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Astronomy & Space Physics Seminar (Spring - '07)

Seminars will take place at 4:00 pm on Tuesdays in 215 Sharp Lab.
Committee: Stan Owocki Chair, John Gizis

Date	Speaker	Title	Host
Feb 13	Pasquale Blasi Florence Observatory	Diffusive particle acceleration at shocks and the Origin of Cosmic Rays	Stanov
Feb 20	Achim Feldmeier University of Potsdam	Dynamics of radiative-acoustic shock fronts in line-driven stellar winds	Owocki
Feb 27	Atsuo Okazaki Hokkai-Gakuen University Sapporo, Japan	Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) Simulations of Mass Transfer in High-Mass X-ray Binarie	Owocki
Mar 6	Paul Cassak Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Delaware	What Makes Solar Eruptions Erupt: The Catastrophic Onset of Fast Magnetic Reconnection	Shay
Mar 13	Open		Owocki
Mar 20	Open
Mar 27	SPRING BREAK
Apr 3	Leisa Townsley Penn State University	An X-ray Tour of Massive Star-forming Regions	Owocki
Apr 10	Nir Shaviv Racah Institute of Physics The Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Scrutinizing the Science of Global Warming	Owocki
Apr 17	Anatoly Spitkovsky Princeton IAS	Extreme magnetospheres: from pulsars to accretion disks	Owocki
Apr 25	Mark Linton Naval Research Laboratory	Solar Coronal Mass Ejections: Magnetic Reconnection and Flare Loop Formation *NOTE DAY CHANGE*	Shay
May 1	James Chen Plasma Physics Division Naval Research Laboratory	Physics of Coronal Mass Ejections: Recent Theoretical and Observational Advances	Shay
May 8	Margaret Hanson Physics Department University of Cincinnati	Revealing our Galaxy's Massive Star Clusters	Owocki
May 15	Open
May 22 postponed	Michael Hesse NASA Goddard Space Center	How Does Collisionless Magnetic Reconnection Work in the Presence of a Guide Magnetic Field?*POSTPONED*	Shay

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