Astronomy Colloquia occur every Thursday at 3:30pm in the Physics and Astronomy Auditorium (PAA 102), barring holidays. Graduate students can nominate a colloquium speaker during Spring quarter. Speakers are invited to meet with graduate students for a casual dinner on the day of the colloquium, typically around 5pm.
Winter 2022 Series
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Jan. 20th | Rachel Osten Space Telescope Science Institute |
A New Year, A New Decadal, and You |
| Jan. 27th | Dong Lai Cornell University |
Hot Jupiters and Super-Earths: Spin-Orbit Puzzles in Exoplanetary Systems |
| Feb. 3rd | Andreja Gomboc UW |
Tidal disruptions of stars - from simulations to observations with Rubin Observatory LSST |
| Feb. 10th | Matija Cuk SETI Institute |
Have we figured out how the Moon formed yet? |
| Feb. 17th | Matteo Cantiello Flatiron Institute |
The new era of stellar physics (Virtual) |
| Feb. 24th | Rebecca Phillipson UW |
The Topology of Chaos: A Nonlinear Perspective on Accreting Compact Objects |
| Mar. 3rd | Eric Bellm, Melissa Graham, Mario Juric, Meredith Rawls UW |
LSST Panel (Virtual) |
| Mar. 10th | John Wisniewski University of Oklahoma |
Using High Precision Photometry to Constrain Stellar Activity |
Spring 2022 Series
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Mar. 31st | Aren Heinze UW |
ATLAS in Wonderland: Adventures with Variable Stars |
| Apr. 7th | Simone Ferraro Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
Cosmic shadows and cosmic structures: the CMB as a Large-Scale Structure experiment |
| Apr. 14th | Vikki Meadows, Rory Barnes, Eric Agol UW | Astrobiology Panel |
| Apr. 21st | Adam Kowalski University of Colorado, Boulder |
Solar Flare Observations and Model Predictions for the Next Solar Magnetic Activity Maximum (Virtual) |
| Apr. 28th | Ben Williams, Sarah Tuttle UW |
Apache Point Observatory Panel |
| May 5th | Matthew McQuinn, Miguel Morales UW |
Cosmology / Dark Universe Science Center Panel |
| May 12th | CANCELLED | |
| May 19th | Betsey Adams Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy |
The neutral hydrogen view of dwarf galaxies: the baryonic Tully-Fisher relation |
| May 26th | Cecilia Garraffo Harvard University |
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| June 2nd | Beth Willman National Optical–Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory |
NOIRLab's Role in a Bold Future for Astrophysics |
Fall 2022 Series
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Oct. 6th | Lauren Corlies LSST |
Creating for Your Audience & the Rubin EPO Program |
| Oct. 13th | Neal Dalal Perimeter Institute |
Galaxies in the axiverse |
| Oct. 20th | Cecelia Garraffo CFA, Harvard University |
Stellar High-Energy Radiation and its Effects on Exoplanets |
| Oct. 27th | Sarah Greenstreet UW, DiRAC Institute |
Constraining planet formation using craters on Pluto and Charon |
| Nov. 3rd | Gongjie Li Georgia Tech |
Dynamical Origin and Habitability of Planets — On the Spin-Axis Variations of Planets |
| Nov. 10th | Sean Matt University of Exeter |
Developing a Standard Model for the Rotation and Magnetic Activity of Sun-Like Star |
| Nov. 17th | Brett Morris University of Bern, Switzerland |
A Kepler Meddler and the Matter of Scatter |
| Nov. 24th | Holiday | |
| Dec. 1st | Russell Deitrick University of Bern, Switzerland |
Climate modeling fundamentals from the perspective of the THOR general circulation model |
| Dec. 8th | CANCELLED |