Theoretical Astrophysics Center Seminars

Theoretical Astrophysics Center seminars are held on Mondays at noon ( ~12:10 pm) in 544 Campbell Hall unless noted otherwise. Please contact Ian Parrish (iparrish) or Tony Piro (tpiro) for more information. Add astro.berkeley.edu for the e-mail addresses above.

Note: There are also Berkeley Cosmology Group seminars on Tuesdays.


DateSpeakerAffiliationTitle
Jan 28, 2008 Davide Lazzati U Colorado, Boulder Long duration Gamma-Ray Burst Jets
Feb 4, 2008 Ralph Pudritz McMaster University From filaments to outflows in magnetized molecular clouds
Feb 11, 2008 Reinhard Genzel MPE/UC Berkeley From Rings to Bulges: Secular Evolution of Galaxies at High Z
Feb 18, 2008 Holiday tba No talk scheduled
Feb 25, 2008 Tom Abel Stanford/KIPAC Making Galaxies one Star at a Time
Mar 3, 2008 Feryal Ozel Univ of Arizona Peeking into a Neutron Star: Neutrons, Condensates, or Quarks?
Mar 10, 2008 No talk TITLE
Mar 17, 2008 Stefan Funk Stanford/KIPAC GLAST, HESS and beyond - Status and prospects for Gamma-ray astronomy
Mar 24, 2007 Spring Break tba No Talk
Mar 31, 2008 Kristen Menou Columbia University Cosmological Physics with Black Holes
Apr 7, 2008 tba tbd
Apr 14, 2008 Stan Owocki Univ. of Delaware Breaching the Eddington Limit in the Most Massive, Most Luminous Stars
Apr 21, 2008 Joe Hennawi UC Berkeley Quasars Probing Quasars: Understanding the Physics of Massive Galaxy Formation
Apr 28, 2008 Ben Chandran Univ of New Hampshire Turbulence in the Solar Wind
May 5, 2008 Margaret Pan IAS Composite self-similar solutions and cooling ejecta from shock breakout
May 19, 2008 Frank Shu UCSD Star Formation: Disks, Jets and Bipolar Outflows

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