Deprecated: Function split() is deprecated in /export/www/docs/news/rss2ical/magpierss-0.72/rss_parse.inc on line 153
Deprecated: Function ereg_replace() is deprecated in /export/www/docs/news/rss2ical/rss-ics.php on line 51
Warning: strtotime() [function.strtotime]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PST/-8.0/no DST' instead in /export/www/docs/news/rss2ical/rss-ics.php on line 56
Warning: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PST/-8.0/no DST' instead in /export/www/docs/news/rss2ical/rss-ics.php on line 63
Warning: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PST/-8.0/no DST' instead in /export/www/docs/news/rss2ical/rss-ics.php on line 64
Deprecated: Function ereg_replace() is deprecated in /export/www/docs/news/rss2ical/rss-ics.php on line 51
Warning: strtotime() [function.strtotime]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PST/-8.0/no DST' instead in /export/www/docs/news/rss2ical/rss-ics.php on line 56
Warning: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PST/-8.0/no DST' instead in /export/www/docs/news/rss2ical/rss-ics.php on line 63
Warning: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PST/-8.0/no DST' instead in /export/www/docs/news/rss2ical/rss-ics.php on line 64
Deprecated: Function ereg_replace() is deprecated in /export/www/docs/news/rss2ical/rss-ics.php on line 51
Warning: strtotime() [function.strtotime]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PST/-8.0/no DST' instead in /export/www/docs/news/rss2ical/rss-ics.php on line 56
Warning: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PST/-8.0/no DST' instead in /export/www/docs/news/rss2ical/rss-ics.php on line 63
Warning: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PST/-8.0/no DST' instead in /export/www/docs/news/rss2ical/rss-ics.php on line 64
Deprecated: Function ereg_replace() is deprecated in /export/www/docs/news/rss2ical/rss-ics.php on line 51
Warning: strtotime() [function.strtotime]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PST/-8.0/no DST' instead in /export/www/docs/news/rss2ical/rss-ics.php on line 56
Warning: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PST/-8.0/no DST' instead in /export/www/docs/news/rss2ical/rss-ics.php on line 63
Warning: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PST/-8.0/no DST' instead in /export/www/docs/news/rss2ical/rss-ics.php on line 64
Deprecated: Function ereg_replace() is deprecated in /export/www/docs/news/rss2ical/rss-ics.php on line 51
Warning: strtotime() [function.strtotime]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PST/-8.0/no DST' instead in /export/www/docs/news/rss2ical/rss-ics.php on line 56
Warning: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PST/-8.0/no DST' instead in /export/www/docs/news/rss2ical/rss-ics.php on line 63
Warning: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PST/-8.0/no DST' instead in /export/www/docs/news/rss2ical/rss-ics.php on line 64
Deprecated: Function ereg_replace() is deprecated in /export/www/docs/news/rss2ical/rss-ics.php on line 51
Warning: strtotime() [function.strtotime]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PST/-8.0/no DST' instead in /export/www/docs/news/rss2ical/rss-ics.php on line 56
Warning: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PST/-8.0/no DST' instead in /export/www/docs/news/rss2ical/rss-ics.php on line 63
Warning: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PST/-8.0/no DST' instead in /export/www/docs/news/rss2ical/rss-ics.php on line 64
Deprecated: Function ereg_replace() is deprecated in /export/www/docs/news/rss2ical/rss-ics.php on line 51
Warning: strtotime() [function.strtotime]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PST/-8.0/no DST' instead in /export/www/docs/news/rss2ical/rss-ics.php on line 56
Warning: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PST/-8.0/no DST' instead in /export/www/docs/news/rss2ical/rss-ics.php on line 63
Warning: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PST/-8.0/no DST' instead in /export/www/docs/news/rss2ical/rss-ics.php on line 64
Deprecated: Function ereg_replace() is deprecated in /export/www/docs/news/rss2ical/rss-ics.php on line 51
Warning: strtotime() [function.strtotime]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PST/-8.0/no DST' instead in /export/www/docs/news/rss2ical/rss-ics.php on line 56
Warning: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PST/-8.0/no DST' instead in /export/www/docs/news/rss2ical/rss-ics.php on line 63
Warning: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PST/-8.0/no DST' instead in /export/www/docs/news/rss2ical/rss-ics.php on line 64
Deprecated: Function ereg_replace() is deprecated in /export/www/docs/news/rss2ical/rss-ics.php on line 51
Warning: strtotime() [function.strtotime]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PST/-8.0/no DST' instead in /export/www/docs/news/rss2ical/rss-ics.php on line 56
Warning: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PST/-8.0/no DST' instead in /export/www/docs/news/rss2ical/rss-ics.php on line 63
Warning: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PST/-8.0/no DST' instead in /export/www/docs/news/rss2ical/rss-ics.php on line 64
