Theoretical Astrophysics Center Seminars

Theoretical Astrophysics Center seminars are held on Wednesdays at noon in 501 Campbell Hall unless noted otherwise. Please contact Eliot Quataert (510-642-3792) for more information.

Note: There are also Berkeley Cosmology Group and Compact Object/High Energy Astrophysics lunch meetings/seminars on Tuesdays.

DateSpeakerAffiliationTitle
27 Aug (Tue) Saleem Zaroubi MPA The Thermal History of the IGM and the Epoch of Reionization
28 Aug Andreas Burkert MPIA The formation of stellar clusters in turbulent molecular clouds
4 Sep Renu Malhotra Univ Arizona Resonances and eccentricities in exo-planetary systems
11 Sep Greg Laughlin UCSC Transitsearch.org -- Using Small Telescopes to Get Big Results
18 Sep Todd Thompson UCB Protoneutron Star Winds and r-Process Nucleosynthesis
24 Sep (Tue) Bing Zhang Penn State Gamma-ray bursts: GeV afterglows, universal jet model, and the nature of X-ray flashes
25 Sep Bob Rutledge Caltech Precision Measurement of Neutron Star Radii
2 Oct No Talk - -
15 Oct (Tue) Eric Ford Princeton Extrasolar Planets: From Doppler towards Direct Detection
16 Oct Darren Madgwick UCB Galaxy spectral types and their applications in the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey
22 Oct (Tue) Steven Furlanetto Harvard Probing the State and Composition of the Intergalactic Medium
23 Oct Omer Blaes UCSB Radiatively Driven Instabilities in Magnetized Hot Stars and Accretion Disks
30 Oct Siang-Peng Oh Caltech A History of Gas Cooling from the Dark Ages to the Present
6 Nov Scott Gaudi IAS Hot Jupiters and Cool Neptunes: Exploring Planetary Systems with Transits and Microlensing
13 Nov Sergei Nayakshin MPA X-ray reflection from photo-ionized accretion disks
20 Nov Andy Taylor Edinburgh Mapping the Dark Matter in 2 and 3-D with Gravitational Lensing
4 Dec Hiroshi Koyama NAO (Japan) A Dynamical Model of the ISM: The Role of Thermal Instability
11 Dec Lloyd Knox UCD Applications of Secondary CMB Anisotropies

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