Colloquia Schedule Spring 2016

"Spirals, Gaps, and Cavities: Signposts of Planets in Protoplanetary Disks?"

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Robin (Ruobing) Dong

LBNL/Berkeley

host: Adam Kraus

"The Key Influence of AGB Stars on the Evolution and Global Properties of Galaxies"

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Martha L. Boyer

NASA Goddard

host: Kristen McQuinn

"CAMPARE and Cal-Bridge: Two Synergistic Programs Forming a Successful New Model for Promoting Participation of Women and Underrepresented Minority Students in Astronomy"

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Alexander L. Rudolph

California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

host: William Cochran

"Exoplanet Atmospheres in High Resolution"

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Jayne L. Birkby

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

host: Daniel Jaffe

"The Dynamical Evolution of Young Stellar Complexes in the Milky Way"

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Alison I. Sills

McMaster University, Hamilton, ON

host: Natalie Gosnell

"The Evolution of Galaxy Structural Properties"

Over the past decade, deep multi-wavelength surveys have revolutionized our ability to map the internal structure and kinematics of large samples of galaxies over a substantial portion of cosmic history. In addition, theorists have made enormous progress in developing detailed models and simulations of galaxy formation in a cosmological context, which can accurately reproduce many features of the observed evolution. Combined with our ever more complete census of the statistics of global galaxy properties over cosmic history, such as luminosity and stellar mass functions, I will argue that this information gives us profound insights into the physics that shapes galaxy formation and assembly. I will give an overview of observational studies of the evolution of galaxy structure over cosmic time, with a focus on recent results from the CANDELS survey, and will discuss the physical interpretation of these results in light of current models of galaxy formation.

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Rachel Somerville

Rutgers University, Downsbrough Chair in Astrophysics

host: Shardha Jogee

"A PHAT New Measurement of the High-Mass Stellar IMF"

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Daniel Weisz

UC Berkeley/University of Washington

host: Michael Boylan-Kolchin

"The Role of Dwarf-Dwarf Galaxy Interactions in Galaxy Assembly"

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Sabrina Stierwalt

NRAO/University of Virginia

host: Kristen McQuinn

No colloquium scheduled. (Spring Break)

"Exploring the z~2.3 Cosmic Web with 3D Lyman-Alpha Forest Tomography"

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Khee-Gan Lee

UC Berkeley/LBNL

host: Caitlin Casey

"Understanding Galaxy Evolution with Massive Starburst Galaxies"

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Hai Fu

University of Iowa

host: Caitlin Casey

"Implications from the Detection of the Binary Black Hole Inspiral GW150914"

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Matthew Benacquista

University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

host: J. Craig Wheeler

Stellar Seminar talk Date/Time: Wed., 12 Noon: "Title: TBA"

David Yong (Stellar Tinsley Scholar)

Mt. Stromlo Observatory, Australia

host: Fritz Benedict

"The Calm Before the Storm: Exploring the Post Accretionary Doldrums Prior to the Late Heavy Bombardment"

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William F. Bottke (Planetary Tinsley Scholar)

Southwest Research Instutite, Boulder, Colorado

host: Mike Endl/Judit Ries

"Disk Galaxy Assembly Across Cosmic Time: Combining Magnitude-limited Survey with Gravitational Lensing"

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Tiantian Yuan (Exgal Tinsley Scholar)

Australia National University

host: Chao-Ling Hung

"The Discovery and Characterization of the Y Dwarfs"

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Michael Cushing

University of Toledo

host: Brendan Bowler

"What can Binaries tell us about Planet Formation?"

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Kaitlin M. Kratter (ISM Tinsley Scholar)

Steward Observatory, University of Arizona

host: Adam Kraus