CfA/MIT Joint Seminar Series on

Neutron Stars and Supernova Remnants ("SNoRe")

Spring 2008 Schedule

Talks are held approximately bi-weekly on Mondays at 3:00 PM, in the Phillips Auditorium or the Pratt Conference Room, at CfA.

Date Speaker Title Location
Jan 28 Alex Wagner (Univ of Leeds) Two-Fluid Models of Cosmic-Ray Modified Radiative and Adiabatic Shocks Phillips
Feb 11 Anne Lemiere (SAO) Complementary X-ray and VHE gamma-ray study of Pulsar Wind Nebulae Pratt
Feb 25 Yosi Gelfand (NYU) Radio Emission from the Magnetar SGR 1806-20 Giant Flare Phillips @ 3:30 Mar 10 Fred Seward (SAO) Chandra observation of the mixed-morphology remnant Kes 27 & Chandra observations of Magellanic Cloud remnants Pratt
Apr 07 Carles Badenes (Princeton) The Persistence of Memory and the End of Amnesia: What the X-ray Observations of Young Supernova Remnants Tell Us About Type Ia Supernovae Phillips
Apr 28 Vikram Dwarkadas (Univ of Chicago) Winds, Bubbles and Supernovae - Tracing The Effects of Massive Stars on their Surroundings Phillips
May 19 John Raymond (SAO) Non-Maxwellian proton velocity distributions in Supernova Remnant shocks Phillips

Click on the active links for the abstract of each talk.

For more information, or to be added to the mailing list, please contact seminar organizers Tea Temim (ttemim_at_cfa.harvard.edu), Daniel Patnaude (dpatnaude_at_cfa.harvard.edu) or Pat Slane (slane_at_cfa.harvard.edu).

Last updated: 24-Apr-2008