Previous Events

To see the upcoming events and seminars, please check the Events page.

Event Name Date, Time and Host Summary
(Comprehensive Exam) Morphology of Dwarf Galaxies Since z=4
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Physics 216

Speaker: Gourab Nandi

(Comprehensive Exam) PAH Emission: Its Dependence on Starlight
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Physics 216

Speaker: Bo Yang

AGN selection and demographics: a new age with JWST/MIRI
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Physics 216

Speaker: Prof. Jianwei Lyu (University of Arizona)

Selected Topics from the 2024 Winter AAS Meeting
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Physics 216

Speaker: Alec Martin & Tom Sun

(Comprehensive Exam) Mapping Physics Properties of Spiral Galaxies Over Cosmic Time
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Physics 216

Speaker: Vicki Kuhn

Observing the Global Evolution of Baryons, Metals, and Dust with Cosmic Time
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Physics 216

Speaker: Prof. Christopher Howk (Notre Dame)

Thermodynamics in a gravitational radiation zone
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Physics 216

Speaker: Prof. Adam Helfer

New views of early star cluster and galaxy formation
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Physics 216 (remote speaker)

Speaker: Prof. Aaron Romanowsky (San Jose State University)

Spirals in Galaxies: A Review
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Physics 216

Speaker: Vicki Kuhn

Comprehensive Exam: Galaxy Luminosity Functions at z ~ 7 - 10 from JWST
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Physics 216

Speaker: Tom Sun

When did the first disk galaxies emerge?
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Physics 216

Speaker: Prof. Haojing Yan

Hydrodynamical Simulations of the Galaxy Population: Successes and Challenges
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Physics 216

Speaker: Teja Teppala

Strong Lensing by Galaxies: Review of the Past, Present & Future
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Physics 216

Speaker: Alec Martin

Candidate Dark Matter Stars observed by JWST
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Physics 216

Speaker: Gourab Nandi

The Hellings-Downs correlation curve and detection of gravitational waves by pulsar timing array
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Physics 216

Speaker: Prof. Sergei Kopeikin

Characterizing the true descendants of the first stars
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Physics 216

Speaker: Harold Quiroz

Insights into Black Hole Growth in the Early Universe with JWST
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Physics 216 (remote speaker)

Speaker: Prof. Dale Kocevski (Colby College)

Towards a unified model for dwarf galaxy formation with UniverseMachine
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Physics 216 (remote speaker)

Speaker: Yunchong Wang (Stanford University)

Undergraduate Summer Astronomy Research Showcase
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Physics 216
* Jayden Francois (Tidal Disruption Events and Their Host Galaxies) * Logan Chambers (Low Surface Brightness Galaxies) * Donovan Flagg (Nuclear Astrophysics) * Julianna Bayless and Ellie Gates (Gravitational Lensing)

Speaker: Undergraduate Students

Can Measurements Change Hilbert Space? (II)
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Physics 216

Speaker: Prof. Adam Helfer

Can Measurements Change Hilbert Space? (I)
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Physics 216

Speaker: Prof. Adam Helfer

"Resolving" tension between JWST observations and LCDM
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Virtual

Speaker: Alec Martin

Red Stars over PAHs
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Virtual

Speaker: Charles Mentzer

Gravitational signal propagation and aberration effects in the double pulsar
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Virtual

Speaker: Prof. Sergei Kopeikin

Matured Clusters from eROSITA: its synergy in studying environmentally dependent starburst activities
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Virtual

Speaker: Tom Sun

Machine Learning in present day Astronomy and Astrophysics
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Virtual

Speaker: Harold Quiroz

Exploring quenching in the high redshift universe
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Virtual

Speaker: Teja Teppala

Discovery of Massive Galaxies at z~7 by JWST?
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Virtual

Speaker: Gourab Nandi

Can JWST reveal the Hubble Sequence at High Redshift?
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Virtual

Speaker: Vicki Kuhn

The Art of Measuring Physical Parameters in Galaxies
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Virtual

Speaker: Prof. Yicheng Guo