Theoretical Astrophysics Center Seminars
Theoretical Astrophysics Center seminars are held on Mondays at noon ( ~12:10 pm) in 544 Campbell Hall unless noted otherwise. Please contact Ian Parrish (iparrish), Sukanya Chakrabarti (sukanya), or Prateek Sharma (psharma) for more information. Add astro.berkeley.edu for the e-mail addresses above.
Note: There are also Berkeley Cosmology Group seminars on Tuesdays.
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title | Host |
| Aug 27, 2009 | Mike Boylan-Kolchin | MPA | Simulating the Formation of Structure in the Universe | TAC Colloquium/Ma |
| Aug 31, 2009 | Eveline Helder | Univ. Utrecht | Imprints of cosmic ray acceleration in supernova remnants: Cassiopeia A and RCW 86. | Parrish |
| Sept 7, 2009 | No Talk | . | Labor Day | . |
| Sept 14, 2009 | Mike Kuhlen | UC Berkeley | The Quest For the Nature of Dark Matter | Local |
| Sept 21, 2009 | Mario Riquelme | Princeton | Magnetic Field Amplification by Cosmic Rays Near Supernova Remnant Shocks | Parrish |
| Oct 1, 2009 | Moshe Elitzur | U. Kentucky | The AGN Torus --- a Paradigm Change | TAC Colloquium/McKee |
| Oct 5, 2009 | Sasha Tchekhovskoy | Harvard | Simulations and Analytic Models of Relativistic Magnetized Jets | Sharma |
| Oct 12, 2009 | Dusan Keres | Harvard | Cold Mode of Gas Accretion | Ma |
| Oct 15, 2009 | Eve Ostriker | U. Maryland | The Large-Scale Regulation of Star Formation in Disk Galaxies | TAC Colloquium |
| Oct 19, 2009 | Ken Shen | UCSB | Hydrodynamical He Shell Burning in AM CVn Systems: New Results on SNe .Ia | Weinberg |
| Oct 26, 2009 | Volker Bromm | U Texas | The First Stars and Galaxies | Quataert |
| Nov 2, 2009 | Alyson Brooks | Caltech | The formation of Realistic Galaxy Disks | Walkowicz |
| Nov 9, 2009 | Chi-kwan Chan | Harvard | Lessons from Radiative and MHD Simulations for Supermassive Blackhole Growth | Chakrabarti |
| Nov 16, 2009 | Claude-André Faucher-Giguère | Harvard | Ly-alpha Emission from Galaxy Formation | Ma |
| Nov 23, 2009 | No Talk | . | Thanksgiving Week | . |
| Nov 30, 2009 | Fabian Schmidt | Caltech | Non-linear Structure Formation in Modified Gravity Theories | Seljiak |
| Dec 7, 2009 | Barbara Whitney | Space Sciences Inst | TBD | Chakrabarti |
| Dec 14, 2009 | Margaret Pan | UC Berkeley | TBD | Local |
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