Monday TAC Seminar
Theoretical Astrophysics Center Seminars
Theoretical Astrophysics Center seminars are held on Mondays at noon (~12:10 pm) in 131 A Campbell Hall unless noted otherwise. The current TAC organizers are Yuan Li, Ben Margalit, and Stephen Ro. For more information please contact them at tac-seminar[at]astro.berkeley.edu.



Date |
Speaker |
Affiliation |
Title |
Host |
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August 26, 2019
|
Peng Oh |
UCSB |
Cold Gas in Hot Halos: The Formation and Survival of Cold Gas in Galactic Halos |
Xiangcheng Ma |
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September 2, 2019 |
N/A |
N/A |
NO TALK (holiday) |
N/A |
|
September 9, 2019 |
Rick Mebane |
UCLA |
Population III Star Formation and the Cosmic 21-cm Background
|
Josh Dillon |
|
September 16, 2019 |
Lev Arzamasskiy |
Princeton |
Instabilities and dissipation in collisionless magnetized turbulence |
Kareem Elbadry |
|
September 23, 2019 |
Christopher Reynolds |
Cambridge |
Particle physics beyond the Standard Model (and other fun) with clusters of galaxies |
Yuan Li |
|
September 30, 2019 |
Carolyn Raithel |
U Arizona |
Constraints on the Neutron Star Equation of State from Gravitational Wave Events |
Casey Lam |
|
October 7, 2019 |
Wolfgang Kerzendorf |
MSU |
Machine learning and theoretical astrophysics |
Ken Shen |
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October 14, 2019 |
Michelle Vick |
Cornell |
Chaotic Dynamical Tides: Hot Jupiter Formation and Other Applications |
Nick Choksi |
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October 21, 2019 |
Lamiya Mowla |
Yale |
Breaking the law? A revised view of the relation between the sizes and masses of galaxies since z~3 |
Wren Suess |
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October 28, 2019 |
Ore Gottlieb |
Tel Aviv |
What have we learnt about relativistic outflows from GW170817? |
Sivan Ginzburg |
|
November 4, 2019 |
Mark Voit |
MSU |
Baryon Cycles in the Biggest Galaxies |
Yuan Li |
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November 11, 2019 |
N/A |
N/A |
NO TALK (holiday) |
N/A |
|
November 18, 2019 |
Itai Linial |
HUJI |
Early light from Aspherical explosions |
Ben Margalit |
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November 25, 2019 |
Lauren Corlies |
LSST |
FOGGIE: Exploring the Circumgalactic Medium in High Resolution |
Yong Zheng |
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December 2, 2019 |
J. J. Zanazzi |
CITA |
Orbital Circularization of Binaries with Resonance |
Sivan Ginzburg |
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December 9, 2019 |
J. Barnes |
U Columbia |
Origins of the Astrophysical r-process |
Hannah Klion |