Theoretical Astrophysics Center Seminars< Spring 2003/H2>
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.
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
| 5 Feb. | George Fisher | UCB/SSL | The Solar MURI Project: Trying to Model Magnetic eruptions on the Sun |
| 12 Feb. | Alex Lazarian | Univ. Wisconsin | MHD Turbulence in Partially Ionized Gas |
| 19 Feb. | Rupert Croft | CMU | Ionizing radiation fluctuations and large scale structure in the Lyman-alpha forest |
| 26 Feb. | Doug Finkbeiner | Princeton | WMAP Observations of spinning dust in the Galaxy |
| 5 March | Man Hoi Lee | UCSB | Origin of Orbital Resonances among Extrasolar Planets and the Satellites of Jupiter |
| 12 March | Andrew Benson | Caltech | Heating of Galaxy Disks by Dark Satellites |
| 19 March | -- | -- | No Talk |
| 26 March | Spring | Break | -- |
| 2 April | Rosalba Perna | CFA | The Interaction of Gamma-Ray Bursts with their Environment: What we can learn from and about GRBs |
| 9 April | Cornelia Lang | Iowa | The Influence of Massive Stars in the Galactic Center Radio Arc Region |
| 16 April | Andrey Kravtsov | Chicago | Dwarf Tales: Formation & Evolution of Dwarf Satellite Galaxies and their Halos |
| 23 April | Joanne Cohn | UCB | Image multiplicites from strongly lensing galaxies: a puzzle and a resolution |
| 30 April | Neal Turner | UCSB | Light from black holes |
| 7 May | Steve Stahler | UCB | Magnetic fields in Star-Forming Regions: Theory |
| 14 May | Brenda Matthews | UCB | Magnetic fields in Star-Forming Regions: Observations |
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