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Friday, January 8, 2016
Princeton University Gravity Group Lunch Seminar - TITLE ADDED
“Mapping the Polarized Microwave Sky with ACTPol”
Location: Jadwin Hall, PCTS Seminar Room, Room 407
Time: 12:00 PM
Speaker(s): Marius Lungu, University of Pennsylvania
Note: Meet at 11:30 am at long table in PCTS to meet with speaker and/or have more time for lunch. See the website for information on placing a food order.
Description: ACTPol is a novel polarization-sensitive receiver for the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) designed to measure the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropies to high precision on a wide range of angular scales. The instrument features three optically-independent feedhorn-coupled transition-edge sensor (TES) bolometer arrays continuously cooled below 100 mK with the aid of a dilution refrigerator. The first two arrays, each composed of 512 single-frequency polarimeters sensitive to 150 GHz, were deployed sequentially during the 2013 and 2014 observing seasons. A third, 256-polarimeter dichroic array operating at both 90 and 150 GHz was added in early 2015. I will present an overview of the experiment and discuss some of the challenges associated with converting raw data into accurate, high-resolution maps of the CMB. I will also highlight some early scientific results and report on the status of ongoing analyses.
www.princeton.edu/cosmology/gravity-group-seminar/
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Saturday, January 9, 2016
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) Science on Saturday - ADDED
“How Astronomers, Inventors, and Eccentrics Discovered the Modern Universe”
Location: Melvin B. Gottlieb Auditorium
Time: 9:30 AM
Speaker(s): Alan Hirshfeld, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)University of Massachusetts
Description: Any non-PPPL people interested in attending should see this site for more information: www.pppl.gov/about/visiting-pppl.
www.pppl.gov/events/upcoming
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Monday, January 11, 2016
Princeton University/Institute for Advanced Study Galread [Galactic/Extragalactic Reading Group] - NOT MEETING TODAY
Time: 11:00 AM
Note: No meeting today.
www.astro.princeton.edu/galread/
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Monday, January 11, 2016
Princeton University/Institute for Advanced Study Planet/Exoplanet Discussion Group
“Potluck Discussion of Exoplanet Papers”
Location: Princeton University, Peyton Hall, Room 140
Time: 12:30 PM
Speaker(s): Everyone Welcome
Note: This will be the first meeting of the new term.
Description: The Monday Planet Lunch will be held weekly. We discuss recent papers from astro-ph and hear from the occasional exoplanet visitor. Graduate students are particularly encouraged to attend. The format will be informal and inclusive, spanning at a minimum exoplanets, the solar system, and astrobiology. Moreover, we plan on discussing multiple topics each time we meet, and not to tether a lunch to one organized presentation each sitting. The purpose is to foster wide-ranging and cross-fertilizing interaction and to keep the local community up to date on developments across the spectrum of associated activities. Joel Hartman and Tim Morton are the organizers.
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Monday, January 11, 2016
Princeton University/Institute for Advanced Study Early Universe/Cosmology Lunch Discussion - NOT MEETING TODAY
Time: 12:30 PM
Note: There will not be a meeting today.
mondaycosmo.pbworks.com/w/page/30421440/FrontPage
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Tuesday, January 12, 2016
Institute for Advanced Study/Princeton University Joint Astrophysics Colloquium - NO MEETING
Time: 11:00 AM
Note: The colloquiums and Bahcall Lunches will begin on February 2, 2016.
www.sns.ias.edu/~seminar/colloquia.shtml
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Wednesday, January 13, 2016
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) Colloquium
“Frontiers in Plasma Science: A High Energy Density Perspective”
Location: Melvin B. Gottlieb Auditorium
Time: 4:15 PM
Speaker(s): Bruce A. Remington, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Description: The potential for ground-breaking research in plasma physics in high energy density (HED) regimes is compelling. The combination of HED facilities around the world spanning microjoules to megajoules, with time scales ranging from femtoseconds to microseconds enables new regimes of plasma science to be experimentally probed. The ability to shock and ramp compress samples and simultaneously probe them allows dense, strongly coupled, Fermi degenerate plasmas relevant to planetary interiors to be studied. Shock driven hydrodynamic instabilities evolving into turbulent flows relevant to the dynamics of exploding stars are being probed. The physics and dynamics of magnetized plasmas relevant to astrophysics and inertial confinement fusion are also starting to be studied. High temperature, high velocity interacting flows are being probed for evidence of astrophysical collisionless shock formation. Turbulent, high magnetic Reynolds number flows are being experimentally generated to look for evidence of the turbulent magnetic dynamo effect. And new results from thermonuclear reactions in dense hot plasmas relevant to stellar interiors are starting to emerge. A selection of examples providing a compelling vision for frontier plasma science in the coming decade will be presented. Any non-PPPL people interested in attending should see this site for more information: www.pppl.gov/about/visiting-pppl.
