observations of Cas A |
Li Tipei
(Tsinghua University, Beijing )
|
25 April 2005 12:30 |
Phillips |
Timing in the Time Domain: Rapid Variability in Accreting Black Holes |
John Swain
(Northeastern)
|
27 April 2005 12:30 |
Pratt |
The Pierre Auger Observatory and the Mystery of
High Energy Cosmic Rays.
|
Martin Elvis
( CfA)
|
11 May 2005 12:30 |
Pratt |
Doubting the Torus |
Glenn Allen
(MIT)
|
18 May 2005 12:30 |
Pratt |
Evidence of an Inverse Compton Origin for the TeV
Emission from the Supernova Remnant G347.3-0.5 |
Zhong Wang
(CfA)
|
25 May 2005 12:30 |
Pratt |
Mid-infrared Observations
of the Antennae Galaxies with Spitzer |
Aneta Siemiginowska
(CfA)
|
15 June 2005 12:30 |
Room M-340 Concord Avenue |
AGN Feedback and Evolution of Radio Sources |
| OIR Talk |
22 June 2005 12:30 |
Pratt |
|
Jonathan Gelbord
(MIT)
|
29 June 2005 12:30 |
Room M-340 Concord Avenue |
Deep X-ray and Optical Observations of Quasar Jets |
Ben Williams
(CfA)
|
06 July 2005 12:30 |
Room M-340 Concord Avenue |
Monitoring the X-ray Source Population of M31 |
Patrick Young
(Los Alamos)
|
10 August 2005 12:30 |
Phillips |
The Dramatic Impact of Hydrodynamic Mixing on
Supernova Progenitors |
Simona Giacintucci
(Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna, Italy)
|
17 August 2005 13:00
|
Concord Av, 2nd Floor Conference Room |
Catching the bulk of cluster radio halos with GMRT |
Elena Dalla Bonta'
(University of Padova )
|
14 September 2005 12:30 |
Pratt |
The Upper End of the Supermassive Black Hole Mass
Function |
Hans-Jakob Grimm
(CfA)
|
21 September 2005 12:30 |
Pratt |
Some statistical properties of the power law
luminosity function |
Philip M. Sadler
(CfA )
|
28 September 2005 12:30 |
Pratt |
AP Courses in American High Schools: Advanced Placement or
Academic Padding? |
Don Ellison
(North Carolina State University)
|
5 October 2005 12:30 |
Pratt |
The Production of Cosmic Rays in Young Supernova Remnants |
Roberto Soria
(CfA)
|
12 October 2005 12:30 |
Pratt |
POSTPONED |
Matthias Vigelius
(University of Melbourne)
|
19 October 2005 12:30 |
Classroom |
Gravitational Radiation from X-Ray Millisecond Pulsars |
Manami Sasaki
(CfA)
|
26 October 2005 12:30 |
Pratt |
Shock-cloud interaction in the Galactic SNR CTB 109
|
Sebastian Heinz
(MIT)
|
9 November 2005 12:30 |
Pratt |
Harrassing the Neighbors: How Jets Interact with their Environments |
Ben Chandran
(University of New Hampshire)
|
16 November 2005 12:30 |
Pratt |
Are galaxy-cluster plasmas convective? |
Yago Ascasibar
(CFA)
|
21 November 2005 12:30 |
PHILLIPS |
Cold fronts in relaxed clusters |
| Thanksgiving |
23 November 2005 12:30 |
|
|
Kate Brand
(NOAO)
|
30 November 2005 12:30 |
Pratt |
The accretion history of super-massive black holes in massive galaxies. |
Anthony Piro
(University of California at Santa Barbara)
|
2 December 2005 11:00
|
Phillips |
Recent Progress Relating the Theory and Observations of
Neutron Star Oscillations |
Dan Evans
(CfA)
|
7 December 2005 12:30 |
Phillips |
The Origin of X-Ray Emission in the Nuclei of Radio Galaxies |
Jennifer (Jeno) Sokoloski
