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.

August 28

Laura Blecha, University of Florida

Supermassive Black Hole Modeling for the Low-Frequency Gravitational-Wave Era

Sept 11

Dr. Amy R. Winebarger

Probing the Sun with Imaging Spectrographs

Sept 18

Paul Hayne, University of Colorado at Boulder

The New Age of Exploration and Science at the Poles of the Moon

Sept 25

Zach Berta-Thompson, University of Colorado at Boulder

How do planetary atmospheres work?

Oct 2

Round Robin

Oct 9

Justin Spilker

Cleaning up the dusty universe with JWST and ALMA

Oct 16

Luis Wellbanks

Exoplanets

Oct 23

Julie Comerford, University of Colorado at Boulder

Cosmic Mashups: From Galaxies to Black Holes

Oct 30

Kartheik Iyer

Galaxies in the making

Nov 6

Andy Cheng

DART mission: Deflecting an Asteroid by Kinetic Impact

Nov 13

Melinda Soares-Furtado

Exoplanets

Nov 20

Fall Break

Nov 27

Dave Brain

Retention of Habitable Atmospheres in Planetary Systems

Dec 4

Ted Bergin,

Exoplanets

Dec 11

Desika Narayan,

Galsims

Jan 22

Sarah Rughmeier

March 18

Feyral Ozel,

Neutron Stars

March 25

Spring Break

April 15

Maura McGlaughlin,

Grav Waves

April 29

Gibwa Musoke,

Black Hole Accretion

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 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

From Rocks to Rockets

April 17

Jake Connors (NIST)

From Earth to Exoplanets: Building the next generation of Far-Infrared Spectrometers

April 24

Debra Simmons, JWST Chief Systems Engineer for Northrop Grumman

Engineering at the Extremes

May 1

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

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