SO/NSF's NOIR Lab Joint Colloquium Series Podcasts
Podcasts are posted with the approval of the speakers. Speakers may opt out. This is our current list of available podcasts.
Spring 2024
Widowed Massive StarsMathieu Renzo In Person University of Arizona Thursday, January 18, 2024 |
Capture of primordial black holes by neutron starsThomas Baumgarte In Person Bowdoin College/University of Arizona Thursday, January 25, 2024 |
Precision measurement and machine-assisted discovery in the next generation of cosmological surveysEric Huff In Person JPL Thursday, February 1, 2024 |
Cosmology and astrophysics from field level inference of multi-probe observationsShivam Pandey In Person Columbia Thursday, February 8, 2024 |
Galaxies Going Bananas: The Surprising 3D Geometry of High Redshift Dward Galaxies from JWSTViraj Pandya In Person Columbia Thursday, February 15, 2024 |
Forward Modeling Approaches for Cosmological AnalysisChirag Modi In Person Flatiron Institute Thursday, February 22, 2024 |
Cosmology and Astrophysics in the Era of Big DataChangHoon Hahn In Person Princeton Thursday, February 29, 2024 |
The Future of Astronomical Data AnalysisPeter Melchior In PersonPrinceton Thursday, March 14, 2024 |
Is Machine Learning Good or Bad for AstrophysicsDavid Hogg In Person NYU Thursday, March 21, 2024 |
Extreme Astrophysics with Relativistic TransientsTanmoy Laskar In Person University of Utah Thursday, March 28, 2024 |
The Effect of Magnetic Fields on Galaxy EvolutionEnrique Lopez Rodriguez In Person KIPAC Thursday, April 4, 2024 |
The JWST Revolution in Galaxy Formation:A Spectroscopic PerspectiveAlice Shapley In Person UCLA Thursday, April 18, 2024 |
Harnessing the power of large spectoscopic surveys to decipher black holes & galaxies (with a sprinkle of dark energy)Stephanie Juneau In Person NOIRLab Thursday, April 25, 2024 |
Fall 2023
Post Doc Speakers: Emma Beasor, Leonardo Krapp & Nicole MelsoIn Person University of Arizona Thursday, September 21, 2023 |
Using the NANOGrav Measurements of the Gravitational Wave Background to Constrain the Supermassive Black Hole Binary PopulationKayhan Gultekin In-Person Assistant Professor University of Michigan Thursday, September 28, 2023 - 3:30 pm |
Searching for GEMS - Giant Exoplanets around M-dwarf StarsShubham Kanodia In-Person Postdoctural Fellow Carnegie EPL Thursday, October 5, 2023 - 3:30 pm |
Early Emission from Tidal Disruption EventsXiaoshan Huang In-Person Sherman Fairchild Postdoctural Research Associate U Virginia Thursday, October 12, 2023 - 3:30 pm
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Searching for Primordial Gravitational Waves: Highlights from CMB Polarization for Experiments at the South PoleMarion Dierickx In-Person Research Associate Harvard-Smithsonian Center Thursday, October 19, 2023 - 3:30 pm |
New Frontiers in Optical long-baseline InterferometryPierre Kervella In-Person Astronomer Observatoire de Paris Thursday, November 9, 2023 - 3:30 pm |
Star Stream Heating and Dark MatterRay Carlberg In-Person Professor University of Toronto Thursday, November 16, 2023 - 3:30 pm
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Spring 2023
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The New Era of Stellar PhysicsDr. Matteo Cantiello In-Person Research Scientist
Center for Computational Astrophysics, Flatiron Institute
Thursday, February 9, 2023 - 3:30 pm |
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The Ages of Stars and Other Stories: Redefining the Standard for 1D Stellar Modeling Across the Mass SpectrumDr. Meredith Joyce In-Person Marie Sklodowska-Curie Widening Fellow
CSFK Konkoly Observatory
Thursday, February 16, 2023 - 3:30 pm |
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From Kiloparsec Scales to a Merger: Properties of Dual AGNs that Become Gravitational Wave SourcesDr. Tamara Bogdanovic Virtual Professor of Astronomy
Georgia Institute of Technology
Thursday, February 23, 2023 - 3:30 pm |
The Discovery of the Missing Population of Massive Stars Stripped in BinariesDr. Ylva Goetberg In-PersonNASA Hubble Postdoctoral Fellow Carnegie Observatories Friday, February 24, 2023 - 3:30 pm |
A Requiem for Massive GalaxiesDr. Kate Whitaker In-PersonAssistant Professor of Astronomy UMass Amherst Thursday, March 2, 2023 - 3:30 pm |
Explosive Connections Between Massive Binaries and Stellar TransientsDr. Mathieu Renzo In-PersonFlatiron Research Fellow Center for Computational Astrophysics, Flatiron Institute Friday, March 3, 2023 - 3:30 pm |
