This page is used for scheduling of astronomy/astrophysics
colloquia by Scott
Ransom, Poonam Chandra, Yifan
Zhou, Paul Torrey,
and Satya
Gontcho A Gontcho.
We are trying to have
in-person colloquia as much as possible this year, but will also
broadcast them via Zoom.
All colloquia are on Thursdays at 11:00 AM
EST/EDT unless otherwise noted.
Dates in red are at special times or locations.
Date
|
Time
|
Host
|
Name/Institution
|
Title
|
| Thur, Aug 28, 2025 |
11:00 AM ET |
NRAO
|
Fengqiu
(Adam) Dong, GBO
|
The CHIME/FRB single pulse pulsar survey and
the discovery of two Long Period Radio Transients
|
| Thur, Sep 4, 2025 |
11:00 AM ET |
UVA
|
Scott
Gaudi, Ohio St
|
A Galactic Exoplanet
Census with the Roman Space Telescope
|
| Thur, Sep 11, 2025 |
11:00 AM ET |
NRAO
|
Loren
Anderson, WVU
|
Ionized Gas of the Galactic Interstellar
Medium
|
| Thur, Sep 18, 2025 |
11:00 AM ET |
NRAO
|
Dave
Sanders, U. Hawaii
|
The
Origin and Evolution of Luminous AGN: recent progress and
future challenges
|
| Thur, Sep 25, 2025 |
11:00 AM ET |
|
|
|
| Thur, Oct 2, 2025 |
11:00 AM ET |
NRAO
|
Mallory
Thorpe, U. Bonn
|
AGN signatures: from the cloud-scale ISM to
galaxy evolution
|
| Thur, Oct 9, 2025 |
11:00 AM ET |
UVA
|
Mariangela
Lisanti, Princeton
|
Running a Dark Matter Experiment on a Galaxy
|
| Thur, Oct 16, 2025 |
11:00 AM ET |
UVA
|
Peter Melchior, Princeton
|
The Future of Astronomical Data Analysis
|
| Thur, Oct 23, 2025 |
11:00 AM ET |
NRAO
|
Mojgan
Aghakhanloo, UVA
|
Multiwavelength Views
of Massive Star Eruptions Across Galaxies
|
| Thur, Oct 30, 2025 |
11:00 AM ET |
No Colloquium:
Jansky Lecture this evening
|
| Thur, Oct 30, 2025 |
6:00 PM ET
|
NRAO
|
Jansky
Lecture: Jean Turner, UCLA |
Jansky Lecture: Exploring the Dusty
Origins of Star Clusters
|
| Thur, Nov 6, 2025 |
11:00 AM ET |
UVA
|
Jake Simon, Iowa State
|
Building Planetary
Systems: The Formation of Planetesimals
|
| Thur, Nov 13, 2025 |
11:00 AM ET |
NRAO
|
Katey Alatalo, STScI
|
The life-cycle of gas in dying galaxies
|
Thur, Nov 20, 2025
|
11:00 AM ET |
UVA
|
Eugene
Chiang, UC Berkeley
|
Giant Planet Formation
|
| Thur, Nov 27, 2025 |
|
No
Colloquium: Thanksgiving Holiday
|
| Thur, Dec 4, 2025 |
11:00 AM ET |
UVA
|
Lisa
Kewley, CfA |
A new vision for the
Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian
|
| Thur, Dec 11, 2025 |
|
No
Colloquium: NSF Annual Program Plan
|
No colloquia from mid-December through
early-January due to Holidays and AAS Meeting.
|
Thur, Jan 15, 2026
|
11:00 AM ET
|
NRAO
|
Jessie
Runnoe, Vanderbilt
|
The ongoing hunt for supermassive black hole
binaries
|
| Thur,
Jan 22, 2026 |
11:00
AM ET |
NRAO
|
Keigo
Fukumura, JMU
|
State-of-the-Art X-ray View of Ultra-Fast
Outflows in AGN with XRISM
|
| Thur,
Jan 29, 2026 |
11:00
AM ET |
UVA
|
Sierra
Grant, Carnegie EPL
|
POSTPONED: Building new worlds:
Witnessing star, planet, and moon formation with JWST
|
| Thur,
Feb 5, 2026 |
11:00
AM ET |
UVA
|
Songhu
Wang, Indiana U.
|
Towards a Unified Picture of the Origin of Hot
Jupiters
|
| Thur,
Feb 12, 2026 |
11:00
AM ET |
UVA
|
Federica Bianco, U. Delaware
|
POSTPONED:
Do Androids Dream of Exploding Stars?
|
| Thur,
Feb 19, 2026 |
11:00
AM ET |
UVA
|
Heather Knutson,
Caltech
|
The Afterlife of Gas Giants: Tidal Disruption
and Subsequent Fate of Stripped Cores on Close-in Orbits
|
| Thur,
Feb 26, 2026 |
11:00
AM ET |
NRAO
|
Stella Ocker,
Carnegie
|
Probing Cosmic Plasmas from Sub-AU to
Gigaparsec Scales
|
Thur, Mar 5, 2026
|
11:00
AM ET |
NRAO
|
Nicholas,
Law, UNC
|
Exploring the Deep, High Speed Optical Sky
with the Argus Array
|
Thur, Mar 12, 2026
|
11:00
AM ET |
NRAO
|
Michael
Busch, NRAO |
Finding the Missing Molecular Gas: OH as a
Probe of CO-Dark Hâ‚‚ in the Local Group
|
| Thur, Mar 19, 2026 |
11:00 AM ET |
NRAO
|
Jamila
Pegues, U. Virginia |
Three Cheers for CHEER: An ALMA Large Program
Characterizing Planet-Forming Chemistry around Herbig
Stars
|
| Thur, Mar 26, 2026 |
11:00 AM ET |
UVA
|
Tom
Rice, George Washington Univ.
|
Long-term near-infrared variability of the
smallest, youngest stars
|
| Thur, Apr 02, 2026 |
11:00 AM ET |
UVA
|
Aaron Yung, STScI
|
Three years of searching for the most distant
galaxies with JWST and what have we learned so far?
|
| Thur, Apr 09, 2026 |
11:00 AM ET |
|
|
|
| Thur, Apr 16, 2026 |
11:00 AM ET |
UVA
|
Michael
Troxell, Duke
|
The Legacy of the Dark Energy Survey
|
| Thur, Apr 23, 2026 |
11:00 AM ET |
UVA
|
Federica Bianco, U. Delaware
|
Do Androids Dream of Exploding Stars? |
| Thur, Apr 30, 2026 |
11:00 AM ET |
NRAO
|
Sasha
Tchekhovskoy, Northwestern
|
Reimagining Black Hole Radio Playlist using
Supercomputers
|
| Thur, May 7, 2026 |
11:00 AM ET |
UVA
|
Sierra Grant, Carnegie
EPL
|
Building new worlds: Witnessing star, planet,
and moon formation with JWST
|
| Thur, May 14, 2026 |
11:00 AM ET |
NRAO
|
Seiji Fujimoto,
Toronto
|
Exploring the visible and obscured sides of
the Early Universe
|
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