Astrophysics/Relativity Seminars | Physics and Astronomy

2023

Fall Semester
Date	Speaker/Title/Abstract
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)
8/29/23	Prof. Adam Helfer Can Measurements Change Hilbert Space? (I)

Spring Semester
Date	Speaker/Title/Abstract
5/2/23	Alec Martin "Resolving" tension between JWST observations and LCDM
4/25/23	Charles Mentzer Red Stars over PAHs
4/18/23	Prof. Sergei Kopeikin Gravitational signal propagation and aberration effects in the double pulsar
4/11/23	Tom Sun Matured Clusters from eROSITA: its synergy in studying environmentally dependent starburst activities
4/4/23	Harold Quiroz Machine Learning in present day Astronomy and Astrophysics
3/21/23	Teja Teppala Exploring quenching in the high redshift universe