Some past seminar calendars
Schedule for spring 2016
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| March 2, 2016 |
|
Conference:
IPSTA
2016 |
| March 16, 2016 |
Elad
Zinger / HUJI
|
Penetrating Gas Streams in the Intra-Cluster
Medium
|
March 30, 2016
|
Amit
Kashi / UMN
|
Supernova Impostors - The Giant Eruptions of
Very Massive Stars
|
| April 6, 2016 |
|
Conference: Isradynamics
2016 |
| April 13, 2016 |
Prateek
Sharma / IISC
|
Galactic outflows and Fermi bubbles
|
| May 4, 2016 |
Noam
Soker / Technion
|
Exploding massive stars with jets
|
| May
18. 2016 |
|
Workshop:
Fields
in matter and in vacuum |
May
25, 2016
|
Assaf
Shimony / BGU
|
Construction
of
a statistical model for compressible
Kelvin-Helmholzinstability using numerical simulations
and experiments
|
June
8, 2016
|
Silvia
Torres Peimbert / UNAM
|
The
primordial helium abundace and its relevance to
Astrophysics
|
June
22, 2016
|
Yuval
Birnboim / HUJI |
The
hydrodynamics of Cosmic Filaments
|
June
29, 2016
|
Yanai
Yedvab / BGU and NRCN |
Accurate
determination of delayed neutron emission rate based
on in-pile kinetic measurements
|
Semester break
|
Schedule for 2014/2015
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Links:
 |
- abstract |
 |
- suggested
reading |
|
| December 21, 2014 |
IPS
2014
Observational
astrophysics session
Astrophysics
theory session
|
|
| December 24, 2014 |
Asaf
Pe'er / UCC
|
A paradigm shift in understanding Gamma-ray
bursts
|
|
January 5, 2015
(Note: Monday)
|
Nazar Ickhsanov / Pulkovo obs. (Russia)
|
A new look at the Anomalous X-ray Pulsars |
|
| January 14, 2015 |
Dovi
Poznanski / TAU
|
An Emerging Coherent Picture of Red
Supergiant Supernova Explosions
|
|
| January 21, 2015 |
Doron
Chelouche / Haifa U.
|
Toward Better Understanding of Accretion
Phenomena in Quasars
|
|
| February 11, 2015 |
Yossi
Naor / BGU
|
MHD in galaxy clusters
|
|
Semester break
|
| March 11, 2015 |
Alexander
Vilenkin / Tufts
|
Special seminar: The universe beyond the
horizon
|
|
| March 25, 2015 |
Ido
Ben Dayan / U.Hamburg
|
TBD
|
|
| April 15, 2015 |
Victor Berezin / INP, Moscow
|
TBD
|
|
| May 20, 2015 |
Christoph
Pfrommer / Heidelberg
ITS
|
Cosmic ray feedback in galaxies and cool
core clusters
|
|
Schedule for 2012/2013
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Links:
|
- abstract |
|
- suggested
reading |
|
| July 11, 2012 |
Edoardo Striani / U. Tor Vergata
|
The surprising Crab Nebula
|
|
| October 31, 2012 |
Doron Lemze / JHU
|
Probing \Lambda CDM and the nature of DM
with dynamics of cluster galaxies
|
|
| November 14, 2012 |
Nathan
Kleeorin /BGU |
Weather, climate, and sun activity
|
|
| November 28, 2012 |
Raanan
Nordon / TAU |
Making stars - How do galaxies build their
stars over cosmic time?
|
|
| December 12,
2012 |
|
Cancelled |
|
| December 26,
2012 |
Ido Reiss / BGU |
Near-Equipartition Magnetic Fields Measured
in the Cool Cores of Galaxy Clusters
|
|
| January 16,
2013 |
Eyal
Gavish / BGU |
Can
the high energy end of the EGRB spectrum measured by
Fermi LAT be explained by extragalactic ultra high
energy cosmic rays?