www.pppl.gov/events/upcoming
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Thursday, January 14, 2016
Institute for Advanced Study Informal Astrophysics Seminar
“Sweating the Small Stuff: Simulating dwarf galaxies, ultra-faint dwarf galaxies, and their own tiny satellites”
Location: Bloomberg Hall, Astrophysics Library
Time: 11:00 AM
Speaker(s): Coral Wheeler, University of California, Irvine
Description: If LCDM is correct, then all dark matter halos hosting galaxies, from those hosting dwarfs to those hosting giant clusters, are filled with abundant substructure down to very low mass scales (<< 10^9 Msun). Specifically, even the dark matter halos of Local Group field dwarfs should be filled with subhalos, many of which should be fairly massive (~ 10^8 Msun), and thus are potential targets for hosting small (ultrafaint) galaxies. Here we make predictions for the existence of ultrafaint satellites of dwarf galaxies using the highest resolution cosmological dwarf simulations yet run (mgas~ 250 Msun). We simulate four halos — two each at the mass of classical dwarf galaxies (Mvir ~10^10 Msun) and ultrafaint galaxies (Mvir ~ 10^9 Msun) — down to z=0 using the GIZMO (Hopkins 2014) code. This code relies on state-of-the-art MFM hydrodynamics and implements the FIRE (Feedback in Realistic Environments) recipes (Hopkins et al. 2014) for converting gas into stars and capturing the energy fed back from those stars into the surrounding medium. We predict that ultrafaint galaxies (M* ~ 3,000 Msun) should exist as satellites around more massive dwarf galaxies (M* ~ 10^6 Msun) in the Local Group. These tiny satellites, as well as the two isolated ultrafaints, have uniformly ancient stellar population (> 10 Gyr) owing to reionization-related quenching. The more massive systems, in contrast, all have late-time star formation. Our results suggest that Mhalo ~ 5 x10^9 Msun is a probable dividing line between halos hosting reionization "fossils" and those hosting dwarfs that can continue to form stars in isolation after reionization. Importantly, we show that the extended ~50 kpc regions around Local Group “field” dwarfs may provide efficient search locations for discovering new ultrafaint dwarf galaxies, and discuss the prospects for their discovery in light of the new generation of large surveys and giant telescopes. If these tiny satellites are observed, this would provide evidence that dark matter substructure is truly hierarchical, as predicted in the standard paradigm.
www.sns.ias.edu/~seminar/informal_seminars.shtml
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Friday, January 15, 2016
Princeton University Astrophysical Sciences Supernova Discussion Group
Location: Peyton Hall, Room 140
Time: 11:00 AM
Description: Everyone is welcome. Adam Burrows is the organizer.
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Friday, January 15, 2016
Princeton University Gravity Group Lunch Seminar
Location: Jadwin Hall, PCTS Seminar Room, Room 407
Time: 12:00 PM
Speaker(s): Jeff Peterson, Carnegie Mellon University
Note: Meet at 11:30 am at long table in PCTS to meet with speaker and/or have more time for lunch. See the website for information on placing a food order.
www.princeton.edu/cosmology/gravity-group-seminar/
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Monday, January 18, 2016
Princeton University/Institute for Advanced Study Planet/Exoplanet Discussion Group - NO MEETING TODAY
Time: 12:30 PM
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Tuesday, January 19, 2016
Institute for Advanced Study/Princeton University Joint Astrophysics Colloquium - NO MEETING
Time: 11:00 AM
Note: The colloquiums and Bahcall Lunches will begin on February 2, 2016.
www.sns.ias.edu/~seminar/colloquia.shtml
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Thursday, January 21, 2016
Princeton University HSC Group Discussion
“TBA”
Location: Peyton Hall, Room 025
Time: 9:00 AM
Speaker(s): Peter Melchior
Note: First meeting in 2016.
