Colloquium
Colloquium Schedule
Astronomy Colloquia are held at 3:00 PM most Thursdays during the Autumn and Spring semesters. Colloquia will follow a hybrid format, meeting in the Chem and Biomolecular Eng and Chem (CBEC) Building - Room 130 for group watching of virtual colloquia and in-person speakers which will also be broadcast on Zoom.
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2023-2024 Colloquium Schedule
January 11 - No Colloquium - AAS Meeting
January 18 - No Colloquium - Faculty Meeting
January 25 - Ting Li (University of Toronto) - Milky Way's Stellar Streams as Cosmological Probes
February 1 - Tiziana DiMatteo (Carnegie Mellon University) - Massive Black Holes: Insights from Cosmological Simulations
February 8 - Juliette Becker (University of Wisconsin) - Planet Formation from a Dynamical Perspective: Explaining the Orbits of Ultra-Short-Period Planets Through Disk-Planet and Star-Planet Interactions
February 15 - Luke Bouma (California Institute of Technology) - Evolution of Exoplanets and their Broader Environments
February 22 - Tuguldur Sukhbold - From Explosive Simulations to Industrial Solutions
February 29 - Phil Hopkins (California Institute of Technology) - Supermassive Black Holes from AU to Megaparsec: Fundamentally New Physics in Accretion Disks
March 7 - No Colloquium - Faculty Meeting
March 14 - No Colloquium - Spring Break
March 21 - Peng Oh (University of California Santa Barbara) - The Multi-Scale Circumgalactic Medium
March 28 - Stephen Taylor (Vanderbilt University) - The Road Ahead For Gravitational-wave Astrophysics At Light-year Wavelengths
April 4 - Daniel Lecoanet (Northwestern University) - Recent Advances in Stellar Astrophysics from Multi-Dimensional Simulations
April 11 - Megan Donahue (Michigan State University) - Clues about AGN Feedback from observations of massive galaxies
April 18 - Varsha Kulkarni (University of South Carolina) - Tracing the Connections between Galaxies and their Circumgalactic Medium
April 25 - Andrey Kravstov (University of Chicago) - Examining Challenges to LCDM Model Near and Far: from Nearby Dwarf Galaxies to UV Bright Galaxies at z>5
May 2 - Cancelled
August 31 - No Colloquium
September 7 - No Colloquium - Faculty Meeting
September 14 - Scott Gaudi (OSU) - Hot, Warm, Cold, and Frigid Exoplanets from the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
September 21 - Constantine Deliyannis (Indiana University Bloomington) - Light Element Tracers (Li, Be, B) and the Secret Lives of Sun-like Stars (and the Universe)
September 28 - Ylva Götberg (Institute of Science and Technology Austria) - The discovery and properties of binary-stripped helium stars
October 5 - Carlos Badenes (University of Pittsburgh) - Stellar Multiplicity With Large Spectroscopic Surveys
October 12 - No Colloquium - Autumn Break
October 19 - No Colloquium - Faculty Meeting
October 26 - TBD
November 2 - Sean Johnson (University of Michigan) - Directly tracing the halo-scale gas flows that govern galaxy evolution at z~1
November 9 - Lucia Armillotta (Priceton University) - Cosmic-ray transport in star-forming galactic disks
November 16 - Evan Schneider (University of Pittsburgh) - Galaxy Simulations in the Era of Exascale
November 23 - No Colloquium - Thanksgiving
November 30 - Ben Brown (University of Colorado) - Approaching solar and stellar dynamos from unusual angles
December 7 - No Colloquium
2022 - 2023 Colloquium Schedule
January 12 - No Colloquium - AAS Meeting
January 19 - John Forbes (Simons Foundation) - Towards a Theory of Galaxy Formation in the Era of Good Looking Simulations
January 24 - Carolyn Raithel (IAS) - Multi-Messenger Probes of the Neutron Star Equation of State
