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Events & Seminars

Astronomy & Astrophysics hosts several weekly events and partners with other departments on weekly seminar and event series. This page lists all weekly events, including Astrophysics Colloquium, Journal Club, PhD Defenses, and Special Seminars. These are also listed in the A&A Department Google Calendar.

Colloquium and Journal Club are in-person with remote attendance allowed through Zoom (using a UCSD account). 

Colloquium (Wednesday 3-4pm) Zoom link: here

Journal Club (Friday 12-1pm) Zoom link: here

DATE

(YY-MM-DD)

EVENT SPEAKER(S) TITLE LOCATION

x-2024-08-22 

Thurs, 10am

Ph.D. Defense

Cameron Trapp

(UC San Diego)

Radial Flows and Torques in Cosmological Simulations of Milky Way Mass Galaxies

SERF 383

Zoom link

x-2024-09-16

Mon, 2-3pm

A&A Simulations/Theory/Data Science Journal Club

Zepei Xing 

(University of Geneva/ Northern Univerdsity)

Population Synthesis Studies with POSYDON: Formation of wind-fed BH-HMXBs and NSBH Mergers

SERF 383

Zoom link

x-2024-09-17

Tues, 12-1pm

N3AS Seminar

Prof. Joel Meyers

(SMU University)

No 𝜈s is Good News

MAYER HALL 4th FLOOR

Zoom link

x-2024-09-17

Tues, 12-2pm

Ph.D. Defense William Hicks Galaxies and Their Environment Before Reionization

SERF 329

Zoom link

x-2024-09-27

Fri, 12-1pm

Special Colloquium

Dr. Jiayi Sun 

(Princeton)

Molecular Cloud Scale "Micro-physics" as Drivers of the Baryon Cycle and Galaxy Evolution

SERF 383

Host:Karin

x-2024-10-01

Tues, 12-1pm

N3AS Seminar

Prof. Brian Metzger

(Columbia University)

Magnetar Giant Flares: A New Site of R-Process Nucleosynthesis

MAYER HALL 4th FLOOR

Zoom link

x-2024-10-02

Wed, 3pm

Astrophysics Colloquium Prof. Alison Coil Meet & Greet 

SERF 383

x-2024-10-03

Thur, 10-11am

Simulations, Theory and Gravitational Wave Astrophysics Meetings Floor Broekgaarden Short Introductions

SERF 383

Zoom link

x-2024-10-04

Fri, 12-1 pm

Journal Club

Emma Softich 

Yue Samuel Lu

A&A Jeopardy

Cosmic rays in galaxy evolution

SERF 383

Host: Chris & Griffin

x-2024-10-09

Wed, 3-4 pm

Astrophysics Colloquium

Jerry Xuan 

(Caltech)

Atmospheric compositions and binarity of directly imaged exoplanets and brown dwarfs

SERF 383

Host: JB or Quinn

x-2024-10-10

Thur, 10-11am

Simulations, Theory and Gravitational Wave Astrophysics Meetings

 

Introductions

SERF 383

x-2024-10-11

Fri, 12-1pm

Journal Club

OPHD Presentation

OPHD Presentation

SERF 383

x-2024-10-14

Mon, 2-3pm

Astrophysics and Cosmology Seminar

Julien Froustey

(UCSD/UC Berkeley)

Neutrino flavor transformation in dense environments: two case studies 

MAYER HALL 4th FLOOR

Zoom link

x-2024-10-15

Tues, 4-5pm

Plasma Physics Seminar

Prof. Shigeru Inagaki

(Kyoto University)

Observations of avalanche events in a helical-axis Heliotron plasma

SERF 329

Host: Diamond

Zoom link

x-2024-10-16

Wed, 10-11am

Simulations, Theory and Gravitational Wave Astrophysics Meetings

Geoffry Mo 

A multimessenger, multiband view of compact binaries

SERF 383

Zoom link

x-2024-10-16

Wed, 3-4pm

Astrophysics Colloquium

Dr. Akos Bogdan 

(Harvard/CfA/Chandra)

25 Years of Science with Chandra

SERF 383

Host: Chris

x-2024-10-18

Fri, 12-1pm

Journal Club

Deb Pathak 

Yen-Hsing Lin

Galaxies in the Mid-Infrared: Dust as a Tracer of Gas and Stellar Feeback

Odd Radio Circles

SERF 383

Host: Karin

x-2024-10-21

Mon, 2-3pm

Astrophysics and Cosmology Seminar

Peter Denton 

(Brookhaven National Laboratory)

Connecting the Extremes: A Story of Supermassive Black Holes and Ultralight Dark Matter

MAYER HALL 4th FLOOR

Zoom link

x-2024-10-22

Tues, 11:45-1pm

SMASH Initiative

TBD

Introductions

SDSC PATIO

Zoom link

x-2024-10-23

Wed, 3-4pm

Astrophysics Colloquium

Dr. Mansi Padave 

(UCSD)