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Thursday, January 21, 2016
Rutgers University Astrophysics Seminar
“The James Webb Space Telescope”
Location: Serin Hall, Room 401
Time: 1:30 PM
Speaker(s): Jonathan Gardner, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
Note: Refreshments to follow in room 332W.
Description: The James Webb Space Telescope is the scientific successor to the Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes. It will be a large (6.6m) cold (50K) telescope launched into orbit around the second Earth-Sun Lagrange point. It is a partnership of NASA with the European and Canadian Space Agencies. The science goals for JWST include the formation of the first stars and galaxies in the early universe; the chemical, morphological and dynamical buildup of galaxies, the formation of stars and planetary systems and understanding our Solar System. Webb has four instruments: The Near-Infrared Camera, the Near-Infrared multi-object Spectrograph, and the Near-Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph will cover the wavelength range 0.6 to 5 microns, while the Mid-Infrared Instrument will do both imaging and spectroscopy from 5 to 28.5 microns. The observatory is confirmed for launch in 2018; the design is complete and it is in its construction and test phase. Recent progress includes the assembly of the primary mirror and cryogenic testing of the flight instruments.
www.physics.rutgers.edu/ast/seminar
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Friday, January 22, 2016
Princeton University Astrophysical Sciences Supernova Discussion Group
Location: Peyton Hall, Room 140
Time: 11:00 AM
Description: Everyone is welcome. Adam Burrows is the organizer.
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Friday, January 22, 2016
Princeton University Gravity Group Lunch Seminar
Location: Jadwin Hall, PCTS Seminar Room, Room 407
Time: 12:00 PM
Note: Meet at 11:30 am at long table in PCTS to meet with speaker and/or have more time for lunch. See the website for information on placing a food order.
www.princeton.edu/cosmology/gravity-group-seminar/
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Monday, January 25, 2016
Princeton University/Institute for Advanced Study Early Universe/Cosmology Lunch Discussion
Location: Institute for Advanced Study, West Building, West Seminar Room
Time: 12:30 PM
Speaker(s): TBA
Description: Organizers are David Spergel, Princeton University, and Matias Zaldarriaga, Institute for Advanced Study. The lunch will be held at either Princeton University or the Institute for Advanced Study. Check the calendar for the meeting location. This week's meeting is at the Institute for Advanced Study. Attendees can bring their own lunch or stop at the IAS Dining Hall. The West Seminar room is in a building which is a short walk from the main dining area.
mondaycosmo.pbworks.com/w/page/30421440/FrontPage
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Monday, January 25, 2016
Princeton University/Institute for Advanced Study Planet/Exoplanet Discussion Group
“Potluck Discussion of Exoplanet Papers”
Location: Princeton University, Peyton Hall, Room 140
Time: 12:30 PM
Speaker(s): Everyone Welcome
Description: The Monday Planet Lunch will be held weekly. We discuss recent papers from astro-ph and hear from the occasional exoplanet visitor. Graduate students are particularly encouraged to attend. The format will be informal and inclusive, spanning at a minimum exoplanets, the solar system, and astrobiology. Moreover, we plan on discussing multiple topics each time we meet, and not to tether a lunch to one organized presentation each sitting. The purpose is to foster wide-ranging and cross-fertilizing interaction and to keep the local community up to date on developments across the spectrum of associated activities. Joel Hartman and Tim Morton are the organizers.
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Tuesday, January 26, 2016
Institute for Advanced Study/Princeton University Joint Astrophysics Colloquium - NO MEETING
Time: 11:00 AM
Note: The colloquiums and Bahcall Lunches will begin on February 2, 2016.
www.sns.ias.edu/~seminar/colloquia.shtml
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Thursday, January 28, 2016
Princeton University HSC Group Discussion
Location: Peyton Hall, Room 025
Time: 9:00 AM
Speaker(s): TBA
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Thursday, January 28, 2016
Rutgers University Astrophysics Seminar
Location: Serin Hall, Room 401
Time: 1:30 PM
Speaker(s): Heidi Newberg, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Note: Refreshments to follow in room 332W.
www.physics.rutgers.edu/ast/seminar
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Friday, January 29, 2016
Princeton University Astrophysical Sciences Supernova Discussion Group
Location: Peyton Hall, Room 140
Time: 11:00 AM
Description: Everyone is welcome. Adam Burrows is the organizer.
