Astrophysics/Relativity Seminars | Physics and Astronomy

2025

Spring Semester
Date	Speaker/Title/Abstract
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
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?