(CfA)
|
14 December 2005 12:30 |
Pratt |
The Ebullience of High Accretion Rate White Dwarfs |
AAS Practice
()
|
04 January 2006 12:30 |
Phillips |
TBA |
Christian Leipski
(Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum)
|
10 January 2006 12:30 |
Pratt |
The ISO-2MASS AGN Survey |
Carolyn Stern Grant (ADS Team)
(CfA)
|
18 January 2006 12:30 |
Pratt |
How to make the most out of the ADS Abstract Service |
Aneta Siemiginowska and Vinay Kashyap
(CfA)
|
08 February 2006 12:30 |
Pratt |
X-ray Astrostatistics: Bayesian Methods in Data Analysis |
Ryan Hickox
(CfA)
|
01 March 2006 12:30 |
Phillips |
Absolute measurement of the unresolved cosmic X-ray
background in the 0.5-8 keV band with Chandra |
Rob Soria
(CfA/UCL)
|
08 March 2006 12:30 |
Pratt |
Revising our view of ultraluminous X-ray sources |
Dan Harris
(CfA)
|
22 March 2006 12:30 |
Pratt |
Update on the Giant Flare in the M87 Jet |
Jan Egedal
(MIT, PSFC)
|
7 April 2006 12:30 |
Phillips |
Magnetic Reconnection in Plasmas; a Celestial Phenomenon in the Laboratory |
Roy Kilgard
(CfA)
|
12 April 2006 12:30 |
Pratt |
A Multiwavelength View of X-ray Populations in Galaxies |
Paul Nulsen
(CfA)
|
19 April 2006 12:30 |
Pratt |
AGN Heating of Clusters by Cavities and Shocks |
Patrick Slane
(CfA)
|
26 April 2006 12:30 |
Pratt |
The Structure and Evolution of Pulsar Wind Nebulae |
Anne Lemiere
(U. Paris VII)
|
3 May 2006 12:30 |
Pratt |
H.E.S.S. latest Galactic results and physical implications |
Marie Machacek
(CfA)
|
10 May 2006 12:30 |
Pratt |
Outflows, Edges, Wakes and Tails: Snapshots of Galaxy Evolution in Cool Clusters and Groups |
Kev Abazajian
(LANL)
|
11 May 2006 13:30
|
Phillips |
Hints at the nature of dark matter from dwarf galaxies
to clusters of galaxies |
Ezequiel Treister
(Universidad de Chile)
|
17 May 2006 12:30 |
Pratt |
AGN Unification and the X-ray Background |
Agnieszka Slowikowska
(MPE Garching)
|
24 May 2006 12:30 |
Pratt |
The Studies of Three Rotation Powered Pulsars in
Selected Energy Bands |
Scott Randall
(CfA)
|
31 May 2006 12:30 |
Pratt |
Constraining the Self-Interaction Cross-Section of Dark
Matter with Numerical Simulations of 1E 0657-56 |
Myriam Gitti
(Ohio University)
|
7 June 2006 12:30 |
Pratt |
XMM-Newton view of the most powerful AGN outburst in a galaxy cluster: MS0735+7421 |
Misty Bentz
(Ohio State University)
|
14 June 2006 12:30 |
Pratt |
Refining the Radius-Luminosity Relationship for AGN |
ESSENCE supernova meeting
(CFA)
|
21 June 2006 12:30 |
Pratt |
NO TALK TODAY |
Gianluca Israel
(Rome)
|
22 June 2006 13:00
|
Phillips |
Unveiling the AXPs/SGRs connection |
Simon Steel and Erika Reinfeld
(CfA)
|
28 June 2006 12:30 |
Pratt |
A New Museum Exhibit on Black Holes |
Belinda Wilkes
(CfA)
|
05 July 2006 12:30 |
Pratt |
The NASA Advisory Committee (NAC): Astrophysics Sub-Committee (APS) |
Firoza Sutaria
(Pennsylvania State University)
|
09 August 2006 12:30 |
Pratt |
Chandra observations of AXP J1708 |
Slavko Bogdanov
(CfA)
|
20 September 2006 12:30 |
Pratt |
X-rays from Radio Millisecond Pulsars |
Dennis Bodewits
(KVI Atomic Physics Groningen)
