Colloquium Talk Event

Prof. Lia Corrales (University of Michigan)

New Frontiers of X-ray Exploration: From Astromineralogy to Supermassive Black Holes

Prof. Hilding Neilson (University of Toronto)

Period Change, Evolution and Atmospheres of Cepheids: new insights into fundamental standard candles

Prof. Rana Ezzeddine (University of Florida)

Insights into the Lives (and Deaths) of the First stars with Stellar Archaeology

Prof. Carl Rodriguez (Carnegie Mellon University)

The Lives and Deaths of Star Clusters, and the Gravitational Waves They Make Along the Way

Prof. Silvia Toonen (University of Birmingham)

Stellar Interactions and Transients

Prof. Myriam Telus (UC Santa Cruz)

Planetesimals here, there and everywhere: Meteorites as analogs for planetesimals in extrasolar systems

Prof. Catherine Espaillat (Boston University)

A panchromatic view of variability in protoplanetary disks

Dr. Yong Zheng (UC Berkeley)

Characterizing the Circumgalactic Medium of the Lowest-Mass Galaxies

Prof. K. Decker French (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

Supermassive Black Holes and the Influence of their Host Galaxies

Dr. Allison Strom (Princeton University)

To Z or not to Z: tracing the chemical evolution of galaxies in the early universe

Dr. Johanna Teske (Carnegie Earth & Planets Laboratory)

Inferring "True" Small Planet Demographics with the Magellan-TESS Survey

Prof. Kristen McQuinn (Rutgers University)

Galaxy Evolution at the Faint-End of the Luminosity Function

Dr. Fabian Schneider (University of Heidelberg)

Neutron Star and Black Hole Formation in Binary Stars

Prof. Melissa Ness (Columbia University)

Mapping the Milky Way's assembly using stars as tools

Dr. Eric Pellegrini (Heidelberg)

Evolving from nearby-observations of feedback to a time theory dependent star-formation

Dr. Thomas Connor (JPL)

On the Nature of Galaxy Clusters as Archaeological Records

Prof. Elisabeth Newton (Dartmouth College)

Observing the Evolution of Small Stars and Planets

Dr. Brian Nord (Fermilab)

From galaxies to faces: recognizing the implications of Artificial Intelligence in astronomy and society

Dr. Adam Miller (Northwestern University)

Mapping Supernovae to Their Stellar Progenitors

Dr. Emily Martin (UC Santa Cruz)

New Instruments and Observational Techniques for Interpreting the Spectra of Exoplanets

Dr. Sownak Bose (Harvard University)

Cosmology, Big and Small: Probing the Multi-scale Nature of Structure Formation with Artificial Universes

Dr. Ana Bonaca (Harvard)

The Milky Way as the frontier laboratory for cosmology

Dr. Kartheik Iyer (University of Toronto)

Constraining the Timescales of Galaxy Evolution using Observations and Simulations

Prof. Robyn Sanderson (University of Pennsylvania)

Dynamical Tests of Dark Matter in the Milky Way and Local Group

Dr. Renske Smit (Liverpool John Moores University)

An ALMA view of galaxies in the Epoch of Reionization

Prof. David Kipping (Columbia University)

The Statistic of One

Prof. Iair Arcavi (Tel Aviv University)

New Discoveries of Extreme Transients

Prof. Anna McLeod (Durham University)

IFUs, nearby galaxies, and resolved stellar feedback

Prof. Sung-Chul Yoon (Seoul National University)

Progenitor stars of Type Ib and Type Ic supernovae: model predictions, and constraints from pre-supernova searches and supernova

Prof. Shazrene Mohamed (University of Cape Town)

Modelling the Interactions and Explosions of Evolved Stars in 3D

Dr. Alex Ji (Carnegie)

Near-field cosmology with the rapid neutron-capture process

Dr. Ting Li (Carnegie)

The Southern Stellar Stream Spectroscopic Survey: Overview and Latest Science Results

Dr. Lina Necib (Carnegie)

Tracing Dark Matter with Stars