January 31 - Meridith Joyce (CSFK Konkoly Observatory) - The Ages of Stars and Other Stories: Redefining the Standard for 1D Stellar Modeling Across the Mass Spectrum
February 9 - No Colloquium
February 14 - Anna Rosen (Center for Astronomy and Space Sciences - University of California, San Diego) - Sweating the Small Stuff: Unveiling the Crucial Role of Multi-scale Stellar Feedback in Galaxies
February 21 - Yuan-Sen Ting (Australian National University)
February 23 - No Colloquium - Faculty Meeting
March 2 - Adam Leroy (The Ohio State University) - PHANGS-JWST: New views of the matter cycle from highly resolved near- and mid-infrared imaging of galaxies
March 9 - No Colloquium - Faculty Meeting
March 16 - No Colloquium - Spring Break
March 23 - Rebecca (Becky) Smethurst (Oxford) - The growth of supermassive black holes is dominated by galaxy merger-free processes
March 28 - Molly Peeples (STScI) -
March 30 - Richard Teague (MIT) - Witnessing the Assembly of Planetary Systems
April 4 - Marshall Perrin (STScI) - JWST: From First Light to First Science
April 6 - No Colloquium - Faculty Meeting
Apr 13 - Sanchayeeta Borthakur (ASU) - The Illusive Pathways that Feed Galaxies
Apr 20: Sarah Millholland (MIT) - Systems of Short-Period Exoplanets: Regularities and Anomalies
Apr 27: No Colloquium - Faculty Meeting
August 25 - No Colloquium - Faculty Symposium
September 1 - Paul Beck (University of Graz) - Asteroseismology of red-giant stars and binaries systems
September 8 - Mark Reynolds (The Ohio State University) - Super-Eddington Accretion: Insight from Stellar Mass Neutron Stars and Black Holes
September 15 - Steve Ertel (University of Arizona) - The LBT Interferometer - a general-purpose instrument for sensitive, high-angular resolution, mid-infrared observations
September 22 - Eileen Gonzales (Carl Sagan Institute, Cornell University) - Read Between the Spectral Lines: Characterizing Substellar Atmospheres
September 29 - JD Smith (University of Toledo) - After the Fall: The Dust and Gas in Post-Starburst Galaxies
October 6 - Yvette Cendes (CfA) - Using a Violent Demise to Study Extreme Environments
October 13 - No Colloquium (Fall Break)
October 20 - No Colloquium
October 27 - Dan Wilkins (Stanford University) - Seeing to the Event Horizons of Supermassive Black Holes
November 3 - Thales Gutcke (Princeton University) - Pioneering the Realm of Ultra-High Resolution Galaxy Formation
November 10 - Anna Rosen (CfA) - A Massive Star is Born: How Stellar Feedback Limits Accretion onto Massive Stars
November 17 - No Colloquium
November 24 - No Colloquium (Thanksgiving Break)
December 1 - Christina Eilers (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) - The Growth of Supermassive Black Holes in the Early Universe
December 8 - No Colloquium
2021 - 2022 Colloquium Schedule
August 26 - No Colloqium
September 2 - Ami Choi (California Institute of Technology) In Person - Cosmology with DES
September 9 - No Colloquium
September 16 - Marina Kounkel (Vanderbilt University) Virtual - Young Stars
September 23 - Victor Aguirre Borsen-Koch (Aarhus University) - Building the Chronology of the Milky Way with Pulsating Stars
September 30 - Anna Ijjas (MPI for Gravitational Physics - Albert Einstein Institute) Virtual - New Frontiers in Fundamental Cosmology
October 7 - No Colloquium
October 14 - No Colloqium
October 21 - Celine Peroux (European Southern Observatory) Virtual - The Cosmic Baryon and Metal Cycles
October 28 - Christine Simpson (University of Chicago) - Simulating the Galaxy: How Computer Simulations Allow us to Test Theories of Galaxy Formation and Evolution
