ASTROPHYSICS SEMINARS

 

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

Unless Other Time & Location Noted

 

Fall 2009

Date Speaker Topic Host
Sept 23    
 
Sept 30    
 
Oct 7

 

 
 
Oct 14

 

 
 
Oct 21    
 
Oct 28    
 
Nov 4

Vivienne Wild


Crystal Martin
Nov 11    
 
Nov 18    
 
Nov 25    
 
Dec 2    
 
Dec 9    
 

 

 

Spring 2009

Date Speaker Topic Host
Apr 8

Paola Rebusco

MIT

Galaxy clusters in the Swift/BAT era

Omer Blaes
Apr 15    
 
Apr 22

 

 
 
Apr 29

 

 
 
May 6

Frans Pretorius

Princeton University

When Black Holes Collide

Phil Marshall
May 13

David Spergel

Princeton University

Primary CMB fluctuations

Physics / LCO
May 20

Christopher Kochanek

The Ohio State University

Gravitational Microlensing and the Structure of Quasars

Tommaso Treu
May 27

David Sand

CFa and LCOGT

Getting to know our new neighbors: the star formation history and extended structure of the Hercules Milky Way satellite

Lars Bildsten
Jun 3

Sunil Golwala

Caltech

Understanding the State of the Intracluster Medium in Galaxy Clusters via the Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect

Ben Mazin  

 

 

Winter 2009

Date Speaker Topic Host
Jan 14

John Silverman

ETH Zurich

Co-evolving star formation and AGN activity within the zCOSMOS density field

Tommaso Treu
Jan 21

Philip Hopkins

UC Berkeley

Galaxy Collisions: A Factory for Quasars, Feedback, Ellipticals, and even Disks?
Crystal Martin
Jan 28

Matt McQuinn

Harvard University

HeII Reionization and Its Effect on the IGM
Peng Oh
Feb 4

 

 
 
Feb 11

Ed Cackett

University of Michigan

Recent Progress in Neutron Stars
Eli Rykoff
Feb 18

Andy Lawrence

University of Edinburgh

The Ukirt Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS)

Ski Antonucci  
Feb 25

Mark Lacy

Spitzer Science Center, Caltech

The obscured growth of supermassive black holes and implications for feedback and galaxy growth

Nicola Bennert
Mar 4

Aaron Romanowsky

UC Santa Cruz

Mass and Angular Momentum in Early-type Galaxies
Tommaso Treu
Mar 11

Aaron Dutton

UC Santa Cruz

The Impact of Galactic Outflows on Disk Galaxy Structure

Tommaso Treu 

 

 

 

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
   

 

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

Stanford University

Cosmological Tests Using X-ray Observations of Clusters of Galaxies

Tommaso Treu
Oct 29

Kevin Bundy

UC Berkeley

The Mass-Dependent Role of Mergers in Galaxy Evolution Tommaso Treu
Nov 5

Misty Bentz

UC Irvine

Tommaso Treu
Nov 12

Devdeep Sarkar

UC Irvine

Prospects for Probing Dark Energy and Primordial Non-Gaussianity: How well can we do?

Peng Oh
Nov 19

Zoltan Haiman

Columbia University

The Origin and Detection of High-Redshift Supermassive Black Holes

Peng Oh
Nov 26

DAY BEFORE THANKSGIVING


 
Dec 3

Kevin Schawinski

Yale University

Observing AGN Feedback in Action

Crystal Martin
Dec 10

Alexander Tchekhovskoy

Harvard University

Efficient Magnetic to Kinetic Energy Conversion even in Monopole Magnetospheres and Ultrarelativistic Jets
Omer Blaes

 


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