Space Junk 3–D Film

Film - Documentary | September 4, 2012 – January 6, 2013 every day with exceptions | Lawrence Hall of Science, 3-D Theater / Auditorium

Sponsor: Lawrence Hall of Science (LHS)

Take a trip to outer space to learn more about the space junk
collisions in Earth’s orbit. See the satellites that make modern life possible.

Target audiences: Children, General Public

Open to audience: All Audiences

Attendance restrictions: Tickets $4 after admission.

Tickets required:$4

Space Junk 3–D Film

Film - Documentary | September 4, 2012 – January 6, 2013 every day with exceptions | Lawrence Hall of Science, 3-D Theater / Auditorium

Sponsor: Lawrence Hall of Science (LHS)

Take a trip to outer space to learn more about the space junk
collisions in Earth’s orbit. See the satellites that make modern life possible.

Target audiences: Children, General Public

Open to audience: All Audiences

Attendance restrictions: Tickets $4 after admission.

Tickets required:$4

Star Formation and the Interstellar Medium: 35 Years Later

Conference/Symposium: Special Events | September 10 – 12, 2012 every day | 9 a.m.-5:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Theater

Sponsor: Department of Astronomy

The Astronomy Department is organizing a conference to celebrate the 70th years of our colleagues, Dave Hollenbach, Chris McKee and Frank Shu. Their tremendous contributions to astrophysics are widely known. We have chosen the title in recognition of the year 1977 when two of their landmark papers were published. The conference also marks Chris' retirement at the end of the 2011-2012 academic...   More >

Registration required:$100

Registration info: Additional cost for conference banquet. Register online.

The Origin of the Universe and the Arrow of Time

Colloquium | September 10 | 4:15-5:30 p.m. | LeConte Hall, Room #1

Speaker: Sean Carroll, Senior Research Associate in Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology

Sponsor: Department of Physics

I will discuss whether the problem of low-entropy initial conditions can be alleviated within the context of a multiverse.

Target audience: All Audiences

Open to audience: All Audiences

Space Junk 3–D Film

Film - Documentary | September 4, 2012 – January 6, 2013 every day with exceptions | Lawrence Hall of Science, 3-D Theater / Auditorium

Sponsor: Lawrence Hall of Science (LHS)

Take a trip to outer space to learn more about the space junk
collisions in Earth’s orbit. See the satellites that make modern life possible.

Target audiences: Children, General Public

Open to audience: All Audiences

Attendance restrictions: Tickets $4 after admission.

Tickets required:$4

Star Formation and the Interstellar Medium: 35 Years Later

Conference/Symposium: Special Events | September 10 – 12, 2012 every day | 9 a.m.-5:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Theater

Sponsor: Department of Astronomy

The Astronomy Department is organizing a conference to celebrate the 70th years of our colleagues, Dave Hollenbach, Chris McKee and Frank Shu. Their tremendous contributions to astrophysics are widely known. We have chosen the title in recognition of the year 1977 when two of their landmark papers were published. The conference also marks Chris' retirement at the end of the 2011-2012 academic...   More >

Registration required:$100

Registration info: Additional cost for conference banquet. Register online.

The Density Profiles of Galaxy Clusters Over 3 Decades in Radius

Seminar | September 11 | 1:10 p.m. | B1 Hearst Field Annex

Speaker/Performer: Drew Newman, Caltech

Sponsor: Department of Astronomy

The density profile of halos composed purely of cold dark matter (CDM) is precisely predicted in numerical simulations. Observations of real systems ranging from dwarf galaxies to galaxy clusters have suggested deviations from this form on small scales. This could reflect the role of baryons in the formation of these systems, or alternatively may inform us about the dark matter particle. I will...   More >

Space Junk 3–D Film

Film - Documentary | September 4, 2012 – January 6, 2013 every day with exceptions | Lawrence Hall of Science, 3-D Theater / Auditorium

Sponsor: Lawrence Hall of Science (LHS)

Take a trip to outer space to learn more about the space junk
collisions in Earth’s orbit. See the satellites that make modern life possible.

Target audiences: Children, General Public

Open to audience: All Audiences

Attendance restrictions: Tickets $4 after admission.

Tickets required:$4

Star Formation and the Interstellar Medium: 35 Years Later

Conference/Symposium: Special Events | September 10 – 12, 2012 every day | 9 a.m.-5:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Theater

Sponsor: Department of Astronomy

The Astronomy Department is organizing a conference to celebrate the 70th years of our colleagues, Dave Hollenbach, Chris McKee and Frank Shu. Their tremendous contributions to astrophysics are widely known. We have chosen the title in recognition of the year 1977 when two of their landmark papers were published. The conference also marks Chris' retirement at the end of the 2011-2012 academic...   More >

Registration required:$100

Registration info: Additional cost for conference banquet. Register online.

Space Junk 3–D Film

Film - Documentary | September 4, 2012 – January 6, 2013 every day with exceptions | Lawrence Hall of Science, 3-D Theater / Auditorium

Sponsor: Lawrence Hall of Science (LHS)

Take a trip to outer space to learn more about the space junk
collisions in Earth’s orbit. See the satellites that make modern life possible.

Target audiences: Children, General Public

Open to audience: All Audiences

Attendance restrictions: Tickets $4 after admission.

Tickets required:$4

One Minute Slides Colloquium

Colloquium: Astronomy Colloquia | September 13 | 4 p.m. | 2 LeConte Hall

Speaker/Performer: All members of UC Berkeley Astronomy, UC Berkeley

Sponsor: Department of Astronomy

Department members introduce themselves and their work in one minute, with one slide.

Space Junk 3–D Film

Film - Documentary | September 4, 2012 – January 6, 2013 every day with exceptions | Lawrence Hall of Science, 3-D Theater / Auditorium

Sponsor: Lawrence Hall of Science (LHS)

Take a trip to outer space to learn more about the space junk
collisions in Earth’s orbit. See the satellites that make modern life possible.

Target audiences: Children, General Public

Open to audience: All Audiences

Attendance restrictions: Tickets $4 after admission.

Tickets required:$4

Sanch Borthakur (Johns Hopkins): Tracing the Circumgalactic Medium: The Hidden Gas Reservoir of Galaxies

Seminar: RAL Seminars | September 14 | 12:10-1 p.m. | B5 Hearst Field Annex

Speaker/Performer: Sanch Borthakur, Johns Hopkins

Sponsor: Radio Astronomy Lab

The circum-galactic medium (CGM) of a galaxy is its gas reservoir and holds clues to its past and future evolution. In order to study the CGM, we used bright background QSOs to probe the circumgalactic gas associated with the foreground galaxies.

I will start by presenting some of our recent work aimed at understanding the effects of starburst on the CGM. Our comparison of the properties of...   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.

Space Junk 3–D Film

Film - Documentary | September 4, 2012 – January 6, 2013 every day with exceptions | Lawrence Hall of Science, 3-D Theater / Auditorium

Sponsor: Lawrence Hall of Science (LHS)

Take a trip to outer space to learn more about the space junk
collisions in Earth’s orbit. See the satellites that make modern life possible.

Target audiences: Children, General Public

Open to audience: All Audiences

Attendance restrictions: Tickets $4 after admission.

Tickets required:$4

Black Holes - What Do They Look Like?

Lecture | September 15 | 11 a.m.-12 p.m. | 100 Genetics & Plant Biology Building

Speaker: Jason Dexter, UC Berkeley

Sponsor: Science@Cal

Jason Dexter, Postdoctoral Researcher in UC Berkeley's Department of Astronomy, gives a free public talk about black holes.

Target audience: General Public

Open to audience: All Audiences