Fall 2013
12:30 - 1:30 PM, 166 Barrows (the building on the north side of Hearst Field Annex)
Bold means confirmed
Aug 29:
Yakov Faerman Ultra-Compact High-Velocity Clouds as Minihalos and Dwarf Galaxies
Lauren Weiss The Automated Planet Finder telescope works. You can use it too!
Christian Reichardt The Detection of B-mode Polarization in the CMB with SPT
Sept 5:
Hubert Klahr Disk Weather and Planet Formation
James Graham The Gemini Planet Imager Survey
James McBride The Role of Magnetic Fields in Starburst Galaxies as Revealed by OH Megamasers
Sept 12:
Lars Bildsten Helium Detonations for Thermonuclear Supernova
Alex Parker Exploring the Outer Solar System with New Horizons
Alex Fillippenko Lick Observatory
Sept 19:
Roger Blandford Pular Timing Arrays
Eve Lee Dynamic Star Formation
Melissa Graham Supernovae with the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network
Sept 26:
Rodrigo Fernandez Delayed outflows from neutron star merger remnant accretion disks
David DeBoer - The Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array (HERA)
Anatoly Spitkovsky Accelerating the acceleration: new techniques for modeling cosmic ray feedback
Oct 3:
Raphael Bousso -- special full hour talk/discussion on "firewalls," black hole information, ...
(no colloq speaker slot this week)
Oct 10:
Sedona Price -- Direct measurement of dust attenuation in z~1.5 star-forming galaxies from 3D-HST
Di Li (colloq. speaker) -- Are Massive Cores Supercritical?
Eugene Chiang -- Disks, Gaps and Holes
Oct 17:
David Spergel WFIRST/AFTA
Casey Law Searching for Cosmological Millisecond Radio Transients with the VLA
Bekki Dawson - The Legacy of Giant Planet Dynamical Histories in the Post-Kepler Era
Oct 24:
Karin Oberg (colloq. speaker) - Diffusion in interstellar ices.
Martin White The Dark Energy Specroscopic Instrument: Opportunities for Quasar and Galaxy Science
Ashley King (U of M; Friday SSL colloq. speaker) - The extremely fast wind from the black hole IGR J17091-3624.
Oct 31:
Howard Isaacson Masses, Radii, and Orbits of Small Kepler Planets: The Transition from Gaseous to Rocky Planets
Jennifer van Saders (OSU) Better Stars, Better Planets: Using Stellar Rotation to Refine Estimates of Stellar Parameters
Jeff Silverman (UT Austin) - "High-Velocity Features in Type Ia Supernovae"
Nov 7:
Josh Bloom The new (secret) Data Science initiative on campus
Ian McLean The NIRSPEC Brown Dwarf Spectroscopic Survey (BDSS)
Franck Marchis Origami Nanosat Telescopes
Nov 14:
Ruobing Dong Understanding the Earliest Stages of Planet Formation Through Resolved Observations and Simulations of Protoplanetary Disks
Ann-Marie Madigan Instabilities in near-Kepler potentials
Jason Wang Airborne observing with SOFIA
Nov 21
Juna Kollmeier (colloq. speaker)
Tushar Mittal Debris disks with Spitzer
Joo Heon Yoon (UCSB): The Effect of Environment on the Circumgalactic Medium
Dec 5:
Kaitlin Kratter (colloq. speaker) - Dynamical instabilities in three-body systems
Blake Sherwin CMB Lensing: Mapping Mass at High Redshifts
Drummond Fielding The Turbulent Origin of Misalignment: Explaining Observations of Extrasolar Obliquities
Dec 12
Erik Petigura Prevalence of Earth-size planets orbiting Sun-like stars
Ryan O'Leary The Missing Pulsar Problem in the Galactic Center