|
5 October 2006 12:30 |
Pratt |
Cometary X-rays: Solar wind charge exchange in cometary atmospheres |
Belinda Wilkes
(CfA)
|
11 October 2006 12:30 |
Pratt |
The NASA Advisory Committee (NAC): Astrophysics Sub-Committee (APS) |
Malcolm Coe
(University of Southampton, UK)
|
8 November 2006 12:30 |
Pratt |
Wings, Bars and Star Formation in the SMC |
Richard Wilman
(Durham)
|
15 November 2006 12:30 |
Pratt |
A low energy perspective on cooling flows |
Alexey Vikhlinin
(CfA)
|
22 November 2006 12:30 |
Pratt |
Lack of "Cooling Flow" Clusters at z>0.5 |
Guido Risaliti
(CfA)
|
29 November 2006 12:30 |
Pratt |
X-ray observations of NGC 1365: Time-resolved eclipse of the X-ray source |
Steven Ritz
(GSFC)
|
13 December 2006 12:30 |
Pratt |
GLAST Mission Overview and Opportunities |
Howard Smith
(CFA)
|
3 January 2007 12:30 |
Pratt |
The Herschel Space Telescope |
Fabio Gastaldello
()
|
17 January 2007 12:30 |
Pratt |
X-ray bright Galaxy Groups as cosmological tools |
Lukasz Stawarz
(Stanford University)
|
24 January 2007 12:30 |
Phillips |
On the Electron Energy Distribution in Jets, Hotspots and Lobes of Extragalactic Radio Sources |
Pepi Fabbiano
(CfA)
|
7 February 2007 12:30 |
Pratt |
The Chandra Source Catalog |
Ryan Hickox
(CfA)
|
21 February 2007 12:30 |
Phillips |
Resolving the unresolved cosmic X-ray background in the
Chandra deep fields |
Jeremy Lim
(Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (Taiwan))
|
28 February 2007 12:30 |
Pratt |
Radially-Infalling Molecular Gas from an X-ray Cooling Flow |
Roberto Soria
(CfA)
|
28 March 2007 12:30 |
Pratt |
Revisiting accretion-state evolution in ULXs and Galactic
BHs |
Paulo Lopes
(CfA)
|
11 April 2007 12:30 |
Pratt |
Scaling Relations of the NoSOCS Galaxy Clusters |
Greg Sivakoff
(Ohio)
|
18 April 2007 12:30 |
Pratt |
Low-Mass X-ray Binaries and Globular Clusters in Early-Type Galaxies |
Arielle Phillips
(Amherst)
|
25 April 2007 12:30 |
Phillips |
Chasing a WHIM: The Changing Picture of an Important Baryon Reservoir |
Bettina Posselt
(MPE)
|
2 May 2007 12:30 |
Pratt |
Where to Look for X-ray Thermal Isolated Neutron Stars |
Rhaana Starling
(Univ. of Leicester)
|
9 May 2007 12:30 |
Pratt |
Three things we can learn from Gamma-ray Burst afterglow spectral energy
distributions |
Alessandro Baldi
(CfA)
|
16 May 2007 12:30 |
Pratt |
A Chandra archival study of the temperature and metal abundance profiles in hot Galaxy Clusters at 0.1 lt z lt 0.3 |
Somak Raychaudhury
(CfA)
|
23 May 2007 12:30 |
Pratt |
The Star Formation Properties of Galaxies in Clusters |
David Cohen
(Swarthmore College)
|
11 June 2007 12:00
|
Pratt |
Quantitative Analysis of Resolved X-Ray Emission Line Profiles of
O Stars |
Andisheh Mahdavi
(University of Victoria, Canada)
|
18 June 2007 12:30 |
Phillips |
Combining Multiwavelength Observations of Galaxy Clusters |
Stefania Carpano
(European Space Astronomy Centre, Spain)
|
27 June 2007 12:30 |
Pratt |
Wolf-Rayet/Black-Holes X-ray binaries |
Agnieszka Janiuk
(University of Nevada)
|
11 July 2007 12:30 |
Pratt |
