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September[0] = ["17","Lasha Berezhiani","Princeton","Superfluid Dark Matter","","",""];
September[1] = ["24 (Bias Workshop)","","","","","No Seminar",""];
October[0]   = ["1","Ryan O'Leary","University of Colorado, Boulder","Young Pulsars and the Galactic Center GeV Gamma-ray Excess","Studies of Fermi data indicate an excess of GeV gamma rays around the Galactic center (GC), possibly due to dark matter.  I will show that young gamma-ray pulsars can yield a signal with a spectrum, amplitude, and morphology similar to the observed excess below 10 GeV.  I will also discuss the contributions of millisecond pulsars and a speculative 100 GeV dark matter particle to this signal.  Finally, I will mention a few interesting puzzles that arise from the underlying physics of pulsar emission and evolution.","",""];
October[1]   = ["8","Jennifer van Saders","Carnegie Observatories","Tuning the Clock: Making Sense of Stellar Rotation Observed with Kepler","Gyrochronology utilizes the spin-down of stars as a function of time as an indicator of stellar age. This technique has the potential to yield precise ages for large samples of stars, providing unprecedented chronological information for studies of the Milky Way and extrasolar planets. However, gyrochronology is in its adolescence: it has been tested under limited scenarios, but its weaknesses and limitations have hitherto been largely unexplored. With data from the Kepler mission we can address these gaps: we now have access to datasets of rotation periods for tens of thousands of stars, as well as independent asteroseismic ages and rotation periods for a few hundred old (main sequence) stars.  I will discuss my comparisons of theoretical rotation models to these Kepler data, which have yielded unexpected insights into the rotational lives of stars (and the Sun!), as well as a better understanding of the power and peril of gyrochronology as a tool.","",""];
October[2]   = ["15","Yacine Ali-Haimoud","Johns Hopkins","New tests of not-so-dark matter","","",""];
October[3]   = ["22","Valentin Assassi","IAS","Probing the Primordial Universe with Large-Scale Structure","","",""];
October[4]   = ["29","Tejaswi Venumadhav Nerella","IAS","Looking for dark matter in the neutrino sector: a tale of weak interactions in the strong coupling epoch","","",""];
November[0]  = ["5","Rongmon Bordoloi","MIT","Mapping the Circumgalactic Medium: The Origin and Structure of the Hidden Reservoir of Gas Around Galaxies","Our current understanding of how galaxies evolve over cosmic time is highly incomplete without understanding what is now known as the major baryonic component: the Circumgalactic medium (CGM). The CGM contains both the fuel for and the end products of star-formation in galaxies, but these regions are relatively hard to explore owing to their extremely low gas densities. The installation of the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) aboard the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has allowed us to make major advances in our ability to systematically map and study these diffuse regions of gaseous galaxy halos. I will present the latest results form two large HST/COS surveys which systematically characterize the CGM in HI and metal lines over more than three decades of galactic stellar mass. The CGM as seen by these programs is nearly ubiquitous in HI, patchy in most metals, and generally cool and bound. I will describe the implications of these results for galactic fueling and quenching, and speculate on where we might go from here.","",""];
November[1]  = ["12","Vasileios Paschalidis","Princeton","Surprises in Relativistic Simulations of Compact Object Binaries Involving Neutron Stars","","",""];
November[2]  = ["19","Shane Davis","University of Virgina","Why are Quasars Not Just Scaled-up Black Hole X-ray Binaries?","","",""];
November[3]  = ["26 (Thanksgiving)","","","","","No Seminar",""];
December[0]  = ["3","Sterl Phinney","Caltech","The unhealthy lives of companions to millisecond pulsars","Irradiation, bloating, bad circulation, hot flashes, cyclic mass loss. Pulsar radiation has been observed to do many suprising things to nearby companion stars (`black widows' and `redbacks'), posing several long-standing theoretical puzzles for which I will offer some solutions, along with an explanation of the behaviour of transitional millisecond pulsars and low-mass X-ray binaries.","",""];
December[1]  = ["10","Phil Arras","University of Virgina","Interaction of Exoplanet Upper Atmospheres With Stellar Radiation and Winds","Exoplanets orbiting close to their parent star are bombarded by intense radiation which heats and ionizes the upper atmosphere. This is thought to create an extended atmosphere of gas which may be probed spectroscopically during transits of the host star. At the high altitudes where atomic resonance lines are absorbed, many interesting effects due to the intrinsic planetary magnetic field, stellar tides, and interaction with the stellar wind and high energy radiation may have an important impact on gas flow in the atmosphere, and also mass loss from the planet. In this talk I'll discuss theoretical models for the upper atmosphere including these effects, and their possible imprint on the transit spectrum.","",""];