Past Events | Department of Astronomy

Image with a person holding a book superimposed with physics related graphics in front

Thu, October 1, 2026

Astronomy Colloquium - Geraldine Cochran

3:00 pm
Hybrid: Chem & Biomolecular Eng & Chem (CBEC) - Room 130 and Zoom

Artists rendering of two exoplanets around a red star

Thu, September 24, 2026

Astronomy Colloquium - Natasha Latouf

3:00 pm
Hybrid: Chem & Biomolecular Eng & Chem (CBEC) - Room 130 and Zoom

Simulated image of the center of the Milky Way using Roman

Thu, September 17, 2026

Astronomy Colloquium - Marc Pinsonneault

3:00 pm
Hybrid: Chem & Biomolecular Eng & Chem (CBEC) - Room 130 and Zoom

The globular cluster Terzan 4 with brighter blue stars in the cluster burning hotter and red stars on the outskirts burn cooler..

Thu, September 10, 2026

Astronomy Colloquium - Lucy Lu

3:00 pm
Hybrid: Chem & Biomolecular Eng & Chem (CBEC) - Room 130 and Zoom

Thu, August 27, 2026

Astronomy Faculty Flash Talks

3:00 pm
Hybrid: Chem & Biomolecular Eng & Chem (CBEC) - Room 130 and Zoom

A glowing blue/purple gaseous nebula seen against a black sky filled with stars

Thu, April 23, 2026

Astronomy Colloquium - Zeljko Ivezic

3:00 pm
Hybrid: Chem & Biomolecular Eng & Chem (CBEC) - Room 130 and Zoom

Thu, April 16, 2026

Astronomy Colloquium - Frank van den Bosch

3:00 pm
Hybrid: Chem & Biomolecular Eng & Chem (CBEC) - Room 130 and Zoom

Tue, April 14, 2026

Physics Colloquium - James W. Beletic

3:45 pm
1080 Physics Research Building

A multi-wavelength composite image of supernova remnant Cassiopeia A

Thu, March 26, 2026

Astronomy Colloquium - Carl Fields

3:00 pm
Hybrid: Chem & Biomolecular Eng & Chem (CBEC) - Room 130 and Zoom

Thu, March 12, 2026

Astronomy Colloquium - William Luszczak

3:00 pm
Hybrid: Chem & Biomolecular Eng & Chem (CBEC) - Room 130 and Zoom

Thu, February 19, 2026

Astronomy Colloquium - Nicolás Garavito Camargo

3:00 pm
Hybrid: Chem & Biomolecular Eng & Chem (CBEC) - Room 130 and Zoom

Thu, February 5, 2026

Astronomy Colloquium - Earl Bellinger

3:00 pm
Hybrid: Chem & Biomolecular Eng & Chem (CBEC) - Room 130 and Zoom

Wooden sphere with Andean/Amazonian carvings

Thu, January 29, 2026

Astronomy Colloquium - Michelle Wibbelsman

3:00 pm
Hybrid: Chem & Biomolecular Eng & Chem (CBEC) - Room 130 and Zoom

Sun and Earth with their partical and magnetic interactions

Thu, December 4, 2025

Astronomy Colloquium - Evgenya Shkolnik

3:00 pm
Hybrid: Chem & Biomolecular Eng & Chem (CBEC) - Room 130 and Zoom

Thu, November 20, 2025

Astronomy Colloquium - Puragra Guhathakurta

3:00 pm
Hybrid: Chem & Biomolecular Eng & Chem (CBEC) - Room 130 and Zoom

Thu, November 13, 2025

Astronomy Colloquium - Kate Grier

3:00 pm
Hybrid: Chem & Biomolecular Eng & Chem (CBEC) - Room 130 and Zoom

Thu, November 6, 2025

Astronomy Colloquium - Abigail Polin

3:00 pm
Hybrid: Chem & Biomolecular Eng & Chem (CBEC) - Room 130 and Zoom

Photon passing through the large scale structure of the universe

Thu, October 23, 2025

Astronomy Colloquium - Simeon Bird

3:00 pm
Hybrid: Chem & Biomolecular Eng & Chem (CBEC) - Room 130 and Zoom

Thu, September 11, 2025

Astronomy Colloquium - Michael Tucker

3:00 pm
Hybrid: Chem & Biomolecular Eng & Chem (CBEC) - Room 130 and Zoom

Stars and their sound waves. Image credit: NASA/Gabriel Perez Diaz/Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias

