Monday TAC Seminar - TAC - The Theoretical Astrophysics Center

Theoretical Astrophysics Center Seminars

Theoretical Astrophysics Center seminars are held on Mondays at noon (~12:10 pm) in Campbell Hall, Room 131 unless noted otherwise. For more information, please contact them at tac-seminar[at]astro.berkeley.edu.

Note: There are also Berkeley Cosmology Group seminars on Tuesdays.

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title	Host
January 20, 2025	HOLIDAY
January 27, 2025	Nir Mandelker	Hebrew University (but at UCSC for spring)	Feeding Massive Galaxies in the Early Universe from the Cosmic Web	Luca Boccioli
February 3, 2025	Tim Cunningham	CFA (Harvard)	White dwarfs as probes of convective overshoot and evolved exoplanetary systems	Ken Shen
February 10, 2025	Iryna Butsky	Stanford	What in the Galaxy is Scattering Cosmic Rays?	TBD
February 17, 2025	HOLIDAY
February 24, 2025	Alexander Dittmann	IAS	Eccentric Binaries and their Disks	TBD
March 3, 2025	Cassandra Lochhaas	CFA (Harvard)	Galactic Accretion through the Dynamic Circumgalactic Medium	TBD
March 10, 2025	Jordy Davelaar	Princeton	Tell-tale electromagnetic signatures of massive black hole binaries	TBD
March 17, 2025	Charlotte Ward	Princeton	Searching for wandering MBHs and strongly lensed transients in the era of Rubin, Roman and Euclid	TBD
March 24, 2025	SPRING BREAK
March 31, 2025	Tarraneh Eftekhari	Northwestern	Investigating the Hidden Origins of Fast Radio Bursts and Other Radio Transients	TBD
April 7, 2025	Rob Fender	U Oxford	Black hole jets: the whole story	TBD
April 14, 2025	Shangjia Zhang (CANCELLED DUE TO SPEAKER’S ILLNESS)	Columbia	Probing Young Planet Populations with 3D Self-Consistent Disk Thermodynamics	TBD
April 21, 2025	Avery Bailey	U Arizona	The Role of Radiating Flows in Giant Planet Accretion	TBD
April 28, 2025	Laura Blecha	University of Florida, Gainesville	Constraining low-frequency gravitational-wave source populations with cosmological simulations	Luke Kelley
May 5, 2025	Michael Zevin	Adler Planterium	What have we actually learned after a decade of observing gravitational waves?	Luke Kelley