Astronomy Colloquium
The Astronomy Colloquium is a highlighted event featuring a guest speaker each week during the semester.
Summer 2020
Day and Time: Mondays at 12:10 pm.
Location: Online
Event Contact: Mark Hayden
Colloquium Chairs: Dan Weisz (Summer 2020)
Upcoming Colloquium Schedule
Below is the Summer 2020 schedule; if you have any questions, please contact the speaker’s host, or one of the colloquium chairs.
| Date | Speaker (Institution) | Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6/1 |
Vikram Ravi (Caltech) |
Towards the origins of fast radio bursts | DeBoer |
| 6/8 |
Alex Ji (Carnegie Observatories) |
|
Weisz |
| 6/15 | Yuan Li (UC Berkeley) | Supermassive Black Hole Feedback in Massive Galaxies and Clusters | Quataert |
| 6/22 | Quinn Konopacky
(UCSD) |
Constraining Planet Formation with Spectroscopy of Direct Imaged Planets | Lu |
| 6/29 | Carl Rodriguez
(Harvard / Carnegie Mellon) |
How do you form a binary black hole? | Margalit |
| 7/6 | NO TALK | ||
| 7/13 |
Todd Thompson (Ohio State) |
TBA |
El-Badry |
| 7/20 |
Keivan Stassun (Vanderbilt) |
Fundamental Stellar Astrophysics in the Gaia Era: A New Understanding of Local Stellar Populations | Bloom |
| 7/27 |
Vicky Kalogera (Northwestern) CANCELED |
Gravitational-Wave Astronomy Five Years Since the First Detection: Astrophysical Populations, Surprises, and Future Outlook | Lu |