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Nov

21

Noche de Estrellas

Thu, November 21, 07:00 pm

Thornton Hall 4th floor
Nov

18

PHYS/ASTR Colloquium: "Making Fusion Happen: Evaluating the Performance of Next-Generation Plasma-Facing Materials" - Dr. Rob Kolasinski (Sandia National Laboratory)

Mon, November 18, 03:30 pm

SEC 210
Oct

23

M.S. Astro Thesis Talk: Morgan Nuñez - "First Classifications of M31 Variables and Linking of Multi-Epoch Spectroscopy with Long-Baseline Photometry"

Wed, October 23, 04:30 pm

Thornton Hall 210
Oct

21

PHYS/ASTR Colloquium: "The Shadow the Scientists program and two recent highlights from my research group" - Prof. Raja GuhaThakurta (U.C. Santa Cruz)

Mon, October 21, 03:30 pm

SEC 210
Oct

17

Noche de Estrellas

Thu, October 17, 07:00 pm

Thornton Hall 4th floor
Oct

14

PHYS/ASTR Colloquium: "Exploring the Diversity of Cold Worlds" - Dr. Brianna Lacy (Postdoc, U.C. Santa Cruz)

Mon, October 14, 03:30 pm

SEC 210
Oct

07

PHYS/ASTR Colloquium: "Promoting Student Success in Chemistry" - Prof. Michelle Sinapuelas (SF State)

Mon, October 07, 03:30 pm

SEC 210
Oct

02

M.S. Physics Thesis Talk: Trevor Hart - "Higgs Boson Decays into Bottom and Charm Quarks via Vector Boson Fusion"

Wed, October 02, 04:30 pm

Zoom
Sep

30

PHYS/ASTR Colloquium: "From Icy Moons to Giant Planets: Exploring the Deep Structure of Solar System Worlds with Tidal Observations" - Dr. Ben Idini (Vera Rubin Postdoctoral Fellow, U.C. Santa Cruz

Mon, September 30, 03:30 pm

SEC 210
Sep

27

Ferguson Observatory Field Trip hosted by SPACE: Students of Physics & Astronomy - A Community for Everyone

Fri, September 27, 05:30 pm
Sep

26

Noche de Estrellas

Thu, September 26, 07:00 pm

Thornton Hall 429
Sep

23

PHYS/ASTR Colloquium: "Echos of the Early Universe in Axion Haloscopes" - Dr. Nick Rodd (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

Mon, September 23, 03:30 pm

SEC 210
Sep

18

SPACE Potluck Movie Night

Wed, September 18, 06:45 pm

Thornton Hall 230
Sep

16

PHYS/ASTR Colloquium: Faculty Mini-Talks II

Mon, September 16, 03:30 pm

SEC 210
Sep

09

General Meeting of SPACE: Students of Physics & Astronomy - a Community for Everyone

Mon, September 09, 05:00 pm

Thornton Hall 123
Sep

09

PHYS/ASTR Colloquium: Faculty Mini-Talks I

Mon, September 09, 03:30 pm

SEC 210
Aug

08

M.S. Astro Culminating Project Talk: Prince Yadav - "Observing Anderson Localization in Pseudo-Randomly Wide Hybrid Plasmonic Waveguide Arrays"

Thu, August 08, 11:00 am

Blakeslee Room, Thornton Hall, 10th floor
Jun

06

M.S. Astro Thesis Talk: Yan Yan Ley - "Three-dimensional Simulations of Dust-laden Zombie Vortex Instability"

Thu, June 06, 03:00 pm

Blakeslee Room, 10th floor, Thornton Hall
Jun

06

M.S. Astro Thesis Talk: Kameron Gausling - "A Road Toward Macroturbulence Relations for the EXPRES Spectrograph"

Thu, June 06, 12:00 pm

Blakeslee Room, 10th floor, Thornton Hall
Jun

06

M.S. Astro Thesis Talk: Elena Fader - "The Effects of Resolution on Radial Velocities with EXPRES"

Thu, June 06, 09:00 am

Blakeslee Room, Thornton Hall, 10th floor
Jun

03

M.S. Physics Thesis Talk: Adam Duran - "SIMP/ELDER Dark Matter in Non-Standard Cosmologies"

Mon, June 03, 09:00 am

Zoom
May

23

PHYS/ASTR Graduation Celebration!

