Theoretical Astrophysics Center seminars are held on Mondays at noon (~12:10 pm) in Campbell Hall, Room 131 unless noted otherwise. For more information, please contact them at tac-seminar[at]astro.berkeley.edu.
Date
Speaker
Affiliation
Title
Host
September 2, 2024
HOLIDAY
September 9, 2024
Jillian Rastinejad
Northwestern University
Exploring the Origins of r-Process Elements with GRBs
Ryan Chornock
September 16, 2024
Nicholas Rui
Caltech
Stellar Mergers: An Asteroseismic Perspective
Ken Shen
September 23, 2024
Will Misener
Carnegie Earth and Planets Lab
Thermal and chemical coupling between the silicate cores and hydrogen atmospheres of super-Earth and sub-Neptune exoplanets
J.J. Zanazzi
September 30, 2024
Tianshu Wang
Berkeley
New Results in Three-Dimensional Core-Collapse Supernova Theory
Daniel Brethauer
October 7, 2024
Marcus Dupont
NYU
Toroidal Explosions
Wenbin Lu
October 14, 2024
Fabio Magistrelli
Theoretisch-Physikalisches Institut, Jena
Elements formation in radiation-hydrodynamics simulations of kilonovae
Luca Boccioli
October 21, 2024
Angelo Ricarte
Harvard / Black-Hole Initiative (BHI)
AGN Jet Feedback and Spin Evolution in a MAD Universe
TBD
October 28, 2024
Jiaru Li
CIERA Northwestern
Eccentric Protoplanetary Disks: Theory and Applications
Rixin Li
November 4, 2024
Simon Blouin
University of Victoria
When Stellar Evolution Takes a Break: A 10-Billion-Year Pause in White Dwarf Cooling
November 11, 2024
November 18, 2024
Xiaoshan Huang
Nuclear Transients from Star-Disk Interactions Near Black Holes
November 25, 2024
Gabriela Sato-Polito
Institute for Advanced Study (IAS)
Where are the supermassive black holes measured by PTAs?
Luke Kelley
December 2, 2024
Danat Issa
Unveiling Conditions for Heavy Element Nucleosynthesis in Magnetized Collapsar Explosions
Sanjana Curtis
December 9, 2024
Lieke van Son
CCA & Princeton
Beyond the First Wave: Where We Stand In Understanding Binary Neutron Star and Black Hole Formation Channels