Revealing the Dynamic Birth & Evolution of Massive Stars & Massive Star ClustersDr. Anna Rosen In-PersonNSF and UC Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow University of California, San Diego Tuesday, March 14, 2023 - 2:00 pm |
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Dr. Mara Salvato In-Person Staff Scientist Max Planck Institute (MPE) Thursday, March 16 , 2023 - 3:30 pm |
The Poor Old Heart of the Milky WayDr. Hans-Walter Rix In-PersonDirector, Department Galaxies and Cosmology Max Planck Institute of Astronomy (MPIA) Thursday, March 30, 2023 - 3:30 pm |
Dr. David Hogg PostponedProfessor of Physics and Data Science New York University
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Dr. Garreth Martin In-Person&Dr. Jinhee Lee KASI-Arizona Fellow Steward Observatory Thursday, April 27th, 2023 - 3:30 pm |
Fall 2022
Resolving the Galactic Center Black Hole with the Event Horizon TelescopeDr. Chi-kwan Chan In-Person Associate Research Professor Steward Observatory, The University of Arizona Thursday, September 1, 2022 - 3:30 pm |
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Dr. Mansi Kasliwat Postponed Professor of Astronomy California Institute of Technology Thursday, September 15, 2022 - 3:30 pm |
Why Do Galaxies Have Spiral Arms?Dr. Jerry Sellwood In-Person Affiliate Professor, Astronomy Steward Observatory, The University of Arizona Thursday, September 22, 2022 - 3:30 pm |
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Dr. Ji Wang In-Person Assistant Professor The Ohio State University Thursday, October 6, 2022 - 3:30 pm |
Intermediate-Mass Black Holes in Globular Clusters - An OverviewDr. Nora Lützgendorf In-Person Astrophysicist European Space Agency / Space Telescope Science Institute Thursday, October 13, 2022 - 3:30 pm |
Recent progress in understanding the enigmatic Fast Radio BurstsDr. Shani Chatterjee In-Person Principal Research Scientist Cornell University Thursday, October 20, 2022 - 3:30 pm |
Early Science from the “Physics at High Angular Resolution in Nearby Galaxies” JWST TreasuryDr. Karin Sandstrom In-Person Associate Professor University of California, San Diego Thursday, October 27, 2022 - 3:30 pm |
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Dr. Ryan Lau In-Person Assistant Astronomer NSF's NOIRLab Thursday, November 3, 2022 - 3:30 pm |
Pandemonium in the Planetary GraveyardDr. Jay Farihi In-Person Professor of Astrophysics University College London Thursday, November 10, 2022 - 3:30 pm |
In Memory of Frank Drake: Rethinking the Value of SETIDr. Rebecca Charbonneau In-Person Jansky Fellow National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) Thursday, November 17, 2022 - 3:30 pm |
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Dr. Ryan Terrien In-Person Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy Carleton College Thursday, December 1, 2022 - 3:30 pm |
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Dr. Shazrene Mohamed Virtual
Associate Professor
University of Miami
Thursday, December 8, 2022 - 3:30 pm
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Spring 2022
Turbulent Beginnings: A Predictive Theory of Star Formation in the Interstellar MediumDr. Blakesley Burkhurt Virtual Assistant Professor Rutgers University, Physics & Astronomy Thursday, January 27, 2022 - 3:30 pm |
LYRA: Dwarf Galaxies on Small Scales in a Cosmological ContextDr. Thales Gutcke Virtual NASA Hubble Fellow Princeton University, Astrophysical Sciences Thursday, February 10, 2022 - 3:30 pm |
The Magellan Infrared Multi-Object Spectrograph (MIRMOS)Dr. Gwen Rudie Virtual Astronomer Carnagie Observatories Thursday, February 17, 2022 - 3:30 pm |
Small Galaxies, Big Science: Fundamental Physics from the Faintest GalaxiesDr. Alex Drlica-Wagner Virtual Assistant Professor / Wilson Fellow University of Chicago / Fermilab Thursday, February 24, 2022 - 3:30 pm |
Exoplanet and Solar System Synergies Through Novel Instrumentation and ObservationsDr. Emily Martin In-Person NSF Postdoctoral Scholar University of California, Santa Cruz Tuesday, March 22, 2022 - 3:30 pm |
Before the StarsDr. Nia Imara Virtual Assistant Professor University of California, Santa Cruz Thursday, March 31, 2022 - 3:30 pm |
Unlocking the Properties of Interaction-Powered Supernovae with Detailed Line Profile ModelingDr. Manos Chatzopoulos In-Person Assistant Professor Louisiana State University, Physics & Astronomy Thursday, April 7, 2022 - 3:30 pm |
Astro2020 Appendix N: The State of the Profession and Societal ImpactsDr. Gurtina Besla In-Person Associate Professor The Universtiy of Arizona, Steward Observatory Thursday, April 14, 2022 - 3:30 pm |
