4421 Sterling Hall @ 3:30 pm
Institution: CIERA Postdoctoral Fellow at Northwestern University Title: Old New Worlds: Planetary Destruction and Renewal over Stellar Lifetimes Abstract: Planetary systems are ubiquitous, but not eternal. In this two-part talk, I will describe recent work on long-term …
4421 Sterling Hall @ 3:30 pm
Institution: The Ohio State University Title: Reaching for Distant Worlds: Exoplanet Atmospheres at High Spectral ResolutionAbstract: The study of exoplanets has rapidly advanced over the last three decades, with thousands of planets now known. With …
4421 Sterling Hall @ 3:30 pm
The first two colloquia on September 11th and September 18th will be our annual department orientation (also known as the “show and tell”). During these sessions, everyone will have 1.5 minutes to introduce themselves and …
4421 Sterling Hall @ 3:30 pm
The first two colloquia on September 11th and September 18th will be our annual department orientation (also known as the “show and tell”). During these sessions, everyone will have 1.5 minutes to introduce themselves and …
Joanne Dawson
4421 Sterling Hall @ 3:30 pm
Institution: Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia Title: Small-Scale Structure of the “Dark ISM”Abstract: It is now known that a significant fraction of the Milky Way ISM resides in a so-called “dark” phase, usually defined as a …
Adam Riess
4421 Sterling Hall @ 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
There is a joint departmental colloquium for the Department of Astronomy and the Department of Physics on Thursday, May 1, 2025, from 3:30 to 4:30 PM in Sterling Hall, Room 4421. Seating will be limited, …
Niel Brandt
4421 Sterling Hall @ 3:30 pm
Speaker: Niel Brandt Institution: Penn State Title: Galactic Correlates of Supermassive Black Hole Growth and Their Application Abstract: The co-evolution of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) and galaxies can be effectively constrained through sample-based analyses of the …
Jonathan Fortney
4421 Sterling Hall @ 3:30 pm
Speaker: Jonathan Fortney Institution: University of California, Santa Cruz Bio: Jonathan Fortney is the Department Chair of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is a planetary astrophysicist who works to …
Mark Gorski
4421 Sterling Hall @ 3:30 pm
Speaker: Mark Gorski Institution: CIERA Postdoctoral Fellow Title: New Phenomena Around Supermassive Black Holes: Dynamics and Chemistry Abstract: In 1982 Blandford and Payne predicted that magnetic fields are fundamental for accretion onto supermassive black holes …
4421 Sterling Hall @ 3:30 pm
Speaker: Songhu Wang Institution: Indiana University Title: Towards a Unified picture of Planet Formation Abstract: While the exoplanetary field is replete with remarkable discoveries, perhaps the two most intriguing findings have been the detection of …