Theoretical Astrophysics Center seminars are a highlighted event featuring a guest speaker each week during the semester.
Spring 2026 Schedule
Day and Time: Mondays at 12:00 pm *unless otherwise specified
Location: Campbell Hall, Room 131 *unless otherwise specified
TAC Director: Dan Kasen
| Date | Speaker (Institution) | Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1/26 | Yuanhong Qu (University of Nevada, Las Vegas) | Nonlinear Propagation of Fast Radio Bursts and the Origin of Long-Period Radio Transients | Wenbin Lu |
| 2/2 | David Vartanyan (University of Idaho) | Core Collapse Supernovae: A Theoretical Survey for the Transient Sky | Tianshu Wang |
| 2/9 | Jesse Han (Stanford) | A Supermassive Black Hole in the LMC and How Roman Can Find It | Siyang Li |
| 2/16 | Holiday | Holiday | Holiday |
| 2/23 | TAC Show-And-Tell (No Speaker) | No Title | No Host |
| 3/2 | Anirudh Patel (Columbia) | Nucleosynthesis, Radioactively Powered Transients, and Ultra-Heavy Cosmic Rays From Magnetar Eruptions | TBD |
| 3/9 | Peter Nugent (LBNL) | Vibe Coding for Astrophysics: AI-Assisted Development with Roo and Claude | TBD |
| 3/16 | Tom Wagg (CCA) | From Supernova Feedback to Milky Way Black Holes: Using Cogsworth To Perform Population Synthesis With Galactic Dynamics | Jessica Lu |
| 3/23 | Spring Break | Spring Break | Spring Break |
| 3/30 | Thomas Pfiel (CCA) | How Dust Evolution Shapes Protoplanetary Disks - Towards an Understanding of the Initial Conditions for Planet Formation | Rixin Lu |
| 4/6 | Elias Most (Caltech) | Spacetime In Turmoil: Insights Into Merging Black Holes and Neutron Stars from Computational Relativistic Astrophysics | Dan Kasen |
| 4/13 | Robyn Sanderson (University of Pennsylvania) | New Probes of Dark Matter From Innovations In Galactic Dynamics | Natasha Abrams |
| 4/20 | Kyle Rocha (University of California, San Diego) | Next-generation binary population synthesis with POSYDON: new insights and challenges | Abby Lee |
| 4/27 | Hila Glanz (Caltech) | TBD | TBD |