Previous Events

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

Event Name Date, Time and Host Summary
Aromatics in Merging Galaxies Involving Active Galactic Nuclei and Starburst Cores as Probed by the James Webb Space Telescope
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Physics 216

Speaker: Charles Mentzer

Two recent discoveries with JWST: (1) youngest galaxies and (2) earliest, confirmed disk galaxy
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Physics 216

Speaker: Prof. Haojing Yan

Cosmic dust: from Interstellar Medium to Earth
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Physics 216

Speaker: Prof. Ingrid Mann (The Arctic University of Norway)

Undergraduate Summer Astronomy Research Showcase
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Physics 216
Speakers (Talks):Donovan Flagg (Cosmic Microwave Background Instrumentation)Julianna Bayless (Asteroid Occultation)Mathieux Harper (Starburst Galaxies)Ellie Gates (Neutrinos in a Supernova)

Speaker: Undergraduate Students

The issue of bulk scattering of gravitational waves and matter (II)
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Physics 216

Speaker: Prof. Adam Helfer

The issue of bulk scattering of gravitational waves and matter (I)
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Physics 216

Speaker: Prof. Adam Helfer

Lunar Time in General Relativity
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Physics 216

Speaker: Prof. Sergei Kopeikin

(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