Astrophysics seminars are held at 1:30 PM on Thursdays in room 401, with refreshments to follow in room 332W. Departmental colloquia are held at 4:45 PM on Wednesdays in the Physics Lecture Hall, preceded by tea and cookies at 4:30 PM. Special dates, times, and locations are noted in bold in the table below.
| Date/Time | Location | Speaker | Title (Click here for abstracts) | Hosts |
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| Wed Sep 7 |
Physics Lecture Hall |
Andrew Baker (Rutgers) |
Not-So-Dense Gas in Not-So-Distant Galaxies |
Sellwood |
| Thu, Sep 8 |
Serin 385 | Eric Gawiser (Rutgers) |
Probing Dark Energy and Dark Matter with High-Redshift Galaxies in the Era of Big Data (Colloquium -- note special location) | Somerville |
| Thu Sep 15 |
Serin 401 | Juliana Kwan (U. Penn) |
Galaxy-galaxy lensing for cosmology in the Dark Energy Survey | Gawiser/Iyer |
| Thu Sep 22 |
Serin 401 | no seminar |
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| Thu Sep 29 |
Serin 401 | Boris Leistedt (NYU) |
Cosmology with large imaging surveys: from precision to accuracy | Gawiser/Awan |
| Thu Oct 6 |
Serin 401 | Mary Putman (Columbia) |
Gas Flows on Various Scales | Sellwood |
| Thu Oct 13 |
Serin 401 |
Smita Mathur (Ohio State University) |
Missing baryons and missing metals in galaxies: Clues from our Milky Way | Somerville/Yung |
| Thu Oct 20 |
Serin 401 | Shy Genel (SCCA) |
Lagrangian analysis of cosmological simulations | Brooks/Sloane |
| Thu Oct 27 |
Serin 401 |
Steve Boada (Rutgers) |
Measuring the scatter in the cluster optical richness-mass relation with machine learning | Hughes |
| Thu Nov 3 |
Serin 401 | Marla Geha (Yale) |
The Satellite Populations of Milky Way-like Galaxies |
Pryor/Applebaum |
| Thu Nov 10 |
Serin 385 |
Karl Gebhardt (UT Austin) Rutgers 250 Fellow |
From Black Holes to Dark Energy, with a journey from New Jersey to Texas | Gawiser/Pryor |
| Nov 17 |
Serin 401 | no seminar |
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| Nov 24 |
N/A |
no seminar -- happy Thanksgiving! |
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| Dec 1 |
Serin 401 | Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine (Harvard) |
ETHOS - From dark particle physics to the matter
distribution of the Universe and beyond |
Keeton/Mitchell |
| Dec 7 |
PLH |
Jo Dunkley (Princeton) |
The Polarized Microwave Background: ACTPol and Beyond |
Jha |
| Dec 8 | Serin 401 | Michael Tremmel (UW) |
The Rise of the Quenched Galaxies in The Romulus Simulations | Somerville/Brooks/Wright |