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Previous Events

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Event Name Date, Time and Host Summary
(Dissertation Defense) New Insights into Galaxy Evolution -- a Quartet of JWST Studies
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Physics 216

Speaker: Bangzheng (Tom) Sun

(Comprehensive Exam) A Comparative Study of Methods for Calculating the Figures of Rotating Giant Planets
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Physics 216

Speaker: Kishlay Singh

AGNs, Black Holes, and Their Host Galaxies at Cosmic Noon
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Physics Library (223A)

Speaker: Vicki Kuhn

Feedback Signatures and Implications for the Central Engine in AGN Revealed by JWST Spectroscopy
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Physics 216 (Speaker online)

Speaker: Dr. Lulu Zhang (University of Texas, San Antonio)

Gravitational Multipoles as Probes of Giant Planet Interiors
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Physics 216

Speaker: Prof. Sergei Kopeikin

GALEX + JWST: An investigation of star-forming galaxies in the low-z universe
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Physics 216

Speaker: Harold Diaz-Quiroz

(Special Seminar) Do time delay effects explain galactic rotation curves?
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Physics 216

Speaker: Prof. Thomas Curtright (University of Miami)

Lyman-α as an Observational Probe of Reionization in the JWST Era: Challenges and Pathways Forward
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Physics Library (223A)

Speaker: Mason Huberty (University of Minnesota)

SPT-selected protoclusters and the early emergence of the hot intracluster gas
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Physics 216 (Speaker online)

Speaker: Dazhi Zhou (University of British Columbia, Canada)

Prospect of detecting supernovae at high redshifts
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Physics 216

Speaker: Prof. Haojing Yan

What are JWST's Little Red Dots? Evidence for Young Supermassive Black Holes
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Online

Speaker: Dr. Vadim Rusakov (University of Manchester, UK)

GALEX + JWST: An investigation of star-forming galaxies in the low-z universe
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Speaker: Harold Diaz-Quiroz

A Comparative Study of Methods for Calculating the Figures of Rotating Giant Planets
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Speaker: Kishlay Singh

New Insight from the James Webb Space Telescope on Variable Active Galactic Nuclei
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Speaker: Bangzheng (Tom) Sun

Wide Fields, Deep Questions: Roman’s Survey Era
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Speaker: Gourab Nandi

Is the Stellar Initial Mass Function Universal?
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Speaker: Prof. Charles Steinhardt

Gravitational Wave Astronomy: Celebrating a Decade of Discovery
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Physics 216

Speaker: Prof. Sergei Kopeikin

A New Population of Point-like, Narrow-line Objects Revealed by the JWST
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Physics 216

Speaker: Prof. Haojing Yan

The co-evolution between galaxies and dark matter halos
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Physics 216 (Speaker online)

Speaker: Prof. Aldo Rodríguez-Puebla (National Autonomous University of Mexico)

Galaxy Evolution in the Cosmic Web: from Large to Small Scales of Cosmic Ecosystems
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Physics 216 (Speaker online)

Speaker: Dr. Farhanul Hasan (STScI)

Undergraduate Summer Research Showcase
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Physics 216
Speakers (Talks)

Mathieux Harper (Supermassive Black Holes)
Ellie Dugdale (Low-mass Galaxies)
Zack Borowiak (Machine Learning Baseball)
Carter Meyerhoff (Star Formation)

Speaker: Undergraduate Students

Deep-Sky Astrophotography from a Dark Site in New Mexico
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Physics 216

Speaker: Bangzheng (Tom) Sun

Cosmic very small dust grains as a natural laboratory of mesoscopic physics
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Physics 216

Speaker: Dr. Kenji Amazaki (Tohoku University, Japan)

Dissertation Defense: Investigating Bursty Star Formation and Interstellar Medium Conditions in Low-Mass Galaxies
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Physics Library (223A)

Speaker: Teja Teppala

Dissertation Defense: Motion of Test Particles around a Black Hole in the Hubble Universe
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Physics Library (223A)

Speaker: Vishal Jayswal

Dissertation Defense: Star-Forming Clumps and Their Host Galaxies: Insights from HST and JWST Observations
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Physics Library (223A)

Speaker: Alec Martin

Some updates of PAH in nearby galaxies and dust discovery on the Moon!
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Physics Library (223A)

Speaker: Bo Yang

Dissertation Defense: PAHs in the Universe: Organic Molecules Tracing Astrophysical Structures, Grain Growth, and Distribution
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Physics 216

Speaker: Charles Mentzer

Probing the Early Universe Using the Most Distant Quasars
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Physics 216

Speaker: Prof. Jinyi Yang (University of Michigan)

New Science Opportunities with Euclid and Roman
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Physics 216

Speaker: Bangzheng (Tom) Sun