Deprecated: Function ereg_replace() is deprecated in /export/www/docs/news/rss2ical/rss-ics.php on line 51
Warning: strtotime() [function.strtotime]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PST/-8.0/no DST' instead in /export/www/docs/news/rss2ical/rss-ics.php on line 56
Warning: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PST/-8.0/no DST' instead in /export/www/docs/news/rss2ical/rss-ics.php on line 63
Warning: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PST/-8.0/no DST' instead in /export/www/docs/news/rss2ical/rss-ics.php on line 64
Deprecated: Function ereg_replace() is deprecated in /export/www/docs/news/rss2ical/rss-ics.php on line 51
Warning: strtotime() [function.strtotime]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PST/-8.0/no DST' instead in /export/www/docs/news/rss2ical/rss-ics.php on line 56
Warning: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PST/-8.0/no DST' instead in /export/www/docs/news/rss2ical/rss-ics.php on line 63
Warning: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PST/-8.0/no DST' instead in /export/www/docs/news/rss2ical/rss-ics.php on line 64
Deprecated: Function ereg_replace() is deprecated in /export/www/docs/news/rss2ical/rss-ics.php on line 51
Warning: strtotime() [function.strtotime]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PST/-8.0/no DST' instead in /export/www/docs/news/rss2ical/rss-ics.php on line 56
Warning: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PST/-8.0/no DST' instead in /export/www/docs/news/rss2ical/rss-ics.php on line 63
Warning: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PST/-8.0/no DST' instead in /export/www/docs/news/rss2ical/rss-ics.php on line 64
Deprecated: Function ereg_replace() is deprecated in /export/www/docs/news/rss2ical/rss-ics.php on line 51
Warning: strtotime() [function.strtotime]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PST/-8.0/no DST' instead in /export/www/docs/news/rss2ical/rss-ics.php on line 56
Warning: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PST/-8.0/no DST' instead in /export/www/docs/news/rss2ical/rss-ics.php on line 63
Warning: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PST/-8.0/no DST' instead in /export/www/docs/news/rss2ical/rss-ics.php on line 64
Deprecated: Function ereg_replace() is deprecated in /export/www/docs/news/rss2ical/rss-ics.php on line 51
Warning: strtotime() [function.strtotime]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PST/-8.0/no DST' instead in /export/www/docs/news/rss2ical/rss-ics.php on line 56
Warning: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PST/-8.0/no DST' instead in /export/www/docs/news/rss2ical/rss-ics.php on line 63
Warning: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PST/-8.0/no DST' instead in /export/www/docs/news/rss2ical/rss-ics.php on line 64
Deprecated: Function ereg_replace() is deprecated in /export/www/docs/news/rss2ical/rss-ics.php on line 51
Warning: strtotime() [function.strtotime]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PST/-8.0/no DST' instead in /export/www/docs/news/rss2ical/rss-ics.php on line 56
Warning: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PST/-8.0/no DST' instead in /export/www/docs/news/rss2ical/rss-ics.php on line 63
Warning: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PST/-8.0/no DST' instead in /export/www/docs/news/rss2ical/rss-ics.php on line 64
Deprecated: Function ereg_replace() is deprecated in /export/www/docs/news/rss2ical/rss-ics.php on line 51
Warning: strtotime() [function.strtotime]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PST/-8.0/no DST' instead in /export/www/docs/news/rss2ical/rss-ics.php on line 56
Warning: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PST/-8.0/no DST' instead in /export/www/docs/news/rss2ical/rss-ics.php on line 63
Warning: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PST/-8.0/no DST' instead in /export/www/docs/news/rss2ical/rss-ics.php on line 64
Deprecated: Function ereg_replace() is deprecated in /export/www/docs/news/rss2ical/rss-ics.php on line 51
Warning: strtotime() [function.strtotime]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PST/-8.0/no DST' instead in /export/www/docs/news/rss2ical/rss-ics.php on line 56
Warning: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PST/-8.0/no DST' instead in /export/www/docs/news/rss2ical/rss-ics.php on line 63
Warning: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PST/-8.0/no DST' instead in /export/www/docs/news/rss2ical/rss-ics.php on line 64
Deprecated: Function ereg_replace() is deprecated in /export/www/docs/news/rss2ical/rss-ics.php on line 51
Warning: strtotime() [function.strtotime]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PST/-8.0/no DST' instead in /export/www/docs/news/rss2ical/rss-ics.php on line 56
Warning: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PST/-8.0/no DST' instead in /export/www/docs/news/rss2ical/rss-ics.php on line 63
Warning: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PST/-8.0/no DST' instead in /export/www/docs/news/rss2ical/rss-ics.php on line 64
