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:
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June 25:
Kareem El-Badry (UC Berkeley) - Be stars masquerading as black holes: a stripped-companion origin for Be stars
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