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Monday, May 5, 2008

John Tomsick (UC Berkeley): Non-Thermal Emission from Galactic Black Holes and Implications for GLAST

Seminar: RAL Seminars | May 5 | 3:10-4 p.m. | 544 Campbell Hall


John Tomsick, UCB

Radio Astronomy Lab


Black hole X-ray binaries have been extensively studied from radio to X-ray energies. We have a very good understanding of how these systems behave in general, but there are many areas where we still do not understand the physics behind the observational...   More >

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Adaptive Optics and image reconstruction

Seminar: Adaptive Optics | May 6 | 12:10 p.m. | 394 Minor Hall


Mike Fitzgerald, LLNL

Astronomy, Department of


COSMOLOGY SEMINAR

Seminar: Cosmology Seminars | May 6 | 1:10-2 p.m. | Campbell Hall, 544 (also videoconferenced to LBL 50A-5131)


Juna Kollmeier, Carnegie

Astronomy, Department of


TOPIC TBA...   More >

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

CIPS Seminar Series: Aurora in the lumpy magnetic fields of Mars

Seminar: CIPS Seminars | May 7 | 12-1 p.m. | 544 Campbell Hall


David Brain, University of California, Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory

Center for Integrative Planetary Science: CIPS


Magnetometer observations demonstrate that it has been billions of years since Mars possessed a significant global dynamo magnetic field. As a result, the planet’s extended atmosphere interacts directly with the solar wind, similar to the plasma int...   More >

Thursday, May 8, 2008

Astronomy Colloquium

Colloquium | May 8 | 4-5 p.m. | 1 LeConte Hall


Maura McLaughlin, WVU

Astronomy, Department of


Topic in Astronomy...   More >


Peek-A-Boo Pulsars: Transient Radio Emission from Neutron Stars

Colloquium: Astronomy Colloquia | May 8 | 4-5 p.m. | 1 LeConte Hall


Maura McLaughlin, WVU

Astronomy, Department of


The first radio pulsar was discovered 40 years ago, with close to 2000
of these objects known today. However, these exotic neutron stars
continue to surprise us with newly observed phenomena. One example of this is the recently discovered classes of ...   More >

Friday, May 9, 2008

UCB Astronomy Journal Club

Meeting | January 25 – May 9, 2008 every Friday | 12:10-1 p.m. | 544 Campbell Hall


Astronomy, Department of


Journal Club at the UCB Astronomy Department is open to everyone and consists of oral presentations that generally focus on the recent astronomical literature. Since the audience is composed of students, postdocs, researchers, faculty and visitors, the pr...   More >