Tuesday 20 April at 3pm in the JAC Library (note new location)

Min Yun - NRAO/VLA

"Probing Cosmic Star Formation History"

ABSTRACT: "Recent deep submm surveys using the SCUBA on JCMT have revealed the presence of an entirely new population of very luminous and extremely dusty high redshift galaxies and clearly demonstrated that a significant fraction of star formation activity in the early universe may be entirely missed by the optical and UV studies. I will describe how the study of faint radio and submm sources can help constructing an unbiased cosmic star formation history. I will also address why both radio and submm studies are needed. "