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
16 Jan James Bullock Ohio State Dark Halos and Galaxy Formation
( in 544 Campbell )
6 Feb Jack Lissauer NASA Ames Planet Formation Around Single and Binary Stars
13 Feb Re'em Sari Caltech Gamma Ray Bursts and Their Afterglows
20 Feb Andrew Cumming UCSC Magnetic Field Evolution in Accreting White Dwarfs
27 Feb Dragan Huterer CWRU Cosmological Probes of Dark Energy
6 March Michael Murphy University of New South Wales A variable fine structure constant?: new results
13 March Anatoly Klypin New Mexico State Dark matter in normal galaxies
20 March Norm Murray CITA On the Presence of High Column Density Gas in Quasars
27 March - - No Talk
3 April Volker Springel Max-Planck Astrophysics, Garching Numerical Simulations of Galaxy Formation
10 April Andrei Beloborodov CITA Explosion Dynamics in Gamma-ray Bursts
17 April Mateusz Ruszkowski Univ. of Colorado Circular polarization from stochastic synchrotron sources
24 April Gary Glatzmaier UCSC Current challenges in dynamo modeling
( in 544 Campbell )
1 May Chuck Keeton Chicago Discovering Poor Groups with Strong Lensing
8 May Mikhail Medvedev CITA, University of Toronto Gamma-Ray Explosions: Puzzles and Solutions
15 May David Navascués LAEFF-INTA On the formation mechanisms of substellar objects: Observational clues
22 May Jean-Pierre Lasota Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris Can one tell the difference between a black hole and a celestial body with a surface?
20 Nov Omer Blaes UCSB TBD

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