Spring 2020

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.

  • 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 16:

January 23:

January 30:

February 6:

February 13:

February 20:

February 27:

March 5:

March 12 - postponed

  • Josh Dillon (UC Berkeley) - Calibrating HERA

  • Abi Polin (UC Berkeley - Modeling Sub-Chandrasekhar Mass White Dwarf Explosions as Type Ia Supernovae

March 19 - postponed

  • Julia DeMarines (UC Berkeley) - TBD

March 26: UC Berkeley Spring Break

April 2 - postponed

  • Ellie Abrahams (UC Berkeley) - TBD

  • Xiangcheng Ma (UC Berkeley) - On the escape fraction of hydrogen ionizing photons from galaxies at the epoch of reionization

  • Miguel Zumalacarregui (UC Berkeley) - TBD

April 9 - using zoom

  • Eliot Quataert (UC Berkeley) - Brief Department Update and Q&A”

  • Chirag Modi (UC Berkeley) - Time Series Analysis of Italian Covid-19 Excess Mortality Rates

April 16 - using zoom

  • Casey Lam (UC Berkeley) - Hunting for stellar-mass black holes with microlensing

  • Yukei Murakami (UC Berkeley): "Local Dynamics of Cosmological Scalar Field"

April 23:

  • Reserved for exit seminars (UC Berkeley) - TBD

April 30:

  • Alex Krolewski (UC Berkeley, Exit Seminar) - CMB lensing tomography across half the universe with 150 million infrared galaxies from the unWISE catalog

May 7:

  • Siyao Jia (UC Berkeley, Exit Seminar) - Young Stellar Populations in our Galactic Center: Improved Astrometry and Dynamic Structure Measurements

May 14:

  • Nicholas Kern (UC Berkeley, Exit Seminar) - Mapping the Cosmic Evolution of Hydrogen: 21 cm Cosmology at the EoR with HERA

June 4:

  • Ben Margalit (UC Berkeley) - A smoking gun: did we just solve FRBs?

  • Jessica Lu (UC Berkeley) - PyPopStar and Other Tools for Stellar Physics

  • TBD

June 11:

  • Philipp Kempski (UC Berkeley) - Heating the ICM via cosmic-ray driven instabilities

  • Nick Choksi (UC Berkeley) - Sub-Neptune Formation: the view from resonant planets

  • TBD

June 18:

  • TBD

  • TBD

  • TBD

June 25:

  • Kareem El-Badry (UC Berkeley) - Be stars masquerading as black holes: a stripped-companion origin for Be stars

  • TBD

  • TBD