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Event Name Date, Time and Host Summary
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)

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