Deprecated: Function ereg_replace() is deprecated in /export/www/docs/news/rss2ical/rss-ics.php on line 51
Warning: strtotime() [function.strtotime]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PST/-8.0/no DST' instead in /export/www/docs/news/rss2ical/rss-ics.php on line 56
Warning: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PST/-8.0/no DST' instead in /export/www/docs/news/rss2ical/rss-ics.php on line 63
Warning: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PST/-8.0/no DST' instead in /export/www/docs/news/rss2ical/rss-ics.php on line 64
Deprecated: Function ereg_replace() is deprecated in /export/www/docs/news/rss2ical/rss-ics.php on line 51
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URL;VALUE=URI:http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/astro.html?event_ID=22953&date=2009-11-02
DTSTART:20091124T053719
DTEND:20091124T063719
SUMMARY:Alyson Brooks, tba, Nov 2
DESCRIPTION: http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/astro.html?event_ID=22953&date=2009-11-02
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URL;VALUE=URI:http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/astro.html?event_ID=24579&date=2009-11-02
DTSTART:20091124T053719
DTEND:20091124T063719
SUMMARY:Searching For Understanding Of Water Interfaces, Nov 2
DESCRIPTION:Both energy crisis and water crisis could be alleviated if we know how to manipulate water interfaces. This requires knowledge of interfacial water structure at the molecular level, which unfortunately is still at a primitive stage because of lack of viable probes. We describe here our attempt using surface-specific vibrational spectroscopy to tackle the problem. http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/astro.html?event_ID=24579&date=2009-11-02
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URL;VALUE=URI:http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/astro.html?event_ID=20905&date=2009-11-03
DTSTART:20091124T053719
DTEND:20091124T063719
SUMMARY:Balancing Outflows and Gas Dilution: The Mass-Metallicity RElation at z=0, Nov 3
DESCRIPTION:The gas-phase oxygen abundances of star-forming galaxies are tightly correlated with the galaxies' stellar masses such that more massive galaxies are more oxygen-rich. Because oxygen is produced on relatively short timescales (~10 Myr), this so-called mass-metallicity relation is a sequence of oxygen depletion: low-mass galaxies are metal-depleted relative to the true nucleosynthetic yield rather than massive galaxies being preferentially enriched. Preferential metal-depletion can be caused by either diluting the gas (e.g., via higher accretion rates of pristine gas or by lower star-formation efficiencies) or by preferentially removing metals from low-mass galaxies via galaxy winds. I will use simple analytic arguments to show how the observed mass-metallicity relation implies the required balance between gas dilution and gas outflow. In order to reproduce the mass-metallicity relation in cosmological smoothed particle hydrodynamic (SPH) simulations, star formation feedback is required. The resolution of such simulations, however, demands that this feedback is not directly modeled, I will discuss how I am examining and clarifying the issues surrounding different SPH galaxy wind implementations. http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/astro.html?event_ID=20905&date=2009-11-03
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URL;VALUE=URI:http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/astro.html?event_ID=21564&date=2009-11-05
DTSTART:20091124T053719
DTEND:20091124T063719
SUMMARY:Lincoln Greenhill, Nov 5
DESCRIPTION:The details of how massive stars form are poorly understood. Testing
the viability of disk-mediated accretion, and identifying the processes
that extract angular momentum benefit from direct measurement
of the dynamics of gas at small radii, where outflows are launched and
collimated. Using the VLBA and VLA, and for the first time, we have
traced gas structures and tracked 3-D motions within them, 10-1000 AU
from a high-mass YSO. We resolve an edge-on disk about 50 AU across and
measure its rotation. We also resolve a wide-angle outflow that
collimates at radii beyond 100 AU. The implied dynamical mass is about 8
Msun. Close to the disk, curved streamlines suggest that magnetic fields
may play a role in launching the outflow. The YSO is quite highly
embedded, without known emission up to 20 um. This is consistent with
the inferred edge-on disk orientation and high column density. I will
discuss possible origins for this disk. http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/astro.html?event_ID=21564&date=2009-11-05
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URL;VALUE=URI:http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/astro.html?event_ID=24890&date=2009-11-06
DTSTART:20091124T053719
DTEND:20091124T063719
SUMMARY:Space Sciences Lab Colloquium: Early Results from the South Pole Telescope, Nov 6
DESCRIPTION:Keywords : cosmology:cosmic microwave background - cosmology:observations - galaxies:clusters - Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect, galaxies: high-redshift - galaxies: surveys - submillimeter