Multiwavelength Characterization of Exoplanets and their Host StarsDr. Elisa Quintana In-Person Astrophysicist NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center Thursday, April 28th, 2022 - 3:30 pm |
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Dr. Valentina D'Orazi Virtual
Astrophysicist
L'INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova
Thursday, May 5th, 2022 - 11:00 am
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Fall 2021
09/02/21: Ylva Goetberg, Carnagie Science Observatories
"Stars Stripped in Binaries: From Theory to Observation"
09/09/21: Kaitlin Rasmussen, University of Michigan
"A Multi-faceted Approach to Constraining the Drake Equation: The Past, Present, and Future of the Search for Life"
09/16/21: Jasleen Matharu, Texas A&M University
09/23/21: Vivian Miranda, The University of Arizona
"The Connected Universe: Relating Early, Intermediate and Late Universe with cosmological data"
10/07/21: David Reinecke, Princeton University
"Big Science, Large Projects, Huge Costs"
10/14/21: Joe Burchett, New Mexico State University
"Towards connecting galaxy gas reservoirs, quenching, and the Cosmic Web"
10/21/21: Christopher Mankovich, California Institute of Technology
"Unlocking planetary seismology using Saturn's rings"
10/28/21: Mirjana Povic, Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía
"Astronomy for attaining sustainable development goals in Africa"
11/04/21: Meredith Rawls, University of Washington
"Satellite constellations, astronomy, and the future of our sky"
11/18/21: Laura Lopez, The Ohio State University
"The Importance and Challenges of Assessing Stellar Feedback"
12/02/21: Manoj Kaplinghat, University of California - Irvine
"Dark Matter Self-Interaction and its Impact on Galaxies"
12/09/21: Duncan Lorrimer, West Virgina University
"Fast Radio Bursts -- An Evolving Cosmic Mystery"
SPRING 2021
01/14/21: Kate Daniel, Bryn Mawr College:
"What Sets the Efficiency of Radial Migration is Spiral Galaxies?"
01/21/21: Scott Tremaine, Institute for Advanced Study, Univeristy of Toronto:
"Comets, Unseen Planets, and Interstellar Visitors"
02/04/21: Sebastian Hoenig, University of Southampton UK:
"Active Galactic Nuclei, Impact of Interferometry"
02/18/21: Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, University of New Hampshire:
"Large Scale Structure from Microphysics"
02/25/21: Kevin Bundy, University of California-Santa Cruz:
"Mapping the Lives and Deaths of 10,010 Nearby Galaxies with MaNGA"
03/04/21: Michele Bannister, University of Canterbury:
"Interstellar Worlds: New Insights on Planetary Systems
03/18/21: Kathryn Neugent, University of Washington
"The Binary Fraction of Red Supergiants"
04/01/21:Jennifer Marshall, Texas A&M University
"The future of massively multiplexed spectroscopy: the Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer"
04/08/21: Bob Benjamin, University of Wisconsin- Whitewater
"Three New Things about the Milky Way"
04/15/21: Sarita Brown, Excelencia in Education
"Today’s Faculty = Scholars, Teachers, and Equity Practitioners"
04/22/21: Cora Dvorkin, Harvard:
"Discovering New Physics with Cosmological Data Sets"
05/06/21: Andy Chaikin
FALL 2020
8/27/20: Maura McLaughlin, University of West Virginia:
"The NANOGrav 12.5-Year Data Set: New Insights into Galaxy Growth and Evolution"
9/10/20: Emma Beasor, NSF NOIR Lab:
"The Evolution Of Red Supergiants To Supernova"
9/17/20: Brian Williams, Goddard:
"High-resolution X-ray Spectroscopy: Science with XRISM"
9/24/20: Monika Soraisam, University of Illinois Urbana - Champaign:
"Big-Data Rush: Mining Time-Domain Data of Local Stellar Populations"
10/1/20: Dimitrios Psaltis, Steward Observatory:
"A New Test of General Relativity with the Event Horizon Telescope"
10/8/20: Amy Reines, Montana State University:
"Supermassive Black Holes in Dwarf Galaxies"
10/15/20: Laura Mayorga, Johns Hopkins University:
"The Solar System Laboratory and Beyond"
10/29/20: Matthew Madhavacheril, Perimeter Institute:
"Mapping the Cosmic Mass and Gas Distribution Using the Arcminute-Resolution Microwave Sky"
11/12/20: Anthony Pullen, New York University:
"Line Intensity Mapping: Modeling & Analysis in the Precision Era"
11/19/20: Kirk Barrow, Stanford University:
"Using High-Cadence Synthetic Observations to Unlock a New Era in Astrophysics"
12/3/20: Dara Norman, NSF NOIR Lab
"Advancing the Inclusion Revolution"
12/10/20: Jessie Christiansen, IPAC/CalTech
SPRING 2020
3/5/20: Duncan Brown, Syracuse University:
What Have we Learned about Binary Neutron Stars Since the Discovery of GW170817?
