Fall-2019
12:40 - 1:30 PM every Thursday, location = 131 A & B Campbell Hall.
To volunteer for a 12 minute talk + 3 minutes for questions, send email to Paul Kalas (kalas@berkeley.edu).
This forum is mainly for local scientists of any level to present their work to a broad spectrum of the department, and usually includes one short talk by the astronomy colloquium speaker of the day.
Subjects can include personal scientific research, reporting on other work appearing in journals, education and public outreach efforts, science policy, and professional development issues.
It is preferred if speakers bring their own laptop, cable adapter (we have some), and laser pointer. Presentations may also use the whiteboard.
Scientists from other institutions need to have a local scientist hosting their visit to Berkeley before they can request a talk slot.
Bold means confirmed
August 29:
1-minute talks from members of the department (UC Berkeley)
September 5:
Keming Zhang (UC Berkeley) - deepCR: Cosmic Ray Rejection with Deep Learning
Nir Mandelker (Yale) - Shattering of Cosmic Sheets due to Thermal Instabilities: a Formation Channel for Metal-Free Lyman Limit Systems
Dan Weisz (UC Berkeley) colloq. speaker - Photometric Metallicities are the New Black
September 12:
Charlotte Bond (WMKO) - Commissioning and first science results of the Keck infrared pyramid wavefront sensor
Ivanna Escala (Caltech) - First Iron and Alpha Element Abundances in the Giant Stellar Stream, Outer Disk, and Inner Halo of M31
Jessica Lu (UC Berkeley) colloq. speaker - Advancing Frontiers in Stellar Physics with Astrometry
September 19:
Deepthi Gorthi (UC Berkeley) - FFT Correlators: What? Why?
Nick Choksi (UC Berkeley) - The mass radius relation of young stellar clusters
Matt Dobbs (McGill) colloq. speaker - Undergraduate electronics lab courses
September 26:
Kaew Samaporn Tinyanont (Caltech) - Insights into massive star explosions from infrared light
Shany Danieli (Yale) - Galaxies missing dark matter
Fiona Harrison (Caltech) colloq. speaker - Broadband X-ray measurements of Black Hole Binaries
October 3:
Wren Suess & Micah Brush (UC Berkeley) - Respect is Part of Research: Peer-Led Training to Improve Departmental Climate
Mike Wong (UC Berkeley) - The HST OPAL Program
Bruce Jakosky (Colorado) colloq. speaker joint EPS - Using Venus, Earth, and Mars as constraints on exoplanet atmospheric evolution
October 10: Cancelled due to California Power Outage
Yuan Li (UC Berkeley) - Direct Detection of Black Hole-Driven Turbulence in the Centers of Galaxy Clusters
Andy Mayo (UC Berkeley) - An 11 Earth-Mass, Long-Period Sub-Neptune Orbiting a Sun-like Star
Quinn Konpacky (UCSD) colloq. speaker - A Summer Spent with a Forgotten Dataset
October 17:
Chang Hahn (BCCP) - Constraining Star Formation History with the Stellar-to-Halo Mass Relation
Nathan Sandford (UC Berkeley) - Quantifying the Chemical Information Content of Stellar Spectra
Paul Schecter (MIT) colloq. speaker - The images of a strongly lensed quasar lie very close to the two (or
four) intersections of Witt's hyperbola and Wynne's ellipse
October 24:
Sara Jamal (UC Berkeley) - Classification of variables stars using ML/DL
Evan Skillman (Minnesota) - The Lowest Metallicity Galaxies and the Primordial He Abundance
Suvi Gezari (Maryland) colloq. speaker - When Slumbering Beasts Awake: Extreme Changing-Look Quasars from ZTF
October 31:
Miguel Zumalacarregui (UC Berkeley) - Reconciling discrepant values of H_0: hopes & frustrations
Kishore Patra (UC Berkeley) - Introduction to spectropolarimetry of supernovae
Raffaella Margutti (Northwestern) colloq. speaker - Two years of non-thermal emission from the neutron star merger GW170817: the show is still on
November 7:
Yuan Li (UC Berkeley) - Direct Detection of Black Hole-Driven Turbulence in the Centers of Galaxy Clusters
Sal Fu (UC Berkeley) - Dynamical Histories of the Crater II Dwarf Galaxy
Kunal Mooley (Caltech) colloq. speaker - The First Radio-Discovered Tidal Disruption Event: CNSS J0019+00
November 14:
Kareem El-Badry (UC Berkeley) - Separated at birth? An unexpected population of identical-twin binaries
Sara Ellison (U. Victoria) colloq. speaker - The Fundamental Metallicity Relation …. Not always fundamental!!
Gene Leung (UCSD) - A census of AGN-driven ionized outflows at the cosmic high noon with the MOSDEF survey
November 21:
Yi Yang (Weizmann Institute) - Light Echoes Around the Supernova 2014J in M82
Casey Lam (UC Berkeley) - 2019 TMT Science Forum Summary
Hao Cao (Harvard; joint EPS) colloq. speaker - Dynamics of Jupiter’s deep atmosphere: a continuing enigma?
November 28:
Thanksgiving Break
December 5:
Ekta Patel (UC Berkeley) - The Orbital Histories of Magellanic Satellites Using Gaia DR2 Proper Motions
Amanda Quirk (UCSC) - Asymmetric Drift in Illustris M31 Analogs
Kathryn Johnston (Columbia) - Physical Manifestations of Chaos and Regularity Around Galaxies