Astronomy Colloquium
The Astronomy Colloquium is a highlighted event featuring a guest speaker each week during the semester.
Fall 2023 Schedule
Day and Time: Thursdays at 3:30 pm
Location: Physics, Building 1
Colloquium Chair: Wenbin Lu (Fall 2023)
Date | Speaker (Institution) | Title | Host |
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08/31 |
Lorenzo Sironi (Columbia) |
Fast and Furious: Reconnection-Powered Emission in Black Hole Jets and Coronae
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Wenbin Lu |
09/07 | Vikram Ravi (Caltech) | The Deep Synoptic Array: The Origins of Fast Radio Bursts | Aaron Parsons |
09/14 | Ting Li (Toronto) | The Power of Milky Way’s Stellar Streams Enabled by Multi-Object Spectroscopic Surveys | Jessica Lu |
09/21 | CANCELED | ||
09/28 | Maria Drout (Toronto) | The Evolution, Influence, and Ultimate Fate of Massive Stars: Transient Phenomena and Stellar Astrophysics in the Era of Wide-Field Surveys | Raf Margutti |
10/05 | Masaru Shibata (AEI) | Exploring Neutron-Star Mergers in Numerical Relativity | Dan Kasen |
10/12 | Allyson Sheffield (CUNY/LaGuardia Community College) | OER and Astronomy Education | Jessica Lu |
10/19 | Megan Newcombe (U Maryland) | Efficient Degassing of Early-Formed Planetesimals Restricted Water Delivery to Earth | Penny Wieser (EPS) |
10/26 | Luke Kelley (Berkeley) | TBA | Raf Margutti |
11/02 | Kate Alexander (Arizona) | TBA | Raf Margutti |
11/09 | Ewan Douglas (Arizona) | TBA | Jessica Lu |
11/16 | Karin Sandstrom (UCSD) | TBA | Chris McKee |
11/23 | Thanksgiving Break | N/A | N/A |
11/30 | Erik Petigura (UCLA) | TBA | Eugene Chiang |