Date

Speaker

Title

Aug 31

J. Craig Wheeler

University of Texas at Austin

Organizational meeting.

Sept 7

Labor Day: University Holiday. No talk scheduled.

Sept 14

Michael Boylan-Kolchin

University of Texas at Austin

"Life at the Edge (of Galaxy Formation and Dark Matter Physics)"

Jacob Hummel

University of Texas at Austin

"The First Stars: Formation Under X-ray Feedback"

Sept 21

J. Craig Wheeler

University of Texas at Austin

"Betelgeuse"

Alan Sluder

University of Texas at Austin

"Properties of Dust Grains made in Supernovae"

Sept 28

Volker Bromm

University of Texas at Austin

"The Primordial Initial Mass Function"

Aaron Smith

University of Texas at Austin

"Lyman Alpha Radiative Transfer"

Oct 5

Paul Shapiro

University of Texas at Austin

"Cosmic Reionization"

Adrian Fontanilla

University of Texas at Austin, Physics Dept.

"Introduction to Runaway Electrons"

Oct 12

Pawan Kumar

University of Texas at Austin

"The Casimir Effect and Dense Plasma"

Wenbin Lu

University of Texas at Austin

"Infrared Emission from Tidal Disruption Events: Probing the Parsec-scale Dust Content around Galactic Nuclei"

Oct 19

No Seminar scheduled. Attendees are directed to attend Bashfest.

Oct 26

Ethan Vishniac

Johns Hopkins University

"Dynamos: How do they Work?"

Nov 2

Ethan Vishniac

Johns Hopkins University

"Mobility, Inverse Cascades, and the Failure of Flux-freezing in Turbulent Media"

Nov 9

John Scalo

University of Texas at Austin

"How Thermal Turbulence Controls the Production of Molecular Cloud Cores that form Stars, and why Most Cores Don't"

Nov 16

Danielle Berg

University of Wisconsin

"Building a Cosmological Abundance Scale"

Jason Jaacks

University of Texas at Austin

"Next Generation Hydro Simulations with GIZMO"

Nov 23

Paul Shapiro

University of Texas at Austin

"Simulating Reionization of the Local Universe: Witnessing our own Cosmic Dawn"

Bohua Li

University of Texas at Austin

"Complex Scalar Field Dark Matter and its Impact on Primordial Gravitational Waves"

Nov 30

Jeremy Ritter

University of Texas at Austin

"Simulating the First Supernovae"