The Space Sciences Laboratory (SSL) colloquia are on Fridays at 3pm. They usually take place in the Addition Conference Room or the Annex Conference Room (but please check each announcement). Refreshments are served 20 mins before the colloquium. For those coming from the main campus, the hill shuttle bus leaves the Hearst Mining Circle at 2:40pm.

List of colloquia for this year:

September 7, 2012
Robert Lilis (SSL) - Magnetic, interior and crustal evolution of early Mars

September 28, 2012
Chris Koen (University of the Western Cape, South Africa) - A study of optical variability in untracool dwarfs

October 19, 2012
Joaquin Vieira (Caltech) - High-redshift, gravitationally lensed, dusty, starburst galaxies revealed by the South Pole Telescope and ALMA

October 26, 2012
Mariska Kriek (Astronomy Department, UC Berkeley) – The Formation Histories of Massive Galaxies

November 2, 2012
Vahe Petrosian (Stanford) – Non-parametric Determination of the Particle Acceleration Characteristicss Directly From Observations of Solar Flares and Supernova Remnant

November 9, 2012
Michael Sholl (SSL) – BigBOSS: A stage IV dark energy redshift survey

November 16, 2012
Nico Cappellutti (IASF Bologna) – Clustering of the Cosmic X-ray Background

November 28, 2012 – 2pm (special colloquium)
David Andrews (IRF Uppsala, Sweden) - The Martian Ionosphere and Induced Magnetosphere – observations made with Mars Express radar and particle data

November 30, 2012
Harvey Tananbaum (CfA, Harvard) – SMART-X – Square Meter, Arcsecond Resolution Telescope for X-rays Whither X-ray Astronomy post-Chandra?

December 7, 2012
Christian Reichardt (Physics Department, UC Berkeley) – By Dawn’s Early Light – what we are learning from new measurements of the cosmic microwave background

January 18, 2013
Stanislav Boldyrev (University of Wisconsin-Madison) - Astrophysical Plasma Turbulence at Subproton Scales

March 8, 2013
Henric Krawczynski (Washington University) - The Hard X-ray Polarimeter X-Calibur and X-ray Polarization Observations of Black Holes in X-ray Binaries

April 26, 2013
Lindsay Glesener (University of California, Berkeley) – Studying X-Rays from Solar Flares with the FOXSI Rocket

May 10, 2013
Gerhard Haerendel (Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics) - Open Questions Concerning the Onset of Magnetospheric Substorms