2025
Spring Semester
Date Speaker/Title/Abstract
4/8/25 Dr. Jinyi Yang (University of Michigan)
TBD
4/1/25 Bangzheng (Tom) Sun
TBD
3/18/25 Vicki Kuhn
TBD
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
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?