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Weekly Events 

There are several weekly seminars and social events that run during the academic year. Upcoming seminars are listed on the Calendar page and the A&A google calendar.

Astrophysics Colloquium 

The weekly colloquium features world-class astrophysicists speaking on current topics of astronomy & astrophysics research. Presentations are aimed at the graduate and post-graduate level, but are open to the general public. Astrophysics Colloquium is scheduled for Wednesday at 3-4pm for AY2024-25. The colloquium organizer this year is Christopher Theissen.

Journal Club

The A&A program jointly hosts Journal Club at  noon on Fridays . The Journal Club is crafted to be a very informal and friendly environment where graduate students can present talks on any subject of interest to them, be it a recent journal paper, their own research work, or any topic. Pizza is served at noon for in-house UC San Diego talks, and at 1pm for external guest speakers. The Journal Club organizers this year are graduate students Emma Softich, Samuel Lu and Assistant Professor Christopher Theissen.

BASH 

Bash (Balcony Astronomy Social Hour) is a Friday 4pm informal social hour that occurs on the SERF balony. Faculty, researcher, postdocs, and graduate students are welcome to attend. The BASH organizer this year is graduate student Lindsey Hands.

STRAND meetings

During the weekly “STRAND” Simulations TheoRy AND more meetings, participants hear about the latest theory and simulations research in astrophysics through a combination of talks, news, updates, and announcements. The meetings are open to all. For more information visiting the STRAND website. Meetings take place on Thursdays at 10AM in Serf 383 (but see the Events schedule for the latest updates). The organizers this year are Floor Broekgaarden & Kyle Kremer.

SMASH meetings

The “SMASH” Initiative (UC San Diego Meetings between Astro/physics, SDSC, & HDSI) is a new collaborative effort on the UCSD campus to tackle the big data era in Astronomy & Physics: making discoveries about our cosmos in an era with rapidly increasing data size, data complexity, and dimensionality. SMASH has bi-weekly meetings, usually on Tuesday at noon with lunch included, and rotating locations (SDSC, HDSI, the Astronomy & Astrophysics department, and the Physics department). Contact Floor Broekgaarden for more information.