UW Astronomy Department Colloquia

The UW Astronomy Department hosts free weekly colloquia. They begin at 4 p.m. in room A102 of the Physics-Astronomy Building. Coffee and cookies are served at 3:45 p.m. in the foyer.

May 4: "Multiply Barred and Lopsided Galaxies," Linda Sparke, University of Wisconsin at Madison

May 11: "Extrasolar Planetary Systems: Observations, Theories, and Speculations," David Trilling, University of California Santa Cruz.

May 18: "Prospecting for Mass with Wide-Field Imaging Surveys," Ian Dell'Antonio, NOAO

May 25: "Chemical Composition of the Local Group: the Galactic Bulge and the Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy," Andy McWilliam, Carnegie Observatory

June 1: "The Morphological Evolution of the Local Group Satellites," Fabio Governato, Osservatorio di Brera-Merate, Milan, Italy