The seminar meets in the lounge from 3:30-5:30pm on select Fridays (typically 3rd Fridays), with a 1-hour visitor talk or two 1/2-hour internal talks followed by a social hour with refreshments.

The schedule for 2009-2010 is

• Sept. 18 D. J. Pisano (West Virginia) "Luminous compact blue galaxies: what are they and what will they become?" note special time/place: 12 noon in Phillips 258
  
  
• Oct. 16 Bret Lehmer (Johns Hopkins/NASA GSFC) "New Results from a Deep Chandra Survey of the z=3.09 Protocluster SSA22"
  
  
• Nov. 13 Mateusz Ruszkowski (Michigan) "Stirred, Then Shaken: Conduction and Turbulence in Clusters of Galaxies"
  

The seminar is co-organized by Mark Norris, Sheila Kannappan, and Fabian Heitsch. Questions should be directed to the Sheila Kannappan, .

The schedule for 2008-2009 was

• Sept. 19 Steve Reynolds (NC State) "Young Supernova Remnants: New Observations and Modeling at X-ray, Infrared, and Radio Wavelengths" note slightly later time: 3:45pm
  
  
• Oct. 24 Michael Good (UNC) "Quantum Black Holes" and
  Mark Norris (UNC) "Probing the Early-Type Galaxy/Globular Cluster Connection - A New Approach"
  
  
• Nov. 21 Davide Lazzati (NC State) "Spectral Evolution in the Prompt Emission of Gamma-Ray Bursts"
  
  
• Dec. 2 Sadegh Khochfar (Max Planck - Garching) "Dark Matter Driven Galaxy Formation"
  (SPECIAL SEMINAR AT THEORY SEMINAR TIME -- 3:30pm in Phillips 258)
  
  
• Mar. 24 Meg Urry (Yale) "Supermassive Black Holes and the Evolution of Galaxies"
  (CROSS-LISTED SPECIAL COLLOQUIUM -- 4:00pm in Phillips 215)
  
  
• Apr. 17 Nicholas Ross (Penn State) "The Clustering and Evolution of Quasars over the Last 10 Billion Years"
  

The schedule for 2007-2008 was

• Sept. 21 Craig Heinke (Virginia) "Constraints on Dense Matter from X-ray Observations of Neutron Stars"
  
  
• Oct. 26 Rachel Rosen (UNC) "Evidence for Non-radial Oscillations in Radio Pulsars" and
  Gerald Cecil (UNC) "Lucky Imaging of Mercury & Preview of MESSENGER's mid-Jan Flyby"
  
  
• Nov. 16 Murray Silverstone (Eureka) "Hunting for Debris Disks with Spitzer and HST/NICMOS" (planet formation)
  
  
• Jan. 18 Gail McLaughlin (NC State) "Neutrinos from Supernovae and Gamma Ray Bursts: Nucleosynthesis and Detection"
  
  
• Feb. 15 Andrew Baker (Rutgers) "Star Formation in High-Redshift Galaxies... and their Low-Redshift Cousins"
  (SPECIAL SEMINAR AT JOURNAL CLUB TIME -- 1pm in Phillips 258)
  
  
• Feb. 22 Richard Longland + Jesse Miner (UNC) "Everything you ever wanted to know about TP AGB stars"
  
  
• March 28 Amy Reines (Virginia) "The Birth of Massive Star Clusters in the Local Universe: Clues to the Origin of Globular Clusters" and
  David Nidever (Virginia) "Exploring Galaxy Formation and Evolution with the Magellanic Clouds"
  
  
• April 18 Kevin Ivarsen (UNC) "PROMPT and the Skynet Telescope Network" and
  Miles Blanton (UNC) "The Galactic Center Lobe: Our Nearest Superbubble"