Fall 2014
12:40 - 1:30 PM every Thursday, location = Hearst Field Annex Room B5 (the New Campbell Hall location is TBD).
To volunteer for a 12 minute talk + 4 minutes for questions, send email to Paul Kalas (kalas@berkeley.edu) and Al Glassgold (aglassgold@berkeley.edu).
Bold means confirmed
Aug 28:
1 minute talks
Sept 4:
Dan Werthimer (UC Berkeley) "What's new in SETI"
Karto Keating (UC Berkeley) "The Undiscovered CO: Charting Bulk Molecular Gas in the Early Universe"
Linda Tacconi (MPE) "NOEMA: the NOrthern Extended Millimeter Array"
Sept 11:
Dan Perley (Caltech) "Can Gamma-Ray Bursts Explode in ULIRGs? A Radio-Wavelength View of the GRB Host Galaxy Population"
Chelsea Harris (UC Berkeley) "Prospects of Detecting CSM from SNe Ia Progenitor Systems"
Sasha Tchekhovskoy (UC Berkeley) "What turns off gamma-ray bursts (and keeps me up at night)?"
Sept 18:
Chris Ormel (UC Berkeley) "The atmosphere of low-mass planets in 1, 2, and 3 dimensions"
Paul Duffell (UC Berkeley) "Moving Mesh Astrophysics"
Evan Kirby (Caltech) "The Myth of Lithium-Rich Red Giants"
Sept 25:
Lochland Trotter Q&A on Moving to New Campbell Hall
Oct 2:
Dovi Poznanski (Tel Aviv University) "Understanding the most common supernovae, or belated observational evidence that core bounce cannot explode stars"
Freeke van de Voort (UC Berkeley) TBD
Hannah Jang-Condell (Wyoming) "Implicit Bias" [see Gender-based Systematics in HST Proposal Selection" (http://arxiv.org/abs/1409.3528)]
Oct 9:
Bekki Dawson (UC Berkeley) "Planets with stars: a tale of two conferences"
Davide Martizzi (UC Berkeley) "Supernova Feedback in an Inhomogeneous ISM"
Phil Carter (Bristol) "Below the period minimum: a new type of ultracompact binary?"
Oct 16:
Lauren Weiss (UCB) "Introducing The Levy Planetary System HD 7924: It's all in the family"
Mikhael Belyaev (UC Berkeley) "Simulating a pulsar using particle in cell"
Alexander Rudolph (CS Polytechnic) "The Effect of Interactive Instruction in the Astro 101 Classroom"
Oct 23:
Melissa Graham (UC Berkeley) "SN2014J with APF"
Daniel Lecoanet (UC Berkeley) "Dedalus: A Flexible, Open-Source PDE Solver"
Eve Ostriker (Princeton) “Formation of magnetized prestellar cores”
Oct 30:
Nathan Roth (UC Berkeley) "Radiative transfer studies of tidal disruption events"
Eve Lee (UC Berkeley) "Make Super-Earths, Not Jupiters."
Hilke Schlichting (MIT) "Atmospheric mass loss during planet formation: The importance of planetesimal impacts"
Nov 6:
Adrian Liu (UC Berkeley) “A novel approach to global 21cm measurements”
Damiano Caprioli (Princeton) "Particle acceleration at astrophysical shocks"
Adam Leroy (NRAO) "Cool gas, dust, and the fate of the cool part of the M82 outflow."
Nov 13:
Casey Law (UC Berkeley) "Results from the First Fast Imaging Survey for Fast Radio Bursts"
Jack Burns (U. Colorado) “Exploring the Cosmos from the Farside of the Moon”
Mariska Kriek (UC Berkeley) "The MOSFIRE Deep Evolution Field Survey"
Nov 20
Robert Feldmann (UC Berkeley) "The structure of galaxies in the group environment - Clues from cosmological simulations"
Casey Stark (UC Berkeley) "Protocluster discovery in reconstructed Lyman-alpha Forest flux maps"
Fiona Harrison (Caltech) "Are Some Broad Absorption Line Quasars X-ray Weak?"
Dec 4:
Roberto Sanchis-Ojeda (UC Berkeley) "Characterizing the shortest-period planets found by Kepler"
Mate Adamkovics (UC Berkeley) "Measuring methane humidity variation on Titan"
Carl Heiles (UC Berkeley) "An ISM guy looks at the Sun"