Abstract : The South Pole Telescope (SPT) is a 10-meter telescope designed to survey the millimeter-wave sky, taking advantage of the exceptional observing conditions at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. The telescope and its ground-breaking 960-element bolometric camera (developed at UCB) were successfully installed at the South Pole in 2007. Since then, SPT has embarked upon a large, three-frequency survey covering more than 5% of the entire sky. The primary science goal of the survey is to constrain the evolution of dark energy through a mass-limited catalogue of hundreds of SZ clusters. However, it will also produce a rich data set for exploring the properties of individual clusters and sub-millimeter galaxies, and for probing small-scale cosmic microwave background anisotropies. I will report upon on early science prospects and results from the 2008 SPT data.
Refreshments are available 20 min before the talk, and following it with the speaker. http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/astro.html?event_ID=24890&date=2009-11-06
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URL;VALUE=URI:http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/astro.html?event_ID=21643&date=2009-11-06
DTSTART:20091124T053719
DTEND:20091124T063719
SUMMARY:Physics Graduate Student Social Hour, thru Dec 28, 2012
DESCRIPTION:Graduate students, staff, and faculty from any department are invited to this weekly event held by the Physics Graduate Student Association as a forum for informal networking and communication between scientists and science enthusiasts from all career levels. Come by for a relaxing atmosphere with delicious refreshments usually sponsored by the GA. http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/astro.html?event_ID=21643&date=2009-11-06
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URL;VALUE=URI:http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/astro.html?event_ID=25008&date=2009-11-08
DTSTART:20091124T053719
DTEND:20091124T063719
SUMMARY:Which Stars Support Intelligent Life?, Nov 8
DESCRIPTION:The stars that speckle the sky have long fascinated humanity, but only in
the past century have astronomers figured out how stars are born, live, and
die. Now we can use this knowledge to address the question: Which stars near
the Sun might have planets with intelligent life? Drawing on both the laws
of stellar evolution and the latest discoveries of extrasolar planets, Ken
Croswell describes the lives of stars and the alien worlds they may
support--with a special focus on the Sun's nearest stellar neighbor, Alpha
Centauri. http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/astro.html?event_ID=25008&date=2009-11-08
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URL;VALUE=URI:http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/astro.html?event_ID=22954&date=2009-11-09
DTSTART:20091124T053719
DTEND:20091124T063719
SUMMARY:Chi-kwan Chan, tba, Nov 9
DESCRIPTION: http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/astro.html?event_ID=22954&date=2009-11-09
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URL;VALUE=URI:http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/astro.html?event_ID=22827&date=2009-11-09
DTSTART:20091124T053719
DTEND:20091124T063719
SUMMARY:Star Formation and ISM seminar, Nov 9
DESCRIPTION:Title: Massive Protostars around IRAS 05345+3157 in the Making http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/astro.html?event_ID=22827&date=2009-11-09
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URL;VALUE=URI:http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/astro.html?event_ID=23127&date=2009-11-09
DTSTART:20091124T053719
DTEND:20091124T063719
SUMMARY:Segre Lecture, Nov 9
DESCRIPTION:There is strong evidence that the entire Universe sprang from sub-atomic dimensions 13.7 billion years ago in a violent event known as Inflation, but we understand almost nothing of what would have caused this to happen. Scientists around the world are now racing to find important clues in the Cosmic Microwave Background, the faint relic of the primeval fireball that filled the early Universe. http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/astro.html?event_ID=23127&date=2009-11-09
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URL;VALUE=URI:http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/astro.html?event_ID=20906&date=2009-11-10
DTSTART:20091124T053719
DTEND:20091124T063719
SUMMARY:The stellar population synthesis technique, Nov 10
DESCRIPTION:The SPS technique is deceptively simple. Relying on stellar evolution calculations, stellar spectral libraries, and dust models, practitioners of SPS aim to convert the observed spectral energy distributions of galaxies into physical properties. Knowledge of these physical properties, which range from total stellar masses to star formation rates and metallicities, are essential for understanding the formation and evolution of galaxies. The SPS framework thus provides a fundamental link between theory and observations. Despite its importance, a systematic investigation of the uncertainties in SPS is lacking. In this talk I will describe ongoing work exploring and constraining the panoply of uncertainties in SPS, including uncertainties in stellar evolution, dust models, and initial mass functions, amongst others, and their propagation into the derived physical properties of galaxies. http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/astro.html?event_ID=20906&date=2009-11-10
