Spring 2013
Bold means confirmed
January 31:
Imke de Pater: Observations and models of the Uranian ring system during the 2007 ring plane crosssing
Chris Ormel Flow past gravitating bodies
Nick Hand: Detection of the Kinematic SZ Effect
February 7:
Fred Lo (colloquium speaker): the physics of megamaser disks and their relationship to circum-nuclear molecular clouds
Reinhard Genzel: The gas cloud G2 falling towards SgrA*: status of obervations and theory
Aaron Lee: EQ asked him to discuss http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.0318
February 14:
Alison Coil (colloquium speaker): The clustering of DEEP2 galaxies
Leo Blitz: Detection of a black hole using CARMA (nature press release)
Jonnie Pober: An update on the PAPER experiment
February 21:
Ken Shen Circumstellar absorption in Type Ia supernovae
Linda Tacconi Gravitationally lensed galaxies at z>2 with Herschel and IRAM
Matt George Transforming satellite galaxies in groups
February 28:
Miguel Morales (colloquium speaker): "Looking Way Back from the Outback"
Lucia Ayala Asensio: "Visual genealogy of modern cosmology"
Matt Kistler Einstein Fellow at LBNL "Implications of the first plausible high-energy astrophysical neutrino events"
March 7 (prospective student visit):
Erik Petigura: Are Earth's Rare?
Dan Kasen: Peculiar Supernovae: Faint, Fast, and Massive
Sarah Newman: Outflows from z~2 star-forming galaxies
March 14:
Justin Kasper: A precipitous drop in helium escaping from the Sun during the last solar minimum
Gaspard Duchene: Stellar multiplicity across mass and age
Jiming Shi Planetesimal formation: direct gravitational collapse of small dust particles
March 21:
Jason Prochaska (colloquium speaker): Resolving the Universe's Final Phase Transition (HeII Reionization)
Daniel Perez Becker: Catastrophic Evaporation of Rocky Planets
Beth Reid: Galaxy clustering in the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey
March 28:
Spring Break (no colloquium and no lunch)
April 4:
Mike Brown (colloquium speaker): "What does Europa taste like?"
Martin White: "Planck 2013 cosmology results"
Brad Cenko: "Discovery of a distant, relativistic outburst via its fast-fading optical transient emission"
April 11:
Lynne Hillenbrand (colloquium speaker)
Freeke van de Voort
Lauren Weiss: "Can We Predict Planet Compositions?"
April 18:
David Spiegel (colloquium speaker): "Inflating Hot Jupiters Probably Requires Deep Interior Heating"
Francesca Fornasini X-ray Populations in the Norma and Scutum-Crux Spiral Arms
Nicolas Barriere NUSTAR Results on Sgr A*
April 25:
Kevin Marvel (colloquium speaker): "F.W.A. Argelander: Creator of the Bonner Durchmusterung"
Steve Boggs: "NuSTAR Status and Highlights"
Chat Hull: "Are magnetic fields and outflows aligned in protostellar cores?"
May 2:
Adam Miller: "Are we ready for LSST? An update from the Center for Time Domain Informatics"
Marco Ajello: "The imprint of the Extragalactic Background Light in the gamma-ray spectra of blazars"
Eve Lee: "Misalignment Between Stellar Spin and Planetary Orbits" (EQ: eve is giving a presentation on this for grad stars and i thought it would be of broader interest as well so asked her to talk at Th lunch).
May 9:
Mansi Kasliwal (colloquium speaker): "The Gold Rush"
Chris Klein: "Recent studies of H0 and how infrared light curves of pulsating variables are improving distance measurements at all scales"
John Tomsick: "NuSTAR Observations of X-ray Binaries and the Galactic Center Magnetar"