Theoretical Astrophysics Center Seminars

Theoretical Astrophysics Center seminars are held on Mondays at noon in 544 Campbell Hall unless noted otherwise. Please contact Phil Chang, Tzu-Ching Chang, or Greg Howes for more information.

Note: There are also Berkeley Cosmology Group and Compact Object/High Energy Astrophysics lunch meetings/seminars on Tuesdays.

DateSpeakerAffiliationTitle
WED 10 Aug Andy Young MIT Iron lines as a probe of strong gravity
15 Aug Frank van den Bosch ETH Zurich The Galaxy-Dark Matter Connection
WED 17 Aug Julia Lee Harvard X-Ray Spectral Probes of Outflows in Black Holes and Dust
( in 501 Campbell Hall )
12 Sep All TAC Members TAC Welcome to the TAC
19 Sep Derek Richardson Univ. Maryland Binary Minor Planets
26 Sep Milos Milosavljevic Caltech Dissipationless Formation of Giant Galaxies
3 Oct Jenny Greene Harvard-Smithsonian CfA The M-sigma relation of local active galaxies
10 Oct Peng Oh UCSB Spectral Signatures of Early Galaxy Formation
17 Oct Tiziana Di Matteo Carnegie Mellon Univ. Black holes and galaxy formation
24 Oct Juna Kollmeier Ohio State Multi-Scale Growth of Cosmic Structure
31 Oct Eanna Flanagan Cornell Univ. Theoretical explanations for the accelerating Universe
7 Nov Margaret Pan Caltech Shaping the Kuiper belt size spectrum
14 Nov Anthony Piro UCSB Neutron Star Seismology: X-ray Burst and SGR Flare Oscillations
21 Nov Eric Blackman Univ. Rochester Seeking Principles of Turbulent Transport, Magnetic Field Growth, and Magnetic Dissipation in Astrophysics
28 Nov Scott Hughes MIT Black holes and gravitational waves
5 Dec Shane Davis UCSB How do Black Hole Accretion Disks Radiate?
12 Dec tbd tbd tbd
WED 18 Jan, 2006 Eve Ostriker Univ. Maryland tbd
27 Feb Peder Norberg Edinburgh tbd
WED 18 Jan Eve Ostriker Univ. Maryland Driving Turbulence and Structure in the Diffuse ISM
30 Jan Miguel Morales CfA Radio Observations of the Epoch of Reionization
6 Feb Doug Lin UCSC Planet Formation through Sequential Accretion
13 Feb Brad Hansen UCLA The White Dwarf Cooling Age of NGC 6397
WED 22 Feb Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz IAS Hyperaccreting Stellar Mass Black Holes
27 Feb Peder Norberg Edinburgh On the luminosity dependence of quasar clustering
6 Mar Tamara Rogers UCSC Convective Penetration and Gravity Wave generation in the Sun
WED 15 Mar Alice Quillen Rochester Sculpting Circumstellar Disks
20 Mar Phil Armitage Univ. of Colorado/Boulder Gravitational instabilities in accretion disks
3 Apr Ron Remillard MIT X-ray States of Black Hole Binaries and Applications for General Relativity
17 Apr Sukanya Chakrabarti Harvard/CfA Spectral Energy Distributions of Infrared Bright Galaxies
24 Apr Chris Thompson CITA/Univ of Toronto GAMMA-RAY BURSTS: DECELERATION AND PROMPT EMISSION
1 May Aristotle Socrates Princeton Super-Eddington Luminosities from Super-Eddington Accretion: Powering Ultra-Luminous X-ray Sources with Stellar Mass Black Holes
8 May Yanquin Wu Univ. Toronto Circumstellar Debris Disks: gas-dust and dust-planet interactions

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