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.
Speakers are recommended to bring their own laptop, pointer, and, if necessary, a cable adapter (we have HDMI and USB-C). Presentations may also use the whiteboard.
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
September 3
Eli Wiston (Berkeley) – “Department Outreach Opportunities”
Aashish Gupta (University of Virginia) – "Environmental Interactions: A Paradigm Shift in Planet Formation”
Pradip Gatkine (UCLA) – "Near-IR interferometry and nulling enabled by astrophotonics"
September 10
Nicole Flors (Northwestern) - "Millisecond Pulsars Flying Through Gas with GRMHD."
Jessica Lu (UC Berkeley) - “Roman Launches! What's next?”
Kaitlin Kratter (Arizona) – colloquium speaker, "An Analytic Model for Gravitational Instability at Q>1"An Analytic Model for Gravitational Instability at Q>1
September 11
Astronomy Department 1-minute Talks
September 17
Aster Taylor (U of M, Jenny Bergner) – "The Age Distribution of Interstellar Objects and Galactic Planet Formation"
Callumn Donnan (NOIRLab, host Dan Stark) – "The nature of star-formation in the first galaxies as revealed by JWST spectroscopy"
Alice Shapley (UCLA) – colloquium speaker
September 24
Pranav Nagarajan (Caltech, host Jessica Lu) – ""The Curious Case of PSR J1928+1815: An Eclipsing Millisecond Pulsar with a Mysterious Companion"
Cheyenne Shariat (Caltech, host Dan Weisz) – "How Stellar Companions Shape the Orbits of Hot Jupiters"
Kyle Kremer (UCSD) – "Searching for Black Holes in Globular Clusters using the Keck Cosmic Web Imager"
October 1
Eliza Diggins (UC Berkeley) – “Extreme Dispersion FRBs and where to find them.”
Wenbin Lu (UC Berkeley) – "Are Little Red Dots Supermassive Stars?"
Andrew Mummery (IAS) – colloquium speaker
October 8
Daniel Brethauer (UC Berkeley) – "Free Neutrons in Kilonova Ejecta: X-ray and UV Flashes"
Yvette Cendes (Oregon U) – "On the Discovery of Radio Emission from the Exoplanet Beta Pictoris b"
Mike Boylan-Kochin (UT Austin) – colloquium speaker
October 15
Howard Hao-Tse Huang (UC Berkeley) – "Impact of Star-Disk Collisions on EMRI Origin of Quasi-Periodic Eruptions"
Stephon Qian (UC Berkeley) - "1D TDE disk model with wind reprocessing and fallback heating"
Brant Roberson (UCSC) – "Effects of Dynamical Dark Energy on the Lyman-alpha Forest"
October 22
Tetyana Pitik (UC Berkeley) - "Collapse of Magnetized White Dwarfs as site of Heavy Element Formation and Kilonova Signal”
Derek Perera (U Minnesota, Alex Filippenko hosting) - "Probing Dark Matter Substructure in Galaxy Clusters from Lensed Arc Asymmetry"
Malena Rice (Yale) – “The CycloAstro Project: Peering into the Solar System’s Past with Astrophysics and Geophysics”
October 29
Natasha Abrams (UC Berkeley) –
Dan Weisz (UC Berkeley) – "The Ultraviolet Explorer (UVEX)"
Anil Seth (Utah) – colloquium speaker
November 5
Himansh Rathore (U of A, host Dan Stark) –
Simon Smith (U Victoria, host Dan Weisz) –
David Charbonneau (Harvard) – colloquium speaker
November 12
Abby Mintz (Princeton, host Dan Weisz) –
Tamojeet Roychowdhury (UC Berkeley) – "Revealing Spatial Patterns of Ice Formation in Star-forming Environments with SPHEREx"
Sarah Millholland (MIT) – colloquium speaker
November 19
Anna Pusack (UC Berkeley) –
Olivia Apregren (UC Berkeley) –
Jim Fuller (Caltech) – colloquium speaker
December 3
Sara Rosborough (Texas A&M , host Chung-Pei) –
Nicole Ford (McGill, host Tamojeet Roychowdhury) – "A Sub-Parsec Hornet’s Nest of Gas, Dust, and Stars: Ionization Structure & Metal Enrichment of the Galactic Center Minispiral Observed with JWST”
Alyssa Goodman (Harvard) – colloquium speaker