ASTROPHYSICS SEMINARS

 

Wednesdays, 4:00-5:30 PM
Broida Conference Room 3302

Unless Other Time & Location Noted

 

Fall 2008

Date Speaker Topic Host
Oct 8

Franesco Shankar

Ohio State University

Constraining the Evolution of Super-Massive Black Holes

 Tommaso Treu
Oct 15

Avi Shporer

Weizmann Institute, Tel Aviv

Hunting Transiting Extrasolar Planets

 Tim Brown
Oct 22 Adam Mantz TBA Tommaso Treu
Oct 29

Kevin Bundy

UC Berkeley

 TBA Tommaso Treu
Nov 5

Misty Bentz

Ohio State University

TBA
 Tommaso Treu
Nov 12

Judd Bowman

Caltech

TBA
 Peng Oh
Nov 19

Zoltan Haiman

Columbia University

 TBA Peng Oh
Nov 26  
 
Dec 3

Kevin Schawinski

Yale University

TBA Crystal Martin
Dec 10

 
 

 

 

Winter 2009

Date Speaker Topic Host
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Spring 2009

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2007-2008

Spring 2008

Date Speaker Topic Host
April 2 Pat Ogle
 H2 Emission from Radio Galaxies--Accretion
or Feedback Power?		 Ski Antonucci
April 9 Ian Parrish New Convective Instabilities in Magnetized Plasmas and their Application to Galaxy Clusters
 Peng Oh
April 16 Chris Packham Phil Lubin
April 23  
 
April 30 Adam Burgasser (MIT) Lars Bildsten
May 7  
 
May 14 Masami Ouchi Crystal Martin
May 21
LCO lecture  
May 28 Dominik Riechers Crystal Martin
June 4 Rennan Barkana
Peng Oh
   

 

In addition to this seminar, the astrophysics group holds a weekly lunchtime gathering where items of interest are discussed in an informal setting. These meetings take place on Fridays from noon in Broida Conference Room 3302. http://www.kitp.ucsb.edu/~bildsten/friday.html