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Friday, January 29, 2016
Princeton University Gravity Group Lunch Seminar - NOT MEETING TODAY
Time: 12:00 PM
Note: Not meeting today.
www.princeton.edu/cosmology/gravity-group-seminar/
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Monday, February 1, 2016
Princeton University/Institute for Advanced Study Early Universe/Cosmology Lunch Discussion
Location: Peyton Hall, Dome Room, Room 201
Time: 12:30 PM
Speaker(s): TBA
Description: Organizers are David Spergel, Princeton University, and Matias Zaldarriaga, Institute for Advanced Study. The lunch will be held at either Princeton University or the Institute for Advanced Study. Check the calendar for the meeting location. This week's meeting is at Princeton University. Attendees can bring lunch.
mondaycosmo.pbworks.com/w/page/30421440/FrontPage
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Tuesday, February 2, 2016
Institute for Advanced Study/Princeton University Joint Astrophysics Colloquium
Location: Princeton University, Peyton Hall, Room 145
Time: 11:00 AM
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Tuesday, February 2, 2016
Institute for Advanced Study / Princeton University Bahcall Lunch
Location: Princeton University, Jadwin Hall, Joseph Henry Room
Time: 12:15 PM
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Thursday, February 4, 2016
Institute for Advanced Study Informal Astrophysics Seminar
Location: Bloomberg Hall, Astrophysics Library
Time: 11:00 AM
www.sns.ias.edu/~seminar/informal_seminars.shtml
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Thursday, February 4, 2016
Rutgers University Astrophysics Seminar
Location: Serin Hall, Room 401
Time: 1:30 PM
Note: Refreshments to follow in room 332W.
www.physics.rutgers.edu/ast/seminar
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Friday, February 5, 2016
Princeton University Astrophysical Sciences Supernova Discussion Group
Location: Peyton Hall, Room 140
Time: 11:00 AM
Description: Everyone is welcome. Adam Burrows is the organizer.
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Friday, February 5, 2016
Princeton University Gravity Group Lunch Seminar
Location: Jadwin Hall, PCTS Seminar Room, Room 407
Time: 12:00 PM
Speaker(s): Chris Tully
Note: Meet at 11:30 am at long table in PCTS to meet with speaker and/or have more time for lunch. See the website for information on placing a food order.
www.princeton.edu/cosmology/gravity-group-seminar/
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Monday, February 8, 2016
Princeton University/Institute for Advanced Study Early Universe/Cosmology Lunch Discussion
Location: Institute for Advanced Study, West Building, West Seminar Room
Time: 12:30 PM
Speaker(s): TBA
Description: Organizers are David Spergel, Princeton University, and Matias Zaldarriaga, Institute for Advanced Study. The lunch will be held at either Princeton University or the Institute for Advanced Study. Check the calendar for the meeting location. This week's meeting is at the Institute for Advanced Study. Attendees can bring their own lunch or stop at the IAS Dining Hall. The West Seminar room is in a building which is a short walk from the main dining area.
mondaycosmo.pbworks.com/w/page/30421440/FrontPage
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Tuesday, February 9, 2016
Institute for Advanced Study/Princeton University Joint Astrophysics Colloquium
Location: Princeton University, Peyton Hall, Room 145
Time: 11:00 AM
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Tuesday, February 9, 2016
Institute for Advanced Study / Princeton University Bahcall Lunch
Location: Princeton University, Jadwin Hall, Joseph Henry Room
Time: 12:15 PM
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Wednesday, February 10, 2016
Drexel University Physics Colloquium - 20th Kaczmarczik Lecture
“New Horizons and the Exploration of the Pluto System”
Location: Main Building Auditorium, 3141 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
Time: 12:00 PM
Speaker(s): S. Alan Stern, New Horizons Mission to Pluto
Note: The event is free and open to the public. Online registration is requested at their website.
