ASTROPHYSICS SEMINARS
Wednesdays, 4:00-5:00 PM
Broida Conference Room 3302
Fall 2013
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| Sep 25 |
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| Oct 2 |
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| Oct 9 |
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| Oct 16 |
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| Oct 23 |
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| Oct 30 |
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| Nov 6 |
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Nov 13 |
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Nov 20 |
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Nov 27 Day before Thanksgiving |
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Dec 4
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Dec 11 Finals Week |
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Spring 2013
| Date | Speaker | Topic | Host |
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| April 3 |
(IPMU) |
The Evolution of the Galaxy Mass Assembly and Star Formation Activity as a Function of Environment |
Tommaso Treu |
| April 10 |
(Imperial College London) |
Peng Oh |
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| April 17 |
(Curtin University of Technology) |
The Murchison Widefield Array: the low frequency Precursor for the Square Kilometre Array |
Carl Gwinn |
| April 24 |
(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 |
(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 |
(Caltech) |
Tommaso Treu |
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| May 15 |
(Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics) |
Crystal Martin | |
| May 22 |
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| May 29 |
(Caltech) |
From the statistics to the individual characterisation of exoplanets |
Peng Oh |
| June 5 |
(UCLA) |
Crystal Martin |
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June 12 Finals Week |
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Winter 2013
| Date | Speaker | Topic | Host |
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| January 9 |
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| January 16 |
(JHU) |
Crystal Martin |
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| January 23 |
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| January 30 |
(Caltech) |
Tommaso Treu |
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| February 6 |
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| February 13 |
(MPA) |
Studying Galaxy Formation with Observations of the Circumgalactic Medium |
Peng Oh |
| February 20 |
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Shining Light on on the Properties of Dark Matter:
Coupling Baryon and Dark Matter Physics in Galaxy Formation Models
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Tommaso Treu |
| February 27 |
(Stanford) |
Peng Oh |
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| March 6 |
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| March 13 |
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March 20 Finals Week |
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Fall 2012
| Date | Speaker | Topic | Host |
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| Sep 26 | Adam Miller (UC Berkeley) |
Andy Howell |
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| Oct 3 |
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Peng Oh |
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| Oct 10 | Smadar Naoz (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) |
Peng Oh |
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| Oct 17 |
(Berkeley) |
Peng Oh |
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| Oct 24 |
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Tommaso Treu |
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| Oct 31 |
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Tommaso Treu |
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| Nov 7 |
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Tommaso Treu |
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Nov 14 |
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Tommaso Treu |
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Nov 19 Monday in 3340 |
Active Galactic Nuclei and their Hosts | Ski Antonucci |
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Nov 21 Day Before Thanksgiving |
Chiara Spiniello
(Kapteyn) |
Tommaso Treu |
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| Nov 28 |
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Dec 5
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Dec 12 Finals Week |
Guillermo Barro (UC Santa Cruz) |
Kasper Borello Schmidt |
Summer 2012
| Date | Speaker | Topic | Host |
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| July 18 |
(Ohio State University) |
Kristian Finlator |
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| August 1 |
(Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) |
Jerod Parrent |
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| August 29 |
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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/