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.
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
| Tuesday January 13 | Piotr Popowski | MPI | Recent microlensing results from the MACHO Project |
| January 21 | R. N. Manchester | CSIRO | Pulsars: Recent Results from Parkes |
| January 28 | Avery Broderick | Caltech | Covariant Magnetoionic Theory |
| February 4 | Nick Gnedin | U Colorado | 6 - 10 - 17 |
| February 18 | Gordon Ogilvie | University of Cambridge | A viscoelastic perspective on MHD instabilities and turbulence |
| February 25 | Charles Gammie | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Numerical Models of Black Hole Accretion Flows |
| March 3 | Tzu-Ching Chang | UCB | Weak Lensing Measurement with the FIRST Radio Survey |
| March 10 | Steve Cowley | UCLA | The Growth of Magnetic Field in Astrophysical Plasmas. |
| March 17 | Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz | IAS | TBA |
| March 24 | Spring Break | no talk | |
| March 31 | Gil Holder | IAS | tba |
| April 7 | Renyue Cen | Princeton | Cosmological Reionization |
| April 14 | Vikram Dwarkadas | U Chicago | Numerical Studies of Supernova Evolution in Circumstellar Wind-Blown Nebulae |
| April 21 | Lam Hui | Fermilab | The Small Scale Structure Frontier |
| April 28 | Arieh Konigl | U Chicago | Relativistic Jets in Gamma-Ray Burst Sources and Active Galactic Nuclei |
| May 5 | Dejan Vinkovic | IAS | Do puffed up inner disk rims exist? |
| Tuesday May 11 | Martin Pessah | The University of Arizona | The Local Stability of Magnetized Rotating Plasmas with Superthermal Fields |
| May 12 | David Kaplan | CalTech | Searching for Compact Objects in Supernova Remnants: Initial Results |
| May 19 | (invited) | -- | tba |
| May 26 | Jonathan Tan | Princeton | "Hunting the Fast and the Slow in Orion: Insights into Star and Cluster Formation" |
| Sept. 15 | Orly Gnat | Tel Aviv | (tba, HVC's) |
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