Description: New Horizons is NASAs historic mission to explore the Pluto system and the Kuiper Belt. The fastest spacecraft ever launched, New Horizons left Earth on January 19th 2006. In 2015, it made the first exploration of the Pluto system 3 billion miles from Earth culminating with a highly successful flyby inside the orbits of all five of Plutos moons on July 14th. The spacecraft carries a sophisticated payload of imagers and other scientific instruments that were used to revolutionize our knowledge of Pluto and its five moons. S. Alan Stern, PhD, will describe the history of this mission, the science behind it, the capabilities of the payload, our encounter with planet Pluto, and the major scientific discoveries made to date. He will also briefly outline the proposed New Horizons extended mission to fly across the Kuiper Belt, exploring further into space.
https://drexel.edu/coas/academics/departments-centers/physics/events/kaczmarczik-lectures/20th-kaczmarczik-lecture/
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Thursday, February 11, 2016
Institute for Advanced Study Informal Astrophysics Seminar
Location: Bloomberg Hall, Astrophysics Library
Time: 11:00 AM
www.sns.ias.edu/~seminar/informal_seminars.shtml
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Thursday, February 11, 2016
Rutgers University Astrophysics Seminar
Location: Serin Hall, Room 401
Time: 1:30 PM
Note: Refreshments to follow in room 332W.
www.physics.rutgers.edu/ast/seminar
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Thursday, February 11, 2016
Princeton University Department of Physics Hamilton Colloquium Series
“TBA”
Location: Jadwin Hall, Room A10
Time: 4:30 PM
Speaker(s): Sebastian Seung, Princeton University
www.princeton.edu/physics/events/colloquium/
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Friday, February 12, 2016
Princeton University Astrophysical Sciences Supernova Discussion Group
Location: Peyton Hall, Room 140
Time: 11:00 AM
Description: Everyone is welcome. Adam Burrows is the organizer.
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Friday, February 12, 2016
Princeton University Gravity Group Lunch Seminar
Location: Jadwin Hall, PCTS Seminar Room, Room 407
Time: 12:00 PM
Note: Meet at 11:30 am at long table in PCTS to meet with speaker and/or have more time for lunch. See the website for information on placing a food order.
www.princeton.edu/cosmology/gravity-group-seminar/
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Tuesday, February 16, 2016
Institute for Advanced Study/Princeton University Joint Astrophysics Colloquium
Location: Princeton University, Peyton Hall, Room 145
Time: 11:00 AM
Speaker(s): Lynne Hillenbrand, California Institute of Technology
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Tuesday, February 16, 2016
Institute for Advanced Study / Princeton University Bahcall Lunch
Location: Princeton University, Jadwin Hall, Joseph Henry Room
Time: 12:15 PM
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Thursday, February 18, 2016
Institute for Advanced Study Informal Astrophysics Seminar
Location: Bloomberg Hall, Astrophysics Library
Time: 11:00 AM
www.sns.ias.edu/~seminar/informal_seminars.shtml
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Thursday, February 18, 2016
Rutgers University Astrophysics Seminar
Location: Serin Hall, Room 401
Time: 1:30 PM
Note: Refreshments to follow in room 332W.
www.physics.rutgers.edu/ast/seminar
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Thursday, February 18, 2016
Princeton University Department of Physics Hamilton Colloquium Series
“TBA”
Location: Jadwin Hall, Room A10
Time: 4:30 PM
Speaker(s): Ryan Patterson, California Institute of Technology
www.princeton.edu/physics/events/colloquium/
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Friday, February 19, 2016
Princeton University Astrophysical Sciences Supernova Discussion Group
Location: Peyton Hall, Room 140
Time: 11:00 AM
Description: Everyone is welcome. Adam Burrows is the organizer.
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Friday, February 19, 2016
Princeton University Gravity Group Lunch Seminar
Location: Jadwin Hall, PCTS Seminar Room, Room 407
Time: 12:00 PM
Speaker(s): Ted Jacobson
Note: Meet at 11:30 am at long table in PCTS to meet with speaker and/or have more time for lunch. See the website for information on placing a food order.
www.princeton.edu/cosmology/gravity-group-seminar/
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Monday, February 22, 2016
Princeton University/Institute for Advanced Study Early Universe/Cosmology Lunch Discussion
Location: Peyton Hall, Dome Room, Room 201
Time: 12:30 PM
Speaker(s): TBA
Description: Organizers are David Spergel, Princeton University, and Matias Zaldarriaga, Institute for Advanced Study. The lunch will be held at either Princeton University or the Institute for Advanced Study. Check the calendar for the meeting location. This week's meeting is at Princeton University. Attendees can bring lunch.
