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Fall 2008 Physics & Astronomy Colloquium Room 411, Thornton Hall (unless otherwise noted) 4:05 PM (refreshments at 3:50) [Talks in Thornton 429 begin at 4:00; refreshments at 3:45] 9/8 Members of the department Departmental Research Colloquia 9/15 Members of the department Departmental Research Colloquia 9/22 Marc Davis, UC Berkeley The DEEP2 Redshift Survey: the Universe at z=1 9/29 Brandon Brown, USF How Do Organisms Sense the Earth's Magnetic Field? 10/6 Aaron Romanowsky, UCO Galactic Fundamentals: Dark Matter and Dynamics 10/13 Alexie Leauthaud, BCCP Gravitational Lensing 10/20 Maryam Modjaz, UC Berkeley Supernovae 10/27 Xiaoshen Wang, SFSU Nonlinear optics and photonics 11/3 Steve Allen, Stanford Clusters of Galaxies 11/10 Henk Hoesktra, Leiden Cosmic shear 11/17 TBD 11/24 Thanksgiving break 12/1 Tesla Jeltema, UCO N-body simulations of large scale structure 12/9 Oliver Zahn, BCCP Cosmology with radio observations 12/15 TBD Department of Physics and Astronomy San Francisco State University 1600 Holloway San Francisco, CA 94132-4163 physics@stars.sfsu.edu Phone: 415-338-1659 Fax: 415-338-2178