Black hole accretion with low angular momentum |
Raanan Nordon
(Technion, Israel)
|
18 July 2007 12:30 |
Pratt |
Coronal X-ray flares, abundances and human color vision |
Saku Vrtilek
(CfA)
|
25 July 2007 12:30 |
Pratt |
The X-ray photoionized wind of Cygnus X-1 during X-ray high/soft states |
Bram Boroson
(CfA Visitor)
|
17 August 2007 12:30 |
Philips |
Problem Means Opportunity: X-ray Binaries Distort Winds and Reveal Them |
Joey Neilsen
(Harvard University)
|
12 September 2007 12:30 |
Pratt |
The Eccentric Accretion Disc of the Black Hole A0620-00 |
Kisha Delain
(University of Minnesota)
|
19 September 2007 12:30 |
Phillips |
Diffuse Radio Emission in Groups of Galaxies |
David Angelo Rapetti
(Stanford)
|
24 September 2007 12:30 |
Phillips |
The potential for constraining dark energy with X-ray cluster mass fraction measurements |
Edwin Kellogg and Joy Nichols
(CfA)
|
26 September 2007 12:30 |
Pratt |
R Aquarii: a small binary with big ambitions |
Sudip Bhattacharyya
(GSFC)
|
3 October 2007 12:30 |
Pratt |
Neutron Stars and Thermonuclear X-Ray Bursts |
Peter Eisenhardt
(JPL)
|
17 October 2007 12:30 |
Pratt |
Clusters of Galaxies in the First Half of the Universe from the Spitzer/IRAC Shallow Survey |
Prajval Shastri
(Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore)
|
24 October 2007 12:30 |
Pratt |
Different Angles on AGN: Some Empirical Tests of the Unification Paradigm |
Andrea Comastri
(Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna, Italy)
|
29 October 2007 12:30 |
Pratt |
The quest for the most obscured Supermassive Black Holes |
Brandon Kelly
(University of Arizona)
|
31 October 2007 12:30 |
Pratt |
Observational Constraints on the Dependence of
Radio-Quiet Quasar X-ray Emission on Black Hole Mass and Accretion Rate |
Neelima Sehgal
(Rutgers)
|
7 November 2007 12:30 |
Pratt |
Measuring the Growth of Structure with Multi-Wavelength
Surveys of Galaxy Clusters |
Dan Evans
(CfA)
|
19 November 2007 12:30 |
Phillips |
Hot and Cold Gas Accretion Modes and Feedback Processes in AGN |
Harold Francke
(Yale/U. de Chile)
|
21 November 2007 12:30 |
Pratt |
Clustering of Intermediate Luminosity X-ray selected AGN at z~3 |
Andrey Kravtsov
(University of Chicago)
|
28 November 2007 12:30 |
Pratt |
Cosmological simulations of clusters of galaxies: status,
problems, challenges |
Norbert Werner
(SRON, The Netherlands)
|
3 December 2007 13:00
|
Classroom A-101 |
Possible non-thermal nature of the excess soft X-ray
emission in the cluster of galaxies Sersic 159-03 |
Joachim Moortgat
(University of Rochester)
|
5 December 2007 12:30 |
Phillips |
Particle-in-cell simulations of collisionless reconnection in GRB outflows |
Barbara Ercolano
(CfA)
|
12 December 2007 12:30 |
Pratt |
Fully 3D photoionisation and radiative transfer modelling from the IR to
the X-ray |
Harsha Raichur
(Raman Research Institute)
|
17 December 2007 12:30 |
Phillips |
Long term superorbital studies and orbital evolution in X-ray binaries |
Sabina Bucher
(CfA)
|
19 December 2007 12:30 |
Pratt |
The Prospects for a 15-Year Chandra Mission |
Joe Shields
(Ohio Univ.)
