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Colloquia

Thursdays while classes are in session. Tea at 3:30 in HFA D lounge, talk at 4:10 in 2 Le Conte (fall) or 1 Le Conte (spring).

Date Speaker (Affiliation) Title Abstract Host
Jan 31 Bruce Buffet (Berkeley) Geomagnetic Reversals: A Quantitative Model Built on Clay abstract EPS
Feb 7 Fred Lo (NRAO) Mega-maser Cosmology Project and NRAO abstract Blitz
Feb 14 Alison Coil (UCSD) What Shuts Down Star Formation in Galaxies? abstract Davis
Feb 21 Tom Barclay, (ARC-SSA) Life at the edge of what is possible with Kepler abstract Kalas
Feb 28 Miguel Morales (Washington) Peering through the EoR window with the Murchison Widefield Array abstract McQuinn
Mar 7 Enrique Vazquez-Semadeni (UNAM) The Case for Global Gravitational Contraction in Star-Forming Molecular Clouds abstract Heiles
Mar 14 Justin Kasper (Harvard) Solar Probe: Why we need to send a spacecraft to the Sun and how we will do it abstract Bale
Mar 21 Xavier Prochaska Quasars Probing Quasars: Insights into Massive z~2 Galaxies abstract Filippenko
Apr 4 Mike Brown (Caltech) Tales from the Outer Solar System abstract Chiang
Apr 11 Lynne Hillenbrand (Caltech) Young Stars: New, Newly Characterized, and Time-Variable abstract TBD
Apr 18 David Spiegel, IAS TBD abstract TBD
Apr 25 Kevin Marvel (AAS) Washington's Role in the Study of the Universe abstract TBD
May 2 Dan Kasen (Berkeley) Neutron Star Mergers and the Subtle Light from Heavy Elements abstract TBD
May 9 Mansi Kasilwal, (Carnegie Institute) The Bridged Gap: Transients in the Local Universe abstract Bloom

You can see the colloquium series on the UC Berkeley calendaring system here.

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