The Astronomy Colloquium is a highlighted event featuring a guest speaker each week during the semester.
Spring 2026 Schedule
Day and Time: Thursdays at 3:30 pm *unless otherwise specified
Location: Campbell Hall, Room 131 *unless otherwise specified
Colloquium Chair: Dan Weisz
| Date | Speaker (Institution) | Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1/22 | Gongjie Li (Georgia Tech) | Formation and Habitability of Close-in Exoplanets | Eugene Chiang |
| 1/29 | Calvin Leung (University of California, Berkeley) | From Radio Interferometry to Astrophysics and Cosmology using Fast Radio Bursts | Aaron Parsons |
| 2/5 | Yue Hu (Institute for Advanced Study) | Illuminating the Cosmic Web: The Origins of Mpc-scale Magnetism and Giant Radio Emission | Dan Stark |
| 2/12 | Vadim Semenov (Harvard University) | Bridging Scales and Cosmic Epochs of Turbulent Galaxy Formation | Raffaella Margutti |
| 2/19 | Sara Issaoun (Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian) | Building a Precision Laboratory for Black Hole Studies | Dan Kasen |
| 2/26 | Michael Zhang (University of Chicago) | Alien Skies Under Strange Suns | Courtney Dressing |
| 3/5 | Victoria Xu (University of California, Berkeley) | The quantum limit of gravitational-wave astronomy with LIGO | Raffaella Margutti |
| 3/12 | Stephen Taylor (Vanderbilt University) | Standing Out From The Crowd: Finding Supermassive Black-hole Binaries in Gravity & Light | Chung-Pei Ma |
| 3/19 | Stella Offner (University of Texas, Austin) | The Robot and I: Learning the evolution of gas from molecular clouds to stars | Jessica Lu |
| 3/26 | SPRING BREAK | SPRING BREAK | SPRING BREAK |
| 4/2 | Liam Connor (Harvard) | TBD | Wenbin Lu |
| 4/9 | Xiaohui Fan (University of Arizona) | TBD | Dan Stark |
| 4/16 | Eva Scheller -- joint with EPS | TBD | UCB EPS |
| 4/23 | Grace Telford (University of Utah) | TBD | Dan Weisz |
| 4/30 | Mathieu Renzo (University of Arizona) | TBD | Dominck Rowan |
| 5/7 | Exit Talks |