Astrophysics/Relativity Seminars | Physics and Astronomy

2022

Spring Semester
Date	Speaker/Title/Abstract
4/19/22	Dr. BoMee Lee (Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute / Caltech) Proving the nature of dark matter with the future surveys: galaxy shapes and redshift measurements
4/12/22	Dr. Fuyan Bian (European Southern Observatory) Evolution of Ionized Interstellar Medium Over Cosmic Time
3/15/22	Dr. Raymond Simons (Space Telescope Science Institute) The Kinematic and Chemical Transformation of Galaxies Over the Past 11 Billion Years
3/8/22	Prof. Sergei Kopeikin Strong-Field Gravity Tests with the Double Pulsar
3/1/22	Zhiyuan Ji (University of Massachusetts) Galaxy quenching at the Cosmic Noon Epoch
2/22/22	Dr. Maria Celeste Artale (University of Padova) Modeling the host galaxies of binary compact objects across cosmic time
2/15/22	Dr. John Pharo Star Formation in Strongly Lensed High-z Galaxies
2/8/22	Prof. Haojing Yan Astronomical Decadal Survey 2020
2/1/22	Prof. Adam Helfer Undecidability in logic and in physics (a report on work of Cubitt, Perez-Garcia and Wolf)
1/25/22	Prof. Adam Helfer The Anthropic Principle

2021

Fall Semester
Date	Speaker/Title/Abstract
12/7/21	Vishal Jayswal A Point Mass Placed in Cosmological Background
11/30/21	Alec Martin Demographics of Giant UV Star-forming Clumps at 0.5 < z < 1 in UVCANDELS
11/16/21	Dr. Bekir Baytas Faithful realizations of semiclassical truncations in quantum gravity
11/9/21	Dr. Ed Elson (University of Western Cape) Tracing HI across cosmic time using the MeerKAT telescope
11/2/21	Dr. Slava G. Turyshev (JPL/Caltech) Direct High-Resolution Imaging of Exoplanets with the Solar Gravitational Lens