2024
Fall Semester
Date Speaker/Title/Abstract
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
4/16/24 Bo Yang
(Comprehensive Exam) PAH Emission: Its Dependence on Starlight
4/9/24 Prof. Jianwei Lyu (University of Arizona)
AGN selection and demographics: a new age with JWST/MIRI
3/5/24 Alec Martin & Tom Sun
Selected Topics from the 2024 Winter AAS Meeting
2/20/24 Vicki Kuhn
(Comprehensive Exam) Mapping Physics Properties of Spiral Galaxies Over Cosmic Time
2/6/24 Prof. Christopher Howk (Notre Dame)
Observing the Global Evolution of Baryons, Metals, and Dust with Cosmic Time
1/23/24 Prof. Adam Helfer
Thermodynamics in a gravitational radiation zone