Astrophysics Seminar

Winter Quarter 2008

Wednesdays, 4:10 - 5:00 p.m.
Accelerator Lab Conference Room

Instructor: Assoc. Prof. M. Böttcher
Office: Clippinger 339
Phone: 593 1714
E-mail: mboett@helios.phy.ohiou.edu

This quarter's topic:
Gamma-Ray Astronomy with GLAST
(The Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope)

Format of the seminar:

The Gamma-Ray Large Area Space Telescope is currently scheduled for launch in late Spring 2008. This seminar focuses on science relevant to this gamma-ray astronomy mission. Everybody interested in astronomy/astrophysics is invited to attend this seminar. Every student who is signed up for credit is expected to present a talk, based on one or more relevant journal articles and/or their own research in the field, if it is related to gamma-ray astronomy.

We will usually have one student talk of ~ 30 minutes, leaving time for discussion of other recent astronomy news before the talk and extended discussion about the topic of the talk afterwards. Possible topics include

After each talk, every member of the audience is asked to fill out a feedback form which is intended to help the speaker assess how his/her talk was percieved by the audience. The questions on the form specifically address issues mentioned in a set of general guidelines for seminar/conference talks.

In addition to the student talks, we expect to have 3 external speakers. The schedule below will be updated as information becomes available.

Schedule

Date Speaker(s) Title
Jan. 9 Markus Böttcher Welcome; brief overview of the GLAST mission and science objectives
Jan. 16 Brett Ragozzine Instrument Description and Performance of the LAT
Jan. 23 David Riethmiller Pulsars as Gamma-Ray Point Sources
Jan. 30 Kyle Uckert Gamma-Ray Emission from Supernova Remnants
Feb. 6 Desiree Cotto-Figueroa The Spectral Shape of the Gamma-Ray Background from Blazars
Feb. 13 Anita Reimer (Stanford Univ.) Active Galactic Nuclei in the GLAST Era: A Theoretical Perspective
Feb. 20 Manasvita Joshi Gamma-Rays from Colliding Winds of Massive Stars
Feb. 27 TBD TBD
March 5 Deirdre Horan (Argonne Natl. Lab.) The Status of Very High Energy Gamma-Ray Observations at VERITAS
March 12 Ian Smith (Rice Univ.) Multiwavelength Observations of Nearby Black Holes in the GLAST Era

Guide lines for seminar and conference presentations
feedback form

Markus Böttcher's home page
OU Astronomy and Astrophysics
Department Physics and Astronomy
Ohio University