|
|
| January 23,
2012 |
Nimrod Cohen / BGU |
Investigation of stably temperature
stratified turbulent flow in a lid driven cavity
|
|
|
|
|
|
| March 20,
2013 |
James
Lattimer / Stony Brook |
A Convergence on an Understanding of the
Dense Matter Equation of State |
|
April 7, 2013
Note: Sunday 11AM |
David
Eichler / BGU
|
The Great Carbon 14 Rise in the Year 775
|
|
| April 10, 2013 |
Nathaniel
Fisch / Princeton U
|
Some Examples of Rotating Magnetized Plasma
|
|
| April 17, 2013 |
Vladimir
Usov / WIS |
Strange stars and their observational
appearance |
|
| April 24, 2013 |
Vladimir
Usov / WIS |
Colliding stellar winds in binaries of
massive stars: theory and multi-wavelength
observations |
|
| May 8, 2013 |
Michael
Gedalin / BGU |
Shocks in the heliosphere: A little about
|
|
| May 29, 2013 |
Uri
Keshet / BGU |
Intergalactic shocks |
|
| June 12, 2013 |
Yonatan Elbaz / NCRC/BGU |
The
effect of initial conditions on Rayleigh-Taylor and
Richtmyer-Meshkov
instabilities and the characteristics of their
asymptotic self-similar
behavior
|
|
June 13, 2013
Note: Thursday 11AM
|
David
Spergel / Princeton U. |
WFIRST--- NASA next big mission after JWST -
An Overview
|
|
| June 26, 2013 |
Jonathan Stern / Technion |
Radiation Pressure Confinement in Active
Galaxies
|
|
| August 29, 2013 |
Smadar
Naoz / CfA
|
The Origins of Retrograde Hot Jupiters
|
|
Schedule for 2011/2012
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Links:
|
- abstract |
|
- suggested
reading |
|
December
7,
2011
|
Igor
Rogachevskii / BGU
|
Formation
of
Active Regions and Suspots: Theory and Numerical
Simulations
|
|
December
11,
2011
(Note: Sunday)
|
Yuri
Levin / Monash U.
|
On
Gravitational-wave
detection by Pulsar Timing Arrays
|
|
| December
21, 2011 |
Boaz
Katz
/ IAS
|
Super-eccentric
hot
Jupiters and High energy emission from Supernovae
|
|
| December
28, 2011 |
Shy
Genel / CfA
|
Dark
Matter Halos and z~2 Galaxies: Mergers, Smooth
Accretion, and Feedback
|
|
| January
4, 2012 |
Stefano
Ansoldi / U. of Udine
|
A
statistical approach to the study of Synchrotron-Self
Compton models
for the Spectral Energy Distributions of Active
Galactic nuclei
|
|
| January
11, 2012 |
Omer
Bromberg / HUJI
|
Implications
from jet breakout in long GRBs: an observational
imprint of
the Collapsar model, and the fraction of the short
GRBs. |
|
| January
18, 2012 |
Daniel
Ariad / BGU
|
The
role of pickup ions in the termination shock |
|
| January
25, 2012 |
Michal
Ostrowski / Jagiellonian U.
|
Universe
in TeV gamma rays: results of the H.E.S.S. experiment |
|
| March
14, 2012 |
Meir
Shimon / TAU |
Constraints
on the neutrino mass from SZ Surveys
|
|
| March
21, 2012 |
Doron
Kushnir / Weizmann |
A
physical mechanism for deflagration-to-detonation
transitions (DDTs)
|
|
| March
28, 2012 |
Eyal Neistein
/ MPG |
What
can we learn from the abundance and clustering of
galaxies? |
|
| April
18, 2012 |
Norita
Kawanaka / HUJI
|
Spectral
Features of Cosmic-ray Electrons/Positrons from
Astrophysical Sources |
|
| May
2, 2012 |
No
seminar (5th
Isradynamics conference in Jerusalem)
|
May
7, 2012
(note: Monday 2PM; joint with
particles)
|
Hagar
Landsman / WIS
|
Neutrino
astronomy at the South Pole: IceCube and beyond
|
|
| May
16, 2012 |
Gilad
Svirski / TAU
|
Light
curves following shock breakout through a thick wind
|
|
May
28, 2012
(Speical seminar: Monday 3PM) |
Nir
Shaviv / HUJI
|
Using
geology to derive the local density of (dark?) matter
in the plane of the Galaxy |
TBD
|
| May
30, 2012 |
Ephim
Golbraikh / BGU
|
On
some properties of the turbulent ship wake |
|
| June
6, 2012 |
Eran
Ofek / WIS
|
The
Palomar Transient Factory: review and results
|
|
| June
13, 2012 |
Dafne
Guetta / INAF and ORT-Braude |
Testing
quantum gravity with Fermi data |
|
| June
20, 2012 |
Rahul
Kumar / BGU
|
TBD
|
TBD
|
| June
27, 2012 |
Rennan
Barkana / TAU
|
21
cm tomography |
TBD
|
Organizer: Uri
Keshet
|