The Astronomy Colloquium is a highlighted event featuring a guest speaker each week during the semester.
Fall 2025 Schedule
Day and Time: Thursdays at 3:30 pm *unless otherwise specified
Location: Campbell Hall, Room 131 *unless otherwise specified
Colloquium Chair: Raffaella Margutti
| Date | Speaker (Institution) | Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|
| 08/21 | NO COLLOQUIUM | ||
| 08/28 | All (UC Berkeley) | One Minute Talks | |
| 09/04 | Ilaria Pascucci (Arizona) | Bridging the Gap: Linking Disk Observations to Exoplanet Demographics | Courtney Dressing |
| 09/11 | Maria Charisi (WSU) | Multi-Messenger Astrophysics With Pulsar Timing Arrays | Chung-Pei Ma |
| 09/18 | Emmanuel Schaan (Stanford) | Backlighting the Universe with the Cosmic Microwave Background | Calvin Leung |
| 09/25 | Ana Bonaca (Carnegie Inst.) | The Nature of Dark Matter with Stellar Streams in the LSST Era | Wenbin Lu |
| 10/02 | Joyce Yen (Washington) | Reconceptualizing Mentoring | Aaron Parsons |
| 10/09 | Eileen Gonzales (SFSU) | Clouds and Chemistry: Retrieving the Atmospheres of Brown Dwarfs | Courtney Dressing |
| 10/16 | Roger Fu (Harvard) | Observations of Magnetic Fields in Protoplanetary Disks | UCB EPS |
| 10/23 | Harley Katz (Chicago) | The Spectral Revolution at Cosmic Dawn: Interpreting High-Redshift JWST Observations with Next-Generation Models | Dan Stark |
| 10/30 | Sally Oey (Michigan) | Runaway Stars as a Probe of Binary Interactions and Massive Star Evolution | Jessica Lu |
| 11/06 | Xiaosheng Huang (USF) | TBD | Josh Bloom |
| 11/13 | Nick Stone (Wisconsin) | TBD | Erica Hammerstein |
| 11/20 | Brian Metzger (Columbia) | TBD | Ital Sfaradi |
| 11/27 | THANKSGIVING | NO COLLOQUIUM |