Exploring Star Formation in the Outskirts of Nearby Galaxies

SERF 383

Host:Karin

x-2024-10-24

Thur, 10-11am

Simulations, Theory and Gravitiational Wave Astrophysics Meeting  

Amedeo Romagnolo

Life and death of very massive stars: theoretical advancements for the progenitors of the most massive black holes

SERF 383

Zoom link

x-2024-10-25

Fri, 12-1pm

Journal Club

Prof. Shelly Wright

The Quick Pitch: Professional Development for giving an Elevator Pitch

SERF 383

 

x-2024-10-28

Mon, 2-3pm

Astrophysics and Cosmology Seminar

Kevin Crowley

(UCSD)

First Light with the First Light: The Start of Observing with the Simons Observatory

MAYER HALL 4th FLOOR

Zoom link

x-2024-10-30

Wed, 3-4pm

Astrophysics Colloquium

Prof. Raquel Martinez

(University of San Diego)

A Planet is Born: Leveraging Current and Next Generation Facilities to Catch Planet Formation in the Act

SERF 383

Host:Shelley

x-2024-10-31

Thur, 10-11am 

Simulations, Theory and Gravitational Wave Astrophysics Meeting 

Newlin Weatherfor

TBD

SERF 383

Zoom link

x-2024-11-01

Fri, 12-1pm

Journal Club

Christina Lindberg

Pedro Mas

TBD

TBD

SERF 383

x-2024-11-05

Tues, 11:30am-1:15pm

SMASH Initiative

Joanna Piotrowska

ML in Astrophysics: a brief overview of common themes

SERF 329

Zoom link

x-2024-11-06

Wed, 3-4pm

Astrophysics Colloquium

Prof. Suvrath Mahadevan 

(Penn State)

What Does It Take to Find another Earth

SERF 383

Host: Quinn

x-2024-11-07

Thur, 10-11am

Simulations, Theory and Gravitational Wave Astrophysics Meetings

Fulya Kiroglu

The Impact of Stellar Interactions on Black Hole Spin Evolution

SERF 383

Zoom link

x-2024-11-08

Fri, 12-1pm

Special Colloquium

Evan Haze Nunez

 

 

Gokul Srinivasaragavan

Looking Inside and Out: Observationally Connecting the Inner CGM and Ionized ISM of z-2-3 Galaxies with KBSS-InCLOSE

Unraveling the Gamma-ray Burst-Supernova Connection

SERF 383

x-2024-11-08

Fri, 2-3pm

DESI Talk

Dan Green 

Possible Theoretical Explanations for a Low Cosmological Neutrino

SERF 383

x-2024-11-12

Tues, 10-11am

Simulations, Theory and Gravitational Wave Astrophysics Meeting 

Lucas de Sa 

The effect of environment-sensitive, correlated initial conditions on compact object merger population synthesis

SERF 329

Zoom link

x-2024-11-12

Tues, 12-1pm

N3AS Seminar

Kim Berghaus

(Caltech)

Cosmology of Dark Energy Radiation

MHA 4681

Zoom link

x-2024-11-13

Wed, 3-4pm

Astrophysics Colloquium

Dr. Mari Polletta

(INAF;Reseacher)

Highly star-forming galaxy protoclusters and their members: main properties and powering mechanisms

SERF 383

x-2024-11-15

Fri, 12-1pm

Journal Club

Eric L. Michelsen

 

Anne Metevier

How Does Code Work, Really? And how can it work better?

TBD

SERF 383

x-2024-11-19

Tues, 10-11am

Simulations, Theory and Gravitational Wave Astrophysics Meeting

Tatsuya Akiba & Angel Hernandez

TBD

SERF 329

Zoom link

x-2024-11-19

Tues, 11:30am-1:15pm

SMASH Initiative

Floor Broekgaarden

Gravitational-wave paleontology

HDSI MPR 123

Zoom link

2024-11-20

Wed, 3-4pm

Astrophysics Colloquium

Dr. Viviana Rosero 

(Caltech)

Radio and Millimeter Interferometric Studies of the Earliest Stages of High-Mass Star Formation

SERF 383

Host: Chris

2024-11-22

Fri, 12-1pm

Journal Club

Thea Faridani

 

 

 

 

Nissim Kanekar

A Novel Approach to Revealing the Early Stellar Spins of >1Gyr-Old Sun-like Stars through the Secular Dynamics of their Planets

The atomic gas properties of galaxies at cosmic noon

SERF 383

2024-11-22

Fri, 3:30-4:30pm

A&A Internationals & Their Supporters Roundtable & Potluck

TBD

TBD

TBD

Zoom link

2024-11-27 Thanksgiving Break

 

2024-12-03

Tues, 11:30am-1:15pm

SMASH Initiative

TBD

TBD

PHYSICS

Zoom link

2024-12-04

Wed, 3-4pm

Astrophysics Colloquium

Dr. Joshua Marvil 

(NRAO)

The Evolutionary Map of the Universe (EMU)

