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.
Winter 2025 Series
| Date | Speaker | Title |
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| January 9th | Malena Rice Yale University |
Insights from the Orbital Architectures of Planetary Systems |
| January 23rd | Jacqueline Antwi-Danso (REMOTE) University of Toronto |
Too Big to Be?" Searching or the Most Massive Galaxies in the Distant Universe |
| January 30th | Nicole Sanchez Caltech & Carnegie Observatories |
A Marriage of Convenience: How to Combine Theory and Observations in Galaxy Evolution to Expand our Understanding of the Universe. |
| February 6th | Claude-Andre Faucher-Giguere Northwestern University |
The circumgalatic medium: What is it and how does it affect the evolution of the galaxies |
| February 13th | Erini Lambrides NASA-Goddard |
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| February 20th | David Nesvorny University of Colorado |
A dynamical Model of Near-Earth Objects from a decade of Catalina Sky Survey observations |
| February 27th | Andrea Kunder | |
| March 6th | TBD |
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| March 13th | Sanjana Curtis Berkeley |
Previous colloquia speakers can be viewed on the speaker history spreadsheet.