Hello! Welcome to the UC Irvine Astro Grad Seminar!


These talks are scheduled every Wednesday at Noon in room # 2139 of Frederick Reines Hall.

All graduate students and post-doctoral researchers working in the field of theoretical and observational Astrophysics and Cosmology are encouraged to give at least one talk every academic year. The main purpose of this event is to provide a platform for all the graduate students to master their presentation skills. The post-doctoral researchers generally play a very important role by providing constructive criticisms and setting examples via their own presentations. This is also the best way to share one's own research with his (her) peers.

CZAR: Jonelle L. Walsh (jlwalsh@uci.edu)

Schedule for Fall Quarter 2009

Time: 12:01 PM to 12:50 PM + 10 min Q & A                 Place: 2139 Frederick Reines Hall (FRH)

Date Speaker Title
Sep 30 Joe Wolf TBD
Oct 07 Joseph Smidt TBD
Oct 14 Open Slot
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Oct 21 Fill Humphrey TBD
Oct 28 Quinn Minor TBD
Nov 04 Chris Purcell TBD
Nov11 Veterans Day! ---
Nov 18 Greg Martinez TBD
Nov 25 No Talk ---
Dec 02 Erik Tollerud TBD
Schedule for Winter Quarter 2010

Time: 12:01 PM to 12:50 PM + 10 min Q & A                 Place: 2139 Frederick Reines Hall (FRH)

Date Speaker Title
Jan 06 Open Slot TBD
Jan 13 Alexandre Amblard TBD
Jan 20 Open Slot ---
Jan 27 Shahab Joudaki TBD
Feb 03 Open Slot TBD
Feb10 Open Slot TBD
Feb 17 Open Slot ---
Feb 24 Open Slot TBD
Mar 03 Open Slot ---
Mar 10 Open Slot TBD
Schedule for Spring Quarter 2010

Time: 12:01 PM to 12:50 PM + 10 min Q & A                 Place: 2139 Frederick Reines Hall (FRH)

Date Speaker Title
March 31 Paolo Serra TBD
April 07 Miguel Rocha TBD
April 14 Jonelle Walsh TBD
April 21 Basilio Yniguez TBD
April 28 Sam Kim TBD
May 05 Carol Thornton TBD
May 12 Wenhao Liu TBD
May 19 Rachel Kuzio de Naray TBD
May 26 Helene Flohic TBD
June 02 Misty Bentz TBD

Schedule of talks from the previous academic year (2008-2009):

Schedule for Fall Quarter 2008

Time: 12:01 PM to 12:50 PM + 10 min Q & A                 Place: 2139 Frederick Reines Hall (FRH)

Date Speaker Title
Oct 08 Devdeep Sarkar  Cosmic Shear from Scalar Induced Gravity Waves
Oct 15 David Zimmerman Alignment Procedures for the Thirty Meter Telescope
Oct 22  TASCers

Erik Tollerud
Greg Martinez
Joe Wolf
Devdeep Sarkar
Special: Practice Talks (8'+2') for TASC 2008 Meeting

Hundreds of Milky Way Satellites?
Flux Lies and Bayesian Statistics
Dark Matter Halos of M31 Dwarf Galaxies
Weak Lensing of the Primary CMB Bispectrum
Oct 29 Erik Tollerud The WHIQII Survey
Nov 05 Jeff Cooke Detection of z~2 Type IIn Supernovae in the CFHTLS Deep Survey: A New Window to the High Redshift Universe
Nov12 No Seminar Because of conflict with Astrophysics Seminar
Nov 19 Miguel Rocha Cancelled
Nov 26 Paolo Serra Impact of foregrounds on the determination of inflationary parameters
Schedule for Winter Quarter 2009

Time: 12:01 PM to 12:50 PM + 10 min Q & A                 Place: 2139 Frederick Reines Hall (FRH)

Date Speaker Title
Jan 07 No Talk 213th AAS Meeting
Jan 14 Fill Humphrey TBD
Jan 21 Chris Purcell !Secret!
Jan 28 Kyle Stewart "Gas-rich Mergers in LCDM: Disk Survivability and Deposition of Cold Gas via Mergers"
Feb 04 No Talk
Feb11 No Talk
Feb 18 Greg Martinez Flux, lies, and bayesian statistics
Feb 25 Everybody! The "Worst Talk" Ever!
Mar 04 Quinn Minor Why binary stars make us think Milky Way satellites have more dark matter...
Mar 16 Jonelle Walsh Special: Candidacy Talk Practice
Schedule for Spring Quarter 2009

Time: 12:01 PM to 12:50 PM + 10 min Q & A                 Place: 2139 Frederick Reines Hall (FRH)

Date Speaker Title
April 01 No Talk Black Hole Meeting
April 08 TBD TBD
April 15 TBD TBD
April 22 TBD TBD
April 29 Shelley Wright IRIS: Peering into the Universe with the Upcoming Thirty Meter Telescope
May 06 Brian Marsteller Suspense
May 13 Chris Trinh "Constraining Environmental Processes Through Galaxy Pairs"
May 20 Joe Wolf (Practice Talk for Conference) Accurate dark matter masses for the faintest galaxies: a comparison between Andromeda and Milky Way satellites
May 27 No Talk No Talk
June 03 Carol Thornton TBD

"People should leave your talks feeling happier and wiser than when they came in. So often it's the opposite. Be an exception. Your talks should be clear, concise, fun, exciting, and never ever run over time. For each extra minute your talk runs over, 10% more of the audience will decide you are a jerk and start fantasizing about you falling down a trap door."

- John Baez, from his forthright essay "Advice for a Young Scientist".