SERF 383

Host: Chris

2024-12-05

Thur, 10-11am

Simulations, Theory and Gravitational Wave Astrophysics Meetings

Brenna Mockler 

TBD

SERF 383

Zoom link

2024-12-06

Fri, 12-1pm

Journal Club

Casey Carlile

 

Outreach Committee

Qual Practice Talk

Outreach Activities in A&A and Why You Should Get Invovled

SERF 383

2024-12-11

Wed, 3-4pm

Astrophysics Colloquium

Dr. David Kipping 

(Columbia)

TBD

SERF 383

Host: Brian

2024-12-12

Thur, 10-11am

Simulations, Theory and Gravitational Wave Astrophysics Meetings 

Kyle Rocha-Ruiz

TBD

SERF 383

Zoom link

2024-12-17

Tues, 11:30am-1:15pm

SMASH Initiative

TBD

TBD

SDSC

Zoom link

2025-01-08

Wed, 3-4pm

Astrophysics Colloquium

Lia Siegelman 

(SiO)

TBD

SERF 383

Host: Alison/Chris

2025-01-10

Fri, 12-1pm

Journal Club

Charlie Goldberg

Sarah Jiang

TBD

SERF 383

2025-01-15

Wed, 3-4pm

Astrophysics Colloquium

Stacy Kim

(Carnegie Obs.)

TBD

SERF 383

Host: Ethan

2025-01-17

Fri, 12-1pm

Journal Club

Emily Broadbent 

TBD

SERF 383

2025-01-22

Wed, 3-4pm

Astrophysics Colloquium

Konstantin Batygin

(Caltech)

TBD

SERF 383

Host: Brian

2025-01-24

Fri, 12-1pm

Journal Club

Vincent Savignac

 

Clarissa Do-O

Unveiling the Thermal Evolution of Gas-Poor Planets at Large Orbital Distances

The PDS 70 Protoplanets After Disk Dissipation: Implications for Planet Orbital Evolution Stability

SERF 383

2025-01-29

Wed, 3-4pm

Astrophysics Colloquium

Francisco Mercado 

(Pomona College)

TBD

SERF 383 

Host: Devontae

2025-01-31

Fri, 12-1pm

Journal Club

Julian Gerber 

Fredy Ramirez

TBD

SERF 383

2025-02-05

Wed, 3-4pm

Astrophysics Colloquium

Lynne Hillenbrand

(Caltech)

TBD

SERF 383

Host: Quinn

2025-02-07

Fri, 12-1pm

Journal Club

TBD

TBD

SERF 383

2025-02-12

Wed, 3-4pm

Astrophysics Colloquium

David Harker

(UCSD)

TBD

SERF 383

Host: Alison

2025-02-14

Fri, 12-1pm

Journal Club

Leo Lee

TBD

SERF 383

2025-02-19

Wed, 3-4pm

Astrophysics Colloquium

Robert Kirshner

(TMT)

TBD

SERF 383

Host: Shelley

2025-02-21

Fri, 12-1pm

Journal Club Anaya Valluvan Blobs in the Sky: How gamma-ray imaging really works SERF 383

2025-02-26

Wed, 3-4pm

Astrophysics Colloquium

Mike Brown 

(Caltech)

TBD

SERF 383

Host: Sam/Adam/Brian

2025-02-28

Fri, 12-1pm

Journal Club TBD TBD SERF 383

2025-03-05

Wed, 3-4pm

Astrophysics Colloquium

Sebastian Pineda 

(CU Boulder)

TBD

SERF 383

Host: Chris

2025-03-07

Fri, 12-1pm

Journal Club

Reagen Leimbach

Beck Dacus

TBD SERF 383

2025-03-12

Wed, 3-4pm

Astrophysics Colloquium

Brenda Frye

(Arizona) 

TBD

SERF 383

Host: Alison

2025-03-14

Fri, 12-1pm

Journal Club Mingyun Cao TBD SERF 383

AY2023-24 Seminars

Past seminar events from Academic Year (AY) 2023-2024.

 

DATE

(YY-MM-DD)

EVENT SPEAKER(S) TITLE LOCATION

x-2023-08-17

Thurs, 11am 

Ph.D. Defense Caleb Choban Modeling Interstellar Dust Evolution in Cosmological Galaxy Simulations

SERF 383

Zoom link

x-2023-09-29

Fri, 12-1pm

Journal Club  Asst Prof. Christopher Theissen (UCSD) Journal Club Orientation 

SERF 383

Zoom link

x-2023-10-03

Tues, 12-1pm

IGPP/SIO Planetary Seminar Dr. Anna Gulcher- Caltech/ NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Unveiling Venus through Geodynamics modeling of Mantle Dynamics, Tectonics, and Volcanism 

Munk Conference Room 

Zoom link

x-2023-10-04

Weds, 3-4 pm

Astrophysics Colloquium Prof. Alison Coil  Meet-and-greet

SERF 383

Zoom link

x-2023-10-06

Fri, 12-1pm

Journal Club Sanchit Sabhlok Circumgalactic Environments around Radio-loud Quasars

