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MICA Seminars
From Mica
We no longer have these on a regular basis. Sporadic seminars are advertised as needed. Please see the Upcoming Public Events page.
Past Schedule
(Oldest seminars are at the top.)
- April 11, 2008:
- S.McMillan A parallel gravitational N-body kernel by S. Portegies Zwart, S McMillan, Derek Groen et al., 2008, New Astronomy, 13, 285 http://arxiv.org/abs/0711.0643
- April 25, 2008:
- E.Glebbeek Report on the highlights of the IAU Symposium 252 The Art of Modeling Stars in the 21st Century
- May 9, 2008:
- May 23, 2008:
- Will Farr Report on the highlights of the April APS meeting in St. Louis
- May 31, 2008:
- September 26, 2008:
- November 7, 2008:
- Gordon Richards (Drexel University) "SDSS Quasar Science"
- November 14, 2008:
- Derek Richardson (University of Maryland-College Park) "Rotational breakup as the origin of small binary asteroids"
- paper on Nature Press release
- December 5, 2008:
- December 19, 2008:
- February 20, 2009:
- Steve McMillan (Drexel University) Multiple Stellar Populations in Globular Clusters (| paper 1)
- March 20, 2009:
- Evert Glebbeek (McMaster University) - "Coupling stellar evolution and stellar dynamics: the evolution of stellar collision remnants"
- March 27, 2009:
- George Djorgovski (Caltech) - "Synoptic Sky Surveys and Exploration of Time Domain in Astronomy" - Audio Recording
- April 10, 2009:
- April 17, 2009:
- April 24, 2009:
- May 1, 2009:
- May 15, 2009:
- Andreas Berlind (Vanderbilt University) - "Galaxy clustering on very small scales: measurements and theory" - No audio recording
- May 22, 2009:
- May 29, 2009:
- June 5, 2009:
- Raffaele D'Abrusco (University of Padova) - "A data-mining perspective on the problem of candidate QSOs extraction" - Audio recording (MP3)
- June 17, 2009:
- July 24, 2009:
- September 18, 2009
- B. Scott Gaudi (Ohio State University) The Demographics of Extrasolar Planets with Gravitational Microlensing Slides
- September 25, 2009
- Darren Croton (Swinburne University) How to model the entire Universe in N easy steps (N>>1) Slides
- October 2, 2009
- Chris Lintott (Oxford University) The science of Galaxy Zoo, or what to do with 250,000 astronomers
- October 9, 2009
- Cristina Lopes (University of California Irvine) New developments in OpenSim and the Hypergrid
- October 23, 2009
- Nathan Leigh (McMaster University) Stellar Populations in Globular Clusters Cores: Evidence for a Peculiar Trend Among Red Giant Branch Stars
- October 30, 2009
- Christine Corbett Moran (University of Zurich)
ParaViz: A parallel visualization tool for astrophysical applications. Slides
- November 13, 2009
- Derek Groen (Leiden University)
CosmoGrid: Simulating the Universe on a Grid of Supercomputers Slides
- November 20, 2009
- Josh Lifton (MIT)
Trends, Dual Reality, and Identity in Virtual Worlds. Slides
- December 11, 2009
- Shenlei E. Winkler (FRI)
Towards the Future: A Foundation to Support OpenSim in Education, Science, and Research
- December 18, 2009
- Gloria Mark (UCI)
Large-Scale Distributed Collaboration in Space Mission Design: Challenges and Opportunities
- January 15, 2010
- January 22, 2010
- John Mather (NASA GSFC, Nobel laureate in physics 2006, project scientist for the JWST )
Astronomy with the James Webb Space Telescope - Slides - Audio Recording
- January 29, 2010
- Will Farr (Northwestern University)
Numerical Relativity from a Gauge Theory Perspective
- February 5, 2010
- February 12, 2010
- Vahe Gurzadyan (Yerevan Physics Institute Armenia)
Chance and Determinism - How Chance Enters the Description of the Universe - Slides - Audio Recording (Note: audio quality ranges from bad to okay) - Photo
- February 19, 2010
- George Djorgovski (Caltech)
Exploring the time domain in astronomy with the Catalina Real-time Transient Survey (CRTS) - Audio Recording
- February 26, 2010
- Ashish Mahabal (Caltech)
Best programming practices - Slides
- March 5, 2010
- Ciro Donalek (Caltech)
Knowledge Discovery from Data - Slides? - No known audio recording
- March 26, 2010
- Kevin Heng (IAS, Princeton)
Planetesimal and Debris Disks: the Late Stages of Planetary Systems - Audio recording
- April 16, 2010
- Alexander (Sasha) Kashlinsky (GSFC)
Large-Scale Peculiar Flows of Clusters of Galaxies - Slides? - Audio recording; Note: the audio was lost for about one minute at 37 minutes in, and that was edited out.
- May 21, 2010
- May 28, 2010
- Dec. 20, 2011
- Marianne Riis (Aalborg U.):
- Design for meaningful pedagogical practice in Second Life
- Slides
- Thu. Feb. 16, 2012
- Lior Shamir (LTU):
- "Bioinformatics as a Discipline: A Critical Assessment"
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