Colloquium Talk Event

Dr. Louis Abramson (Carnegie)

From data to meaning -- the challenge of inferring the past from astronomical data

Prof. Jason Hessels (University of Amsterdam & ASTRON)

Pinpointing fast radio bursts in space and time

Prof. Anna Watts (University of Amsterdam)

A NICER view of neutron stars

Prof. Aida Wofford (UNAM)

Synthetic photometry of star clusters that accounts for the stochastic sampling of the IMF and the ionized gas: analysis of GALAXEV-C models and HST observations

Dr. Diana Powell (SAO)

Connecting Planet Formation & Characterization

Dr. Anna Rosen (Harvard)

The Destructive Birth of Massive Stars and Star Clusters

Prof. Yamila Miguel (Leiden University)

Unveiling the Secrets of Jupiter with the Juno Mission

Prof. Uros Seljak (Berkeley)

Normalizing Flows for cosmology applications

Dr. Emma Beasor (NOIRLab)

The Evolution of Red Supergiants to Supernovae

Prof. Adam Burgasser (UC San Diego)

Galactic Archaeology with the Coldest Stars and Brown Dwarfs

Prof. Caitlin Casey (UT Austin)

The Rarest Galaxies in the first Two Billion Years

Prof. Carlos Vargas (University of Arizona)

Why I Stopped Waiting for Someone Else to Map the Warm-hot Circumgalactic Medium

Prof. Raffaella Margutti (UC Berkeley)

The Renaissance of Astrophysics: a landscape of opportunities in the era of Time Domain Multi-Messenger investigations

Prof. Jonathan Stern (Tel Aviv University)

Disk galaxies and their Circumgalactic Medium

Dr. Kirk Barrow (Harvard)

High-Cadence Synthetic Observations and Neural Networks in the Era of JWST

Prof. Naveen Reddy (UC Riverside)

The Production and Transmission of Lyman-alpha Photons in High-redshift Galaxies and the Implications for the Escape of Ionizing Radiation

Dr. Carl Fields (LANL)

Next-Generation Simulations of The Remarkable Deaths of Massive Stars

Dr. Catherine Zucker (Space Telescope Science Institute)

Revealing the Star Formation History of our Solar Neighborhood

Prof. Brant Robertson (UC Santa Cruz)

Inferring the Thermal History of the Intergalactic Medium from the Lyman-alpha Forest

Prof. Emily Levesque (University of Washington)

Betelgeuse Is Pretty Cool: Cosmic Questions for our Naked-Eye Neighbor

Dr. Yiming Zhong (KICP)

Collapsed dark matter halos and the birth of the first supermassive black holes

Dr. Rebecca Bernstein (GMTO, Carnegie Observatories)

An update on GMT and the full story on AO for the ELTs

Dr. Anna Ho (UC Berkeley)

Fast Transients: A (Fleeting) Window on the Final Stages of Stellar Evolution and the Formation of Compact Objects

Dr. Morgan MacLeod (Harvard)

Stellar Mergers and Common Envelope Phases as Astronomical Transients

Prof. Raphaëlle Haywood (University of Exeter)

There’s no place like home: Placing Earth in its astronomical and geological contexts

Dr. Sarah Pearson (NYU)

Stellar Streams from Beyond the Milky Way

Prof. Ray Carlberg (University of Toronto)

Globular Clusters and Dark Matter (sub) Halos

Prof. Louise Edwards (Cal Poly SLO)

Galaxies Evolution in Cluster Cores and Outskirts

Dr. Ivanna Escala (Carnegie Observatories)

TBD