November 4 - Annalisa Pillepich Virtual (MPIA) - The Many Diverse Manifestations of Supermassive Black-Hole Feedback
November 11 - No Colloqium
November 18 - No Colloquium
November 25 - No Colloqium
December 2 - Ariadna Murguia Berthier (Northwestern University) - The Fate of the Merger Remnant in GW170817 and It's Imprint on the Jet Structure
January 6 - No Colloquium
January 13 - No Colloquium
January 20 - Katie Breivik (Flatiron Institute) - Binary Evolution: a Multi-messenger, Multi-band Puzzle - Virtual
January 27 - Jiamin Hou (University of Florida) - New Frontiers with N-Point Statistics of Large-Scale Structure - Virtual
February 3 - No Colloquium
February 10 - Diana Powell (Harvard University) - Microphysical Insights into Protoplanetary Disks and Exoplanet Atmospheres - Virtual
February 17 - TBA or No Colloquium
February 24 - Misty Bentz (Georgia State University) - Comparing Direct Black Hole Mass Measurements in AGNs - Virtual
March 3 - Sean Andrews (Harvard University) - Observing Planet Formation -Virtual
March 17 - No Colloqium
April 7 - Alex Ji (University of Chicago) - Dwarf Galaxy Archaeology in the Gaia Era - Virtual
April 27 - Nia Imara (University of California, Santa Cruz) - Before the Stars - Virtual
2020-2021 Colloquium Schedule
- January 14 - no colloquium - AAS MEETING
- January 21 - Fabian Walter (MPIA)
- February 4 - David Nataf (JHU)
- February 11 - Emily Levesque (University of Washington)
- February 18 - Laura Parker (McMaster University)
- February 25 - Catherine Espaillat (Boston University)
- March 11 - Joe Antognini (Private Industry)
- March 18 - Jessie Christiansen (NASA/IPAC)
- March 25 - Pauline Barmby (Western University)
- April 8 - Vikki Meadows (University of Washington)
- April 15 - Przemek Mroz (Caltech)
- September 17 - David Martin (OSU)
- October 8 - Karin Oberg (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
- October 15 - Luis Ho (KIAA-PKU)
- October 22 - Gurtina Besla (University of Arizona)
- October 29 - Jenny Greene (Princeton University)
- November 5 - Jacob Bean (University of Chicago)
- November 19 - Naomi McClure-Griffiths (Research School of Astronomy & Astrophysics)
- December 3 - Ian Crossfield (Kansas University)
- December 10 - Jessica Lu (UC Berkeley)
Past Colloquia
Spring 2020 Schedule:
January 9 - No Colloquium - AAS
January 16 - Rupali Chandar (University of Toledo) - From Birth to Death: The Life Cycle of Star Clusters
January 23 - Gordon Richards (Drexel University) - A Modern View of Quasars in the LSST Era
January 30 - Evan Kirby (Caltech) - Galactic Arcaeology: Galaxy Formation and Nucleosynthesis
February 6 - Miki Nakajima (Rochester Institute for Technology) - Origin of the Earth and Moon
February 13 - No Colloqium
February 14 - Savita Mathur (Instituto de Asrofísica de Canarias (IAC) & Rafael Garcia (Service d'Astrophysique du CEA) - TBA
February 20 - Eliza Kempton (University of Maryland) - Revealing the Atmospheres of Extrasolar Super-Earths
February 27 - Richard Townsend - University of Wisconsin
March 5 - No Colloqium
March 12 - No Colloquium - Spring Break
CANCELED - March 19 - Sean Andrews (Harvard University CfA) - Observing Planet Formation
CANCELED - March 26 - Jenny Greene - Princeton University
CANCELED - April 2 - Randall Smith - Harvard University CfA
April 9 - No Colloqium
CANCELED - April 16 - Elena Gallo - University of Michigan
CANCELED - April 23 - Debra Fisher - Yale University
Autumn 2019 Schedule:
Aug 22 - No Colloquium - Departmental Symposium
Aug 29 - No Colloquium
Sept 5 - No Colloquium
Sept 12 - No Colloquium - Faculty Meeting