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URL;VALUE=URI:http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/astro.html?event_ID=23475&date=2009-11-12
DTSTART:20091124T053719
DTEND:20091124T063719
SUMMARY:Mate Adamkovics, tba, Nov 12
DESCRIPTION: http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/astro.html?event_ID=23475&date=2009-11-12
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URL;VALUE=URI:http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/astro.html?event_ID=25142&date=2009-11-13
DTSTART:20091124T053719
DTEND:20091124T063719
SUMMARY:Space Sciences Lab Colloquium: Infrared Imaging and Characterization of Exoplanets: Can we detect Earth-twins on a budget?, Nov 13
DESCRIPTION:Abstract : During the past decade considerable progress has been made developing techniques that can be used to detect and characterize Earth twins in the mid-infrared (7-20 microns). The principal technique is called nulling interferometry, and it was invented by Bracewell in the late 1970's. The nulling technique is an interferometric equivalent of an optical coronagraph. At the present time most of the technological hurdles have been overcome for a space mission to be able to begin Phase A early in the next decade, and it is possible to detect and characterize Earth-twins on a mid-sized strategic mission budget ($600-800 million). I will review progress on this exciting method of planet detection in the context of recent work on the Exoplanet Community Forum and the US Decadal Survey (Astro2010), including biomarkers, technological progress, mission concepts, the theory of these instruments, and a comparison of the discovery space of this technique with others also under consideration.
REFERENCE: "Infrared Imaging of Exoplanets," W. C. Danchi and P. Lawson, in the
Exoplanet Community Forum Report, JPL publication 09-3, 2009. http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/astro.html?event_ID=25142&date=2009-11-13
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URL;VALUE=URI:http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/astro.html?event_ID=22955&date=2009-11-16
DTSTART:20091124T053719
DTEND:20091124T063719
SUMMARY:Ly-alpha Emission from Galaxy Formation, Nov 16
DESCRIPTION:Astronomers have exquisite observations of both galaxies (by directly imaging their stars) and of the intergalactic medium (in absorption spectra of background sources). While we know that the galactic baryons must have been accreted from the IGM, we currently have virtually no direct observations of the galaxy assembly process itself. Contrary to the classical picture of galaxy formation in which the accreting gas is shock-heated to the virial temperature of the halo before cooling, recent simulations show that most of the gas is instead accreted in cold streams, with temperatures T ~ 10^4 - 10^5 K. At these temperatures, the accretion streams will radiate primarily in the Ly-alpha line and may be accessible to current observations. I sill present new results combining cosmological hydrodynamical simulations with Ly-alpha luminosities, spectra, and morphologies of the accretion streams. I will discuss whether these streams may have already been detected in the for of extended "Ly-alpha blobs". http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/astro.html?event_ID=22955&date=2009-11-16
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URL;VALUE=URI:http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/astro.html?event_ID=19839&date=2009-11-16
DTSTART:20091124T053719
DTEND:20091124T063719
SUMMARY:Tanya Urrutia (IPAC/Caltech): What dust-obscured quasars can tell us about quasar evolution, Nov 16
DESCRIPTION:I will present results on a multiwavelength campaign to identify the nature of dust-reddened Type 1 quasars. These quasars were selected by matching FIRST radio sources, 2MASS point sources and very red optical counterparts with r'-K > 5. Most of these objects have fairly compact radio morphologies and fall into the radio-intermediate regime. The majority also show flat radio spectral indices, different from other Type 1 populations. Hubble ACS imaging of a subsample of these sources showed a very high fraction of interacting and merging systems. I will argue that these quasars appear to be very young, just ignited objects in which dust from the merging galaxies is still settling in. I will also show Spitzer IRS and MIPS data, that show LIRG-like star formation signatures and deep Silicate absorption features, which are unusually among quasars. I will end with emphasis on finding signatures of QSO feedback, especially because at high redshift we find an unusually high raction of Low Ionization Broad Absorption Line (LoBAL) quasars in our samples, implying that the wind in young quasars is most probably responsible for shutting down star formation in the host galaxy. http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/astro.html?event_ID=19839&date=2009-11-16