SERF 383

Zoom link

x-2023-10-10 

Tues, 12-1pm

IGPP/SIO Planetary Seminar  Prof. Lars Stixrude (UCLA) Molten Rock at Extreme Conditions and the Magma Ocean 

Munk Conference Room

Zoom link

x-2023-10-11

Weds, 3-4 pm

Astrophysics Colloquium Prof. Jorge Moreno- Pomona College The intriguing lives of galaxies lacking dark matter

SERF 383

Zoom link 

x-2023-10-13

Friday, 12 - 1pm

Journal Club

Bryan Bryzki - UC Berkeley Grad, UCSD Visiting Scholar

Yue Samuel Lu

Detecing ISM Scintillation in Narrowband Signals: A New Filter for Radio SETI

Three Radial Zones in the Structure and Dynamics of Massive High-z Cosmic-Web Filaments

SERF 383

Zoom link

x-2023-10-18

Weds, 3 - 4pm

Astrophysics Colloquium Dr. Devontae C. Baxter (UC San Diego) When Galaxies Go Quiet: Elucidating the Drivers of Environmental Quenching Across Cosmic Time

SERF 383

Zoom link

x-2023-10-20 

Fri, 12 - 1 pm

Journal Club

Thomas Wong

Prof. Alison Coil

Multi-messenger Constraint on the Hubble Constant with Tidal Disruption Events

The Origin of Odd Radio Circles

SERF 383

Zoom link

x-2023-10-25 

Weds, 3 - 4pm

Astrophysics Colloquium

Dr. Justin Myles

(UC Berkeley) 

Synergies Between Imaging and Spectroscopic Surveys for Cosmology

SERF 383

Zoom link

x-2023-10-27 

Fri, 12 - 1pm

Journal Club

 Dr. Marie Wingyee Lau (UC Riverside)

[OIII]5007 Emissions in "Extremely Red Quasars" (ERQs) Are Compact

 SERF 383

Zoom link

x-2023-10-30

Mon, 2:10pm-3pm 

Physics - Astrophysics and Cosmology Seminar

Dr. Anupam Ray

(UC Berkeley)

Detecting Rare Species of Dark Matter with Large-Volume Neutrino Detectors

Mayer Room  

4th Floor Mayer Hall

 

x-2023-10-31

Tues, 12 - 1 pm 

N3AS Seminar

Will Newton 

(Texas A&M)

Consistent inference of neutron star bulk and crust properties and nuclear observables 

N3AS

Zoom link

x-2023-11-01

Weds, 3 - 4pm

Astrophysics Colloquium

Dr. Marshall Perrin

(Space Telescope Science Institute)

JWST from design to launch to science

SERF 383

Zoom link

x-2023-11-03

Fri,  12 - 1pm

Journal club Dr. Molly Peeples & Dr. Marshal Perrin  Career Paths in Astronomy 

SERF 383

Zoom link

x-2023-11-08

Weds, 3 - 4pm

Astrophysics Colloquium 

Dr. Molly Peeples

(Space Telescope Science Institute) 

Galaxies and Their Gas: Insights from the FOGGIE (Figuring Out Gas & Galaxies In Enzo) Simulations

SERF 383 

Zoom link

x-2023-11-13 

Mon, 2:10pm - 3:10pm

Astrophysics and Cosmolgy Seminar

Dr. Ariel (Ari) Cukieman 

(Caltech)

SPHEREx: An All-Sky Spectral Survey

Mayer Hall

4th Floor

x-2023-11-14

Tue, 12:00pm - 1:00pm

N3AS Seminar 

Benjamin Wallisch

(Stockholm University & UT Austin)

Free-Streaming Neutrinos in the Early Universe

N3AS 

Zoom link

x-2023-11-15

Weds, 3 - 4pm

Astrophysics Colloquium

Dr. Jessie Christiansen

(NExScl/Caltech)

Summiting K2: The Emerging Picture of Planet Populations

SERF 383

Zoom link

x-2023-11-17

Fri,  12 - 1pm

Journal Club

Casey Carlile 

Shasha Arani

TBD

Dark Matter in Compact Objects

SERF 383

Zoom link

x-2023-11-20 

Mon, 2:10pm - 3:10pm 

Astrophysics and Cosmology Seminar

Prof. Haibo Yu

(UC Riverside)

Exploring the Signatures of Strong Dark Matter Self-Interactions 

Mayer Hall

4th Floor 

Zoom link

x-2023-11-29

Weds, 3 - 4pm

Astrophysics Colloquium

Dr. J.B. Ruffio

(UC San Diego)

Probing exoplanet formation from novel high-resolution spectroscopy techniques

SERF 383

Zoom link

x-2023-12-01

Fri, 11:45am-12pm

NASA COI (Before Journal Club)

Jennifer Ford

NASA COI Policies

SERF 383

Zoom link

x-2023-12-01

Fri, 12-1pm

Journal Club

Dr. Jonay González Hernández (IAC)

