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 | Location | Speaker | Title (Click for abstracts) | Hosts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu Jan 26 | Serin 401 | Carles Badenes (Pittsburgh) | Neutrons in Type Ia Supernovae: the most dangerous and terrifying particles in the Universe! |
Hughes/Arunachalam |
| Thu Feb 2 | Serin 401 | Romeel Davé (Univ. Western Cape) | A Multi-Scale Approach to Modeling the Baryon Cycle | Sellwood/BrennanR |
| Thu Feb 9 | Serin 401 | Mathew Madhavacheril (Princeton) | Cosmic Lever Arms with CMB Lensing postponed due to snow |
Buckley/Awan |
| Thu Feb 16 | Serin 401 | Tjitske Starkenburg (Simons CCA) | Dark influences: the impact of dark satellites on dwarf galaxies | Somerville/Ahmed |
| Thu Feb 23 | Serin 401 | Jia Liu (Princeton) | Weak lensing in the nonlinear regime | Gawiser/Camacho |
| Thu Mar 2 | Serin 401 | Keith Hawkins (Columbia) | Galactic Archaeology with Spectroscopy and Gaia | Baker/Rivera |
| Thu Mar 9 | Serin 385 | Ben Shappee (Carnegie/Princeton) | The All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae | Jha/Dettman |
| Thu Mar 16 | no seminar - spring break | |||
| Thu Mar 23 | Serin 401 | Susan Clark (Columbia) | Using neutral hydrogen to measure cosmic magnetism and CMB foregrounds |
Baker/Wu |
| Thu Mar 30 |
Serin 401 | Anthony Pullen (NYU) | Enhancing Cosmic Probes of Gravity with Weak Lensing | Gawiser/Mitchell |
| Thu Apr 6 | Serin 401 | Lauren Anderson (Simons CCA) | Improving Gaia Parallaxes with a Data-Driven Model of the Color-Magnitude Diagram |
Somerville/Applebaum |
| Thu Apr 13 | Serin 401 | Anja von der Linden (Stony Brook) | Weighing the Giants: Cluster Masses and Cosmology | Pryor/BrennanS |
| Wed Apr 19 | PLH | Anna Frebel (MIT) | Observing the signature of a single prolific r-process event in an ultra-faint dwarf galaxy |
Pryor/Yung |
| Thu Apr 20 | no seminar - colloquium | |||
| Wed Apr 26 | PLH | Hakeem Oluseyi (Florida Tech/NASA) | Star Hacking – Finding the Next Earth and Getting There | Baker |
| Thu Apr 27 | Serin 401 | Pieter van Dokkum (Yale) | Exploring the low surface brightness sky with the Dragonfly Telephoto Array |
Jha/Wright |