Theoretical Astrophysics Center Seminars

Theoretical Astrophysics Center seminars are held on Mondays at noon 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.

DateSpeakerAffiliationTitle
Aug 28 Raja Guhathakurta UCO/Lick Observatory M31's Extended Stellar Halo and Dwarf Satellites
Sep 11 Peter Goldreich IAS Spontaneous Axisymmetry Breaking of Saturn's External Magnetic Field
Sep 18
PPT of talk		 Ue-Li Pen CITA The Rise and Fall of Hydrogen
Sep 25
PDF [ Movies ] 		John Wise Stanford Univ. Resolving the Formation of Protogalaxies
Oct 2 Mitch Begelman CU Boulder/JILA Formation of Supermassive Black Holes by Direct Infall in Pre-Galactic Haloes
Oct 9 Shantanu Basu Univ of Western Ontario Episodic Accretion Bursts in Protostellar Disks
Oct 16 Fritz Roepke MPA-Garching/UCSC The 3D approach to model Type Ia supernova explosions
Oct 23 Jessica Lu UCLA The Galactic Center: Star Formation Near a Supermassive Black Hole?
Oct 30 Maryam Modjaz Harvard/CfA Varied Deaths of Massive Stars: Optical and NIR properties of Type Ib/c Supernovae
Nov. 6
PDF		 Jonathan Pritchard Caltech Radiation backgrounds from the first sources and the redshifted 21 cm signal
Nov. 13
PPT		 Glennys Farrar NYU A new force in the Dark Sector?
Nov 20 Elena Gallo UC Santa Barbara Radio jets and X-ray states in black hole X-ray binaries
Nov 27 Ivo Labbe Carnegie Observatories "The formation histories and structures of massive galaxies at z > 2"
Dec 4
(pdf) 		Mariska Kriek Leiden Clues on Massive Galaxy Formation at z~2.5 from NIR spectroscopy

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