ESPRESSO and the quest of Exo-Earths orbiting nearby stars

SERF 383

Zoom link

x-2023-12-04

Mon, 2:10 - 3:10pm

Astrophysics and Cosmology Seminar

Anne- Katherine Burns

(UC Irvine)

PRyMordial: The first minutes of the universe, computed in seconds

MAYER HALL

Fourth Floor

x-2023-12-06

Weds, 3 - 4pm

Astrophysics Colloquium

Prof. Jamie Holder

(University of Delaware)

Studying the Extreme Universe with Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes

SERF 383 

Zoom link

x-2023-12-08

Fri, 12-1 pm

Journal Club

Dr. Anna Suliga

Jayke Nguyen

TBD

Direct Imaging in the Mid-IR

SERF 383

Zoom link

x-2023-12-11 

Mon, 2 - 3pm

Astrophysics and Cosmology Seminar

Mrunal Korwar

(Kentucky/Berkeley)

QCD-Collapsed Domain Walls: QCD Phase Transition and Gravitational Wave Spectroscopy

MAYER HALL 4322

Zoom link

x-2023-12-13

Weds, 3 - 4pm

Astrophysics Colloquium 

Saavidra Perera 

"Seeing" through the Atmosphere

SERF 383

Zoom link

x-2024-01-08 --- 

2024-01-12

AAS week

 

No talks

 

x-2024-01-16

Tues, 12-1 pm

N3AS Seminar

Prof. Joachim Kopp

(CERN)

Neutrinos from Neutron Stars

Online Series 

Zoom link

x-2024-01-18

Thurs, 4-5 pm

Physics Colloquium - 

Harry Suhl Distinguished Lecture

Prof. Andrea Ghez 

(UCLA, Nobel Laureate)

Our Galactic Center: A Unique Laboratory for the Physics & Astrophysics of Black Holes 

 Garren Auditorium

x-2024-01-19

Fri, 12-1 pm

Special Astrophysics Colloquium

Dr. Megan Mansfield

(NASA Sagan Fellow, Univ of Arizona)

Studying hot Jupiters in the era of JWST and the ELTs

SERF 383

Zoom link

x-2024-01-24

Weds, 3-4 pm

Astrophysics Colloquium 

Dr. Ekta Patel

(NASA Hubble Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Utah)

New Insights on Local Group Dynamics in the Era of Precision Astrometry

SERF 383

Zoom link

x-2024-01-26

Fri, 12-1 pm

Special Astrophysics Colloquium

Dr. Max Gronke

(Max Planck Research Group Leader, Max Planck Institute)

Physical processes of turbulent, multiphase gas

SERF 383

Zoom link

x-2024-01-29

Mon, 2:10pm-3:10pm

Astrophysics and Cosmology Seminar

Elena Pinetti

(Fermilab)

Probing dark matter with cosmic voids

Fourth Floor, MAYER HALL

Zoom link

x-2024-01-31

Weds, 3-4 pm

Astrophysics Colloquium

Dr. Griffin Hosseinzadeh 

(Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Arizona)

Probing the Extremes of Stellar Evolution in the Decade of 20 Million Transients

SERF 383

x-2024-02-02

Fri, 12-1pm

Special Astrophysics Colloquium

Dr. Kyle Kremer

(NASA Einstein Fellow, Caltech)

Globular Clusters: Astronomical factories of gravitational-wave and electromagnetic transients

SERF 383

x-2024-02-07

Weds, 3-4pm

Astrophysics Colloquium

Dr. Caroline Morley

(Assistant Professor, UT Austin)

Icy Planets, Windswept Worlds: Into a New Era of Exoplanet Characterization with JWST

SERF 383

x-2024-02-09

Fri, 12-1pm

Special Astrophysics Colloquium

Dr. Ethan Nadler

(Postdoctoral Fellow, Carnegie Observatories and USC)

Revealing Dark Matter and Galaxy Formation with Small-Scale Structure SERF 383

x-2024-02-12

Mon, 12-1pm

N3AS Seminar

Prof. Bhaskar Dutta

(Texas A&M University)

Light Dark Sector: Inelastic Exploration

Online 

Zoom link

x-2024-02-14

Weds, 3-4pm

Astrophysics Colloquium

Dr. Taeho Ryu

(MPA fellow, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics)

Tidal disruption events: unresolved problems, challenges, and future prospects. SERF 383

x-2024-02-16

Fri, 12-1pm

Special Astrophysics Colloquium

Dr. Samantha Trumbo

(51 Pegasi b Fellow, Cornell University)

Revealing Europa’s Subsurface Ocean through Earth-based Spectroscopy SERF 383

x-2024-02-21

Weds, 3-4pm

Astrophysics Colloquium

Dr. Emma Beasor 

(Bok Fellow, University of Arizona)

