Kate Rubin
Tuesday, April 28, 2026
4:00-5:00pm
Marlar Lounge (37-272/252)
Talk title and abstract coming soon.
Bio: Kate Rubin is an Associate Professor of Astronomy at San Diego State University. She completed her PhD in Astronomy in 2010 at UC Santa Cruz, and spent six years working as a postdoctoral fellow at the MPIA in Heidelberg, Germany and at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, MA before moving San Diego in Fall 2016. She studies the movement of gas into and out of galaxies and the effects of this gas cycle on galaxy evolution. Her areas of expertise include extragalactic astronomy, galaxy formation and evolution, galactic winds and feedback, the circumgalactic medium, and QSO absorption line spectroscopy. (Credit: https://astronomy.sdsu.edu/people/kate-rubin/ and https://krubin.sdsu.edu/)