Pizza Lunch is our the weekly gathering of the Astronomy Department to make announcements, learn about visitors for the week and (most importantly) talk to each other about science we're interested in. Visitors are invited to tell us a little about what they are working on (chalkboard-style for 5-10 mins or less), but the majority of the time is reserved for local faculty, research scientists, postdocs, grads and undergrads."

Date

Who

Subject

Who

Subject

Who

Subject

Who

Subject

Sep 25

David Levitan (Caltech)

PTF

Oct 2

Deborah Bard (Stanford)

Weak Lensing/LSST

Oct 9

Bob Penna (Harvard)

The alpha viscosity prescription in relativistic accretion disks

Sarah Miller (Caltech/UC Riverside)

A Test of IMF Evolution

Oct 16

Dan

1st year students

Oct 23

James Guillochon (UCSC)

2nd year students

Dan

Oct 30

Alkistis Pourtsidou (Bologna)

21cm BAO

Reshmi

NO PIZZA LUNCH today because of Sandy

Nov 6

NO pizza lunch, please VOTE

Nov 13

Zoltan and Matt

Larson Fest

Josh Peek

FAST

Daniel Szomoru

Compact galaxies and color gradients

Nov 20

Josh Schroeder

Fermi Symposium Report

Reshmi

News from the VHE front

Josh Peek

Fast

Matt et al.

Enzo workshop in Georgia

Nov 27

Andrea Ferrara (Pisa)

High Redshift Universe

Ludwig Oster

things he has been thinking about

Jen Donovan

GMC clouds and the X factor

Dec 4

Taka Tanaka (MPA)

BH accretion

Jules

Disappearing Neutron Stars

Dec 11

Chervin Laporte (MPA)

Modeling Dwarf Spheroidals

Slavko Bogdanov

X-rays from "Recycled" Pulsars

Romain Hascoet

Constraining GRB Lorentz factors from optical afterglow observations

Indrek Vurm

Radiative

mechanisms of prompt GRB emission".