|
15 January 2008 12:30 |
Pratt |
Recent Results on Star Clusters in Galaxy Nuclei |
Marie Machacek
(CfA)
|
23 January 2008 12:30 |
Pratt |
The Active Nucleus of IC 4970: A Nearby Example of Merger-Induced Cold-Gas Accretion |
Francesco Massaro
(CfA)
|
6 February 2008 12:30 |
Pratt |
X-ray Spectral Evolution of Very High Energy Emission from TeV BL Lacs |
Ashley Ruiter
(New Mexico State University)
|
13 February 2008 12:30 |
Pratt |
Evolutionary Pathways Leading to SN Ia Progenitors, and the Impact
of White Dwarf Binary Populations on LISA |
Bozena Czerny
(Copernicus, Warsaw)
|
20 February 2008 12:30 |
Pratt |
Determination of the black hole mass in active galactic nuclei |
Anca Constantin
(CfA)
|
27 February 2008 12:30 |
Pratt |
Accretion onto SuperMassive Black Holes in Cosmic Voids |
Branden Allen
(CfA)
|
5 March 2008 12:30 |
Pratt |
Characterization and Observation of TeV sources with Milagro |
Nico Cappelluti
(MPE)
|
19 March 2008 12:30 |
Pratt |
The X-ray cluster-AGN correlation in the COSMOS survey |
HEAD
(CfA)
|
26 March 2008 12:30 |
Pratt |
HEAD Dry Run - CANCELLED |
Martin Rosvall
(Univ. of Washington)
|
7 April 2008 13:30
|
Phillips |
Mapping Science |
Diana Hannikainen
(Metsahovi Observatory, Finland )
|
9 April 2008 12:30 |
Phillips |
INTEGRAL monitoring of GRS 1915+105 |
Chris O'Dea
(Rochester Institute of Technology)
|
16 April 2008 12:30 |
Pratt |
Spitzer Observations of Brightest Cluster Galaxies |
Matteo Murgia
(Observatory of Cagliari)
|
23 April 2008 12:30 |
Pratt |
Dying radio galaxies |
Ryan Hickox
(CfA)
|
30 April 2008 12:30 |
Pratt |
Host galaxies, clustering, and evolution of AGN at z less than 1 |
Sarah Blake, Dan Calvelo, Chris Heale and Richard Hextall
(University of Southampton/CfA)
|
7 May 2008 12:30 |
Pratt |
Southampton/SAO MPhys (Hons) Astrophysics Thesis Talks |
Manodeep Sinha
(Penn State)
|
9 May 2008 14:00
|
Tea Room |
Hot Halo Gas in Galaxy Merger Simulations |
Gianfranco Brunetti
(Universita di Bologna)
|
14 May 2008 12:30 |
Pratt |
Nonthermal components and particle acceleration in clusters
of galaxies |
Elena Rasia
(U. Michigan)
|
21 May 2008 12:30 |
Pratt |
The M-Yx relation for galaxy clusters during extreme mergers |
Trevor Weekes
(CfA)
|
11 June 2008 12:30 |
Pratt |
The first year of observations with VERITAS |
Franco Vazza
(INAF/Institute for Radioastronomy, Bologna)
|
18 June 2008 12:30 |
Pratt |
Shocks and turbulence in (simulated) galaxy clusters |
Nicky Brassington
(CfA)
|
25 June 2008 12:30 |
Pratt |
Deep Chandra Observations of LMXB Populations in Normal Elliptical
Galaxies |