ASTRONOMY 290A -- FALL 2007
INTRODUCTION TO RESEARCH IN ASTROPHYSICS
AT UC BERKELEY
Coordinator: D. Backer
Time: 4:10-5:00 PM Tuesdays
Place: 544 Campbell
Tea, often with speaker, at 3:30 in 6th floor lounge
Credit: One Unit
This seminar series provides a survey of the research activities and opportunities
available to UC Berkeley graduate students interested in Planetary Science, Astrophysics
and Cosmology. Research groups in the Astronomy, Physics and Earth & Planetary Sciences
Departments along with those at the Space Sciences Laboratory, Radio
Astronomy Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory will be represented.
The format is a weekly, one-hour presentation of current interests by a
representative (usually the PI) of a research group. Occasionally we
will organize a lab tour as part of the presentation. Astronomy 290B in
Spring 2003 will continue the series.
First year graduate students in Astronomy must take this course; graduate
students in other Departments, and others interested in finding out
what's going are all welcome.
SCHEDULE
Aug 28 -
D. Stewart, S. Wells, K. McDonald, B. Boyd, P. Stone, L. Dowling, S. Bowne:
"Staff and Resources at Berkeley"
Sep 4 -
Alex Filippenko:
"TBD";
af_ADS
Sep 11 - Martin Cohen:
"HII regions in the mid-infrared: science & engineering";
mc_ADS
Sep 18 -
Josh Bloom; "Transients Potpourri"
jb_ADS
Sep 25 -
Geoff Bower; "Roundtable with NRAO Director Fred Lo"
gb_ADS
Oct 2 -
Geoff Marcy:
"Multiple Planets with Multiple Mirrors"; ref:
gm_ADS
Oct 9 - informal meeting on research opportunities
Oct 16 -
Jon Arons:
"Things that go Bang in the Night: Pulsars, Magnetars and their Nebulae";
ja_ADS
Oct 23 - Franck Marchis
"Multiple Asteroids studied with Adaptive Optics"
Oct 30 - Paul Kalas: "Searching for circumstellar disks and sub-stellar companions"
Nov 6 -
Leo Blitz:
"TBD"
lb_ADS :
Nov 13 -
Eugene Chiang:
"Problems and Prospects in Planet Formation"
ec_ADS
Nov 20 - informal meeting on research opportunities
Nov 27 - Eliot Quataert: TBD
eq_ADS
Dec 4 - Chung-Pei Ma: TBD
cpm_ADS