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2021
Fall Semester
Date Speaker/Title/Abstract
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?
Spring Semester
Date Speaker/Title/Abstract
4/28/26 Bangzheng (Tom) Sun
(Dissertation Defense) New Insights into Galaxy Evolution -- a Quartet of JWST Studies
4/21/26 Kishlay Singh
(Comprehensive Exam) A Comparative Study of Methods for Calculating the Figures of Rotating Giant Planets
4/14/26 Vicki Kuhn
AGNs, Black Holes, and Their Host Galaxies at Cosmic Noon
4/7/26 Dr. Lulu Zhang (University of Texas, San Antonio)
Feedback Signatures and Implications for the Central Engine in AGN Revealed by JWST Spectroscopy
3/31/26 Prof. Sergei Kopeikin
Gravitational Multipoles as Probes of Giant Planet Interiors