Regular Events
Colloquia
Thursdays while classes are in session. Tea at 3:30 in HFA D lounge, talk at 4:10 in 2 Le Conte (fall) or 1 Le Conte (spring).
| Date | Speaker (Affiliation) | Title | Abstract | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 19 | Jane Rigby (GSFC/JWST) | Status Update on the James Webb Space Telescope Project | abstract | Kriek |
| Jan 26 | Tristan Guillot (Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur) | Inferring the Compositions of Giant Planets: From Jupiter to Exoplanets | abstract | Militzer |
| Feb 2 | Martin Bureau (Oxford) | The Tully-Fisher Relation: Across Morphological Types and Redshifts | abstract | Blitz |
| Feb 9 | Margaret Pan (UCB) | Adventures in Debris Disk Physics | abstract | Chiang |
| Feb 16 | Adam Showman (Arizona) | Weather on Remote Worlds: The Atmospheric Circulation of the Hot Jupiters | abstract | Marcy |
| Feb 23 | Rebecca Bernstein (UCSC) | A Way to Measure Stellar Abundances in Virgo: a New Kind of Optical Spectrograph for TMT | abstract | Bloom |
| Mar 1 | Brian Siana (UC Riverside) | Finding and Characterizing the Sources of the Ionizing Background with Keck and HST | abstract | Kriek |
| Mar 8 | Paul Goldsmith (Cornell/JPL) | Herschel’s View of the Cool Universe | abstract | Blitz |
| Mar 15 | Jim Peebles (Princeton) | The Curious Behavior of Galaxies as Island Universes | abstract | Davis |
| Mar 22 | Chris Stubbs (Harvard) | The Dark Energy Crisis in the Longer Term | abstract | Bower |
| Apr 5 | Julianne Dalcanton (U. Washington) | Galaxies Viewed as Collections of Individual Stars | abstract | Kriek |
| Apr 12 | James Bullock (UC Irvine, Miller Inst.) | Dark Matter, Dwarf Galaxies, and Massive Failures in the Halo of the Milky Way | abstract | Ma |
| Apr 19 | Steve Balbus (ENS) | Unraveling the mystery of the Sun’s differential rotation | abstract | Quataert |
| Apr 26 | Caroline Terquem (IAP) | Dynamics of Extrasolar Planets | abstract | McKee |
You can see the colloquium series on the UC Berkeley calendaring system here.
Science@Cal Public Lecture Series
Monthly on Saturdays. For more information see here.
Seminars
- Theoretical Astrophysics Seminar (Mondays, 12-1:00pm, HFA B-1)
- Radio Astronomy Lab Seminar (Mondays, 3:00pm, HFA B-1)
- Adaptive Optics Seminar (Tuesdays, 12-1pm, 394 Minor Hall)
- Berkeley Cosmology Group Seminar (Tuesdays, 1:00pm, HFA B-5)
- Theory Lunch (Wednesdays, 12:10-1:00pm, HFA B-1)
- Journal Club (Fridays, 12:00, HFA B-5)
- astro-ph coffee (Tues & Thurs, 11:15, HFA D lounge)
- Graduate Student / Postdoc Seminar (Fri, 4:00pm, HFA B-5)
Other Local Events
- Space Sciences Lab Colloquium (Fridays, 3:05 pm, SSL Addition Conference Room, coffee and refreshments from 2:45 pm)
- Institute for Nuclear and Particle Astrophysics (INPA) Journal Club (Fridays, Noon, Building 50 / Room 5026 LBNL)
- Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP) Seminar (Fridays, Noon, B219/R163 LLNL)
- NASA/Ames CSFS Schedule