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