ASTROPHYSICS SEMINARS

 

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

*Contact Jessica Wirts for calendar updates*

Calendar last updated: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 15:20

 

Fall 2013

Date Speaker Topic Host
Sep 25

 

 

 
Oct 2

 

 
Oct 9

 

 

 
Oct 16

 

 
Oct 23

 

 
Oct 30

 

 
Nov 6

 

 

Nov 13

 

 

Nov 20

 

 

 

Nov 27

Day before Thanksgiving

 

 

 

Dec 4

 

 

 

 

Dec 11

Finals Week

 

 

 

 

 

Spring 2013

Date Speaker Topic Host
April 3

Benedetta Vulcani

(IPMU)

 The Evolution of the Galaxy Mass Assembly and Star Formation Activity as a Function of Environment

Tommaso Treu
April 10

Daniel Mortlock

(Imperial College London)

 Searching for redshift ~7 quasars in UKIDSS

Peng Oh
April 17

Steven Tingay

(Curtin University of Technology)

 The Murchison Widefield Array: the low frequency Precursor for the Square Kilometre Array

Carl Gwinn
April 24

Jean-Rene Gauthier

(Caltech)

 Beacons in the Fog -- using Quasar absorption line systems to reveal the extended circumgalactic and intragroup media at intermediate redshifts

Crystal Martin
May 1

Kelly Denney

(Dark Cosmology Centre, Niels Bohr Institute, Denmark)

 Improvements in AGN Black Hole Mass Measurements and Methods: Lessons Learned and New Future Applications

Tommaso Treu
May 8

Shri Kulkarni

(Caltech)

 The LSST "era"

Tommaso Treu
May 15

Andreas Schruba

(Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics)

 Interstellar Medium and Star Formation in Nearby Galaxies

Crystal Martin
May 22

 

 

  

 
May 29

Jean-Michel Desert

(Caltech)

  From the statistics to the individual characterisation of exoplanets

Peng Oh
June 5

Kristin Kulas

(UCLA)

 The Study of Galaxy Formation in the Near-Infrared at z~2-3

Crystal Martin

June 12

Finals Week

 

 

  

 

 

 

Winter 2013

Date Speaker Topic Host
January 9

 

 

  

 
January 16

Guangtun Ben Zhu

(JHU)

 Probing Gas Halos of Galaxies with SDSS

Crystal Martin
January 23

 

 

  

 
January 30

Fred Lo

(Caltech)

 The Mega-maser Cosmology Project and NRAO

Tommaso Treu
February 6

 

 

  

 
February 13

Mark Dijkstra

(MPA)

 Studying Galaxy Formation with Observations of the Circumgalactic Medium

Peng Oh
February 20

Fabio Governato

 

 Shining Light on on the Properties of Dark Matter: Coupling Baryon and Dark Matter Physics in Galaxy Formation Models

Tommaso Treu
February 27

Irina Zhuravleva

(Stanford)

 Current status and prospects of measuring ICM turbulence

Peng Oh
March 6

 

 

   

 
March 13

 

 

  

 

March 20

Finals Week

 

  

 

 

 

Fall 2012

Date Speaker Topic Host
Sep 26

Adam Miller

(UC Berkeley)

Andy Howell
Oct 3

Anastasia Fialkov

 

Peng Oh
Oct 10

Smadar Naoz

(Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

Peng Oh
Oct 17

Mike McCourt

(Berkeley)

Peng Oh
Oct 24

Anne Medling

 

Tommaso Treu
Oct 31

Kenneth Wong

 

Tommaso Treu
Nov 7

Michele Trenti

 

Tommaso Treu

Nov 14

Will Dawson

 

Tommaso Treu

Nov 19

Monday in 3340

Jonathan Stern

Active Galactic Nuclei and their Hosts
Ski Antonucci

Nov 21

Day Before Thanksgiving

Chiara Spiniello

(Kapteyn)

Tommaso Treu
Nov 28  

 

 

Dec 5

 

 

 

 

Dec 12

Finals Week

Guillermo Barro

(UC Santa Cruz)

Kasper Borello Schmidt

 

 

Summer 2012

Date Speaker Topic Host
July 18

Jennifer Yee

(Ohio State University)

 Finding Planets with Microlensing: Present and Future

Kristian Finlator
August 1

Dr. Dan Milisavljevic

(Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

 Cas A in 3D: A Blueprint for Type IIb Supernova Explosions

Jerod Parrent
August 29

Sanch Borthakur

 

 Circumgalactic Medium in Starburst Galaxies

Crystal Martin

In addition to this seminar, there is a weekly informal talk series for UCSB/KITP astrophysicists to hear about recent discoveries and ongoing research. There are two speakers every Friday from 12pm-1pm in Broida 3302. The calendar is located here: http://web.physics.ucsb.edu/~astrogroup/events.html

UCSB Astrophysics Website: http://web.physics.ucsb.edu/~astrogroup/