Thu, May 23, 06:00 pm

Studio One, Creative Arts Building 128
May

23

M.S. Astro Thesis Talk: Kim Long Le - "Three-Dimensional Quasi-Geostrophic Simulations of Jupiter’s Zonal Winds and Vortices"

Thu, May 23, 03:00 pm

Blakeslee Room, 10th floor, Thornton Hall
May

17

Astronomers for Planet Earth Job Resources Info Session

Fri, May 17, 12:00 pm

Zoom
May

16

M.S. Physics Thesis Talk: Genessa Benton - "Data-driven estimates for light-quark connected and strange plus light-quark disconnected hadronic g-2 window quantities"

Thu, May 16, 12:30 pm

Blakeslee Room, Thornton Hall, 10th floor
May

13

PHYS/ASTR Colloquium: "Imaging Spotted Stars" - Dr. Rachael Roettenbacher (51 Pegasi b Fellow, University of Michigan)

Mon, May 13, 03:30 pm

Thornton Hall 411
May

09

M.S. Astro Thesis Talk: Hassaan Azam - "Modeling the Dust Continuum Emission from Protoplanetary Disks"

Thu, May 09, 12:30 pm

Blakeslee Room, Thornton Hall, 10th floor
May

08

M.S. Astro Thesis Talk: Joe Bonin - "Predicting Parameters for Stellar Classification using Deep Neural Networks"

Wed, May 08, 04:30 pm

Thornton Hall 210
May

07

M.S. Astro Thesis Talk: Edward Ash - "A Dynamical Study of the ρ Coronae Borealis System"

Tue, May 07, 12:00 pm

Blakeslee Room, 10th floor, Thornton Hall
May

06

PHYS/ASTR Colloquium: "Can we ignore anthropogenic climate change?" - Dr. Rajan Gupta (Senior Research Scientist, Los Alamos National Laboratory)

Mon, May 06, 03:30 pm

Thornton Hall 411
May

03

College of Science & Engineering Student Project Showcase

Fri, May 03, 01:00 pm

Annex I
May

02

Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Charles F. Hagar Planetarium

Thu, May 02, 04:00 pm

Thornton Hall 411
Apr

29

PHYS/ASTR Colloquium: "Probing dark matter properties with Milky-Way satellite observations" - Dr. Ariane Dekker (Postdoc, KIPAC/U. Chicago)

Mon, April 29, 03:30 pm

Thornton Hall 411
Apr

25

Noche de Estrellas

Thu, April 25, 07:00 pm

Thornton Hall 429
Apr

25

M.S. Physics Thesis Talk: Gilbert Yau - "Higgs Transition in SU(3) Gauge Higgs Field Theory"

Thu, April 25, 12:00 pm

Blakeslee Room, Thornton Hall, 10th floor
Apr

24

S.P.A.C.E. Game Night

Wed, April 24, 04:30 pm

Thornton Hall 123
Apr

22

PHYS/ASTR Colloquium: "Why are some hurricanes seasons more active than others? The case of the Atlantic Ocean" - Dr. José Javier Hernández Ayala (Assoc. Prof., Sonoma State U.)

Mon, April 22, 03:30 pm

Thornton Hall 411
Apr

20

Explore SF State Admitted Students Day

Sat, April 20, 09:00 am

SF State University
Apr

15

PHYS/ASTR Colloquium: "Heavy element nucleosynthesis & kilonovae from compact object mergers" - Dr. Sanjana Curtis (NSF Astronomy & Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow, U.C. Berkeley)

Mon, April 15, 03:30 pm

Thornton Hall 411
Apr

08

PHYS/ASTR Colloquium: "Delayed Explosions of Red Supergiants Following `Failed' Supernovae" - Andrea Antoni (PhD Candidate, UC Berkeley)

Mon, April 08, 03:30 pm

Thornton Hall 411
Apr

08

Solar Eclipse!

