Barring university holidays, Astronomy colloquia occur every Thursday at 3:30pm in the Physics and Astronomy Auditorium (A102), with refreshments served at 3:20pm. Speakers are invited to meet with graduate students for a casual dinner afterwards, typically around 5pm. Graduate students may also nominate a colloquium speaker during the Spring quarter.
Autumn 2024 Series
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| October 3rd | Yvette Cendes University of Oregon |
Tidal Disruption Events (TDEs): Progress, Open Questions, and Prospects |
| October 10th | Jillian Bellovary City University of New York |
Where are the Intermediate Mass Black Holes? |
| October 17th | Greg Green Max Planck Institute for Astronomy |
Milky Way Dust and Dynamics |
| October 24th | Evan Goetz University of British Columbia |
Detections and challenges for gravitational-wave astronomy |
| October 31st | Matthew Middleton University of Southampton |
At the extremes of accretion |
| November 7th | Peter Ferguson University of Washington |
Unveiling Dark Matter with stellar streams and satellite galaxies in the era of survey astronomy |
| November 14th | Dmitrii Vavilov University of Washington |
Partial banana mapping: modeling orbit uncertainty for impact probability estimation and precovery of asteroids |
| November 21st | David Pitman | A Guide for Using Generative AI in Research |
| December 5th | Wes Fraser |
TBA |
Previous colloquia speakers can be viewed on the speaker history spreadsheet.