Events
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Apr 16Astronomy Colloquium: Prof. Daniel Stevens
4421 Sterling
Speaker: : Prof. Daniel Stevens Institution: UMN-Duluth Title: Single-lined Eclipsing Binary Stars: A Stellar Astronomy Multi-Tool Abstract: Precisely and accurately measured stellar properties such as mass and radius are important for a wide range of science cases, from characterizing nearby exoplanets to inferring properties of distant galaxies. Double-lined eclipsing binary stars (DLEBs) have long been …
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Apr 20Monday Science Seminar
4530 Sterling Hall
A weekly seminar series featuring talks from astronomers at UW and beyond.
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Apr 21Stars Coffee
4421 Sterling Hall
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Apr 21Astronomy on Tap Madison feat. Coffeeshop Astrophysics: Space Rocks and StardustOne Social Food Hall 123 E Wilson St Madison, WI 53703 United States
Join us for our April 2026 edition of Madison Astronomy on Tap at One Social Food Hall, featuring our friends at UW–Milwaukee Coffeeshop Astrophysics! They will be talking about asteroids, meteorites, comets, and what rocks we find on Earth tell us about the formation of the Solar System. We will have astronomy trivia and plenty of …
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Apr 22WiCOR Lecture: Victoria Meadows
The Marquee, Union South
Victoria Meadows, Senior Research Scientist, SETI Institute Title: The Search for Living Worlds Beyond the Solar System Abstract: One of the grandest and most enduring questions in human history has been whether we are alone in the Universe. While previous generations could only speculate about the possibility of life around other stars, in the next …
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Apr 23Astronomy/WiCOR Joint Colloquium: Prof. Victoria Meadows
4421 Sterling
Speaker: Victoria Meadows Institution: Senior Research Scientist, SETI Institute Title: The Virtual Planetary Laboratory and the Search for Signs of Life on Exoplanets Abstract: The Virtual Planetary Laboratory is a massively interdisciplinary research group that has been working since 2001 to put a strong scientific foundation under the search for signs of life on exoplanets. …
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Apr 27Monday Science Seminar
4530 Sterling Hall
A weekly seminar series featuring talks from astronomers at UW and beyond.
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Apr 28Stars Coffee
4421 Sterling Hall
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Apr 30Astronomy Colloquium: Whitford Lecturer Prof. Bruce Draine
4421 Sterling
Speaker: Prof. Bruce Draine Institution: Princeton University Title: Dust and Molecular Hydrogen in a galaxy with 3% Solar abundances Abstract: The first galaxies form stars out of initially pristine gas. After a few million years the gas is enriched with heavy elements formed by the first generation of stars. Dust starts to appear in small …
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May 8UW-Madison Astronomy & Physics Graduation Ceremony
2241 Chamberlin Hall
3:00pm – Physics Ph.D. Hooding 3:30pm – Cookies and ice cream 4:00pm – Astronomy & Physics Undergraduate Ceremony Graduate, families and friends are welcome to join for all or any part of the festivities. Contact Evan Heintz (eheintz@wisc.edu) with questions. Please RSVP before April 23.