Astrophysics/Relativity Seminars | Physics and Astronomy

2025

Fall Semester
Date	Speaker/Title/Abstract
12/9/25	Harold Diaz-Quiroz TBD
12/2/25	Kishlay Singh A Comparative Study of Methods for Calculating the Figures of Rotating Giant Planets
11/18/25	Bangzheng (Tom) Sun New Insight from the James Webb Space Telescope on Variable Active Galactic Nuclei
11/4/25	Gourab Nandi Wide Fields, Deep Questions: Roman’s Survey Era
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