2025
Fall Semester
Date Speaker/Title/Abstract
12/9/25 Harold Diaz-Quiroz
TBD
12/2/25 Kishlay Singh
TBD
11/18/25 Bangzheng (Tom) Sun
TBD
11/4/25 Gourab Nandi
TBD
10/28/25 Prof. Charles Steinhardt
Is the Stellar Initial Mass Function Universal?
10/21/25 Prof. Sergei Kopeikin
Gravitational Wave Astronomy: Celebrating a Decade of Discovery
10/7/25 Prof. Haojing Yan
A New Population of Point-like, Narrow-line Objects Revealed by the JWST
9/30/25 Prof. Aldo Rodríguez-Puebla (National Autonomous University of Mexico)
The co-evolution between galaxies and dark matter halos
9/23/25 Dr. Farhanul Hasan (STScI)
Galaxy Evolution in the Cosmic Web: from Large to Small Scales of Cosmic Ecosystems
9/16/25 Undergraduate Students
Undergraduate Summer Research Showcase

Speakers (Talks)

Mathieux Harper (Supermassive Black Holes)
Ellie Dugdale (Low-mass Galaxies)
Zack Borowiak (Machine Learning Baseball)
Carter Meyerhoff (Star Formation)

9/9/25 Bangzheng (Tom) Sun
Deep-Sky Astrophotography from a Dark Site in New Mexico
9/2/25 Dr. Kenji Amazaki (Tohoku University, Japan)
Cosmic very small dust grains as a natural laboratory of mesoscopic physics
Spring Semester
Date Speaker/Title/Abstract
7/9/25 Teja Teppala
Dissertation Defense: Investigating Bursty Star Formation and Interstellar Medium Conditions in Low-Mass Galaxies
5/6/25 Vishal Jayswal
Dissertation Defense: Motion of Test Particles around a Black Hole in the Hubble Universe
4/29/25 Alec Martin
Dissertation Defense: Star-Forming Clumps and Their Host Galaxies: Insights from HST and JWST Observations