Astrophysics/Relativity Seminars | Physics and Astronomy

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