Theoretical Astronomy Lectures
February 17, 2012
Inflation and the Landscape of String Theory
Alexander Westphal
Deutsches Elektron-Synchrotron
February 15, 2012
Mysteries of the oscillations of gas accreting onto black holes, neutron stars, and white dwarfs
Bob Wagoner
Stanford
August 31, 2011
Do We Need String Theory to Quantize Gravity?
Lance Dixon
High Energy Physics Laboratory, Stanford University
July 27, 2011
Are we living in a multiverse? Eternal inflation, bubbles, and cosmic collisions
Anthony Aguirre
Department of Physics and Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, UC Santa Cruz
July 14, 2010
Understanding the Star Formation Rate
Mark Krumholz
Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, UC Santa Cruz
June 16, 2010
Don't Rain on my Planet: The Importance of Clouds and Hazes for Understanding Exoplanets and Brown Dwarfs
Mark Marley
June 02, 2010
Building a habitable planet: the physics and chemistry of planet formation
Monika Kress
Department of Physics and Astronomy, San Jose State University
February 10, 2010
Observing String Multiverse with Astrophysical Black Holes
Sergei Dubovsky
Stanford University Institute For Theoretical Physicst
November 10, 2009
Water, Molecular Oxygen and Ice in Star-Forming Molecular Clouds
David Hollenbach
SETI Institute
August 26, 2009
Connecting Galaxies, Halos, and Star Formation Rates across Cosmic Time
Risa Wechsler
Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology and Physics Department, Stanford University
April 22, 2009
First Things in the Universe
Tom Abel
Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology Laboratory, Stanford University
February 04, 2009
The Hunt for Hidden Dimensions
JoAnne Hewett
Professor at SLAC, Stanford University
October 29, 2008
Giant Planet Formation
Dr. Jack Lissauer
Space Sciences Division, NASA Ames Research Center
September 24, 2008
Black Holes: End of Time or a New Beginning?
Prof. Roger Blandford
Stanford Linear Accelerator and Physics, Stanford University
February 13, 2008
Terrestrial Planet Formation and Habitability in Binary Star Systems
Elisa Quintana
January 09, 2008
Quantum Astronomy: Extending the Weirdness of Modern Physics to Cosmic Scales
Laurance Doyle
SETI Institute
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- Observational Astronomy (36)
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