Astronomy Colloquium
The Astronomy Colloquium is a highlighted event featuring a guest speaker each week during the semester.
Fall 2020
Day and Time: Thursdays at 12:30 pm unless otherwise noted.
Location: Online
Event Contact: Mark Hayden
Colloquium Chairs: Josh Bloom (Fall 2020)
Upcoming Colloquium Schedule
Below is the Fall 2020 schedule; if you have any questions, please contact the speaker’s host, or one of the colloquium chairs.
| Date | Speaker (Institution) | Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8/27 |
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NO COLLOQUIUM | |
| 9/3 |
UC Berkeley Astronomy |
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| 9/10 | Mark Krumholz
(Australian National University) |
The Origin of Interstellar Turbulence
Talk at 3:30 p.m. |
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| 9/17 | Ekta Patel
(UC Berkeley) |
Dynamics of Local Group Satellite Galaxies in the Era of Precision Astrometry | |
| 9/24 | Hsiao-Wen Chen
(U. of Chicago) |
Characterizing the Baryon Cycle over Cosmic Time | Zheng |
| 10/1 | Charles Gammie
(U. of Illinois) |
Astrophysical Disks as Gaussian Random Fields | Ma |
| 10/8 | Lia Corrales
(U. of Michigan) |
New Frontiers of X-ray Exploration: From Astromineralogy to Supermassive Black Holes | Bloom |
| 10/15 | Nia Imara
(Harvard CfA) |
Lu | |
| 10/22 | Vicky Kalogera
(Northwestern) |
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| 10/29 | Jorge Moreno
(Pomona) |
Bloom | |
| 11/5 |
TBA
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| 11/12 | Marta Bryan
(UC Berkeley) |
Chiang | |
| 11/19 | J. Posselt
(USC) |
Kriek | |
| 11/26 | NO TALK – HOLIDAY | ||
| 12/3 | Laura Kreidberg
(Max Planck) |
Bloom |