The History of ASTROPHYSICS SEMINARS

 

2016 History

Date Speaker Topic Host
January 6

Andrew Howard

(U. Hawaii)

Crystal Martin
January 13

Mark Morris

(UCLA)

 

Robert Antonucci
January 20

Kevin Schawinski

(ETH Zurich)

Black hole astrophysics: from the dawn of the universe to today

Crystal Martin
January 27

Michael Rauch

(OCIW)

Connections Between Galaxies and the Gaseous Cosmic Web

Crystal Martin
February 3

Joe Hennawi

(Max Planck)

First Measurement of the Small Scale Structure of the Intergalactic Medium

Crystal Martin
February 8 (MONDAY!)

Alis Deason

(KIPAC, Stanford)

The Progenitors of the Milky Way Stellar Halo

Crystal Martin
February 17

Sebastiano Cantalupo

(Inst. for Astronomy, ETH Zurich)

A 3D view of the Dark Universe: illuminating intergalactic gas at high redshift with fluorescent Lyman-alpha emission

Crystal Martin
March 2

Joseph Lazio

(JPL - CalTech)

Extrasolar Planetary Magnetic Fields

Carl Gwinn
March 9

Tim Brandt

(Inst. for Adv. Study)

Discovering and Characterizing Exoplanets with High-Contrast Spectroscopy

Ben Mazin

March 16

Finals Week

Ryan Cooke

(UCO Lick)

Finding the first metals in near-pristine environments

Crystal Martin
March 30

Stephanie Ann Wissel

(Cal Poly)

High-energy Particle Astrophysics using the Radio Technique

Philip Lubin
April 6

Mark Dijkstra

(U. of Oslo; UCSB)

The Lyman alpha revolution

(New location: ITST Conference Room!)

Crystal Martin
April 13

Mike McCourt

(UCSB)

Tiny, Cold Clouds in Galaxy Halos

Crystal Martin

June 29

SPECIAL SEMINAR!

Jonathan C. Tan

(University of Florida)

Inside-Out Planet Formation

Peng Oh
Sep 28

Drummond Fielding

(UC Berkeley)

Peng Oh
Oct 5

Yan-Fei Jiang

(Harvard-Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory)

Omer Blaes
Oct 19

Daniel Masters

(Caltech)

Crystal Martin
Oct 26

Greg Salvesen

(UCSB)

 

Nov 16

Joseph Burchett

(UMass Amherst)

Peng Oh

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