2025
Fall Semester
Date Speaker/Title/Abstract
9/30/25 Prof. Aldo Rodríguez-Puebla (National Autonomous University of Mexico)
TBD
9/23/25 Dr. Farhanul Hasan (STScI)
TBD
9/16/25 Undergraduate Students
Undergraduate Summer Research Showcase
9/9/25 Bangzheng (Tom) Sun
Deep-Sky Astrophotography from a Dark Site in New Mexico
9/2/25 Dr. Kenji Amazaki (Tohoku University, Japan)
Cosmic very small dust grains as a natural laboratory of mesoscopic physics
Spring Semester
Date Speaker/Title/Abstract
7/9/25 Teja Teppala
Dissertation Defense: Investigating Bursty Star Formation and Interstellar Medium Conditions in Low-Mass Galaxies
5/6/25 Vishal Jayswal
Dissertation Defense: Motion of Test Particles around a Black Hole in the Hubble Universe
4/29/25 Alec Martin
Dissertation Defense: Star-Forming Clumps and Their Host Galaxies: Insights from HST and JWST Observations
4/22/25 Bo Yang
Some updates of PAH in nearby galaxies and dust discovery on the Moon!
4/15/25 Charles Mentzer
Dissertation Defense: PAHs in the Universe: Organic Molecules Tracing Astrophysical Structures, Grain Growth, and Distribution
4/8/25 Prof. Jinyi Yang (University of Michigan)
Probing the Early Universe Using the Most Distant Quasars
4/1/25 Bangzheng (Tom) Sun
New Science Opportunities with Euclid and Roman
3/18/25 Vicki Kuhn
The history of women in astronomy
3/4/25 Prof. Haojing Yan
Time-domain Science in the JWST Era - a case study from the PEARLS program
2/25/25 Prof. Charles Steinhardt
Is Inflation Falsifiable?