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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 08/31 |
Lorenzo Sironi (Columbia) |
Fast and Furious: Reconnection-Powered Emission in Black Hole Jets and Coronae
|
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 |