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October 20, 2025Peter Scherbak & Saugata Barat
Monday Afternoon Science TalksTalk 1: Rapid Binary Mass Transfer: Circumbinary Outflows and Angular Momentum Losses across Mass Transfer Rates Talk 2: Exoplanets Through Time: Tracing the Early Evolution of Sub-Neptunes -
October 6, 2025Philippe Yao & Yonadav (Barry) Ginat
Monday Afternoon Science TalksTalk 1: Theoretical Models for Repeating Nuclear Transients: Stellar Orbits, Disk Encounters & Mass Transfer Talk 2: The Small-Scale Limit of the Cold-Dark-Matter Power-Spectrum -
September 29, 2025Ajay Gill & Shaunak Mondak
Monday Afternoon Science Talks -
September 22, 2025Karthik Yadavalli & Zeyuan Xuan
Monday Afternoon Science TalksTalk 1: Radiative Transfer Modeling Supernovae to Understand Progenitor Physics Talk 2: From Gravitational Wave Bursts to Binary Dynamics: Unlocking the Astrophysics of Eccentric Sources -
September 15, 2025Junehyong Jeon & Vedant Chandra
Monday Afternoon Science TalksFormation and Evolution of Supermassive Black Holes in the Early Universe and Tales from the Milky Way's Distant Horizon -
September 8, 2025Chun Huang & Aimee Schechter
Monday Afternoon Science TalksLinking Multiwavelength Pulsar Emission to Super-Dense Physics Inside Neutron Star & From the Little Leagues to the Big Leagues: The Impact of Low-mass Minor to Massive Major Galaxy Mergers on Galaxy Evolution -
September 2, 2025Sebastiano D. von Fellenberg
Special SeminarInfrared Observations of the Galactic Center -
December 9, 2025Dan D’Orazio
Astrophysics ColloquiumSearching for Supermassive Black Hole Binaries: Gas, Gravity, and Gravitational Waves -
December 2, 2025Priya Natarajan
Astrophysics ColloquiumStress-Testing the Standard Cosmological Model -
November 25, 2025Lisa Dang
Astrophysics ColloquiumMapping Alien Worlds: from Infernal to Habitable Worlds -
November 18, 2025Anna de Graaff
Astrophysics ColloquiumA new view of the red and distant Universe from JWST/NIRSpec -
October 28, 2025Carlos Vargas
Astrophysics ColloquiumPioneering Emission Mapping of the Circumgalactic Medium with Aspera: Mission Progress and Lessons Learned. -
November 4, 2025Sudip Bhattacharyya
Astrophysics ColloquiumThermonuclear X-ray Bursts: Probing Neutron Stars and a Double-Photospheric-Radius-Expansion -
October 21, 2025Matt McQuinn
Astrophysics ColloquiumHistory of the Intergalactic Medium Thermal History -
October 14, 2025Roger Blandford
Astrophysics ColloquiumErgomagnetospheres, Ejection Disks and Wave Optics in M87 and SS433 -
October 7, 2025Yue Shen
Astrophysics ColloquiumCosmic heavyweights: masses, host galaxies, and an origin story -
September 30, 2025Jeff Andrews
Astrophysics ColloquiumIt Takes Two to Tango: Modeling Binary Stellar Populations in the Gravitational Wave Era -
September 23, 2025Suvi Gezari
Astrophysics ColloquiumUsing Tidal Disruption Events as Probes of Massive Black Hole Formation and Growth Over Cosmic Time -
September 16, 2025Julian Muñoz
Astrophysics ColloquiumWhat is JWST teaching us about the early Universe? -
September 9, 2025Kevin Schlaufman
Astrophysics ColloquiumThe Dynamical Evolution of Exoplanet Systems Over Billions of Years -
May 12, 2025Yilun Ma & Jamie Lin
Monday Afternoon Science TalksTalk 1: Searching for little red dots across redshifts Talk 2: High redshift quiescent galaxies in overdensities at z~4-5 observed by JWST -
May 5, 2025Sunil Simha
Monday Afternoon Science TalksTalk: Cosmic accountancy: Baryon budgeting using FRB dispersion measures -
April 28, 2025Dave Clements
Monday Afternoon Science TalksTalk: The deepest Herschel-SPIRE Field -
April 14, 2025Saiyang Zhang & Lizhong Zhang
Monday Afternoon Science TalksTalk 1: The imprint of primordial black holes over cosmic history Talk 2: Modeling black hole accretion with radiation GRMHD: a parameter survey and connection to observations -
April 7, 2025Christopher Lindsay
Monday Afternoon Science TalksTalk: Stellar astrophysics and galactic archaeology with asteroseismology -
March 31, 2025Marie Lau
Monday Afternoon Science TalksTalk: Probing quasar/galaxy evolution, feeding, and feedback: Extremely Red Quasars (ERQs) and the Quasar-Associated Inflows Legacy Survey (QUAILS) -
March 10, 2025Jesse Han
Monday Afternoon Science TalksTalk: Hypervelocity Stars Trace a Supermassive Black Hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud -
May 6, 2025Sanaea Rose
Astrophysics ColloquiumStellar bumper cars: Collisions in the centers of galaxies -
March 3, 2025Tiger Hsiao
Monday Afternoon Science TalksTalk: First star clusters observed in the early universe with JWST and gravitational lensing -
February 24, 2025Grant Donnelly & Andra Stroe
Monday Afternoon Science TalksTalk 1: Touched by fire: insights from PAHs in active galaxies Talk 2: Shocking tales of structure formation: evolving galaxies and black holes in evolving environments -
February 10, 2025Ben Lakeland
Monday Afternoon Science TalksTalk: Using the sun to find earth twins -
May 9, 2025Jonathan Chou
Journal ClubTalk: A crisis in academia: Let's talk about student mental health -
February 3, 2025Charlie Mpetha
Monday Afternoon Science TalksTalk: The infall region of galaxy clusters as a complementary probe to cluster abundance -
May 13, 2025Pat Slane
Astrophysics ColloquiumThe x-ray sky in high definition: 25 years of astrophysics with the Chandra x-ray observatory -
April 29, 2025Nicholas Galitzki
Astrophysics ColloquiumProbing the beginning of the universe with precision microwave polarimetry observations -
May 7, 2025Xiaohui Fan
Astrophysics ColloquiumJWST views of quasars and little red dots at cosmic dawn -
April 15, 2025John Wu
Astrophysics ColloquiumAstronomy re-envisioned: investigating the physics of galaxy evolution with Machine Learning -
April 8, 2025Itai Linial
Astrophysics ColloquiumDynamics and energetic transients in galactic nuclei -
April 1, 2025Michelle Ntampaka
Astrophysics ColloquiumTrustworthy Machine Learning for data-driven discovery -
March 18, 2025Shreyas Vissapragada
Astrophysics ColloquiumObserving atmospheric evolution in extrasolar planets -
March 4, 2025Denis Erkal
Astrophysics ColloquiumMapping out the colliding dark matter haloes of the Milky Way and LMC with stellar streams -
February 25, 2025Kathryne Daniel
Astrophysics Colloquium“Two-Eyed Seeing”: uniting perspectives to drive innovation in galactic dynamics and major observatory design