2021
Fall Semester
Date Speaker/Title/Abstract
11/2/21 Dr. Slava G. Turyshev (JPL/Caltech)
Direct High-Resolution Imaging of Exoplanets with the Solar Gravitational Lens
10/19/21 Jimmy (Chenxiaoji) Ling
Revisit the Role of (U)LIRGs in Global Star Formation Rate Density
10/12/21 Prof. Sergei Kopeikin
Pulsar Timing and its Applications for Testing General Relativity and Gravitational Wave Detection
10/5/21 Dr. John Forbes (Flatiron Institute)
Turbulent driving: literal and figurative connections between the cosmic web and star formation
9/28/21 Prof. Haojing Yan
Some Updates on the Dark Matter Measurement Experiments
9/14/21 Dr. Fangzhou Jiang (Caltech)
Galaxy-halo connection and near-field cosmology with numerical and semi-analytic methods
9/7/21 Prof. Adam Helfer
Energy-momentum and angular momentum of gravitational radiation (II)
8/31/21 Prof. Adam Helfer
Energy-momentum and angular momentum of gravitational radiation (I)
Spring Semester
Date Speaker/Title/Abstract
4/27/21 Jimmy Ling
Probing the Cosmic Dawn: Candidate Galaxies at Extremely High Redshift
4/20/21 Prof. Haojing Yan
Is the mystery of fast radio burst solved?
3/23/21 Dr. John Pharo
Give Peas A Chance: Using Green Pea Galaxies to Study Lyman-alpha Escape and Cosmic Reionization
3/16/21 Dr. Sandro Tacchella (CfA, Harvard)
The diversity of building up the quiescent sequence at redshift z~1
3/2/21 Dr. Adam Jermyn (Flatiron Institute)
Stellar evolution in AGN disks
2/2/21 Prof. Adam Helfer
What does it mean to perturb a black hole?