Thu, April 24, 2025

Astronomy Colloquium - Courtney Epstein

3:00 pm
Hybrid: McPherson Lab - Room 2019 and Zoom

Thu, April 17, 2025

Astronomy Colloquium - Brant Robertson

3:00 pm
Hybrid: Chem & Biomolecular Eng & Chem (CBEC) - Room 130 and Zoom

Thu, April 10, 2025

Astronomy Colloquium - Adam Burrows

3:00 pm
Hybrid: Chem & Biomolecular Eng & Chem (CBEC) - Room 130 and Zoom

Artistic Impression of a Supernova [Credit: NASA/Swift/Skyworks Digital/Dana Berry]

Thu, March 27, 2025

Astronomy Colloquium - Lars Bildsten

3:00 pm
Hybrid: Chem & Biomolecular Eng & Chem (CBEC) - Room 130 and Zoom

Thu, March 20, 2025

Department Townhall

3:00 pm
Chem & Biomolecular Eng & Chem (CBEC) - Room 130

Thu, February 13, 2025

Astronomy Colloquium - Lia Corrales

3:00 pm
Hybrid: Chem & Biomolecular Eng & Chem (CBEC) - Room 130 and Zoom

Thu, February 6, 2025

Astronomy Colloquium - Greg Bryan

3:00 pm
Hybrid: Chem & Biomolecular Eng & Chem (CBEC) - Room 130 and Zoom

Thu, November 14, 2024

Astronomy Colloquium - Duncan Lorimer

3:00 pm
Hybrid: Chem & Biomolecular Eng & Chem (CBEC) - Room 130 & Zoom

Thu, November 7, 2024

Astronomy Colloquium - Boryana Hadzhiyska

3:00 pm
Hybrid: Chem & Biomolecular Eng & Chem (CBEC) - Room 130 & Zoom

Thu, October 31, 2024

Astronomy Colloquium - Meredith MacGregor

3:00 pm
Hybrid: Chem & Biomolecular Eng & Chem (CBEC) - Room 130 & Zoom

Thu, October 24, 2024

Astronomy Colloquium - Jeremy Tinker

3:00 pm
In Person & Online: Chem & Biomolecular Eng & Chem (CBEC) - Room 130; Zoom Webinar

Thu, October 17, 2024

Astronomy Colloquium - Allison Strom

3:00 pm
Hybrid: Chem & Biomolecular Eng & Chem (CBEC) - Room 130 & Zoom

Thu, September 5, 2024

Astronomy Colloquium - Paul Martini

3:00 pm
Hybrid: Chem & Biomolecular Eng & Chem (CBEC) - Room 130 & Zoom

Image from a simulation of cold dark matter and clustering in the cosmic web

Thu, April 25, 2024

Astronomy Colloquium - Andrey Kravstov

3:00 pm
In Person & Online: Fontana Lab - Room 2020; Zoom Webinar

Thu, April 18, 2024

Astronomy Colloquium - Varsha Kulkarni

3:00 pm
In Person & Online: Chem & Biomolecular Eng & Chem (CBEC) - Room 130; Zoom Webinar

Thu, April 11, 2024

Astronomy Colloquium - Megan Donahue

3:00 pm
In Person & Online: Chem & Biomolecular Eng & Chem (CBEC) - Room 130; Zoom Webinar

