Astronomy Colloquium

The Astronomy Colloquium is a highlighted event featuring a guest speaker each week during the semester.

Upcoming Colloquium Schedule

Below is the Spring 2023 schedule; if you have any questions, please contact the speaker’s host, or the colloquium chair.

Day and Time: Mondays and Thursdays at 12:30 pm
Location: Campbell Hall, Room 131
Colloquium Chair: Wenbin Lu (Spring 2023)

Date	Speaker (Institution)	Title	Host
1/26	Alexander Ji	Star Formation and R-Process Timescales in an Ultrafaint Dwarf Galaxy	Wenbin Lu
1/30	Steph Sallum	Toward a Census of Directly Characterized Exoplanets	Courtney Dressing
2/2	Kevin Burdge	Identifying and characterizing millihertz gravitational wave sources and other minute to hour timescale compact object variables with synoptic surveys	Alex Filippenko
2/6	Ilaria Caiazzo	From Gaia to LISA: white dwarfs at the center of stellar revolution	Wenbin Lu
2/9	Joel Leja	Powered by Rainbows, Stars, and Machines: A Rapid and Inexorable AI Revolution in Galaxy Evolution	Raffaella Margutti
2/13	Brendan Bowler	Imaging Gas Giants to Terrestrial Worlds: Revealing the Formation, Dynamic Histories, and Atmospheres of Exoplanets	Eugene Chiang
2/16	Andrew Chael	Horizon-scale images of black hole accretion and jet launching	Wenbin Lu
2/23	Canceled
2/27	Michael Johnson	The Next Decade of Discoveries with Radio Interferometry: Bringing Nature’s Deepest Mysteries into View	Chung-Pei Ma
3/2	Daniel Stark	Galaxies in the Reionization Era: New Insight from Early JWST and Ground-Based Telescopes	Dan Weisz
3/9	Caitlin Casey	Formed too Fast: Massive Galaxies at Cosmic Dawn	Raffaella Margutti
3/16	Sean Andrews	TBD	Eugene Chiang

Day and Time: Thursdays at 3:30 pm
Location: Physics Building, Room 1
Colloquium Chair: Wenbin Lu (Spring 2023)

3/23	TBD	TBD	TBD
4/6	Lorenzo Sironi	TBD	Wenbin Lu
4/13	Brett McGuire	TBD	Jenny Bergner
4/20	TBD	TBD	TBD
4/27	Blakesley Burkhart (Rutgers University)	Turbulent Beginnings: A Predictive Theory of Star Formation in the Interstellar Medium	Chris McKee