Connecting massive stars, supernovae and compact remnants

SERF 383

x-2024-02-23

Fri, 12-1pm

Journal Club

None

NA

NA

x-2024-02-26

Mon, 2-3pm

Astrophysics and Cosmology Seminar

Robert Brandenburger

(McGill University)

Searching for Cosmic Strings in New Observational Windows

4th Floor, MAYER HALL

Zoom link

x-2024-02-27

Tues, 12-1pm

N3AS Seminar

Prof. Salvatore Vitale 

(MIT)

Gravitational-wave astrophysics: the next generation

4th Floor, SERF common space

Zoom link

x-2024-02-28

Weds, 3-4pm

Astrophysics Colloquium 

Professor Jessica Werk 

(University of Washington, UCSD Margaret Burbidge Visiting Professor)

The Multi-scale, Multiphase Physics of the Circumgalactic Medium 

SERF 383

x-2024-03-01

Fri, 12-1pm

Journal Club

 None

 NA

NA

x-2024-03-06

Weds, 3-4pm

Astrophysics Colloquium

Assistant Professor, Eve Lee

(McGill University)

Theories of Planet Formation

SERF 383

x-2024-03-08

Fri, 12-1pm

Special Astrophysics Colloquium

Associate Professor, 

Björn Benneke

(University of Montreal)

From hot Jupiters to temperate exo-Earths: a new era of exoplanet characterization with JWST and ground-based high-resolution spectroscopy

SERF 383

x-2024-03-12

Tues, 12-1pm

N3AS Seminar

Professor Anne Green 

(University of Nottingham, UK)

Primordial Black Holes as a dark matter candidate

Online 

Zoom link

x-2024-03-13

Weds, 3-4pm

Astrophysics Colloquium

Professor, Miguel Chávez Dagostino

(Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica)

Future Studies of Circumstellar Disks with the Large Millimeter Telescope

SERF 383

Host: Melis

x-2024-03-15

Fri, 12-1pm

Special Astrophysics Colloquium

Reader in Astrophysics, Daniel Perley

(Liverpool John Moores University) 

A Complete Survey of the Catastrophic Universe

SERF 383

x- 2024-03-18  --

2024-03-29

 

Finals Week & Spring Break

 

x-2024-04-01

Mon, 2-3pm

Astrophysics and Cosmology Seminar

Lisa Randall 

(Harvard University)

Cool, but not super cool holographic RS phase transition

Mayer Hall 4322

x-2024-04-03

Weds, 3-4pm

Astrophysics Colloquium

Faculty Member, Aida Wofford 

(Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)

Recent developments in the world of massive-star populations 

SERF 383

Host: Sandstrom

x-2024-04-05

Fri, 12-1pm

Journal Club

Anaya Valluvan 

Inflight calibration routines for the COSI Satellite Mission

 SERF 383

x-2024-04-10

Weds, 3-4pm

Astrophysics Colloquium 

Dr. Mike Connolly, 

Adjunct Faculty, San Diego State University

(Vice Chair, Chancellor's Community Advisory Board)

The Cosmlogy of the Kumeyaay 

SERF 383

Host: Burgasser

x-2024-04-12

Fri, 12-1pm

Journal Club

Ilyse Clark

 N13: The First Ever Low Metallicity PDR Benchmark

 

SERF 383

x-2024-04-15

Mon, 2-3pm

Astrophysics and Cosmology Seminar

Open Discussion

DESI results: JWST-enabled Hubble Parameter Determination: Does Dark Energy evolve in time? Is it bye-bye "Hubble Tension"?

Mayer Hall 4330

x-2024-04-19

Fri, 12-1pm

Journal Club

Lindsey Hands

The PAH metallicity relationship in JWST Photometry

SERF 383

x-2024-04-22

Mon, 10-11am

Chemistry & Biochemistry Seminar

Dr. Kerrie Wilkins-Yel

(Professor of Counseling Psychology, University of Massachusetts Boston)

Combatting the ‘Mental Health Crisis’ in STEM: Towards an Intersectional Understanding of the State of Graduate Students’ Mental Health and its Impact on STEM Degree Completion

Kavli Auditorium (Tata Hall)

x-2024-04-23

Tues, 4-5pm

N3AS Seminar

Prof. Jeremy Holt 

(Texas A&M) 

Microscopic calculations of neutrino scattering and absorption in warm dense nuclear matter

Zoom link

x-2024-04-24

Weds, 3-4pm

Astrophysics Colloquium 

Dr. Floor Broekgaarden

(Simons Society Fellow, Columbia & Flatiron Institute)

Gravitational Wave Paleontology: a New Frontier to Explore the Formation, Lives, and Deaths of Massive Stars Across Cosmic Time

SERF 383

Host: Wright

x-2024-04-26

Fri, 12-1pm

Journal Club

Alyssa Johnson

Characterization of 10,000+ TES Bolometers in a Small Aperture Telescope

SERF 383

x-2024-05-01

Weds, 3-4pm

Astrophysics Colloquium

Dr. Brittany Miles

(President's Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Arizona)

Probing the Depths of Planetary Atmospheres

SERF 383

Host: Theissen

x-2024-05-03

Fri, 12-1pm

Journal Club

Hannah Koziol

Beck Dacus

The Behavior of the 3.3-3.5 µm Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Features in Nearby Galaxies

Probing Planet Formation Using Metallicities of Substellar Companions

SERF 383

x-2024-05-06

Mon, 2-3pm

Astroparticle Seminar

Professor, Rajendra P. Gupta

(University of Ottawa, Canada)

Are Dark Matter and Dark Energy Manifestations of Covarying Coupling Constants?

