2022
Spring Semester
Date Speaker/Title/Abstract
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
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