====== Graduate Student Postdoc Seminar ====== ==== Location: 544 Campbell Hall ==== ==== Time: Fridays @ 4:00pm (unless otherwise noted) ==== Past Seminars: [[graduate_student_postdoc_seminar:Fall 2008]], [[graduate_student_postdoc_seminar:Spring 2008]], [[graduate_student_postdoc_seminar:Fall 2007]], [[graduate_student_postdoc_seminar:Spring 2007]], [[graduate_student_postdoc_seminar:Fall 2006]] ---- ^Date |**23 Jan 2009** | **grad:** Peter Williams: // "Exploring the FIR-Radio Correlation with Continuous Spectra from the ATA" // | | | **postdoc:** Steve Croft: // "The Allen Telescope Array - a new tool for wide-field and time-domain radio astronomy" // | |**30 Jan 2009** | **grad:** Christopher Klein: // "How to find asteroids in your imaging data - An introduction, explanation, and guide to PyMPChecker" // | | | **postdoc:** Prateek Sharma: // "Transport Properties of Galaxy Cluster Cores" // | |**6 Feb 2009** | **grad:** Brian Metzger: // "Observable Signatures of the Accretion-Induced Collapse of White Dwarfs, or What you were too scared to ask in Astro 10" // | | | **postdoc:** Brad Cenko: // "Exploring the Optical Transient Sky with the Palomar Transient Factory" // | |**13 Feb 2009** | **grad:** Daniel Perley: // "Things that Go Band in the Night: Dark Bursts and their Lairs" // | | | **postdoc:** Bethany Cobb: // "A search for GRB-related supernovae using SMARTS" // | |**20 Feb 2009** | **postdoc:** Nevin Weinberg: // "Non-linear Tides in Stars and Planets" // | |**27 Feb 2009** | **grad:** Charles Hansen: // "Maintaining Turbulence in Molecular Clouds" // | | | **grad:** Katey Alatalo: // "Old Galaxies with New Stars: Preliminary Results of the Atlas3D CO-mapping Effort" // | |**6 Mar 2009** | **grad:** Andrew Wetzel (practice qual): // "Galaxy and halo mergers in a cosmological context" // | |**13 Mar 2009** | **grad:** Statia Cook: // "Understanding Neptune's global dynamics through radio and near-infrared observations" // | | | **postdoc:** Gaspard Duchene: // "Panchromatic analysis of circumstellar disks: structure, content, and evolution" // | |**20 Mar 2009** | **grad:** Amber Bauermeister: // "The Evolution of Gas in the Universe" // | | | **postdoc:** Melissa Enoch: // "(Unofficial) Early Results on the Disk and Envelope Structure of Class 0 Protostars in Serpens" // | |**3 Apr 2009** | **grad:** Yookyung Noh: // "Reconstructing Baryon Acoustic Oscillations" // | | | **postdoc:** Andrew Howard: // "Searches for Low-mass Planets" // | |**10 Apr 2009** | **grad:** Eric Huff: // "Delaying gratification: Your guide to weak lensing for fun and profit." // | | | **postdoc:** Prateek Sharma: // "Thermal Instability and the Intracluster Medium" // | |**17 Apr 2009** | **grad:** Nicholas McConnell: // "Black Holes in Brightest Cluster Galaxies: Navigating the Summit of M-sigma" // | | | **postdoc:** Jun Zhang: // "A Robust Way of Measuring the Cosmic Shear in Weak Lensing" // | |**24 Apr 2009** | **grad:** Jeff Silverman: // "Berkeley SuperNova Ia Program (BSNIP): 20 Years of Photometry and Spectroscopy of Over 500 Type Ia Supernovae" // | |**1 May 2009** | **grad:** Adam Morgan: // "What do you mean it's not there?: Optimal image coaddition for transient sources" // | | | |**8 May 2009** | **postdoc:** Jeff Oishi: // "Magnetorotational Dynamos in Accretion Disks" // | | | **postdoc:** Maryam Modjaz: // "Beasts of the SN Zoo and their Habitats" // | | | |