2/13/20: Carolyn Raithel, Steward Observ.:
Constraining the Neutron Star Equation of State with Gravitational Wave Events
FALL 2019
12/12/19: Keith Hawkins, UT Austin:
Galactic Archaeology in the Era of Gaia
12/5/19: David Wilner, Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian:
New Views of Debris Disks
11/14/19: Jessica Werk, Univ. of Washington:
A Colossal Galaxy Adventure
11/7/19: Chien-Hsiu Lee, NSF's OIR Lab:
Time-domain Astronomy: From Exoplanets to Cosmology
10/24/19: Chad Trujillo, NAU:
The Search for an Undiscovered Giant Planet in our Solar System
10/17/19: Jorge Moreno, Pomona:
The Evolution of the Interstellar Medium in Merging Galaxies
10/3/19: Diana Dragomir, Univ. of New Mexico:
Highlights from TESS’ First Bright Year and Future Plans
9/26/19: Jennifer Johnson, Ohio State Univ.:
Outstanding Questions in the Origin of the Elements
9/19/19: Christina Williams, Steward Observ.:
The View of Early Massive Galaxies in the Run Up to JWST
9/12/19: Taran Esplin, Steward Observ.:
Searching for the Stellar and Substellar Members of Star-forming Regions
9/5/19: Daniela Huppenkothen, Univ. of Washington:
Data Science Challenges in Time Domain Astronomy: Building Methods, Tools and Communities
SPRING 2019
4/25/19: Adam Kraus, Univ. of Texas:
The Impact of Binary Stars on Planetary Systems
4/11/19: Siyi Xu, Gemini Observ.:
Planetary Systems around White Dwarfs
4/4/19: Brian Fields, Univ. of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign:
When Stars Attack! Near-Earth Supernova Explosions Revealed by Deep-Ocean and Lunar Radioactivity
3/28/19: Steven Finkelstein, Univ. of Texas:
Implications of Reionizing the Universe with Low Galaxy Escape Fractions
3/21/19: Hervé Dole, Univ. of Paris-South, at Orsay:
Protoclusters of Galaxies: From Planck to the Euclid and JWST Era
3/14/19: Robert Nikutta, NOAO:
Parsec-Scale Obsuration in Active Galactic Nuclei
2/28/19: Guy Perrin, Observatoire de Paris:
First Explorations of Sgr A* at the Event Horizon Scale and First Tests of General Relativity with GRAVITY
2/14/19: Jenny Greene, Princeton:
Dwarf Galaxies and Their Black Holes
2/7/19: Molly Peeples, STScl:
Galaxies and the Circumgalactic Medium
1/31/19: Gloria Delgado Inglada, UNAM:
Gas and Dust in Planetary Nebulae
1/17/19: Rachel Mandelbaum, CMU:
Cosmology with the Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) Survey
FALL 2018
12/6/2018: Adrian Price-Whelan, Princeton:
The Dynamic Milky Way in the Gaia Era
11/29/2018: Irene Shivaei, Steward Observ.:
Stellar and Dust Content of Galaxies at High Redshifts
11/15/2018: Brian Nord, Fermilab:
AI in the Sky: Implications and Challenges for Artificial Intelligence in Astrophysics and in Society
11/8/2018: Erik Petigura, Caltech:
Formation and Erosion of Small Planet Cores and Envelopes
11/1/2018: Sebastiaan Krijt, Steward Observ.:
Understanding Dust Coagulation and Volatile Evolution in Planet-Forming Disks
10/18/2018: Karen Meech, Univ. of Hawaii:
The Story of 1l/'Oumuamua, the First Visitor from Another Solar System
10/11/2018: Deirdre Shoemaker, Georgia Tech.:
Black Holes Across the Gravitational Wave Sky
10/4/2018: Cara Battersby, UConn:
The Milky Way Laboratory
9/6/2018: Rob Kennicutt, Steward Observ.:
The Schmidt Law at Sixty
8/23/18: Bradley Johnson, Columbia:
Looking Beyond the Horizon of Our Universe
SPRING 2018
5/3/2018: Eric Agol, Univ. of Washington:
Characterizing the TRAPPIST-1 System
4/19/2018: Alessandra Corsi, Texas Technology:
Radio and GW Observations of the Transient Sky: GW170817 and Future Prospects
3/22/2018: Dan Weisz, UC Berkeley:
Low-Mass Galaxies in the Early Universe
3/15/2018: Claudia Mendes de Oliveira, Univ. of Sal Paulo:
