Astronomy Colloquium
The Astronomy Colloquium is a highlighted event featuring a guest speaker each week during the semester.
Spring 2022
Day and Time: Thursdays at 3:30 pm
Location: 1 Physics North
Colloquium Chair: Ryan Chornock (Spring 2022)
Upcoming Colloquium Schedule
Below is the Spring 2022 schedule; if you have any questions, please contact the speaker’s host, or the colloquium chair.
| Date | Speaker (Institution) | Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2/3 |
Nils Deppe (Caltech) |
Keeping Up With Experimentalists: Accurate
predictions for multimessenger gravitational
wave astrophysics
|
Eugene Chiang |
| 2/10 |
Masha Okounkova (Flatiron Institute) |
Gravitational wave astronomy: putting Einstein to the test
|
Chung-Pei Ma |
| 2/17 | Maya Fishback | Astrophysical Lessons from LIGO-Virgo’s Black Holes | Jessica Lu |
| 2/24 | Jane Huang | Observational Frontiers in Planet Formation | Aaron Parsons |
| 3/3 | Seiji Fujimoto | Linking visible and obscured sides of the early universe | Dan Weisz |
| 3/10 | Guðmundur Stefánsson | Pathways to Detecting and Characterizing Rocky Habitable Planets | David Schlegel |
| 3/17 | Wenbin Lu (UC Berkeley) | EM/GW Emission from White Dwarf Tidal Capture | TBD |
| 3/24 | Spring Break | No Colloquium | TBD |
| 3/31 | Miles Cranmer | Interpretable Machine Learning for Science | Bruce Buffett |
| 4/7 | Vanessa Böhm (UC Berkeley) | Machine Learning for Astrophysical Data Analysis | Dan Kasen |
| 4/14 | Rodrigo Luger | TBD | Raffaella Margutti |
| 4/21 | Cancelled | N/A | N/A |
| 4/28 | Cancelled | N/A | N/A |
| 5/5 | Ned Molter (UC Berkeley) | The Uranus & Neptune Systems: Living Fossils of Planet Formation | Josh Bloom |
| 5/5 | Philipp Kempski (UC Berkeley) | Cosmic Rays in Galaxies and Clusters | Josh Bloom |