Sept 19 - Ayan Acharyya (Australian National University) - ISM Conditions at Cosmic Noon: New Nebular Diagnostics and Mock IFU Observations
Sept 26 - Yuan-Seng Ting (Institute for Advanced Study) - Into the Starlight: Learning the Milky Way
Oct 3 - Mathieu Vrard (Ohio State University) - Determination of the Evolutionary States of Red Giant Stars through the Use of Seismology: A Review of the Different Existing Techniques
Oct 10 - No Colloquium - Autumn Break
Oct 17 - Ke Zhang (University of Michigan) - Tracing the Chemical Origins of Exoplanetary Worlds
Oct 24 - No Colloquium - Faculty Meeting
Oct 31 - Karin Sandstrom (UC San Diego) - Interstellar Dust at Low Metallicity
Nov 7 - Chris Stark (Space Telescope Science Institute) - The Exoplanet Yield Landscape for Future Space Telescopes
Nov 14 - Sarah Hörst (Johns Hopkins University) - Exploring Planetary Atmospheres in the Lab
Nov 21 - Rachel Bezanson (University of Pittsburgh) - The Formation of Massive Galaxies: Deep, High-Redshift Spectroscopy from the LEGA-C Survey and Beyond
Nov 28 - No Colloquium - Thanksgiving Break
Dec 4 - Chuck Steidel (California Institute of Technology) - Imaging the "Baryon Cycle" of Forming Stars
Dec 5 - Xiaohui Fan (University of Arizona) - Extreme Quasars During the Cosmic Dawn
Spring Semester 2019
Astronomy Colloquia are held at 4 pm most Thursdays during the Autumn and Spring semesters. All talks for Spring 2019 are in 1005 Smith Lab, and Coffee and Refreshments are served at 3:30pm in 4054 McPherson Lab, unless otherwise noted.
Schedule
Jan 17: No Colloquium
Jan 24: Eve Ostriker (Princeton) - Radiation feedback and the destruction of cluster-forming molecular clouds
Jan 31: Alan McConnachie (NRC Herzberg) - Deconstructing Stellar Halos in the Local Group
Feb 7: No Colloquium
Feb 14: No Colloquium
Feb 21: Erin Kara (University of Maryland) - X-ray Reverberation in Accreting Black Holes
Feb 28: Anne Medling (University of Toledo)
Mar 7: Kelly Holley-Bockelmann (Vanderbilt)
Mar 14: No Colloquium - Spring Break
Mar 21: Marla Geha (Yale)
Mar 28:Preethi Nair (Alabama) - The Impact of Secular Features on the Evolution of Disk Galaxies
Apr 4: Andrew Szentgyorgyi (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA)
Apr 11: No Colloquium
Apr 18: Camille Avestruz (University of Chicago) - Simulations for Cluster-Based Cosmology
May 16: Special Colloquium - Mark Krumholz (Australian National University)
Autumn Semester 2018
Astronomy Colloquia are held at 4 pm most Thursdays during the Autumn and Spring semesters. All talks are in 1005 Smith Lab, and Coffee and Refreshments are served at 3:30pm in 4054 McPherson Lab, unless otherwise noted.
Schedule
Aug 23: No Colloquium - Department Symposium
Aug 30: Andrew Benson (Carnegie) - The "N" in "N-Body"
Sep 6: No Colloquium
Sep 13: Alberto Bolatto (Maryland) - The Central Engine and Outflows in the Nuclear Starburst of NGC 253 as Revealed by ALMA
Sep 20: Mariska Kriek (UC Berkeley) - Reconstructing the Formation Histories of Massive Galaxies
Sep 27: No Colloquium
Oct 4: Karen Leighly (Oklahoma) - What's in the Wind? Spectral Synthesis Modeling of Broad Absorption Line Quasars
Oct 11: No Colloquium - Autumn Break
Oct 18: No Colloquium
Oct 25: Ben Montet (Chicago) - Understanding the evolution of planetary systems and their host stars from the ground and from space
Nov 1: Keith Hawkins (UT Austin) - Galactic Archaeology in the Gaia Era
Nov 8: Tim Linden (Ohio State) - The Rise of the Leptons: Emission from Pulsars will Dominate the next Decade of TeV Gamma-Ray Astronomy
Nov 15: Courtney Dressing (UC Berkeley)
Nov 22: No Colloquium - Thanksgiving
Nov 29: Lynne Hillenbrand (Caltech) - The Gaia Revolution in Pre-Main Sequence Stars and Star Clusters