2024
Fall Semester
Date Speaker/Title/Abstract
12/3/24 Vishal Jayswal
Local Coordinates and Motion of a Test Particle in the McVittie Spacetime
11/19/24 Prof. Sergei Kopeikin
Using Lie Groups to Determine the Shape of Rotating Celestial Bodies
11/12/24 Dr. Guochao (Jason) Sun (CIERA, Northwestern University)
Unveiling the physics of galaxy formation and its large-scale effects at Cosmic Dawn
11/5/24 Dr. Kalina Nedkova (STScI)
What can we learn from the evolution of galaxy sizes?
10/29/24 Harold Quiroz
(Comprehensive Exam) Investigating Environmentally Dependent Starburst Activities — Synergy of eROSITA, GALEX, Herschel, and WISE
10/22/24 Bangzheng (Tom) Sun
Very Bright NIRCam Dropouts: What’s Their Nature?
10/17/24 Charlie Lind-Thomsen (the Cosmic Dawn Center, University of Copenhagen)
(Special Seminar) A power spectral study of PHANGS galaxies with JWST MIRI: On the spatial scales of dust and PAHs
10/1/24 Charles Mentzer
Aromatics in Merging Galaxies Involving Active Galactic Nuclei and Starburst Cores as Probed by the James Webb Space Telescope
9/24/24 Prof. Haojing Yan
Two recent discoveries with JWST: (1) youngest galaxies and (2) earliest, confirmed disk galaxy
9/17/24 Prof. Ingrid Mann (The Arctic University of Norway)
Cosmic dust: from Interstellar Medium to Earth
9/10/24 Undergraduate Students
Undergraduate Summer Astronomy Research Showcase

Speakers (Talks):

  • Donovan Flagg (Cosmic Microwave Background Instrumentation)
  • Julianna Bayless (Asteroid Occultation)
  • Mathieux Harper (Starburst Galaxies)
  • Ellie Gates (Neutrinos in a Supernova)
9/3/24 Prof. Adam Helfer
The issue of bulk scattering of gravitational waves and matter (II)
8/27/24 Prof. Adam Helfer
The issue of bulk scattering of gravitational waves and matter (I)
Spring Semester
Date Speaker/Title/Abstract
4/30/24 Prof. Sergei Kopeikin
Lunar Time in General Relativity
4/23/24 Gourab Nandi
(Comprehensive Exam) Morphology of Dwarf Galaxies Since z=4