Mon, April 08, 10:15 am

Thornton Hall plaza
Apr

01

S.P.A.C.E. Beach Picnic on Cesar Chavez Day!

Mon, April 01, 02:00 pm

Ocean Beach
Mar

21

Noche de Estrellas

Thu, March 21, 07:00 pm

Thornton Hall 429
Mar

21

M.S. Astro Thesis Talk: "The r-Process Enhancement of Stars from Chemodynamically Tagged Groups in the Milky Way Halo" - Jessica Agnos

Thu, March 21, 01:00 pm

Blakeslee Room, Thornton Hall, 10th floor
Mar

18

PHYS/ASTR Colloquium: "Challenging the Standard Paradigm of Thorne-Zytkow Object Formation" - Tenley Hutchinson-Smith (PhD Candidate, UCSC)

Mon, March 18, 03:30 pm

Thornton Hall 411
Mar

16

S.P.A.C.E. goes to Exploratorium

Sat, March 16, 11:00 am

Exploratorium
Mar

11

PHYS/ASTR Colloquium: "Eccentric Hot Jupiters as Dynamic Laboratories" - Dr. James Sikora (Postdoc, Lowell Observatory)

Mon, March 11, 03:30 pm

Thornton Hall 411
Mar

04

S.P.A.C.E. General Meeting

Mon, March 04, 05:00 pm

Thornton Hall 123
Mar

04

PHYS/ASTR Colloquium: "Everything You Need to Know about TERS and More" - Patrick Z. El-Khoury (Senior Research Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)

Mon, March 04, 03:30 pm

Thornton Hall 411
Mar

04

PHYS/ASTR Special Seminar: "Exploring Beyond Diffraction Limits: Advances in Multimodal Near-Field Spectroscopy" - Dr. Chih-Feng Wang (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)

Mon, March 04, 11:00 am

Blakeslee Room
Mar

01

Fog City Rocketry Club Launch Event

Fri, March 01, 04:15 pm

Lot 25
Mar

01

S.P.A.C.E. Virtual Seminar: "Physics Careers & Navigating Your Path" with Prof. Alexandra Miller (Sonoma State)

Fri, March 01, 02:00 pm

Zoom
Feb

29

Noche de Estrellas

Thu, February 29, 07:00 pm

Thornton Hall 429
Feb

28

S.P.A.C.E. Leap Year Social

Wed, February 28, 04:30 pm

Thornton Hall 123
Feb

26

PHYS/ASTR Colloquium: "Turbulent Mixing in the Upper Ocean Transition Layer" - Prof. Alexis Kaminski (U.C. Berkeley)

Mon, February 26, 03:30 pm

Thornton Hall 411
Feb

21

S.P.A.C.E. goes to San Francisco Amateur Astronomers public talk at Randall Museum

Wed, February 21, 07:00 pm

Randall Museum
Feb

19

PHYS/ASTR Colloquium: "Testing Inflation and Constraining Cosmology with the Oldest Photons" - Dr. Kimmy Wu (Postdoc, Stanford)

Mon, February 19, 03:30 pm

Thornton Hall 411
Feb

14

S.P.A.C.E. General Meeting

Wed, February 14, 04:30 pm

Thornton Hall 123
Feb

12

PHYS/ASTR Colloquium: "Towards Physically-Contextualized Computer Vision through Studies in the Cryosphere" - Ellianna Abrahams (PhD Candidate, U.C. Berkeley)

Mon, February 12, 03:30 pm

Thornton Hall 411
Feb

05

PHYS/ASTR Colloquium: "Sharing Our Science: Challenges and Opportunities in Communicating STEM" - Prof. Brandon Brown (University of San Francisco)

Mon, February 05, 03:30 pm

Thornton Hall 411
Jan

29

Special Colloquium to Honor Legacy of Prof. AKM Newaz

Mon, January 29, 03:30 pm

Seven Hills Conference Center