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 Phil Chang, Darren Croton, or Greg Howes for more information.
Note: There are also Berkeley Cosmology Group seminars on Tuesdays.
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
| Aug 20, 2007 | Neal Turner | JPL/Caltech | Into The Dead Zone |
| FRIDAY Aug 24, 2007 | Werner Backer | Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics | Future optical and X-ray observatories for pulsar studies |
| Aug 27, 2007 | Richard Alexander | Univ of Colorado, Boulder | The evolution and dispersal of protoplanetary discs |
| Sept 3, 2007 | Labor Day | -- | No Talk |
| Sept 10, 2007 | tbd | tba | tbd |
| Sept 17, 2007 | tbd | tba | tbd |
| Sept 24, 2007 | tbd | tba | tbd |
| Oct 1, 2007 | Randall Cooper | Harvard CFA | Generation of Type I X-ray Burst Oscillations |
| Oct 8, 2007 | David Stevenson | Caltech | How Planetary Structure constrains Planet Formation Models |
| Oct 15, 2007 | Jon McKenney | Harvard/Stanford | How to form ultrarelativistic jets |
| Oct 22, 2007 | Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz | UC Santa Cruz | Unconventional Thermonuclear Supernovae from Tidally Crushed White Dwarfs |
| Oct 29, 2007 | Ellen Zweibel | Univ Wisconsin Madison | The Origin & Evolution of Astrophysical Magnetic Fields |
| Nov 5, 2007 | Robyn Levine | Univ of Colorado | From Megaparsecs to Milliparsecs: Modeling a Disk Galaxy with Cosmological Simulations |
| Nov 12, 2007 | Holiday | tba | tbd No Talk |
| Nov 19, 2007 | Eric Johnson | Princeton Univ. | Dynamical Tides in the Atmospheres of Hot Jupiters |
| Nov 26, 2007 | Phil Hopkins | Harvard/CfA | The Role and Evidence of Dissipation in the Formation of Elliptical Galaxies |
| Dec 3, 2007 | Nick Moeckel | Univ of Colorado, Boulder | Disk Dissipation and Cluster Interactions: Massive Protstars and Binary Formation |
| Dec 10, 2007 | Alex Lazarian | Univ. Wisconsin | Diffusion of heat and cosmic rays in turbulent magnetic fields |
| Dec 17, 2007 | Crystal Martin | UCSB | tbd |
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