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"