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URL;VALUE=URI:http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/astro.html?event_ID=20907&date=2009-11-17
DTSTART:20091124T053719
DTEND:20091124T063719
SUMMARY:Cosmological Constraints Using Multi-Wavelength Observations of Galaxy Clusters, Nov 17
DESCRIPTION:Galaxy clusters, as the largest peaks in the cosmic density field, play an important role in astrophysics and cosmology. They are remarkable objects: massive, dynamic, and rich in observables. Accurate determination of cluster scaling relations and cosmological parameters such as sigma_8 and omega_m requires large samples of uniformly observed clusters. The SDSS maxBCG catalog is a highly pure and complete optically selected cluster sample, containing ~14,000 rich clusters in the redshift range 0.1 < z < 0.3 from SDSS DR5 imaging data. Through a cross-correlation of the maxBCG catalog with X-ray photon maps from the ROSAT All-Sky Survey (RASS), we trace how the average X-ray properties scale with optical richness. Combined with stacked weak lensing observations, we obtain the first constraints on the covariance among cluster richness, X-ray luminosity, and halo mass. After accounting for these systematics, we measure sigma_8 with precision comparable to the current generation of deep X-ray surveys. Finally, I discuss how cross-correlating optical catalogs with X-ray photon mass allows us to create reduced scatter optical richness estimators that are more tightly correlated with halo mass. http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/astro.html?event_ID=20907&date=2009-11-17
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URL;VALUE=URI:http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/astro.html?event_ID=25162&date=2009-11-17
DTSTART:20091124T053719
DTEND:20091124T063719
SUMMARY:LGBT Science Reception, Nov 17
DESCRIPTION:For: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender students, faculty, staff, alumni in science, engineering + technology and their partners and allies
Presented by: The College of Chemistry with the goal of fostering the well-being
and self-respect of LGBT students and eliminating discrimination based on gender
identity and sexual orientation http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/astro.html?event_ID=25162&date=2009-11-17
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URL;VALUE=URI:http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/astro.html?event_ID=21565&date=2009-11-19
DTSTART:20091124T053719
DTEND:20091124T063719
SUMMARY:The interaction of photosynthesis with the crust and mantle and the effect of the moon-forming impact on the current Earth, Nov 19
DESCRIPTION:Photosynthesis evolved before 3.8 billion years ago. Rocks of that
age include metamorphosed black shales with pyrite showing that
sulfur based and iron based photosynthesis existed. A complete carbon
cycle existed on land and at sea. The land biota needed FeO to dump
oxygen. A consortium with efficient weathering evolved to obtain the
FeO from exposed rocks. Weathering in turn led to wide-spread
continents with Fe-poor sediments and Fe-poor granites. The presence
of these rock types provided selective pressure to vent oxygen
directly and the advent of cyanobacteria. The mantle as well as the
crust sequesters biological information. The Earth became habitable
after the moon-forming impact once its interior was cold enough for
carbonate to subduct in very C-rich domains in the upper oceanic
crust. This process continues today causing mantle carbon to exist
within highly concentrated domains. The chemical and isotopic
character of these domains survives subduction and even partial
melting of kimberlites and their freezing within the lithosphere. The
build up of oxygen in the Earth's atmosphere is evident in U/Th of
zircons in kimberlites. Subduction of carbonate 4.26 billion years
ago and its emplacement with the continental lithosphere at 3.6
billion years ago is indicated by study of a 1.48 suite of alkalic
rocks in India. http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/astro.html?event_ID=21565&date=2009-11-19
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URL;VALUE=URI:http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/astro.html?event_ID=25139&date=2009-11-21
DTSTART:20091124T053719
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SUMMARY:Maryam Modjaz: Cosmic Fireworks: The Explosive Deaths of Massive Stars, Nov 21
DESCRIPTION:Maryam Modjaz is a Miller Postdoctoral Fellow in Astronomy at UC Berkeley. She works on the explosive deaths of massive stars as supernovae and gamma-ray bursts. The recipient of Harvard University's Fireman Prize for an outstanding PhD dissertation, her work has been featured on National Public Radio, in the Christian Science Monitor, Astronomy Now, and in a feature article in UC Berkeley's "California" magazine.
