Fall 2020
3:40 - 4:30 PM (Pacific) every Thursday, location = Zoom
To volunteer for a 12 minute talk + 4 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.
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
September 3, 3:40 - 4:30 PM
1-minute Colloquia
September 10, 12:40 - 13:30 PM
Gibor Basri (UCB) - (Almost) Everything We Knew about Starspot Lightcurves is Wrong
Samson Johnson (OSU) - Predictions of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Galactic Exoplanet Survey: Free-Floating Planet Detection Rates
September 17, 3:40 - 4:30 PM
Nico Garavito (U. Arizona) - Lessons from the ongoing interaction of the Milky Way and the Large Magellanic Cloud
David Guszejnov (UT Austin) - Protostellar jets and the IMF
Guy Nir (UCB) - The Weizmann Fast Astronomical Survey Telescope
September 24, 3:40 - 4:30 PM
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Hsiao-Wen Chen (Parsons, colloq. speaker) - Mapping the CGM in Emission
October 1, 3:40 - 4:30 PM
Diana Powell (UCSC) - Using Dust Grain Aerodynamics to Weigh Protoplanetary Disks
Ethan Nadler (Stanford) - Constraints on Dark Matter Microphysics from Dwarf Galaxies
Charles Gammie (colloq. speaker) - The Jet-Disk Boundary Layer in Accreting Black Holes
October 8, 3:40 - 4:30 PM
Carl Fields (MSU) - Multidimensional Progenitor Models For Core-collapse Supernovae
Emmanuel Schaan (LBL) - Halo gas thermodynamics from the cosmic microwave background: implications for large-scale structure and galaxy formation
L. Corrales (colloq. speaker, U Michigan) - Five new hot-Jupiter transits investigated withSwift-UVOT
October 15, 3:40 - 4:30 PM
Arianna Long (UCI) - Weighing a Dusty, Ultra-Massive Galaxy Cluster Core at z=4
Meiji Nguyen (UCB) - First detection of orbital motion for HD 106906 b: A wide-separation exoplanet on a Planet Nine-like orbit
October 22, 3:40 - 4:30 PM
Munazza Alam (Harvard) - A Clear Atmosphere for WASP-62b, the Only Known Transiting Giant Planet in the JWST Continuous Viewing Zone
Vicky Kalogera (Northwestern, colloq. speaker) - CIERA Programs and Initiatives
October 29, 3:40 - 4:30 PM
Bingjie Wang (JHU) - Implications for the Epoch of Reionization in the Local Universe
Natasha Abrams (Harvard) - Hunting Black Holes with Photometric Microlensing
Jorge Moreno (Pomona, colloq. speaker) - Resolved galaxies in IllustrisTNG and FIREBox
November 5, 3:40 - 4:30 PM
Kareem El-Badry (UCB) - Found: the cataclysmic variable progenitors of ultra-compact binaries
Almog Yalinewich (CITA) - A new Conservation law for Planetary Collisions
November 12, 3:40 - 4:30 PM
Sam Rose (UC Berkeley) - Probing the BH Initial Final Mass Relation with Microlensing
Ellie Abrahams (UCB) - A Gaia DR2 Look at the Cataclysmic Variable Donor Sequence
November 19, 3:40 - 4:30 PM
Casey Lam (UCB) - Modeling microlensing light curves with Gaussian Processes
Yukei Murakami (UCB) - PIPS: A new interpretation of periodogram and light curve fitting
Julie Posselt (USC, colloq. speaker) - Research-Practice Partnerships to Advance Equity in Science
December 3, 3:40 - 4:30 PM
Yan Liang (Princeton) - Kepler-90: Giant transit-timing variations reveal a super-puff
Karen Perez (Columbia) - Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life Near the Galactic Center