Monday TAC Seminar - TAC - The Theoretical Astrophysics Center

Theoretical Astrophysics Center Seminars

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.

Note: There are also Berkeley Cosmology Group seminars on Tuesdays.

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	Ken Shen
November 11, 2024	HOLIDAY
November 18, 2024	Xiaoshan Huang	Caltech	Nuclear Transients from Star-Disk Interactions Near Black Holes	Rixin Li
November 25, 2024	Gabriela Sato-Polito	Institute for Advanced Study (IAS)	TBD	Luke Kelley
December 2, 2024	Danat Issa	CIERA Northwestern	TBD	Sanjana Curtis
December 9, 2024	Lieke van Son	CCA & Princeton	TBD	TBD