Weekly talk series with three 12+4 minute talks, typically featuring two local scientists and the scheduled astronomy colloquium speaker. Subjects include not only personal scientific research, but also arXiv/journal-club style reports, education and public outreach efforts, science policy, and professional development issues.
Day and Time: Thursdays at 12:30 (Berkeley time, so 12:40–1:30)
Location: 131 Campbell Hall (rooms A & B)
Organizer: Ryan Chornock
To volunteer for a talk, please e-mail Ryan (chornock@berkeley.edu). Berkeley graduate students and postdocs are given priority for talks, but visiting scientists and collaborators are also welcome to present. Visitors should have their local hosts contact Ryan to facilitate scheduling their talk.
Speakers are recommended to bring their own laptop, cable adapter (although we have some), and pointer. Presentations may also use the whiteboard. Please contact Ryan ahead of time for any special accommodations.
Fall 2025 Schedule
August 28
- 1-minute colloquium (department intro)
September 4
- Grad Outreach Committee – Outreach Opportunities this Year!
- Daniel Brethauer (Berkeley) – Non-Thermal Ionization of Kilonova Ejecta: Observable Impacts
- Ilaria Pascucci (Arizona) -- Colloquium speaker
September 11
- Maria Charisi -- Colloquium speaker
September 18
- Emmanuel Schaan -- Colloquium speaker
September 25
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Scott Lucchini (CfA) -- Simulating the Circumgalactic Medium at 200 pc
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Genevieve Schroeder (Cornell) – Where Are All of the Off-Axis GRBs? A Late-Time Radio Campaign of Ic Broad Line Supernovae
- Ana Bonaca -- Colloquium speaker
October 2
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Jackie Blaum Hough (Berkeley) –
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Isabel Medlock (Yale) – Probing Baryonic Feedback and Cosmological Tension with Fast Radio Bursts: Insights from CAMELS
- Joyce Yen -- Colloquium speaker
October 9
October 16
October 23
- Emiko Gardiner (Berkeley)
- Harley Katz -- Colloquium speaker
October 30
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Anna Pusack (Berkeley) –
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Sally Oey -- Colloquium speaker
November 6
- Xiaosheng Huang -- Colloquium speaker
November 13
- Itai Sfaradi (Berkeley) – The first radio-bright TDE around an off-nuclear MBH
- Nick Stone -- Colloquium speaker
November 20
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Tyler Cox (Berkeley) –
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Brian Metzger -- Colloquium speaker