spring-2019
12:40 - 1:30 PM every Thursday, location = 131 A & B Campbell Hall.
Students can register for this seminar as ASTRON 292
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.
Scientists from other institutions need to have a local scientist hosting their visit to Berkeley before they can request a talk slot.
Bold means confirmed
January 24:
Sean Ressler (UC Berkeley) - 5 Flux Given: Predicting the Horizon-Scale Magnetic Flux In the Galactic Center (And Why You Should Care)
Alessandro Sonnenfeld (Leiden) - A Hyper Suprime-Cam view of the CMASS galaxy sample
Jennifer Johnson (OSU) colloq. speaker - Mercury, Venus, or Earth -- Testing the Mass-Radius relations for rocky planets
January 31:
Abigail (Abi) Polin (UC Berkeley) - Exploding Sub-Chandrasekhar mass White Dwarfs as Type Ia Supernovae
Megan Ansdell (UC Berkeley) - Deep Learning for Exoplanet Transit Science
Patrick Brady (UWM) colloq. speaker - Cosmology with gravitational wave observations
February 7:
Thaddeus (Tad) Komacek (U. Chicago) - The Atmospheric Circulation of Ultra-Hot Jupiters
Dick Plambeck (UC Berkeley) - The Salty Disk around a Massive Protostar
Eugene Chiang (UC Berkeley) colloq. speaker - Stellar Winds and Dust Avalanches in Debris Disks
February 14:
Dhruv Muley (UC Berkeley) - PDS 70: A transition disk sculpted by a single planet
Paul Kalas (UC Berkeley) - The international beta Pic transit monitoring campaign
Tuan Do (UCLA) colloq. speaker - Intermediate Mass Black Holes with TMT
February 21:
Uros Seljak (UC Berkeley) - EL2O: posterior inference without MCMC
Barry Welsh (UC Berkeley) - Exocomets in the news
Hiranya Peiris (UCL) colloq. speaker - Bayesian-optimised emulation of cosmological simulations
February 28:
Rob De Rosa (Stanford) - Exploring the Dynamical History of the HD 106906 Planetary System with Gaia
Anne-Marie Lagrange (Grenoble) - TBD
George Ricker (MIT) colloq. speaker - Tossin' and Turnin' of TESS
March 7:
Ben Margalit (UC Berkeley) - a, b, c, d, e, FRB, GRB? Back to basics in learning how to make fast radio bursts
Irina Ene (UC Berkeley) - Stellar kinematics of the centers of MASSIVE elliptical galaxies
Shelley Wright (UCSD) colloq. speaker - An all-sky observatory searching for optical transients and technosignatures
March 14:
Fatima Abdurrahman (UC Berkeley) - Late-Time, High-Resolution Images of the Black Hole Candidate Microlensing Events MACHO-98-BLG-6 And MACHO-96-BLG-5
Peter Boyle (UC Berkeley) - Structure of the Super Star Cluster Westerlund I
Ian Czekala (UC Berkeley) - Circumbinary Planets and Disks
March 21:
Nicholas Rui (UC Berkeley) - Dynamical Structure of the Quintuplet Cluster
Stephen Rho (UC Berkeley) - A Gallery of Shock Portraits from Failed Supernovae
Jens Kauffman (MIT) - LEGO: From Molecular Lines in the Milky Way to Cosmic Star Formation
March 28: UC Berkeley Spring Break
April 4:
Xiangcheng Ma (UC Berkeley) - Resolving star cluster formation in high-redshift galaxies in cosmological simulations
Kareem El-Badry (UC Berkeley) - A new model for superbubbles driven by clustered supernovae
Josh Eisner (Arizona) colloq. speaker - Gaps and Holes in Very Young Circumstellar Disks
April 11:
Andrea Antoni (UC Berkeley) - The Evolution of Binaries in a Gaseous Medium: Three-Dimensional Simulations of Binary Bondi-Hoyle-Lyttleton Accretion
Anna Ho (Caltech) - SN2018gep: The Death Throes of a Stripped Massive Star
Steve Kahn (LSST/Stanford) colloq. speaker - Searching for Subsecond Stellar Variability with Wide-field Star Trails and Deep Learning
April 18:
Manik Varma (Microsoft) - The Extremes of Machine Learning – Collaboration Opportunities in Astronomy
Ben Horowitz (UCB) - Constrained Reconstruction of the High Redshift Cosmic Web from Lyman Alpha Tomography
Shepard Doelman (Harvard) colloq. speaker - TBD
April 25:
Jessica Lu (UC Berkeley) - KAPA’s AstroTech - A New Summer School for Astronomical Instrumentation
Chris McKee (UC Berkeley) - Update on NASA, NSF and the Decadal Survey
Marijana Smailagic (UCSC) - Cool gas around massive quenched galaxies
May 2:
Randolf Klein (SOFIA) - The PDR in M17-SW analyzed with FIFI-LS onboard SOFIA
Stuart Bale (SSL) - First perihelia passes of Parker Solar Probe
Miguel Zumalacarregui (LBL) - Testing Dark Energy and Gravity with Gravitational Wave Propagation