Previous Events

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

Event Name Date, Time and Host Summary
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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

The history of women in astronomy
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Physics 216

Speaker: Vicki Kuhn

Time-domain Science in the JWST Era - a case study from the PEARLS program
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Physics 216

Speaker: Prof. Haojing Yan

Is Inflation Falsifiable?
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Physics 216

Speaker: Prof. Charles Steinhardt

Three years of searching for the most distant galaxies with JWST and what have we learned so far?
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Online

Speaker: Dr. L. Y. Aaron Yung (STScI)

AAS Updates
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Physics 216

Speaker: Alec Martin / Charles Mentzer / Bo Yang

More on infinitely many quantum measurements (II)
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Physics 216

Speaker: Prof. Adam Helfer

More on infinitely many quantum measurements (I)
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Physics 216

Speaker: Prof. Adam Helfer

Local Coordinates and Motion of a Test Particle in the McVittie Spacetime
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Physics 216

Speaker: Vishal Jayswal

Using Lie Groups to Determine the Shape of Rotating Celestial Bodies
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Physics 216

Speaker: Prof. Sergei Kopeikin

Unveiling the physics of galaxy formation and its large-scale effects at Cosmic Dawn
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Physics 216 (Zoom Speaker)

Speaker: Dr. Guochao (Jason) Sun (CIERA, Northwestern University)

What can we learn from the evolution of galaxy sizes?
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Physics 216 (Zoom Speaker)

Speaker: Dr. Kalina Nedkova (STScI)

(Comprehensive Exam) Investigating Environmentally Dependent Starburst Activities — Synergy of eROSITA, GALEX, Herschel, and WISE
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Physics 216

Speaker: Harold Quiroz

Very Bright NIRCam Dropouts: What’s Their Nature?
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Physics 216

Speaker: Bangzheng (Tom) Sun

(Special Seminar) A power spectral study of PHANGS galaxies with JWST MIRI: On the spatial scales of dust and PAHs
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Physics 216

Speaker: Charlie Lind-Thomsen (the Cosmic Dawn Center, University of Copenhagen)