Fall 2022
12:40 - 13:30 PM (Pacific) every Thursday, location = 131 Campbell Hall
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.
Note that the projector will fill the screen and make slides easier to read if a 16:9 format is used.
Bold below means confirmed
August 25
Astronomy Department 1-minute Talks
September 1
Daniel Brethauer (UC Berkeley) - The Metamorphosis of SN 2014C: A Strongly Interacting SN
Luc Dessart (IAP France) - An interaction model for Type Ibn supernovae
September 8
POSTPONED TO DEC. 8
September 15
Cancelled
September 22
Steven Giacalone (UC Berkeley) - Exploring the Occurrence Rate of Small Short-Period Planets Orbiting A-type Stars
Ken Shen (UC Berkeley) - Binary interaction dominates mass ejection in classical novae
Michael Johnson (CfA, SAO) - New Frontiers for Physical Inference with Interferometry
September 29
Cancelled
October 6
Jamie Sullivan (UC Berkeley) - Gradient-based Linear Cosmology in Julia
Guy Nir (UC Berkeley) - Self lensing flares and how to find them
Caitlin Casey (UT Austin) - A primer on dust temperatures of high-redshift galaxies and why they matter
October 13
Andy Mayo (UC Berkeley) - Hyades Member K2-136c: The Smallest Planet in an Open Cluster with a Precisely Measured Mass
Jonathan Cohn (Texas A&M) - ALMA gas-dynamical mass measurements of supermassive black holes in red nugget relic galaxies
Yuri Levin (Columbia) - Pinning and unpinning of superfluid vortices inside a neutron star crust during a glitch
October 20
Caleb Harada (UC Berkeley) - Stability of exomoons orbiting HIP 41378 f, a temperate super-puff in a multi-planet system
Jessica Lu (UC Berkeley) - CuRIOS: Satellite constellations aren’t all bad
Julia Kregenow (PSU) - Don’t Teach TO the Test, Teach WITH The Test
October 27
Jenny Bergner (UC Berkeley) - Phosphorus astrochemistry in protosolar analogs
Luke Kelley (UC Berkeley) - NS-NS Binaries in Cosmological Environments
Sukanya Chakrabarti (Alabama) - A non-interacting black hole candidate in a binary system with a main-sequence star
November 3
Cooper Jacobus (UC Berkeley) - Closing the resolution gap in Ly-α simulations with deep learning
Jackie Blaum (UC Berkeley) - Stellar Insights at Scale with Likelihood-Free Inference
Jon Miller (U. Michigan) - Abundances in the Tidal Disruption Event ASASSN-14li Signal the Disruption of a Massive Star
November 10
Wynn Jacobson-Galan (UC Berkeley) - Observational Properties and Physical Modeling of “Flash Spectroscopy” Supernovae
Alessandro Savino (UC Berkeley) - The HST Treasury survey of M31 satellites
Konstantinos (Kostas) Tassis (U. Crete) - PASIPHAE: Elucidating stubborn CMB polarization foregrounds with stellar optopolarimetry
November 17
Kevin Burdge (MIT) - Identification of LISA gravitational wave sources and other exotic short-period variables using current optical time-domain surveys
Andrea Antoni (UC Berkeley) - Random angular momentum in convection: delayed explosions of red supergiants following “failed” supernovae
Ori Fox (STScI) - The Roman Space Telescope Extended Time-Domain Survey (eTDS) Concept
December 1
Erika Hamden (U. Arizona) - The PI Launchpad and Postdoc Mentoring
December 8
Erika Strasburger (UCB) - TBD - Postponed to Jan. 19, 2023
Josh Dillon (UCB) - TBD - Postponed to Jan. 19, 2023
Jason Wang (Northwestern) - orbitize!: Adventures in Exoplanet Orbit Fitting - Postponed to Jan. 19, 2023