| April 2017 |
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| 3 A/V Work on room (9:00 AM - 12:00 PM) AstroCoffee (11:00 AM - 11:30 AM) Federica Bianco, How can an astronomer help you save on your electrical bill (we can't) and help save the world (we'll see about that). (12:30 PM - 1:30 PM) | 4 Kin Chung Fong, Listening to the hydrodynamic noise of Dirac fluid in graphene (11:00 AM - 12:00 PM) + Abstract Physics (1:30 PM - 3:30 PM) + Abstract Astro Particle Group Meeting (2:00 PM - 3:30 PM) + Abstract | 5 Eder Izaguirre, Low Energy Accelerator Probes of a Dark Sector (2:00 PM) + Abstract | 6 | 7 Colin Hill, New Information in Ancient Photons: Novel Approaches to CMB Secondary Anisotropies (11:00 AM - 12:00 PM) + Abstract AstroCoffee (1:30 PM - 2:00 PM) |
| 10 Maryam Modjaz, Superluminous Supernovae - What powers their brilliance? (12:30 PM - 1:30 PM) + Abstract Astro Particle Group Meeting (1:30 PM - 2:30 PM) + Abstract | 11 Graduate Students (10:00 AM - 12:30 PM) Physics (1:30 PM - 3:30 PM) + Abstract Tim Tait, Evidence for a ~17 MeV Particle in Rare Beryllium-8 Decays? (2:00 PM - 3:30 PM) + Abstract | 12 Andrea Tesi, Compositeness at the TeV scale (2:00 PM) + Abstract | 13 Various grad students (1:00 PM - 2:00 PM) Kai Liu, Nanomagnetic Playground: Magneto-Ionics and HAMR Media (2:00 PM - 3:00 PM) + Abstract Blanton, Tinker, Pullen (2:00 PM - 3:30 PM) Rosalba Perna, Highly magnetic neutron stars: bewildering astrophysical laboratories and cosmological tools (4:00 PM - 5:00 PM) + Abstract | 14 Ruth Angus, Unlocking stellar ages with Gaia: prospects for galactic archaeology and exoplanet populations (11:00 AM - 12:00 PM) + Abstract AstroCoffee (1:30 PM - 2:00 PM) |
| 17 Astrocoffee (11:00 AM - 11:30 AM) Geoffrey Ryan, A New Way To Grow Black Holes (12:30 PM - 1:30 PM) + Abstract EPP, TBA (4:00 PM - 5:00 PM) + Abstract | 18 Nicholas Rodd, Gamma-ray Constraints on Decaying Dark Matter and Implications for IceCube (12:30 PM - 1:30 PM) + Abstract Physics (1:30 PM - 3:30 PM) + Abstract Astro Particle Group Meeting (2:00 PM - 3:30 PM) + Abstract MJ Vakili, Methods in Computational Cosmology (2:30 PM - 3:30 PM) MJ Vakili, Thesis defense with committee (3:31 PM - 5:00 PM) + Abstract | 19 , Middle/high school visit (12:30 PM - 2:00 PM) Lam Hui, Two applications of Nambu-Goldstone bosons in cosmology (2:00 PM) + Abstract | 20 Jack Ireland, The Helioviewer Project: enabling solar image data visualization for everyone (11:00 AM - 11:30 AM) + Abstract Andrew Inglis, AFINO: an automated search for quasi-periodic pulsations in solar flare X-ray data (11:30 AM - 12:00 PM) + Abstract Various grad students (1:00 PM - 2:00 PM) Blanton, Tinker, Pullen (2:00 PM - 3:30 PM) Imre Bartos, Multi-messenger Astrophysics with Advanced LIGO: The Road (and Roadblocks) Ahead (4:00 PM - 5:00 PM) + Abstract | 21 Eliot Quataert, The Surprisingly Dynamic Last Years in the Lives of Massive Stars (11:00 AM - 12:15 PM) + Abstract AstroCoffee (1:30 PM - 2:00 PM) EPP, TBA (2:00 PM - 3:00 PM) + Abstract |
| 24 AstroCoffee (11:00 AM - 11:30 AM) Daniele Alves, The visible QCD axion in the MeV mass range (12:30 PM - 1:30 PM) | 25 Salvator Lombardo, Viable Twin Cosmology from Neutrino Mixing (12:40 PM - 1:40 PM) + Abstract Physics (1:30 PM - 3:30 PM) + Abstract Geoffrey Ryan, Numerical Simulations of Black Hole Accretions (2:00 PM - 4:30 PM) Astro Particle Group Meeting (2:00 PM - 3:30 PM) -- Abstract: Presentations about research projects Everyone is welcome to attend. | 26 Lasma Alberte, Holographic massive gravity: solids and fluids (2:00 PM) + Abstract | 27 Various grad students (1:00 PM - 2:00 PM) Blanton, Tinker, Pullen (2:00 PM - 3:30 PM) Daniel Whiteson, Cosmic Rays in Your Pocket (4:00 PM - 5:00 PM) + Abstract | 28 Iraj Eshghi, TBA (9:00 AM - 10:59 AM) Andy Howell, A new window into supernovae and their progenitors with Las Cumbres Observatory (11:00 AM - 12:15 PM) + Abstract AstroCoffee (1:30 PM - 2:00 PM) |