Events on Monday, September 29th, 2008
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar
- Plasma Rotation Driven by Static Non-axisymmetric Magnetic Fields in DIII-D
- Time: 12:05 pm
- Place: 1227 Engineering Hall
- Speaker: Dr. Andrea Garofalo, General Atomics
- Special Astronomy Colloquium Talk
- Molecular Clouds and Star Formation in the Magellanic Clouds
- Time: 3:30 pm
- Place: 3425 Sterling Hall
- Speaker: Dr. Yasuo Fukui, Nagoya University, JAPAN
- Abstract: I will present the molecular image of the Magellanic Clouds obtained with NANTEN 4m telescope and other telescopes at mm/sub-mm wavelengths and discuss molecular cloud properties and star formation. The Magellanic Clouds are ideal nearby galaxies where we are able to have a comprehensive and uniform sample of star formatting regions. Previous studies with NANTEN revealed that the molecular clouds are classified into three types, Type I no O star formation, Type II limited O star formation and Type III most active cluster formation, and that the total lifetime of a giant molecular clouds are ~30Myrs. Recent sub-mm data allow us to reveal dense clumps within these molecular clouds and tell us how gas condense to form clusters. The Spitzer SAGE program offers a sample of less luminous young stars associated with the molecular clouds. We also learn how lower density HI gas is accumulating onto the molecular clouds by making a 3-dim comparison between CO and HI. I will use these results to make a comprehensive view of star formation in a galaxy.
http://ads.nao.ac.jp/abs/2008arXiv0804.1458F
http://ads.nao.ac.jp/abs/2008arXiv0804.1458F
http://ads.nao.ac.jp/abs/2007prpl.conf...81B
http://ads.nao.ac.jp/abs/2007prpl.conf...81B
- Host: Professor Snezana Stanimirovic
- High Energy Seminar
- Observation of the Ground State of the bbbar System
- Time: 4:00 pm
- Place: 4274 Chamberlin (Coffee and Cookies at 3:45 pm)
- Speaker: Veronique Ziegler, SLAC
- Host: Matt Herndon
- Plasma Theory Seminar
- Low Collisionality Neoclassical Toroidal Viscosity in Tokamaks and Quasi-symmetric Stellarators
- Time: 4:00 pm
- Place: 514 ERB
- Speaker: Andrew Cole, UW-Madison, Dept. of ECE