Unless otherwise specified, all regular Seminars take place at 2:30pm on Monday in Curia II, on the second floor / south-west corner of Wilson Hall, directly below the library, while all Lunch Seminars take place at 1:00pm on the same day in the 3 East - Theory Conference Room.
January 4
Eric Gawiser (Berkeley) - An
Empirical Approach to Cosmological Structure Formation
Special Joint Astrophysics/Research Techniques
Seminar
January 6, 1:30-3:30pm, Curia II
Elliot Bloom (SLAC) & Steve Ritz (GSFC)
- GLAST: The Gamma-Ray Large Area Space Telescope
January 11
Michael Blanton (Princeton) - Effects
of Bias on Large-Scale Structure
Lunch Seminar
Yuri Levin (Caltech) - Gravitational
Waves from Strongly Accreting Neutron Stars in Low-Mass X-Ray Binaries
January 18
Ken Olum (Tufts) - Radiation from
Cosmic String Cusps
January 25
Ram Brustein (Ben-Gurion) - Electroweak Baryogenesis
Induced by a Scalar Field
February 8
Ed Cheng (Nasa/Goddard) - The
Hubble Space Telescope - Innovation in Space and How It Works
Lunch Seminar
Raphael Bousso (Stanford) - Global
Structure of the Inflationary Universe
Special Lunch Seminar
February 10, 12:30-1:30pm, 3 East - Theory
Conference Room
Tarun Souradeep (Kansas State) - Probing
Beyond the Cosmic Horizon
February 15, 2:30-3:30pm, 1
West
Roger Malina (Berkeley & LAS, Marseille) - EUVE
and GALEX All-Sky Surveys
February 22
Keith Taylor (Anglo-Australian Observatory) - Evolution
of 3-D Spectroscopy at the AAO
March 1
Andrew Sornborger (Fermilab) -
Higher-Order Methods for Quantum Simulations
March 8
Joanne Cohn (Urbana-Champaign) - Theories for an Open
Universe
Lunch Seminar
Chris Metzler (Urbana-Champaign) - Cluster Mass Estimators
and Filamentary Structure
March 15
Glenn Starkman (CWRU) - The Big Occulting Steerable
Satellite - Planet Detection with a Large Occulting Satellite
March 22
Richard Gott (Princeton) - Can
the Universe Create Itself?
March 29
Ludovic van Waerbeke (CITA) - Constraining
Cosmology with Weak Lensing by Large Scale Structure: From a Dream to Reality?
April 5
Vernon Barger (Wisconsin) - The Pattern of Neutrino
Masses and Mixings
April 12
Bruce Bassett (Oxford) -
Preheating and the post-inflationary universe
April 19
Patrick Greene (CITA) - Preheating after Inflation
April 26
Priya Natarajan (CITA) - Do Cluster Galaxies have
Extended Dark Halos?
May 3
Joe Mohr (Chicago) - A New Look at Galaxy Clusters:
Observations and Cosmological Constraints
May 10
Nemanja Kaloper (Stanford) - Cosmology
in Theories with Sub-Millimeter Dimensions
Special Seminar
May 11
A. Logunov (IHEP, Moscow) - The Evolution of the Universe
and the Graviton Mass
May 17
Greg Bryan (MIT) - Galaxy Formation and the First
Stars
May 24
Andrew Jaffe (Berkeley) -
Modern Measurements of Omega and Lambda
For questions, contact Andrew Sornborger or Ewan Stewart, who're organizing the seminars right now.