mondaycosmo.pbworks.com/w/page/30421440/FrontPage
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Tuesday, February 23, 2016
Institute for Advanced Study/Princeton University Joint Astrophysics Colloquium
“Coronal Heating and Solar Wind Acceleration: The roles of MHDturbulence and fast reconnection”
Location: Princeton University, Peyton Hall, Room 145
Time: 11:00 AM
Speaker(s): Marco Veli, University of California, Los Angeles
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Tuesday, February 23, 2016
Institute for Advanced Study / Princeton University Bahcall Lunch
Location: Princeton University, Jadwin Hall, Joseph Henry Room
Time: 12:15 PM
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Thursday, February 25, 2016
Institute for Advanced Study Informal Astrophysics Seminar
Location: Bloomberg Hall, Astrophysics Library
Time: 11:00 AM
www.sns.ias.edu/~seminar/informal_seminars.shtml
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Thursday, February 25, 2016
Rutgers University Astrophysics Seminar
Location: Serin Hall, Room 401
Time: 1:30 PM
Note: Refreshments to follow in room 332W.
www.physics.rutgers.edu/ast/seminar
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Thursday, February 25, 2016
Princeton University Department of Physics Hamilton Colloquium Series
“TBA”
Location: Jadwin Hall, Room A10
Time: 4:30 PM
Speaker(s): Joseph Curtin, Joseph Curtin Studios
www.princeton.edu/physics/events/colloquium/
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Friday, February 26, 2016
Princeton University Astrophysical Sciences Supernova Discussion Group
Location: Peyton Hall, Room 140
Time: 11:00 AM
Description: Everyone is welcome. Adam Burrows is the organizer.
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Friday, February 26, 2016
Princeton University Gravity Group Lunch Seminar
Location: Jadwin Hall, PCTS Seminar Room, Room 407
Time: 12:00 PM
Speaker(s): Liang Dai
Note: Meet at 11:30 am at long table in PCTS to meet with speaker and/or have more time for lunch. See the website for information on placing a food order.
www.princeton.edu/cosmology/gravity-group-seminar/
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Monday, February 29, 2016
Princeton University/Institute for Advanced Study Early Universe/Cosmology Lunch Discussion
Location: Institute for Advanced Study, West Building, West Seminar Room
Time: 12:30 PM
Speaker(s): TBA
Description: Organizers are David Spergel, Princeton University, and Matias Zaldarriaga, Institute for Advanced Study. The lunch will be held at either Princeton University or the Institute for Advanced Study. Check the calendar for the meeting location. This week's meeting is at the Institute for Advanced Study. Attendees can bring their own lunch or stop at the IAS Dining Hall. The West Seminar room is in a building which is a short walk from the main dining area.
mondaycosmo.pbworks.com/w/page/30421440/FrontPage
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Tuesday, March 1, 2016
Institute for Advanced Study/Princeton University Joint Astrophysics Colloquium
Location: Princeton University, Peyton Hall, Room 145
Time: 11:00 AM
Speaker(s): James Wray, Georgia Institute of Technology
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Tuesday, March 1, 2016
Institute for Advanced Study / Princeton University Bahcall Lunch
Location: Princeton University, Jadwin Hall, Joseph Henry Room
Time: 12:15 PM
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Wednesday, March 2, 2016
Rutgers University Physics/Astronomy Colloquium
“Self-calibration, Systematic Errors, and Exoplanet Discovery”
Location: Serin Physics Laboratory, Physics Lecture Hall
Time: 4:45 PM
Speaker(s): David Hogg, New York University
Note: Tea served at 4:30 pm.
Description: Finding exoplanets is hard: They appear as extremely tiny signals in any data set. Intrinsic stellar variability and variability induced by the spacecraft (or telescope or atmosphere) are both larger (in almost all data sets) than the exoplanet signals of interest. The best information about these sources of variability comes from the scientific data themselves; that is, the most sensitive searches for exoplanets are self-calibrated. I use Kepler and K2 data to illustrate these points, showing a set of discoveries in the K2 mission, where the spacecraft-induced variability is larger than most exoplanet signals by more than an order of magnitude. (Come prepared to suffer through some linear algebra.)
www.physics.rutgers.edu/colloquium/
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Thursday, March 3, 2016
Institute for Advanced Study Informal Astrophysics Seminar
Location: Bloomberg Hall, Astrophysics Library
Time: 11:00 AM
www.sns.ias.edu/~seminar/informal_seminars.shtml
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Thursday, March 3, 2016
Princeton University Department of Physics Hamilton Colloquium Series
“TBA”
Location: Jadwin Hall, Room A10
Time: 4:30 PM
Speaker(s): Kerstin Perez, Haverford College
www.princeton.edu/physics/events/colloquium/
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Friday, March 4, 2016
Princeton University Astrophysical Sciences Supernova Discussion Group
Location: Peyton Hall, Room 140
Time: 11:00 AM
Description: Everyone is welcome. Adam Burrows is the organizer.
