Astronomy Colloquium
The Astronomy Colloquium is a highlighted event featuring a guest speaker each week during the semester.
Day and Time: Thursdays at 3:45 pm.
Location: 1 LeConte Hall
Event Contact: Mark Hayden
Colloquium Chairs: Dan Weisz (Fall 2019)
Upcoming Colloquium Schedule
Below is the Fall 2019 schedule; if you have any questions, please contact the speaker’s host, or one of the colloquium chairs.
| Date | Speaker (Institution) | Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10/3 |
Bruce Jakosky (Colorado) |
The inventory and history of CO2 and H2O on Mars – past, present, and future |
de Pater |
| 10/10 |
Quinn Konopacky (UCSD) |
Constraining Planet Formation with Spectroscopy of Direct Imaged Planets |
Dressing |
| 10/17 |
Paul Schecter (MIT) |
The Contribution of Faint, Failed and Defunct Stars to the “Stellar” Masses of Galaxies |
Lu |
| 10/24 |
Suvi Gezari (Maryland) |
Tidal Disruption Event Observations in the Golden Age of Time Domain Astronomy |
Bloom |
| 10/31 |
Raffaella Margutti (Northwestern) |
Discovery frontiers in the new era of Time Domain Multi-Messenger Astrophysics | Kasen |
| 11/7 |
Kunal Mooley (Caltech) |
Welcome to the Gravitational-Wave Multi-Messenger Era | Bloom |
| 11/14 |
Sara Ellison (UVic) |
Star formation in low redshift galaxies: the where and the why |
Kriek |
| 11/21 |
Hao Cao (Harvard) |
A magnetic perspective on the interiors of giant planets |
Militzer |
| 11/28 | HOLIDAY | No talk scheduled today. | |
| 12/5 |
Kathryn Johnston (Columbia) |
Welcome to the Milky Way! Gaia, the Galaxy and me | Weisz |
| ***END OF COLLOQUIUM SERIES FOR FALL 2019***
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