2025
Spring Semester
Date Speaker/Title/Abstract
5/15/25 Teja Teppala
Dissertation Defense
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
4/22/25 Bo Yang
Some updates of PAH in nearby galaxies and dust discovery on the Moon!
4/15/25 Charles Mentzer
Dissertation Defense: PAHs in the Universe: Organic Molecules Tracing Astrophysical Structures, Grain Growth, and Distribution
4/8/25 Prof. Jinyi Yang (University of Michigan)
Probing the Early Universe Using the Most Distant Quasars
4/1/25 Bangzheng (Tom) Sun
New Science Opportunities with Euclid and Roman
3/18/25 Vicki Kuhn
The history of women in astronomy
3/4/25 Prof. Haojing Yan
Time-domain Science in the JWST Era - a case study from the PEARLS program
2/25/25 Prof. Charles Steinhardt
Is Inflation Falsifiable?
2/18/25 Dr. L. Y. Aaron Yung (STScI)
Three years of searching for the most distant galaxies with JWST and what have we learned so far?
2/11/25 Alec Martin / Charles Mentzer / Bo Yang
AAS Updates
2/4/25 Prof. Adam Helfer
More on infinitely many quantum measurements (II)
1/28/25 Prof. Adam Helfer
More on infinitely many quantum measurements (I)
2024
Fall Semester
Date Speaker/Title/Abstract
12/3/24 Vishal Jayswal
Local Coordinates and Motion of a Test Particle in the McVittie Spacetime