Barring university holidays, Astronomy colloquia occur every Thursday at 3:30pm in the Physics and Astronomy Auditorium (A102), with refreshments served at 3:00pm. 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.
Spring 2025 Series
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| April 3rd | Matthew Holman Harvard University & Smithsonian |
A Pan-STARRS Search for Distant Planets |
| April 10th | Kate Storey-Fisher Stanford University |
Large-Scale Structure Cosmology with the Quaia Quasar Catalog |
| April 17th | Gourav Khullar University of Washington |
Catching galaxies with JWST: Stochastic Star Formation Histories in Post-Starburst Galaxies at Cosmic Dawn |
| April 24th | Boryana Hadzhiyska Northwestern University |
TBD--REMOTE |
| May 1st | Jess Werk University of Washington |
STATE OF THE DEPARTMENT |
| May 8th | Corey Gray Cal Tech |
A Spacetime Sensor Just Over the Hill From UW |
| May 15th | Stacey Alberts Arizona University |
Our New View of Galaxy Evolution with JWST/MIRI |
| May 22nd | Jan Eldridge Auckland, NZ |
REMOTE "Some of the things binaries do" |
| May 29th | Alexandra Amon Princeton |
TBD-REMOTE |
| June 5th | Robert Jedicke University of Hawaii |
TBD |
Previous colloquia speakers can be viewed on the speaker history spreadsheet.