Astrophysics/Relativity Seminars | Physics and Astronomy

2024

Spring Semester
Date	Speaker/Title/Abstract
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

2023

Fall Semester
Date	Speaker/Title/Abstract
12/5/23	Prof. Aaron Romanowsky (San Jose State University) New views of early star cluster and galaxy formation
11/28/23	Vicki Kuhn Spirals in Galaxies: A Review
11/14/23	Tom Sun Comprehensive Exam: Galaxy Luminosity Functions at z ~ 7 - 10 from JWST
11/7/23	Prof. Haojing Yan When did the first disk galaxies emerge?
10/31/23	Teja Teppala Hydrodynamical Simulations of the Galaxy Population: Successes and Challenges
10/24/23	Alec Martin Strong Lensing by Galaxies: Review of the Past, Present & Future
10/17/23	Gourab Nandi Candidate Dark Matter Stars observed by JWST
10/10/23	Prof. Sergei Kopeikin The Hellings-Downs correlation curve and detection of gravitational waves by pulsar timing array
10/3/23	Harold Quiroz Characterizing the true descendants of the first stars
9/26/23	Prof. Dale Kocevski (Colby College) Insights into Black Hole Growth in the Early Universe with JWST
9/19/23	Yunchong Wang (Stanford University) Towards a unified model for dwarf galaxy formation with UniverseMachine
9/12/23	Undergraduate Students Undergraduate Summer Astronomy Research Showcase * Jayden Francois (Tidal Disruption Events and Their Host Galaxies) * Logan Chambers (Low Surface Brightness Galaxies) * Donovan Flagg (Nuclear Astrophysics) * Julianna Bayless and Ellie Gates (Gravitational Lensing)
9/5/23	Prof. Adam Helfer Can Measurements Change Hilbert Space? (II)