Department Lunch Talks

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” (12:40–1:30)
Location: 131 Campbell Hall (rooms A & B)
Organizers: Luke Kelley

To volunteer for a talk, please e-mail Luke (LZKelley  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 Luke 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 Luke ahead of time for any special accommodations.

Fall 2024 Schedule

September 05

  • 1-slide / 1-minute introduction talks

September 12

  • Massimo Pascale (Berkeley) – Chemical Self-Enrichment in Super Star Clusters
  • Dalya Baron (Carnegie Observatories) – Molecular gas and star formation properties of galaxies in transition

September 19

  • Outreach Opportunities [link to slides; must be logged in to @berkeley.edu]
  • Haowen Zhang (U Arizona) – When Did High-z AGNs Become Overmassive?​ Insights from the Empirical TRINITY Model of Galaxy—SMBH Connection
  • Andrew Vanderburg (MIT) – Are we looking for exomoons in all the wrong places?

September 26

  • Daniel Brethauer (Berkeley) – Impact of Systematic Modeling Uncertainties on Kilonova Property Estimation
  • Dr. Sofia Sheikh (SETI) – The Allen Telescope Array: an asset for your science!
  • Elisabeth Newton (Dartmouth) – Evaporating atmospheres of young exoplanets

October 03

  • Kazuya Iwata (Kyoto University) – Revisiting double-detonation model via terrestrial cellular detonation:
    laboratory combustion experiments can contribute to astrophysics!

October 10

  • Haochen Wang (MIT) – Hybrid Foreground Residual Subtraction with CHIME
  • Zili Shen (Yale) – How to form ultra-diffuse galaxies: observational clues
  • JJ Hermes (Boston U) – Watching Asteroids and Planets Get Ripped Apart Around White Dwarf Stars

October 17

  • Mariia Rizhko (Berkeley) – Multimodal Foundation Model for Astronomy
  • Peter Ma (Berkeley) –
  • Keiya Hirashima (U of Tokyo) – AI Surrogate Modeling for Supernova Feedback toward Star-by-star Galaxy Simulations

October 24

  • Liang Dai (Berkeley) – Balmer ionization in high-density nebulae
  • Hannah Gulick (Berkeley) –
  • Jenny Greene (Princeton) – ELVES-Dwarf

October 31

  • Lingyuan Ji (Berkeley) –
  • Abhijeet Anand (LBNL) –
  • Christoph Baranec (U Hawaii) –

November 07

  • Zack Li (Berkeley) – Radio Science from the Lunar Farside with LuSEE-Night
  • Nayana A.J. (Berkeley) –
  • Jan Eldridge (U Auckland) –

November 14

  • Caitlin Begbie (Berkeley) – Modeling Substellar Microlensing Events
  • Saahit Mogan (Berkeley) – Concealing Circumbinary Planets with Tidal Circularization
  • Linda Strubbe (Educational Consulting) –

November 21

  • Dex Bhadra (Berkeley) – Impact of binary orbits on astrometric microlensing
  • Stephon Qian (Berkeley) –
  • Josh Peek (STScI) –

November 28 – No Meeting

December 05

  • Brianna Peck (Berkeley) –
  • Polina Petrov (Vanderbilt) –
  • Dimitri Mawet (Caltech) –

 

 

 

Past Talk Schedules