Grad students can also join each week's colloquium speaker in our Collunchium series.

Colloquia for Fall 2017

Date

Speaker

Institution

Talk Title

Contact
28-Aug Mary Putman Columbia An Overview of Galactic Gas Accretion Charles Danforth
4-Sep None (Labor Day) No colloquium on University Holiday    
11-Sep Keivan Stassun Vanderbilt University The Royal Road Redux: Eclipses and Transits in the Era of Gaia and TESS Zach Berta-Thompson
18-Sep Konstantin Batygin Caltech Planet Nine from Outer Space: Status Update Ann-Marie Madigan
25-Sep Nick Stone Columbia

Murmurs from Dormant Black Holes: The Theory and Observation of Tidal Disruption Events

 Ann-Marie Madigan
2-Oct Emily Rauscher University of Michigan Pushing Down and Out: characterizing hot Jupiters in detail and expanding into new regimes Zach Berta-Thompson
9-Oct Amy Reines Montana State University

The Origins of Supermassive Black Holes

 Ann-Marie Madigan
16-Oct Lindsay Glesener University of Minnesota Hunting the smallest flares: the first focused hard X-ray observations of the Sun Adam Kowalski
23-Oct Alex Parker SWRI New Moons Beyond Neptune: Exploring the companions of worlds within the Kuiper Belt Ann-Marie Madigan
30-Oct Jorge Moreno Pomona College Galaxy Mergers on FIRE-2 Zach Berta-Thompson
31-Oct Jorge Moreno Pomona College Surviving and Thriving as Students of Color in STEM Zach Berta-Thompson
6-Nov Kevin France CU Boulder - APS The Potential Habitability of Rocky Planets Around Red Dwarfs: Stellar Drivers for Atmospheric Chemistry and Stability Adam Kowalski
13-Nov Iair Arcavi UC Santa Barbara The Discovery of the First Kilonova Ann-Marie Madigan
20-Nov None (Fall Break) No colloquium on University Holiday    
27-Nov Robert Anderson CU Boulder - GEOL Alpine Ice on Planet Earth: Glaciers and Their Rocky Cousins Ann-Marie Madigan
4-Dec Mark Rast CU Boulder - APS The continuing saga of supergranulation Adam Kowalski
11-Dec Beth Willman LSST/ University of Arizona The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Zach Berta-Thompson
12-Dec Beth Willman LSST/ University of Arizona Adventures in Diversity and Inclusion at Haverford and LSST Zach Berta-Thompson

Colloquia for Spring 2018

Date

Speaker

Institution

Talk Title

Contact
22-Jan Sarah Ballard Massachusetts Institute of Technology "There Must Be a Better Way": Leveraging the Thousands of Known Systems to Shape Future Exoplanet Study Zach Berta-Thompson
29-Jan Wen-fai Fong Northwestern University Multiple Messengers from the Universe: Gravitational Waves and Light from Neutron Star Mergers Zach Berta-Thompson
1-Feb Ragnhild Lunnan Stockholm University Superluminous Supernovae & Other Exotic Explosions Mitch Begelman
5-Feb Nick Stone Columbia University Life after Death: Transient Emission from Compact Objects in Galactic Nuclei Mitch Begelman
12-Feb James Guillochon Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics If you want to learn about physics, watch a black hole consume a star! Mitch Begelman
19-Feb Ann Marie Cody NASA Ames Research Center Young Stars in the Time Domain Mitch Begelman
26-Feb Erin Kara University of Maryland Mapping Accretion and Ejection in Black Holes Mitch Begelman
5-Mar Jason Dexter Max-Planck-Institut fur extraterrestrische Physik Resolving Black Holes in Space and Time Mitch Begelman
12-Mar Nate Kaib University of Oklahoma Exploring the Timing of the Outer Solar System's Orbital Instability Adam Kowalski
19-Mar John Wisniewski University of Oklahoma Constraining the Formation and Evolution of Exoplanets Adam Kowalski
26-Mar None (Spring Break) No colloquium on University Holiday    
2-Apr Cristobal Petrovich Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics Architecture of Kepler planets: an exoplanet perspective of the Solar system Zach Berta-Thompson
9-Apr Shelley Wright University of California-San Diego Studying Distant Galaxies with Innovative Astronomical Instrumentation Seth Hornstein
16-Apr Quinn Konopacky University of California-San Diego Constraining Planet Formation with Directly Imaged Exoplanets Zach Berta-Thompson
23-Apr Daryl Haggard McGill University Discovery and Opportunity in the X-ray Time Domain Adam Kowalski
30-Apr John Bochanski Rider University The Next Generation of Milky Way Survey Science Adam Kowalski
7-May No colloquium - finals week