Theoretical Astrophysics Center Seminars

Theoretical Astrophysics Center seminars are held on Wednesdays at noon in 501 Campbell Hall unless noted otherwise. Please contact Joanne Cohn, Yoram Lithwick, or Todd Thompson for more information.

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

DateSpeakerAffiliationTitle
September 3 Paper discussion   Accretion Disk Winds from Active Galactic Nuclei
September 10 Paper discussion   We will meet to dicuss two recent papers.
September 17 Paper discussion   We will meet to dicuss recent papers.
September 24 Paper discussion (led by Eric Ford) UCB Theoretical Implications of the PSR B1620-26 Triple System and its Planet
Sept 29 (Monday Lunch) Qingjuan Yu UCB Evolution of massive binary black holes (discussion format)
October 1 Paper discussion   Bring a paper/abstract to discuss
October 8 David Rusin U. Penn. The Structure and Evolution of Early-Type Galaxies: A Lensing Perspective
October 14, Tuesday, 1 pm Taotao Fang UCB Probing the Warm-Hot Intergalactic Medium
( in 544 Campbell Hall at 1 pm )
October 15 Paper discussion (led by Pak-Shing Li ) UCB "Dynamic Cores in Hydrostatic Disguise I & II"
October 22 Volker Bromm Harvard-Smithsonian CfA Cosmic Renaissance: The First Sources of Light
October 29 Oleg Gnedin STSCI Formation of Globular Clusters in Hierarchical Cosmology
November 5 Aristotle Socrates UC Santa Barbara Stability, Turbulence, and Gravitational Energy Release in Black Hole Accretion Disks
November 12 Ariyeh Maller U Mass Large Scale Structure in the Two Micron All Sky Survey
November 17 (Monday) Ravi Sheth U Pittsburgh Much ado about nothing
November 18 (HEA TALK; Tuesday) Nahum Arav CASA; The University of Colorado, Boulder AGN Outflows
November 19 Daniel Proga JILA; The University of Colorado, Boulder How outflows reveal and assist accretion onto black holes
December 3 Andrew Macfadyen CalTech TBA
December 10 Matias Zaldarriaga Harvard-Smithsonian CfA "Constraining the epoch of Inflation: an astronomer's view"
(Thursday) December 18 Joe Silk Oxford TBA

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