Theoretical Astrophysics Center Seminars
Theoretical Astrophysics Center seminars are held on Mondays at noon in 544 Campbell Hall unless noted otherwise. Please contact Tzu-Ching Chang, 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 |
| June 23 | Alex Lazarian | Wisconsin | "Interstellar Turbulence: What to expect and how to test" |
| June 30 | David Eichler | Ben Gurion University | "Magnetars in the Afterglow Era" |
| July 7 | Mark Miesch | National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado | "Thunderous turning within: Turbulent dynamics in the deep solar convection zone" |
| July 14 | Aake Nordlund | Niels Bohr Institute for Astronomy, Physics, and Geophysics | "Formation of Planets -- The Solar System: A Smoking Gun" |
| July 21 | Guinevere Kauffmann | MPA | "Accretion onto black holes: the SDSS perspective" |
| July 28 | Simon White | MPA | "Simulation Input for Gravitational Lensing Studies" |
| Sept. 1 | Evan Scannapieco | KITP | "Quasar feedback in structure formation" |
| Sept. 8 | Greg Hammett | Princeton | Collisionless MHD and the Magneto-Rotational Instability |
| Sept. 15 | Orly Gnat | Tel Aviv | Ionization of Metals in Low Mass Minihalos |
| Sept. 22 | Marc Kamionkowski | CalTech | "Halo Merger Rates" |
| Sept. 23 Thursday | Ue-Li Pen | CITA |
"PAST: science at the epoch of reionization"
( at 1 pm ) |
| Sept. 29 | James Bullock | UC Irvine | "The Milky Way as a Laboratory for Cosmology" |
| Oct. 6 Joint RAL seminar | Scott Ransom | NRAO | "Hittin' the Pulsar Jackpot in Terzan 5 with the GBT" |
| Oct. 13 | Ben Chandran | University of Iowa | Galaxy clusters and the cooling flow problem |
| Oct. 20 | David Nesvorny | Boulder | Thermal Control for Asteroid Orbits and Spins |
| Oct. 27 | Volker Springel | MPA-Garching | "The universe in a supercomputer: Following the formation of galaxies and the first quasars" |
| Nov. 3 | Sera Markoff | MIT | Exploring inflow/outflow connections in accreting black hole systems |
| Nov. 10 | David Hogg | NYU | "Galaxy formation events observed in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey" |
| Nov. 17 | Hiranya Peiris | U Chicago | Can We See Planck/Stringy Physics via the CMB? |
| Dec. 1 | Philip Chang | UCSB | Redshift Measurements from Bursting Neutron Stars: Theory and Observation |
| FRIDAY 3pm 544, Dec. 3 | Sebastian Heinz | MIT | A jet is a jet, big or small: connections between microquasars and AGN |
| MONDAY, Dec. 6 | Uri Keshet | Weizmann Institute of Science | Non-thermal radiation from intergalactic shocks |
| Jan 24 | no talk yet | -- | -- |
| Jan 31 | Jeandrew Brink | Cornell | -- |
| Feb 7 | Scott Burles | MIT | Opacity distributions in the Lyman-alpha forest |
| Feb 14 | David Weinberg | Ohio | What Do We Learn From Galaxy Clustering? |
| Feb 28 | Mark Krumholz | -- | -- |
| Mar 7 | Phil Arras | KITP | Seismology of Accreting White Dwarfs |
| Mar 14 | Zoltan Haiman | Columbia | How Did the Cosmic Dark Age End? |
| Mar 28 | no talk yet | -- | -- |
| Apr 4 | Greg Bryan | Columbia | Understanding the Formation and Evolution of X-ray Clusters |
| Apr 11 | Cara Rakowski | CfA | Electron-Ion Temperature Equilibration at Collisionless Shocks in Supernova Remnants |
| WednesdayApril 13 | Felix Aharonian | MPI Heidelberg | On the Origin of TeV gamma ray emission from the Galactic Center |
| Apr 18 | Saul Rappaport | MIT | Black Hole Binaries as Ultraluminous X-Ray Sources |
| Apr 25 | Pawan Kumar | U of Texas, Austin | Gamma-ray bursts: a mystery being unraveled |
| May 2 | Tom Abel | Stanford | Early Structure Formation |
| May 9 | Matthew Holman | CfA | The Use of Transit Timing to Detect Extrasolar Planets |
| May 16 | Andrei Beloborodov | Columbia | Magnetospheres of Magnetars |
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