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Friday, March 4, 2016
Princeton University Gravity Group Lunch Seminar
Location: Jadwin Hall, PCTS Seminar Room, Room 407
Time: 12:00 PM
Speaker(s): Sean McWilliams
Note: Meet at 11:30 am at long table in PCTS to meet with speaker and/or have more time for lunch. See the website for information on placing a food order.
www.princeton.edu/cosmology/gravity-group-seminar/
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Monday, March 7, 2016
Princeton University/Institute for Advanced Study Early Universe/Cosmology Lunch Discussion
Location: Peyton Hall, Dome Room, Room 201
Time: 12:30 PM
Speaker(s): TBA
Description: Organizers are David Spergel, Princeton University, and Matias Zaldarriaga, Institute for Advanced Study. The lunch will be held at either Princeton University or the Institute for Advanced Study. Check the calendar for the meeting location. This week's meeting is at Princeton University. Attendees can bring lunch.
mondaycosmo.pbworks.com/w/page/30421440/FrontPage
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Tuesday, March 8, 2016
Institute for Advanced Study/Princeton University Joint Astrophysics Colloquium
Location: Princeton University, Peyton Hall, Room 145
Time: 11:00 AM
Speaker(s): Rachel A Rosen, Columbia University
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Tuesday, March 8, 2016
Institute for Advanced Study / Princeton University Bahcall Lunch
Location: Princeton University, Jadwin Hall, Joseph Henry Room
Time: 12:15 PM
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Thursday, March 10, 2016
Institute for Advanced Study Informal Astrophysics Seminar
Location: Bloomberg Hall, Astrophysics Library
Time: 11:00 AM
www.sns.ias.edu/~seminar/informal_seminars.shtml
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Thursday, March 10, 2016
Rutgers University Astrophysics Seminar
Location: Serin Hall, Room 401
Time: 1:30 PM
Note: Refreshments to follow in room 332W.
www.physics.rutgers.edu/ast/seminar
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Thursday, March 10, 2016
Princeton University Department of Physics Hamilton Colloquium Series
“TBA”
Location: Jadwin Hall, Room A10
Time: 4:30 PM
www.princeton.edu/physics/events/colloquium/
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Friday, March 11, 2016
Princeton University Astrophysical Sciences Supernova Discussion Group
Location: Peyton Hall, Room 140
Time: 11:00 AM
Description: Everyone is welcome. Adam Burrows is the organizer.
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Friday, March 11, 2016
Princeton University Gravity Group Lunch Seminar
Location: Jadwin Hall, PCTS Seminar Room, Room 407
Time: 12:00 PM
Speaker(s): Maria Salatino
Note: Meet at 11:30 am at long table in PCTS to meet with speaker and/or have more time for lunch. See the website for information on placing a food order.
www.princeton.edu/cosmology/gravity-group-seminar/
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Monday, March 14, 2016
Princeton University/Institute for Advanced Study Early Universe/Cosmology Lunch Discussion
Location: Institute for Advanced Study, West Building, West Seminar Room
Time: 12:30 PM
Speaker(s): TBA
Description: Organizers are David Spergel, Princeton University, and Matias Zaldarriaga, Institute for Advanced Study. The lunch will be held at either Princeton University or the Institute for Advanced Study. Check the calendar for the meeting location. This week's meeting is at the Institute for Advanced Study. Attendees can bring their own lunch or stop at the IAS Dining Hall. The West Seminar room is in a building which is a short walk from the main dining area.
mondaycosmo.pbworks.com/w/page/30421440/FrontPage
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Tuesday, March 15, 2016
Institute for Advanced Study/Princeton University Joint Astrophysics Colloquium
Location: Princeton University, Peyton Hall, Room 145
Time: 11:00 AM
Speaker(s): Lorenzo Sironi, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
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Tuesday, March 15, 2016
Institute for Advanced Study / Princeton University Bahcall Lunch
Location: Princeton University, Jadwin Hall, Joseph Henry Room
Time: 12:15 PM
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Thursday, March 17, 2016
Institute