Alyson Brooks, tba

Seminar: TAC Seminars | November 2 | 12:10-1 p.m. | 544 Campbell Hall

Speaker/Performer: Alyson Brooks, Caltech

Sponsor: Astronomy, Department of

Searching For Understanding Of Water Interfaces

Colloquium | November 2 | 4:30 p.m. | 1 LeConte Hall

Speaker/Performer: Ron Shen, UC Berkeley

Sponsor: Physics, Department of

Both energy crisis and water crisis could be alleviated if we know how to manipulate water interfaces. This requires knowledge of interfacial water structure at the molecular level, which unfortunately is still at a primitive stage because of lack of viable probes. We describe here our attempt using surface-specific vibrational spectroscopy to tackle the problem.

Balancing Outflows and Gas Dilution: The Mass-Metallicity RElation at z=0

Seminar: Cosmology Seminars | November 3 | 1:10-2 p.m. | 544 Campbell Hall

Speaker/Performer: Molly Peeples, OSU

Sponsor: Astronomy, Department of

The gas-phase oxygen abundances of star-forming galaxies are tightly correlated with the galaxies' stellar masses such that more massive galaxies are more oxygen-rich. Because oxygen is produced on relatively short timescales (~10 Myr), this so-called mass-metallicity relation is a sequence of oxygen depletion: low-mass galaxies are metal-depleted relative to the true...   More >

Lincoln Greenhill: Moving Images of Accretion and Outflow in High-Mass Star Formation

Colloquium: Astronomy Colloquia | November 5 | 4:10-5 p.m. | 2 LeConte Hall

Speaker/Performer: Lincoln Greenhill, CfA

Sponsor: Astronomy, Department of

The details of how massive stars form are poorly understood. Testing
the viability of disk-mediated accretion, and identifying the processes
that extract angular momentum benefit from direct measurement
of the dynamics of gas at small radii, where outflows are launched and
collimated. Using the VLBA and VLA, and for the first time, we have
traced gas structures and tracked...   More >

Space Sciences Lab Colloquium: Early Results from the South Pole Telescope

Colloquium | November 6 | 3-4 p.m. | Silver Space Sciences Lab, Addition conference room # 105

Speaker/Performer: Christian Reichardt, UCB, Physics department

Sponsor: Space Sciences Laboratory (SSL)

Keywords : cosmology:cosmic microwave background - cosmology:observations - galaxies:clusters - Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect, galaxies: high-redshift - galaxies: surveys - submillimeter

Abstract : The South Pole Telescope (SPT) is a 10-meter telescope designed to survey the millimeter-wave sky, taking advantage of the exceptional observing conditions at the Amundsen-Scott South...   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.