12:40 - 1:30 PM every Thursday, location = 131 A & B 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.
It is preferred if speakers bring their own laptop, cable adapter, and pointer. Presentations may also use the whiteboard.
Bold means confirmed
January 19:
Danny Goldstein (UC Berkeley) - Strongly Lensed Supernova Cosmology
Kate Alexander (Harvard) - Radio Observations of the Tidal Disruption Event XMMSL1 J0740-85
Jim Fuller (Caltech) colloq. speaker - Pre-Supernova Outbursts and Mass Loss via Wave Heating in Red Supergiants
January 26:
Jing Luan (UC Berkeley) - Decade puzzle on the red edge of the instability strip --- convective damping
Richard Anantua (UC Berkeley) - Observing Jet Simulations
Dan Weisz (UC Berkeley) colloq. speaker - What We Know About the High-Mass Stellar IMF
February 2:
Davide Martizzi (UC Berkeley) - New Insight into the Gas-phase Metallicity in Galaxy Clusters
Cliff Johnson (UCSD) - The High-mass Truncation of the Star Cluster Mass Function: Limits on Massive Cluster Formation
Chris Kochanek (OSU) colloq. speaker: ASAS-SN Is Exploding
February 9:
Chris White (UC Berkeley) - An Overview of the Athena++ MHD Code
Jieun Choi (Harvard) - A Holistic Test of Stellar Evolution with Open Clusters
Nitya Kallivayalil (UV) colloq. speaker - TiNy Titans (TNT): The Role of Dwarf-Dwarf Interactions in Low-mass Galaxy Evolution
February 16:
Zack Slepian (UC Berkeley) - Understanding the neutrinos' pre-recombination behavior: a Green's function approach
Jerry Ostriker (Columbia / Princeton) - Dark Matter: Ultra-Light Particles Have the Right Properties to Explain Small Scale Structure
Chris McKee (UC Berkeley) colloq. speaker - The Galactic Corona
February 23:
Al Glassgold (UC Berkeley) - Deep-down Ionization of Protoplanetary Disks and the MRI
Peter Behroozi (UC Berkeley) - An Introduction to Common Cognitive Biases
Arjun Dey (NOAO) colloq. speaker - The Cosmic Evolution of Fe/Mg
March 2:
Matt Hosek (UCB) - The Initial Mass Function of the Arches Cluster
Howard Isaacson (UCB) - The Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life: Target
Selection of Nearby Stars and Galaxies
Karl Stapelfeldt (JPL) colloq. speaker - New Hubble results for edge-on circumstellar disks
March 9:
Carl Heiles (UC Berkeley) - Discovery of linear polarization of the 21-cm line, |z|< 10^{-4}
Nate Golovich (UC Davis) - Lessons on ensemble studies of merging galaxy clusters
Jessica Lu (UCB) colloq. speaker - Maximize the Science Return of Adaptive Optics Data with PSF Reconstruction
March 16:
Gaspard Duchene (UC Berkeley) - Where did Galactic field stars form? Revisiting stellar multiplicity in the Orion Nebula Cluster
Eric Agol (U. Washington) - TRAPPIST-1
Tony Wong (UIUC) colloq. speaker - The remarkably close connection between CO and stellar emission in disk galaxies
March 23:
Francois Foucart (UC Berkeley) - Modeling nucleosynthesis and electromagnetic emission from outflows in neutron star mergers
Siyu He (CMU / UC Berkeley) - First Detection of Cross Correlation of Filaments with CMB Lensing
Steve Boggs (UCSD) colloq. speaker - The General Antiparticle Spectrometer (GAPS)
March 30: UC Berkeley Spring Break
April 6:
Michael Medford (UC Berkeley) - Detection of Distant Solar System Objects: The Hunt for Planet Nine
Tanmoy Laskar (UC Berkeley) - ALMA in the time-domain: mm insights into GRB astrophysics
Jennifer Yee (Harvard) colloq. speaker - Non-Microlensing Science with WFIRST Microlensing Data
April 13:
Alex Krolewski (UC Berkeley) - Using IGM tomography to measure alignments between z~2.5 galaxies and the cosmic web
Malena Rice (UC Berkeley) - The Gemini Planet Imager View of the HD 32297 Debris Disk System
Jessica Werk (UW) colloq. speaker - New ways of detecting gas flows at the disk-halo interface
April 20:
Peter Behroozi (UC Berkeley) - Understanding Galaxy Quenching with the UniverseMachine
Elena Giusarma (CMU Pittsburg & UC Berkeley - Gravitational redshift of galaxy clustering
Saul Rappaport (MIT) colloq. speaker - A Strongly Interacting Quadruple Star System
April 27:
Elena Massara (UC Berkeley) - Designing a cosmology emulator with on demand simulations
Kareem El. Badry (UC Berkeley) - What regulates disk formation in low-mass galaxies?
Rychard Bouwens (Leiden) colloq. speaker - Demonstrating ALMA’s Use as a Redshift Machine into the Epoch of Reionization
External Speakers Wait List:
1. Max Gronke (U. Oslo) for March 16