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

Speaker: John Tomsick, UCB

Sponsor: 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 >

Adaptive Optics and image reconstruction

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

Speaker/Performer: Mike Fitzgerald, LLNL

Sponsor: Astronomy, Department of

COSMOLOGY SEMINAR

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

Speaker/Performer: Juna Kollmeier, Carnegie

Sponsor: Astronomy, Department of

TOPIC TBA...   More >

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

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

Speaker/Performer: David Brain, University of California, Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory

Sponsor: 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 >

Astronomy Colloquium

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

Speaker/Performer: Maura McLaughlin, WVU

Sponsor: 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

Speaker/Performer: Maura McLaughlin, WVU

Sponsor: 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 >

UCB Astronomy Journal Club

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

Performer Group:

Sponsor: 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 >