Massive stars die violently. They produce the most powerful explosions in the Universe during their death-throes: supernovae and gamma-ray bursts. Supernovae are brilliant firework displays that become as bright as a billion suns combined, and gamma-ray bursts are monster explosions that launch jets moving nearly at the speed of light and outshining the whole gamma-ray Universe in a few seconds. Both explosions produce and expel heavy elements and an enormous amount of energy, they leave behind fascinating objects like black holes and pulsars, and like beacons they are visible over billions of light years across the vast Universe.
How are these types of explosions related? Are they dangerous to life on earth? How may they be vital for life on earth? These are some of the questions Dr. Modjaz will discuss during her breathtaking tour of the most powerful explosions of the Universe.
This talk is presented as part of the astronomy department's International Year of Astronomy monthly speaker series. http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/astro.html?event_ID=25139&date=2009-11-21
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URL;VALUE=URI:http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/astro.html?event_ID=22828&date=2009-11-23
DTSTART:20091124T053719
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SUMMARY:Star Formation and ISM seminar, Nov 23
DESCRIPTION:Title: Young Stellar Jets from the X-Wind Point of View: Recent OIR Results http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/astro.html?event_ID=22828&date=2009-11-23
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URL;VALUE=URI:http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/astro.html?event_ID=25244&date=2009-11-23
DTSTART:20091124T053719
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SUMMARY:Physics Of Nanofilms And Nanowires, Nov 23
DESCRIPTION:A central theme of nanoscience is the emergence and control of physical properties through the manipulation of material structures at the atomic scale. This talk will focus on two such examples: the oscillatory behavior of the thermal stability, work function, and superconducting transition temperature of metal thin films as a function of thickness, and the electronic and optical properties of semiconductor nanowires of various configurations with modified electron/hole characteristics. The physics and potential applications of these systems will be discussed. http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/astro.html?event_ID=25244&date=2009-11-23
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URL;VALUE=URI:http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/astro.html?event_ID=20908&date=2009-11-24
DTSTART:20091124T053719
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SUMMARY:Weak lensing by large scale structure, Nov 24
DESCRIPTION:Intervening structures in the universe give rise to small distortions in the shapes of distant galaxies. By measuring this tiny coherent signal, we can study the mass distribution in the universe directly, without relying on baryonic tracers. This makes weak lensing by large- scale structures a powerful probe of cosmology. I will review the topic of cosmic shear and discuss how the signal is extracted from the data. I will present results from recent surveys, most notably the CFHT Legacy Survey and COSMOS. Finally I will discuss what will be required to significantly improve constraints on the properties of dark energy. http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/astro.html?event_ID=20908&date=2009-11-24
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SUMMARY:Fabian Schmidt, tba, Nov 30
DESCRIPTION: http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/astro.html?event_ID=22956&date=2009-11-30
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URL;VALUE=URI:http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/astro.html?event_ID=25050&date=2009-11-30
DTSTART:20091124T053719
DTEND:20091124T063719
SUMMARY:Polar Molecules Near Quantum Degeneracy, Nov 30
DESCRIPTION:Ultracold molecules promise new scientific explorations, including novel molecular interactions, quantum chemical reactions, exotic phase transitions, and strongly correlated states of matter. We recently produced a near-quantum degenerate gas of polar molecules in their absolute ground state. With all degrees of freedom under precise control, we have for the first time observed chemical reactions at ultralow temperatures. We control the reaction rates with pure long-range, quantum mechanical effects, achieving state-by-state analysis of reaction dynamics. The long-range and anisotropic nature of the dipolar interaction has also been observed. http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/astro.html?event_ID=25050&date=2009-11-30
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