UCSB Astrophysics Seminar CalendarUCSB Astrophysics Seminar Calendar

ASTROPHYSICS SEMINARS

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

Unless Other Time & Location Noted

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	IR Astronomy: Instrumentation and Science Prospects in the Medium Term Future	Phil Lubin
April 23
April 30	Adam Burgasser (MIT)	Brown Dwarfs: The New Galactic Standard Candle	Lars Bildsten
May 7
May 14	Masami Ouchi	Deep Wide-Field Surveys of Lya Emitters at z=3-9 for Galaxy Formation and Reionization	Crystal Martin
May 21		LCO lecture
May 28	Dominik Riechers		Crystal Martin
June 4	Rennan Barkana		Peng Oh

Winter 2008

Date	Speaker	Topic	Host
Jan. 9
Jan. 16	Celine Eminian	Physical interpretation of the near-IR colors of low redshift galaxies	Tommaso Treu
Jan. 23	Ben Mazin	When Every Photon Matters: Science with Optical/UV Imaging Spectrophotometers	Phil Lubin
Jan. 30
Feb. 6
Feb. 13
Feb. 20	Matt Bradford	The History of the Dust-Enshrouded Universe: Sensitive Spectroscopy of Galaxies in the Far-IR and Submillimeter.	Phil Lubin
Feb. 27	Nat Butler	New Paradigms for Time Domain Astronomy In the 21st Century	Phil Lubin
Mar. 5	Stuart Wyithe	Ly-alpha absorption and 21cm fluctuations near the end of reionization	Peng Oh
Mar. 12	Brian Odom		Phil Lubin

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