New Multi-Color Surveys- An IFU-Like Data Cube of the Nearby Universe
3/14/2018: Nicole Cabrera Salazar:
Our Complicity in the Leaky Pipeline
3/1/2018: Rachel Friesen, NRAO:
The Green Bank Ammonia Survey: Probing the Evolution of Star-Forming Regions from Filaments to Cores
2/22/2018: Jordan Stone, Steward:
Constraining the Formation and Evolution of Exoplanets with LBTI
2/15/2018: Sally Oey, Univ. of Michigan:
Toward Understanding Feedback from Local Lyman Continuum Emitting Galaxies
2/1/2018: Ryan Chornock, Ohio Univ.:
GW170817: A Golden Neutron Star Merger
1/25/2018: Katey Alatalo, Carnegie/STScl:
The Life-Cycle of Gas in Dying Galaxies
1/18/2018: Aaron Meisner, LBNL:
Mapping the Universe in Search of Nearby Worlds
FALL 2017
11/30/2017: Jillian Bellovary, AMNH & Queens:
Multimessenger Signatures of Massive Black Holes in Dwarf Galaxies
11/9/2017: Joseph Silk, IAP:
The Limits of Cosmology
10/26/2017: Ethan Vishniac, JHU:
Dynamos - How do they work?
10/12/2017: Jessica Lu, UC Berkeley:
Black Holes, Big and Small - A Laser-Guided Adaptive Optics View
10/5/2017: Jeremiah Murphy, FSU:
How Do Massive Stars Die?
9/28/2017: Dan Kelson, Carnegie:
Gravity + Noise
9/21/2017: Chad Bender, Steward:
The Search for Earth-Twins with a New Generation of Doppler Spectrometers
9/14/2017: Courtney Dressing, UC Berkeley:
Exploring Planetary Systems Orbiting Cool Dwarfs
SPRING 2017
5/04/2017: Iair Arcaivi, LCOGT:
New Ways of Doing Time Domain Astronomy: Supernovae, TDEs and Beyond
4/27/2017: Simon Hodgkin, Cambridge:
Mapping the Transient Sky with Gaia
4/13/2017: Tabetha Boyajian, LSU:
Sizing up the Stars
4/06/2017: Jay Farihi, UCL:
Exoplanetry Archaeology: Observing the Fossil Record of Rocky Planetary Systems
3/30/2017: Simeon Bird, Cambridge:
Cosmology, Gas Around Galaxies, and Primordial Black Holes
3/09/2017: Ilsedore Cleeves, Harvard:
From Disks to Planets Through the Astrochemical Lens
3/07/17: Jennifer van Saders, Princeton:
Making Sense of Stellar Rotation Observed with Kepler: Gyrochronology, Magnetism, and a Sun in Transition
2/27/2017: Blakesley Burkhart, Harvard:
New Diagnostics of MHD Turbulence: From Galaxies to Galaxy Clusters
2/16/2017: Ondrej Pejcha, Princeton Univ:
Cool and Luminous Outbursts from Merging Binary Stars
2/14/17: Mark Dijkstra, Univ. of Oslo:
Probing Feedback with the Lya Emission Line
2/09/2017: Peter Behroozi, UC Berkeley:
Maximizing Inference from Galaxy Observations
2/02/2017: Alan Stern, SWRI:
The Pluto System as Explored by New Horizons
1/19/2017: Erika Hamden, CalTech:
Observing the Faint Universe in Emission
FALL 2016
12/01/2016: Maxwell Moe, Steward:
The Formation and Evolution of Binary Stars
11/17/2016: Evgenya Shkolnik, ASU: (Link coming soon)
11/10/2016: Jon Mauerhan, Berkeley:
Tracing the Shapes of Supernovae with Spectropolarimetry
11/03/2016: Stella Offner, UMass Amherst:
The Impact of Stellar Feedback on Star Cluster Formation
10/20/2016: David Schlegel, LBNL:
DESI and Beyond: Design Considerations for Massive Redshift Surveys
10/06/2016: Rachel Street, LCOGT:
Exoplanets in the 4th Dimension - lessons learned from time domain follow-up
09/29/2016: Mariska Kriek, Berkeley:
Reconstructing the Formation Histories of Massive Galaxies
9/22/2016: Robin Dong, Steward:
Introducing a New Field: Observational Planet Formation
9/15/2016: Gail Zasowski, JHU:
New Tools for Galactic Archaeology from the Milky Way
9/08/2016: Kevin Hainline, Steward:
Hunting for Monsters: Selecting and Understanding Active Galactic Nuclei in the Infrared
9/01/2016: Omer Blaes, UCSB:
Confronting MHD Theories of Accretion Disks with Observations of Dwarf Novae
