====== Graduate Student Postdoc Seminar ======

==== Location: 544 Campbell Hall ====
==== Time: Fridays @ 4:00pm (unless otherwise noted) ====

Past Seminars: [[graduate_student_postdoc_seminar:Spring 2008]], [[graduate_student_postdoc_seminar:Fall 2007]], [[graduate_student_postdoc_seminar:Spring 2007]], [[:graduate_student_postdoc_seminar:Fall 2006]]
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|**5 Sep 2008** |Fall Welcome       |
|**12 Sep 2008** | **grad:** Matt George: //"Why the LHC Isn't Going to Kill Us All"// |
| | **postdoc:** Lucianne Walkowicz: //"Observations and Models of Quiescent M Dwarf Chromospheres"//|
|**19 Sep 2008** |**grad:** Aaron Lee: //"Achieving Roche Densities in Protoplanetary Discs"// |
| | **postdoc:** Mate Adamkovics: //"Binary KBO spectroscopy"// |
|** 26 Sep 2008**  |**grad:** Joe Converse: //"The Pleiades:  A Case Study in Open Cluster Formation"//  (practice qual)|
|**3 Oct 2008** | **grad:** Stella Offner: // "Observations of Star Formation Simulations" // (job talk) |
|**10 Oct 2008**   |**grad:**  Kristen Shapiro: // "Early-Type Galaxies: The Road to Retirement"//|
| | **postdoc:** Sloane Wiktorowicz: // "Unambiguous Hot Jupiter Mass from Polarimetry" //|
|**17 Oct 2008**   |**grad:**  Dan Perley // "Dim and Naked: The Sordid Tale of GRB 080503 (or, Gamma-Ray Bursts Aren't Always 5th Magnitude)" //|
| | **postdoc:** Phil Chang // "Kozai Oscillations in the Galactic Center" //|
|**24 Oct 2008**   | Mo Ganeshalingam, Maryam Modjaz: // [[http://astro.berkeley.edu/~mganesh/gsps2008/gsps_10242008.pdf|"How to Give a Good Talk"]]  [ [[http://astro.berkeley.edu/~mganesh/gsps2008/gsps_10242008_printable.pdf|printer-friendly version]] ]//|
|**31 Oct 2008** |**grad:**  Adam Miller: // "You Don't Know and We're Not Going to Tell You: Discovery and Characterization of the Miller-Chornock Hot Guy" //|
| | **postdoc:** Nathan Smith: // "The Axis of Evil" //|
|**7 Nov 2008** |**postdoc:**  Nathan Smith: // "Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice" //|
| | **postdoc:** Jeff Oishi: // "Screw you, Bill*!   Open Source Tools for Science (* you too, Steve)" //|
|**14 Nov 2008** |**grad:**  Linda Strubbe: //"The Tidal Disruption of Stars by Massive Black Holes"// (practice qual)|
|**21 Nov 2008**   |**postdoc:**  Xylar Asay-Davis // "Vortex Dynamics in Jupiter's Atmosphere" //|
| | **postdoc:** Jun Zhang // "How to Grow a Healthy Merger Tree" //|
|**5 Dec 2008**  |**grad:**  Holly Maness: //"Reaching across the Spectrum: Resolved Debris Disk Studies from Optical to Millimeter"//  (practice qual)|
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