UCSB Astrophysics Seminar Calendar

ASTROPHYSICS SEMINARS

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

Contact Jessica Wirts for calendar updates

Winter 2012

Date	Speaker	Topic	Host
January 11	Ben Oppenheimer	Stellar Metallicities: Clues to How Feedback Shapes Galaxy Formation	Crystal Martin
January 18	Ramin Skibba	Are Brightest Halo Galaxies Central Galaxies?	Kristian Finlator
January 25	Jessica Werk	Finding Galactic Metals in Unusual Places	Crystal Martin
February 1	Andrei Beloborodov	Magnetospheric activity of magnetars	Omer Blaes
February 8	Michael Cooper (UCI)	Spectroscopic Surveys at z ~ 1: Understanding Environment's Role in the Decline of the Cosmic Star Formation Rate and the Rise of the Red Sequence	Kristian Finlator
February 15
February 22	Carl Gwinn & Michael Johnson	Observations of Pulsars, Quasars and Interstellar Scattering on the Long Baselines to Radioastron	Carl Gwinn
February 29	Jason Dexter (UC Berkeley)	Theory, Simulation, and Observation: Piecing Together Black Hole Accretion	Omer Blaes
March 7
March 14
March 21 Finals Week	Feryal Özel or Dimitrios Psaltis 12pm - 1pm		Kristian Finlator

Fall 2011

Date	Speaker	Topic	Host
Sep 21	Jeffrey Silverman (University of California, Berkeley)	Berkeley SN Ia Program (BSNIP): Dataset and Initial Analysis	Andy Howell
Sep 28	Avi Shporer (UCSB/LCOGT)	Doing More with Photometry: Studying binary companions with orbital photometry	Tim Brown
Oct 5	Lloyd Knox (UC Davis)	Adventures in the CMB damping tail: Neutrino Fever and How I Recovered	Peng Oh
Oct 12	Andrea Lommen	Pulsar Timing Arrays: No longer a blunt instrument for Gravitational Wave Detection	Carl Gwinn
Oct 19	Tomer Tal (Yale)	Minor mergers and the mass growth of massive galaxies	Tommaso Treu
Oct 26	Renbin Yan	The Puzzle of LINERs and the Warm Ionized Gas in Early-type Galaxies	Tommaso Treu
Nov 2	Mark Ammons	The Most Powerful Cosmic Telescopes for Constraining the Faint-end Slope of the z > 7 Luminosity Function	Tommaso Treu
Nov 9	Peter Capak (Spitzer Science Center, Caltech)	Large Scale Structure and Extreme Star Formation At z~5	Alaina Henry
Nov 16	Sugata Kaviraj	Early-type galaxies: the last 8 billion years	Tommaso Treu
Nov 23 Day Before Thanksgiving	Brian Keating (UCSD)	Going to the ends of the earth to glimpse the beginnings of time: Observing the Big Bang with the BICEP Telescope at the South Pole	Philip Lubin
Nov 30	Jonathan Trump	The AGN Unified Model: Accretion Rate, Obscuration, and Host Galaxy	Tommaso Treu
Dec 7 Finals Week	Kathy Kornei (UCLA)	The Prevalence and Properties of Outflowing Winds at z = 1	Crystal Martin

Spring 2011

Date	Speaker	Topic	Host
March 30	Evan Kirby (Caltech)	The Chemical Evolution of Milky Way Satellite Galaxies from Keck/DEIMOS Multi-Element Abundance Measurements	Crystal Martin
April 6	Fulai Guo (UC Santa Cruz)	The Physics of AGN Jet Feedback: From Radio Bubbles in Galaxy Clusters to Fermi Bubbles in Our Galaxy	Peng Oh
April 13	Shelley Wright (Berkeley)	Discovering Galactic Disks, Mergers, and Weak AGN in High-Redshift Star Forming Galaxies	Tommaso Treu
April 20	James G. Bartlett	Planck Early Results on Galaxy Clusters	Phil Lubin
April 27	Paul Demorest	Testing Fundamental Physics with Radio Pulsars	Carl Gwinn
May 4
May 11	Avi Loeb (Harvard)	New Probes of Strong Gravity Near Black Holes	Tommaso Treu
May 18
May 25	Simona Mei (Paris University)	Red Compact Galaxies: Their Morphology and Evolution in Clusters and Groups	Tommaso Treu
June 1	Aleks Diamond-Stanic (CGE Postdoctoral Fellow, UCSD)	Black Hole Growth and Star Formation in the Local Universe	Tommaso Treu
June 8 Finals Week

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 at noon in Broida Conference Room 3302. http://www.kitp.ucsb.edu/~bildsten/friday.html

*Contact Jessica Wirts for calendar updates*

Contact Jessica Wirts for calendar updates