SPRING 2016
5/05/16: Doug Finkbeiner, Harvard:
Mapping Galactic Dust in 3 Dimensions with Pan-STARRS1 and 2 MASS
4/28/16: Scott Tremaine, IAS:
Three Problems in Exoplanet Dynamics
4/21/16: Christoph Baranec, University of Hawaii:
Robo-AO and the Rapid Transient Surveyor
4/14/16: Patrick Kelly, UC Berkeley:
The Multiply Imaged Strongly Lensed Supernova Refsdal
4/07/16: Fabienne Bastein, Pennsylvania State University
Convention in Cool Stars, as Revealed through Stellar Brightness Variations
3/31/16: Dawn Erb, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Low Mass Galaxies and their Gas at the Peak Epoch of Star Formation
3/24/16: Anders Johansen, Lund University
Forming Planets in Protoplanetary Discs
3/10/16: Julie Comerford, University of Colorado-Boulder
AGN Triggering in Galaxy Mergers as Traced by Dual AGN and Offset AGN
3/03/16: Mary Putman, Columbia University
Gas Flows at Various Astronomucical Scales
2/25/16: Marcia Rieke, Steward
NIRCam: Your Next Near-Infrared Camera in Space
2/18/16: Nuria Calvet, University of Michigan
Pre-Main Sequence Accretion Revisited, What Does it Tell Us About Disk Structure and Evolution?
2/11/16: Wen-Fai Fong, Steward
Setting the Stage for the Era of Gravitational Wave Discovery
2/04/16: Yashar Hezavehe, Stanford
Detection of a Dark Matter Subhalo with ALMA Observations of Gravitational Lenses
1/28/16: Stefano Valenti, LCOGT
The Progenitor of Supernovae in the Era of Wife-field Surveys
1/21/16: Ian McGreer, Steward
Growing Supermassive Black Holes at High Redshift
FALL 2015
11/12/15: Jessica Werk, UCSC
Why the Invisible Reservoir of Gas Around Galaxies Counts in Galaxy Evolution
11/05/15: Federica Bianco, NYU
Explosions in my Data
10/29/15: Nitya Kallivayalil, Univ. of Virginia
Proper Motions in Local Group: Next Generation Astrometry
10/22/15: Vasily Belokurov, Cambridge, UK
Marc Aaronson Memorial Lecture
10/15/2015: Alex Parker, SWRI
Exploring the Worlds Beyond Neptune
10/08/2015: Phil Hinz, Steward
The Hunt for Observable Signatures of Terrestrial Planetary Systems (HOSTS): LBTI's Key Survey
10/01/2015: Hilke Schlichting, MIT
Crash, Boom, Bang: Giant Impacts & The Formation of Planets at Home and Abroad
9/24/15: Chris Matzner, Univ. of Toronto
Star Cluster Formation: A Battle Between Mass Accretion and Stellar Feedback
9/17/15: Eduardo Rozo, NOAO
RedMapper and RedMagic: Enabling Cluster and LSS Science in Photometric Surveys
9/10/15: Daniel McIntosh, Univ. of Missouri-Kansas City
Galactic Capitalism: The Buildup of a Bimodal Galaxy Population
9/03/15: David Jewitt, UCLA
The Active Asteroids
8/27/15: Evan Kirby, Caltech
Light-ish Elements in Dwarf Galaxies: The enigmas of Lithium, Carbon, Magnesium, and More
Spring 2015
4/23/15: Rachel Bezanson
The Surprisingly Complex Lives of Massive Galaxies and the Stability of the Mass Fundamental Plane
4/16/15: Jacqueline Hodge, NRAO
Revealing the gas-star formation connection over cosmic time
4/09/15: Bhuvnesh Jain, University of Pennsylvania
Lensing and Large-Scale Structure in the Dark Energy Survey
3/26/15: Roman Rafikov, Princeton
Signposts of Planetary Systems Around Evolved Stars
3/12/15: Charles Gammie, University of Illinois
Slow food for black holes
3/5/15: Mark Sykes, PSI
Dawn at Ceres
2/19/15: Anja von der Linden, Stanford
Weighing the Giants: Accurate Galaxy Cluster Masses for Cosmology
2/12/15: Ryan Foley, University of Illinois
The Most Common "Peculiar" Supernova
2/05/15: Susan Kassin, STScI
The Formation of Disk Galaxies
1/29/15: Stan Owocki, Universtiy of Delaware
Magnetospheres of Magnetic Massive Stars
1/22/15: Robert Lupton, Princeton
What can LSST learn from SDSS and HSC?
