Casey Law (Berkeley): All Transients, All the Time: Building a Radio LSST

Seminar: RAL Seminars | May 14 | 3:10-4 p.m. | B5 Hearst Field Annex

Speaker/Performer: Casey Law, UC Berkeley

Sponsor: Radio Astronomy Lab

The extreme brightness of fast (< 1 s) radio transients makes them detectable in unusual environments like the Galactic center, where they can test General Relativity, or in distant galaxies, where they probe the missing baryons in the local Universe. While single-dish telescopes have pioneered the study of these transients, their design limits their ability to localize a source, survey...   More >

Physics Graduate Student Social Hour

Social Event | August 28, 2009 – December 28, 2012 every Friday | 5-7 p.m. | LeConte Hall, 375 - Helmholz Room

Sponsor: Graduate Assembly

Graduate students, staff, and faculty from any department are invited to this weekly event held by the Physics Graduate Student Association as a forum for informal networking and communication between scientists and science enthusiasts from all career levels. Come by for a relaxing atmosphere with delicious refreshments usually sponsored by the GA.

Reconciling Science and the Imagination in the Construction of the Deep Prehistoric Past

Lecture | May 19 | 11 a.m.-12 p.m. | 100 Genetics & Plant Biology Building

Speaker: Ruth Tringham, UC Berkeley

Sponsor: Science@Cal

Ruth Tringham, Professor of Anthropology at UC Berkeley, gives a free public talk how archaeologists reconstruct the lives of people living in the deep, prehistoric past.

Target audience: General Public

Open to audience: All Audiences