ONLINE

Zoom link

x-2024-05-07

Tues, 12-12:30pm

N3AS Seminar

Dr. Kaori Fuyuto (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

Phenomenology of Effective Field Theory with Sterile Neutrino

Online Series

Zoom link

x-2024-05-08

Weds, 3-4pm

Astrophysics Colloquium 

Professor, Elena Pierpaoli

(University of Southern California)

Multi-wavelenght surveys: Cosmological opportunities for the next decade

SERF 383

Host: Burgasser

x-2024-05-10

Fri, 12-1pm

Journal Club

Preethi Karpoor

Emma Softich

No Dearth for Earths: Unveiling the Earth+super Earth occurence rate in M Dwarfs via Magnitude-Limited Samples

Qual Practice Talk

SERF 383

x-2024-05-17

Fri, 12-1pm

Journal Club

Prakamya Agrawal

Simons Observatory Microwave SQUID Multiplexing Readout- Cryogenic RF Amplifier and Coaxial Chain Design

SERF 383

x-2024-05-21

Tues, 12-1pm

N3AS

Prof. Conny Aerts 

(KU Leuven, Radboud University and MPIA)

Asteroseismology: diving deep into stars

Online

Zoom link

x-2024-05-30

Thurs, 10am - 12pm

Thesis Defense

Yu-Hsuan "Eltha" Teng

Molecular Gas and Star Formation in Nearby Galaxy Centers

SERF 383

Advisor: Sandstrom

x-2024-05-30

Thurs, 4-5pm

Physics Colloquium

Gail Mclaughlin

(North Carolina State University)

Neutrinos and element synthesis in merging neutron stars

NSB Auditorium

Zoom link

x-2024-05-31

Fri, 12-1pm

Journal Club

Assistant Professor, Chris Mendillo

(U Mass Lowell)

PICTURE-D: A NASA balloon mission to directly image asteroid belts in exoplanetary systems

SERF 383

Host:

x-2024-06-05

Weds, 3-4pm

Astrophysics Colloquium

Dr. B-G Andersson

Interstellar Grain Alignment and its Uses

SERF 383

Host: Sandstrom

x-2024-06-06

Thurs, 11:30 am - 12:00pm

Thesis Defense

Ryan Rickards Vaught

Investigating the Variation of Temperature and Chemical Abundance of H II regions in Nearby Galaxies Observed with Integral Field Spectroscopy

SERF 383

Advisor: Sandstrom

x-2024-06-07

Friday, 12-2pm

Celebration Lunch

End-of-the-Year Party

Goodbye AY23/24 and Hello Summer

Matthew's Quad

x-2024-06-11

Tues, 10:30 - 12pm

Thesis Defense

Jake Spisak

Exploring the Early Universe and Dark Matter with the Cosmic Microwave Background

SERF 383:

Keating & Fuller

x-2024-06-11

Tues, 3:30 - 5pm

Thesis Defense

Tran Tsan

Integration, Validation, and Calibration for the Simons Observatory and Simons Array

SERF 383 Advisor: Arnold

x-2024-07-02

Wed, 3-4pm

Astrophysics Colloquium

Jose Caballero

 

Exoplanets (and their host stars) from Spain

NOTE: zoom link https://ucsd.zoom.us/j/97320213344?pwd=9bSuv6q1f9MS1JHkZMVZjOBnJp36pE.1 

 SERF 383 

Host: Burgasser

AY2022-23 Seminars

 

Past seminar events from Academic Year (AY) 2022-2023.

 

DATE

(YY-MM-DD)

EVENT SPEAKER(S) TITLE LOCATION

x-2023-06-13

Tuesday

1-2pm

Thesis Defense

Joe Siebert

Integration and Validation of the Simons Observatory Small Aperture Telescope

SERF 383

Zoom link

x-2023-04-20

Thursday

4-5pm

Physics Colloquium

Luca Giomi

(Professor, Universiteit Leiden)

Multiscale liquid crystal order in biological tissues

Liebow Auditorium, BSB

x-2023-04-07

Friday

12-1pm

Journal Club

Shelley Wright

Alyssa Johnson

Panoramic SETI

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope & Cosmic Birefringence

SERF 383

x-2023-04-12

Weds

12-1pm

Astrophysics Seminar

Imke de Pater

(Prof. Astronomy, UC Berkeley)

ERS observations of the Jovian System as a demonstration of JWST’s capabilities for Solar System science