Fall 2014
12/11/14: Keivan Stassun, Vanderbilt University
Advances in Stellar Astrophysics, Solar Physics, and Exoplanet Science with Large Surveys
12/04/14: Bruce Draine, Princeton
Andromeda's Dust
11/20/14: Karin I. Öberg, Harvard University
The Chemistry of Planet Formation
11/13/14: Alis Deason, UCO/Lick
Rethinking Galactic Architecture: Clues from Satellites and Destroyed Dwarfs
10/23/14: Sangeeta Malhotra, ASU
[CII] emission line as tracer of ISM in galaxies near and far.
10/16/14: Andrew MacFadyen, New York University
The Dynamics, Stability and Radiation of GRB Jets *Note, cuts off before ending
10/09/14: Andrej Prsa, Villanova University
Unprecedented accuracy in the fundamental parameters of stars from multiple stellar systems
10/02/14: Paul Goldsmith, JPL
Tracing the Interstellar Medium and Star Formation with [CII] and CO
09/18/14: Andrew Skemer
Imaging Exoplanets with the LBT
09/04/14: Ori Fox, Berkeley
Constraining Supernova Progenitors That We Never Saw
Spring 2014
05/01/14: Matthias Steinmetz, Leibniz-Institut fuer Astrophysik Potsdam
Large Spectroscopic Surveys and the Chemo-Dynamical Evolution of the Milky Way
04/24/14: Graduating Astronomy Major Research Symposium
Undergrad Research Colloquium
04/17/14: Rita Mann, Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics
The Potential to Form Planets in the Orion Nebula: The ALMA Perspective
04/10/14: Ian McLean, UCLA
Development and Performance of MOSFIRE, the muti-object spectrometer for infrared exploration at Keck Observatory
04/03/14: John Kormendy, UT Austin
Supermassive Black Holes: Coevolution (Or Not) of Black Holes and Host Galaxies
03/27/14: Antonela Monachesi, Michigan
Testing Stellar Halo Formation Models with the GHOSTS Survey
03/13/14: Armin Rest, STSci
An Astronomical Time Machine: Light Echoes from Historic Supernovae and Stellar Eruptions
02/27/14: Alice Shapley, UCLA
Rest-frame Optical Spectra: A Window into Galaxy Formation at z~2
02/20/14: Stephanie Juneau
The Fueling of Black Holes in Galaxies from Cosmic Noon till Dusk
02/13/14: Andrew Youdin, Bok Fellow, Steward Observatory
The Origin of Solar and Extrasolar Planets
02/06/14: Karin Sandstrom, Bok Fellow, Steward Observatory
The Connection between Star Formation and the Cold Interstellar Medium in Nearby Galaxies
01/30/14: Anil Seth, Univ. of Utah
Finding and Forming Star Clusters in Andromeda
1/23/14: David Stevenson, CalTech
Origin of the Moon
1/16/14: Henry Ferguson, STScI
CANDELS: Observing Galaxy Assembly
Fall 2013
12/05/13: Dr. Nick Konidaris, CalTech
The SED Machine
11/21/13: Edo Berger, Harvard University
Short Gamma-Ray Bursts and the Electromagnetic Counterparts of Gravitational Wave Sources
11/14/13: Robert Quimby, Kavli IPMU
Unusually Bright Supernovae
11/07/13: Josh Grindlay, Harvard
Black Hole Variability on Days-to-Century Timescales
10/31/13: Alan Dressler, Carnegie Observatories
Infalling groups and galaxy evolution in the IMACS Cluster Building Survey
10/24/13: Meredith Hughes, Wesleyan University
Planet Formation through Radio Eyes
10/17/13: Fiona Harrison, Caltech
First Results From The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) High-Energy X-ray Mission
10/10/13: Desika Narayanan, Steward Observatory
Four Myths about Galaxies in the Era of ALMA
