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THe following presentations are planned
February
12 - Marcel (214)
19 - Freeke (214)
26 - Craig (207)

March
5 - Olja (207)
12 -
19 - Ryan (207)
26 - Sarah (207)

April
2 - holiday
9 - Steven (226/8)
16 - Moein (226/8)
23 - Ali (214)
30 - holiday
May
7 - Brent (214)
14 - holiday
21 - Marijn (207)
28 - Jesse (207)

OLDER presentations

August 1: Rik Williams
"The Rise and Fall of Galaxy Activity in Dark Matter Haloes"
by Pasquali, van den Bosch, Mo, Yang, & Somerville
http://arxiv.org/abs/0807.4178

August 8: Andreas
arXiv:0807.2799 ,http://arxiv.org/abs/0807.2799

] Title: HeII Reionization and its Effect on the IGM
Authors: Matthew McQuinn, Adam Lidz, Matias Zaldarriaga, Lars Hernquist, Philip F. Hopkins, Suvendra Dutta , Faucher-Giguere
Comments: 22 pages, 15 figures, plus 9 pages of Appendix. Submitted to ApJ
Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)


August 15: Maaike

A Semi-Analytic Model for the Co-evolution of Galaxies, Black Holes, and Active Galactic Nuclei
by: Somerville, Hopkins, Cox, Robertson & Hernquist
http://arxiv.org/abs/0808.1227

August 22: Marijn

Interaction-induced star formation in a complete sample of 105 nearby +star-forming galaxies Li, Kauffmann, Heckmann, Jing, White http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2008MNRAS.385.1903L

August 29: Ryan

The close environment of 24 micron galaxies at 0.6
September 5: Craig

September 12: Rik

Dry Mergers: A Crucial Test for Galaxy Formation by S. Khochfar & J. Silk arXiv:0809.1734

September 19: workshop

September 26: Freeke

October 3: closed

October 10: Marcel

1. arXiv:0810.1272 [ps, pdf, other] Title: The Enrichment of the Intracluster Medium Authors: Suresh Sivanandam, Ann I. Zabludoff, Dennis Zaritsky, Anthony H. Gonzalez, Dan D. Kelson Comments: 27 pages, 9 figures, 7 tables. Accepted for publication in ApJ Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

October 17: Andreas

Dear all, tomorrow I will talk about the Aquarius Project (arXiv:0809.0898). Be welcome. Andreas

October 24: Maaike

Tomorrow I will discuss a paper by Kimm et al: The Correlations of Star Formation Quenching with Internal Galaxy Properties and Environment. http://arxiv.org/abs/0810.2794

October 31: Rob
Tests of Chemical Enrichment Scenarios in Ellipticals Using Continuum Colors and Spectroscopy http://arxiv.org/abs/0810.4102
November 7: Jo

arXiv:0810.1972 [ps, pdf, other] Title: Black Holes in Pseudobulges and Spheroidals: A Change in the Black Hole-Bulge Scaling Relations at Low Mass Authors: Jenny E. Greene (Princeton), Luis C. Ho (Carnegie), Aaron J. Barth (UC Irvine) Comments: to appear in ApJ; 22 pages; 8 figures; original version available at this http URL Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph) November 14: Nina

http://arxiv.org/abs/0811.1218 Galaxy Mergers and Dark Matter Halo Mergers in LCDM: Mass, Redshift, and Mass-Ratio Dependence Kyle R. Stewart, James S. Bullock, Elizabeth J. Barton (UC Irvine), Risa H. Wechsler (Stanford)


November 21: Joop
room 226/228. Strict end at 1:10

November 28: open

December 5: Anne-Marie

December 12: open

December 19: open

January 16: Maaike
arXiv:0901.1130
The Many Manifestations of Downsizing: Hierarchical Galaxy Formation Models confront Observations
Authors: Fabio Fontanot (1), Gabriella De Lucia (2), Pierluigi Monaco (3,4), Rachel S. Somerville (1,5), Paola Santini

Jan 23 : Marcel Haas
arXiv:0901.2936 [ps, pdf, other]
Title: Are Most Low-Luminosity AGN Really Obscured?
Authors: Philip F. Hopkins (1), Ryan Hickox (2), Eliot Quataert (1), Lars Hernquist (2) ((1) Berkeley, (2) CfA)
Comments: 16 pages, 12 figures. Submitted to MNRAS
Subjects: Galactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA) January 30: Rik
February 6: Lorentz workshop - no journal club
February 13: Anne-Marie
http://arxiv.org/abs/0901.3781 Ttitle: Central mass-to-light ratios and dark matter fractions in early-type galaxies Authors: C. Tortora, N.R. Napolitano, A.J. Romanowsky, M. Capaccioli, G. Covone Comments: 21 pages, 19 figures, submitted to MNRAS February 20: Rob
http://arxiv.org/abs/0902.2398 LSD: Lyman-break galaxies Stellar populations and Dynamics. I: Mass, metallicity and gas at z~3.1 Authors: F. Mannucci, G. Cresci, R. Maiolino, A. Marconi, G. Pastorini, L. Pozzetti, A. Gnerucci, G. Risaliti, R. Schneider, M. Lehnert, M. Salvati February 27: Freeke
March 6: Craig
March 13: Jo
March 20: Andreas
March 27: Ernst
April 3: Brent
April 10: Jarle(?)
April 17: Marijn
April 24: Olivera
The following presentations are planned:

May 8 - Rik 15 - NAC, no journal club 22 - Hemelvaart, no journal club 29 - Ryan June 5 - Freeke 12 - Marijn 19 - Jarle 26 - Marcel July 3 - (open) 10 - Sarah 17 - Craig 24 - Ernst 31 - Moein August 7, 14, 21, 28 - (open)