SERF 383

Zoom link

x-2023-04-14

Friday

12-1pm

Journal Club

Mingyun Cao

Eric Michelsen

How does stochastic magnetic field affect ballooning mode?
--- a slab model demonstrating toroidicity effect

Is the Poynting Vector Real? A Case Study into the Nature of Science, and How I Almost Became a YouTube Celebrity

 SERF 383

Zoom link

x-2023-04-19

Weds

12-1pm

Astrophysics Seminar

Sean Pike

(Postdoctoral Scholar, UC San Diego)

Chasing transient X-ray binaries with NuSTAR

SERF 383

Zoom link

x-2023-04-21

Friday

12-1pm

Journal Club

Fredy Ramirez

Lindsey Hands

Staircase Resiliency in a Fluctuating Cellular Array

AGN, ISM, and PAH: what James Webb can tell us about feedback in NGC 7469

 SERF 383

Zoom link

x-2023-04-26

Weds

12-1pm

Astrophysics Seminar

Guido Roberts-Borsani 

(Postdoctoral Scholar, UC San Diego)

First Light - Searching for and Characterizing Galaxies at the Dawn of Cosmic Time

SERF 383

Zoom link

x-2023-04-27

Thursday

4-5 pm

Physics Colloquium

Alex Kusenko

(Professor, UCLA)

Black holes from the Big Bang

Liebow Auditorium, BSB 

x-2023-04-28

Friday

12-1pm

Journal Club

James Wiley

Eltha Teng

Liger development for W. M. Keck Observatory

The physics of CO-to-H2 conversion factor variations in nearby galaxy centers

SERF 383

Zoom link

x-2023-05-03

Weds

12-1pm

Astrophysics Seminar

Nia Imara 

(Assistant Professor, UC Santa Cruz)

 

A Star is Born

 SERF 383

Zoom link

x-2023-05-04

Thurs

12:30 - 2pm

ARMS-BSP Symposium

 Nia Imara 

(Assistant Professor, UC Santa Cruz)

Society of Physics Students Advocating for and Representing Minority Students (ARMS) group and the Black Studies Project (BSP) Symposium 

pre-register at this link

x-2023-05-05

Friday

12-1pm

Journal Club

Hannah Koziol

Casey Carlile 

Studying star formation in the galactic center: CMZoom survey results

AGN Outflows

SERF 383

Zoom link

x-2023-05-04

Thursday

4-5pm

Physics Colloquium

Fabian Walter

(Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg)

 Constraining the Cosmic Baryon Cycle with ALMA

 Liebow Auditorium, BSB

x-2023-05-10

Weds

12-1pm

Astrophysics Seminar

 Ana Lobo

(Postdocotral Scholar, UC Irvine)

From Tatooine to Endor: the Climate of M-dwarf Planets

SERF 383

Zoom link

x-2023-05-12 

Friday

12-1pm

Journal Club

Ilyse Clark

Beck Dacus

PDRs4All: Past, Present, and Future

Fantastic Planets and Where to Find Them: Guiding Direct Imaging Searches Using Astrometry

 SERF 383

Zoom link

x-2023-05-12 

Friday

4-5pm

James R. Arnold Lecture (hosted by Dept Chemistry)

 Prof. Meenakshi Wadhwa

(Arizona State University)

 From Asteroids to Mars: Recent Adventures in Solar System Exploration via Sample Return Missions

 Natural Science Building Auditorium

(reception to follow)

x-2023-05-19

Friday

12-1pm

Journal Club

Preethi Karpoor

Emma Softich

Dwarf Stars, Tiny Worlds: Exploring Small Transiting Exoplanets with Roman Space Telescope

Born to be Wide: the distribution of wide binaries in the field and soft binaries in clusters

 SERF 383

Zoom link

x-2023-05-24

Weds

12-1pm

Astrophysics Seminar

Robyn Sanderson

(Assistant Professor, Univ. of Penn) 

Dynamical Tests of Dark Matter and Galaxy Formation Theories in the Milky Way

SERF 383

Zoom link

x-2023-05-31

Weds

12-1ppm

Astrophysics Seminar

Mukol Sholapurkar

(Postdoctoral Scholar, UC San Diego)

Backgrounds in low-threshold direct detection experiments

SERF 383

Zoom link

x-2023-06-02

Friday

12-1pm

Journal Club

Sarah Blunt

(Caltech)

The Orbits of Young Giant Exoplanets as Formation Clues

SERF 383

Zoom link

x-2023-06-07

Weds

12-1pm

Astrophysics Seminar

Yi Yang

(Postdoctoral Scholar, UC Berkeley)

 

The Shape of Cosmic Explosions

 

SERF 383

Zoom link

x-2023-06-09

Friday

12-1pm

Journal Club

Malina Desai

Natalie Lam 

Discovering Ultracool Dwarfs in Deep Surveys using Machine Learning Methods

Extent and Kinematics of AGN-driven Outflow in F05189-2524

 SERF 383

Zoom link