9/26/13: Alicia Soderberg, Harvard
Supernova Forensics
9/19/13: Eric F. Bell, University of Michigan
The effects and importance of galaxy merging in a cosmological context
9/19/13: George Becker, Kavli Institute for Cosmology, Cambridge
Insights into Cosmic Reionization from the Evolution of the UV Background
Spring 2013
Jan. 17: Knut Olsen, NOAO
"A Stellar Heist in the Magellanic Clouds"
Jan. 24: Marc Kuchner, NASA - Goddard Space Flight Center
"What can images of dusty debris disks tell us about extrasolar planets"
Feb. 4: Dave Arnett, Steward Observatory
Henry Norris Russell Lecture
"Computers and Thinking"
Feb. 7: Christian Ott, Cal Tech
"Core-Collapse Supernovae and Neutron Star Mergers:Cosmic Laboratories for Extreme Physics"
Feb. 11: Chris Carilli, NRAO, Charlottesville
"Cool Gas in the Distant Universe"
Feb. 18: Rob Simcoe, MIT Kavli Institute
"Advances in Infrared Instruments and Characterization of the z > 5 Universe"
Feb. 21: Kevin France, University of Colorado
"Current and Future Space Instruments for the Study of Protoplanetary Disks and Exoplanetary Atmospheres: Hubble and Beyond" Only first half is available
Feb. 25: Claude-Andre Faucher-Giguere, UC Berkeley
"The Physics of Galaxy Formation: Gas, Stars, & Black Holes"
March 7: Gurtina Besla, Columbia Astrophysics Laboratory
"Local Group Dynamics and Implications for Dwarf Galaxy Evolution and Near Field Cosmology"
March 19: Matt Walker, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Galactic Dynamics and the Nature of Dark Matter
March 21: Dan Stark, Steward Observatory
Early Star Forming Galaxies and Cosmic Reionization
March 25: Kaitlin Kratter, University of Colorado/JILA
Looking Forward: Binaries and their Planets*no audio*
March 28: Michael Boylan-Kolchin, UC Irvine
Near-Field Cosmology: Big Science From Small Galaxies*no audio*
April 2: Selma de Mink, Space Telescope Science Institute/Johns Hopkins
Live fast, die young - The Evolution of Massive Stars towards their Death: Rotation, Binarity and Mergers
April 25: Joey Richards, UC Berkeley
Astronomical Discovery and Classification for the Synoptic Survey Era
April 29: Herve Dole, IAS Orsay
Overview of Planck Cosmology Results and Selected Topics on Galaxies and Clusters
May 2: Crystal Martin, UCSB
Demographics and Physical Properties of Galactic Gas Flows at 0.4 < z < 2.0
Fall 2012
Sept. 13: Dan Stark, Steward Observatory
"Early Star Forming Galaxies and Reionization"
Sept. 20: Karl Stapelfeldt, NASA - Goddard Space Flight Center
"Debris Disks as Tracers of Nearby Planetary Systems"
Sept 27: Jenny Greene, Princeton
"Galaxy Nuclei, Galaxy Outskirts"
Oct. 4: Maryam Modjaz, NYU
"Stellar Forensics with Explosions: Supernovae, Gamma-Ray Bursts, and their Environments"
Oct. 11: Josh Winn, MIT
"Spin-Orbit Interactions for Exoplanetary Systems"
Only the first 17 minutes are available
Oct. 25: Jason X Prochaska, UCO/Lick Observatory
"Quasars Probing Quasars: Clues to AGN Feedback and the Formation of Massive Galaxies"
Nov. 8: Lars Bildsten, UCSB
"Diverse Energy Sources for Stellar Explosions"
Nov. 15: Pieter van Dokkum, Aaronson Lecture
"The formation of massive galaxies"
Nov. 29: Richard Ellis, Cal Tech
"Obesity in the Universe: Why Did Early-Type Galaxies Grow in Size?"
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