APS Colloquia

For Spring semester of 2022 and thereafter, we're pleased to announce most of our colloquia are live and in-person again! We'll be meeting at our new time, Mondays at 12:15pm - 1:15PM, in the JILA auditorium.

We look forward to presenting a slate of fascinating talks for you!

Missed a talk? Check out the recordings at JILA's Youtube page.

If you'd like to be added to the email list for colloquium announcements, please email Brittney Washington.

January 23

Sarah Beck, Tel Aviv University

Massive Star Clusters: the First 2 Million Years

January 30

No Colloquium

February 8

Iryna Butsky

Cosmic Rays and the Circumgalactic Medium

February 22

Caroline Morley

Icy Planets, Windswept Worlds: Into a New Era of Exoplanet Characterization with JWST

February 27

Wren Suess

Transforming our understanding of galaxy formation with the power of JWST and ALMA

March 1

Sebastian Pineda

A Magnetic Connection from Stars to Planets

March 6

Katie Grasha

Galaxy Evolution Through the Eyes of Stellar Modelling and Resolved, Multi-Wavelength Star Formation Observations

March 8

Eileen Gonzales

Read Between the Spectral Lines: Characterizing Substellar Atmospheres

March 13

Daisuke Nagai, Yale

Physical vs. Data-Driven Approaches in the Era of Multi-Wavelength Astronomical Surveys

March 20

March 27

Spring Break

April 3

Louise Edwards, (Calpoly)

Galaxy Evolution in the Local universe: Insights from Integral Field Spectroscopy

April 10

Jessica Watkins, NASA Astronaut

April 24

Debbie Simmons, (JWST Chief Systems Engineer for Northrop Grumman)

May 1

May Susan Lepri, University of Michigan

August 22

Round Robin

August 29

Meredith MacGregor, University of Colorado at Boulder

How to Form a Habitable Planet

September 12

Maria Kazachenko, University of Colorado at Boulder, LASP, NSO

Solar Magnetic Fields Before and During Eruptions

September 19

David Malaspina, University of Colorado at Boulder

Dispatches from the Sun: Physics of our Nearest Star Determined by the Parker Solar Probe Mission

September 26

Shannon Curry, (Space Sciences Laboratory (SSL)

Parker Solar Probe Venus Fly by Campaign

October 3

Samantha Lawler, University of Regina

Megaconstellations of Satellites are Ruining the Night Sky for Everyone

October 10

Adam Kowalski, CU/NSO/LASP

Solar Flare Observations and Model Predictions for the Next Solar Magnetic Activity Maximum

October 17

Larry Esposito, LASP & APS

Saturn’s Rings: Implications for Structure, Dynamics and Origins

October 24

Henric Krawcynski, Washington University in St. Louis

IXPE and Black Hole X-ray Polarization

October 31

Nour Raouafi, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory

Environment Near the Sun in the Era of Parker Solar Probe, Solar Orbiter, and DKIST: Advances, Challenges, and Prospects

November 7

Wren Suess, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology

Transforming our understanding of galaxy formation with the power of JWST and ALMA

November 14

Lars Hernquist, Harvard

Galaxy Formation Theory

November 21

Fall Break - No Colloquium

November 28

Nestor Espinoza, Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)

Exploring new frontiers in exoplanetary science with JWST

December 5

David Garfinkle, Oakland University

Black holes, the big bang, and spacetime singularities

January 10

a collection of scientific instruments for detecting the earliest light in the universe, including the JWST

February 21

Cherilynn Morrow/Craig DeForest, SwRI

The Science and Outreach of the NASA PUNCH mission (Please note this talk will be at the Fiske Planetarium, not the usual location. Normal Zoom link still applies for virtual attendance)

Artist's concept of several phases of the Dragonfly mission

February 28

Zibi Turtle, Johns Hopkins/APL

Dragonfly: In Situ Exploration of Titan's Prebiotic Chemistry and Habitability

March 7

Blakesley Burkhart

"Turbulent Beginnings: A Predictive Theory of Star Formation in the Interstellar Medium"

March 14

Jorge Moreno, Pomona

Galaxies lacking dark matter in LCDM

March 31

Loren Matilsky

Dynamics of Rotation and Magnetism in the Sun's Convection Zone and Tachocline (A Thesis Defense)

April 4

Nicolas Scepi, JILA

Formation, Evolution and Radiation of Magnetized Accretion Disks

April 11

Renu Malhotra, University of Arizona

Pluto Near the Edge of Strong Chaos

April 18

Kimberly Ennico Smith, NASA

VIPER - A next great leap in mapping water on the Moon

April 25

Alice Shapley, UCLA

The MOSFIRE Deep Evolution Field (MOSDEF) Survey: A Detailed Census of the Physics of Galaxy Formation in the Early Universe

August 23

Yajie Yuan, Flatiron Institute

Bursts and Flares Powered by Neutron Stars and Black Holes

August 30

APS Round Robin

Members of the APS community will take turns brielfy discussing their research or goals.

Click here for a recording.

Artist's concept of a planet-forming disk

September 13

Jenny Bergner, University of Chicago

Volatile chemistry in planet-forming disks

Image of the planet Jupiter showing prominent blue aurora near the north pole

September 20

George Clark, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab

Jupiter’s Auroras as Revealed by NASA’s Juno Mission

(Please note this talk is virtual-only)

September 27

No Talk

October 4

Ann-Marie Madigan, CU Boulder / JILA

Collective Gravity: from Icy Planetesimals in our Solar System to Stars in Orbit About Supermassive Black Holes

artist's concept of detectable radiation from a black hole

October 11

Javier Garcia, CalTech Space Radiation Lab

Probing the Space-Time near Accreting Black Holes

October 18

Richard Frazin, University of Michigan

Frontiers in Direct Imaging of Exoplanets

October 25

November 1

Enrique Lopez Rodriguez, Stanford

Extragalactic Magnetism Using Far-Infrared Polarimetry

(Please note this talk will be virtual-only)

November 8

Bryan Terrazas, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

How supermassive black holes shape galaxy growth

artist's concept of a "brown dwarf" object

November 15

Melodie Kao, University of California Santa Cruz

Brown Dwarf Radio Emission: A Window into Substellar Magnetospheres

animated GIF of deciduous leaves falling

November 22

No colloquium - fall break

November 29

Rachel Somerville, Flatiron Institute

Developing New Galaxy Formation Models that will Help us Learn the Universe

Las Campanas Observatory in Chile's Atacama Desert

December 6

Kathryn Neugent, University of Toronto and Lowell Observatory

The Binary Fraction of Red Supergiants ... and Beyond!

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