Astrophysics/Relativity

Fall 2020
Date	Speaker/Title/Abstract
09/01/2020	Prof. Adam Helfer Gravitational radiation memory effects
09/08/2020	Prof. Haojing Yan Changing-look Quasars
09/15/2020	Dr. John Pharo Overdensities, Emission Lines, and Star Formation in the Faint Infrared Grism Survey
09/22/2020	Weichen Wang (Johns Hopkins University) Galactic Winds at High Redshift: Where Do They Come from?
09/29/2020	Dr. Christina Williams (U. of Arizona / Steward Obs.) Discovery of massive, infrared-"dark" galaxies in the early Universe, and our future view with the James Webb Space Telescope
10/06/2020	Lisa Shepard Satellite Mega-Constellations and the Night Sky
10/13/2020	Siddhartha Gurung Lopez (MS&T) Determining the systemic redshift of Lyman-alpha emitters with neural networks and improving the measured large-scale clustering
10/20/2020	Prof. Sergei Kopeikin The Science of Fundamental Catalogs
10/27/2020	Lauryn Williams REU Experience: Comparisons of Novel Imaging and Spectroscopic Infrared Eclipse Observations in 2017
11/03/2020	Dripta Bhattacharjee (MS&T) Absolute calibration of the global network of GW detectors and its implications for LIGO science
11/10/2020	Dr. Ryan Quitzow-James (MS&T) TBD
11/17/2020	TBD TBD
12/01/2020	Dr. Xin Wang (Caltech) TBD
12/08/2020	Chenxiaoji (Jimmy) Ling TBD

Spring 2020
Date	Speaker/Title/Abstract
02/04/2020	Prof. Adam Helfer Hawking radiation and tunneling
02/11/2020	Prof. Adam Helfer Hawking radiation and tunneling (II)

Fall 2019
Date	Speaker/Title/Abstract
08/27/2019	Prof. Adam Helfer More on “magnetic” effects in general relativity
09/03/2019	Prof. Adam Helfer More on “magnetic” effects in general relativity (II)
09/10/2019	Bandon Decker (UMKC) The Massive and Distant Clusters of WISE Survey (MaDCoWS): Stellar mass fractions of infrared-selected galaxy clusters at z~1
09/17/2019	Dr. Timothy Carleton Environmental Influences on Ultra Diffuse Dwarf Galaxies

Physics and Astronomy