Thu, April 4, 2024

Astronomy Colloquium - Daniel Lecoanet

3:00 pm
In Person & Online: Chem & Biomolecular Eng & Chem (CBEC) - Room 130; Zoom Webinar

Gravitational waves being emitted from two merging objects

Thu, March 28, 2024

Astronomy Colloquium - Stephen Taylor

3:00 pm
In Person & Online: Chem & Biomolecular Eng & Chem (CBEC) - Room 130; Zoom Webinar

Galaxy M51 imaged using OSMOS on the MDM 2.4m telescope

Thu, March 21, 2024

Astronomy Colloquium - Peng Oh

3:00 pm
In Person & Online: Chem & Biomolecular Eng & Chem (CBEC) - Room 130; Zoom Webinar

Artist's conception of a disk of gas and dust spiraling around a young star, within which planets are born (ESO/L. Calçada)

Thu, February 29, 2024

Astronomy Colloquium - Phil Hopkins

3:00 pm
In Person & Online: Chem & Biomolecular Eng & Chem (CBEC) - Room 130; Zoom Webinar

Thu, February 22, 2024

Astronomy Colloquium - Tuguldur Sukhbold

3:00 pm
In Person & Online: Chem & Biomolecular Eng & Chem (CBEC) - Room 130; Zoom Webinar

Circumbinary Planet - a planet orbiting two stars

Thu, February 15, 2024

Astronomy Colloquium - Luke Bouma

3:00 pm
In Person & Online: Chem & Biomolecular Eng & Chem (CBEC) - Room 130; Zoom Webinar

Artist depiction of a young magnetically active star with an exoplanet in orbit

Thu, February 8, 2024

Astronomy Colloquium - Juliette Becker

3:00 pm
In Person & Online: Chem & Biomolecular Eng & Chem (CBEC) - Room 130; Zoom Webinar

A black hole against the background Milky Way

Thu, February 1, 2024

Astronomy Colloquium - Tiziana DiMatteo

3:00 pm
In Person & Online: Chem & Biomolecular Eng & Chem (CBEC) - Room 130; Zoom Webinar

Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument - DESI - First light on M51

Thu, January 25, 2024

Astronomy Colloquium - Ting Li

3:00 pm
In Person & Online: Chem & Biomolecular Eng & Chem (CBEC) - Room 130; Zoom Webinar

Thu, November 30, 2023

Astronomy Colloquium - Ben Brown

3:00 pm
In Person & Online: Chem & Biomolecular Eng & Chem (CBEC) - Room 130; Zoom Webinar

Thu, November 16, 2023

Astronomy Colloquium - Evan Schneider

3:00 pm
In Person & Online: Chem & Biomolecular Eng & Chem (CBEC) - Room 130; Zoom Webinar

Thu, November 9, 2023

Astronomy Colloquium - Lucia Armillotta

3:00 pm
In Person & Online: Chem & Biomolecular Eng & Chem (CBEC) - Room 130; Zoom Webinar

Thu, November 2, 2023

Astronomy Colloquium - Sean Johnson

3:00 pm
In Person & Online: Chem & Biomolecular Eng & Chem (CBEC) - Room 130; Zoom Webinar

Image of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Telescope

Thu, October 5, 2023

Astronomy Colloquium - Carlos Badenes

3:00 pm
In Person & Online: Chem & Biomolecular Eng & Chem (CBEC) - Room 130; Zoom Webinar

Thu, September 28, 2023

Astronomy Colloquium - Ylva Götberg

11:15 am
Online: Zoom Webinar

A picture of the Sun including a prominence of the edge of the Sun

Thu, September 21, 2023

Astronomy Colloquium - Constantine Deliyannis

3:00 pm
In Person & Online: Chem & Biomolecular Eng & Chem (CBEC) - Room 130; Zoom Webinar

Artists image of the Nancy Grace Roman Telescope

Thu, September 14, 2023

Astronomy Colloquium - Scott Gaudi

3:00 pm
In Person & Online: Chem & Biomolecular Eng & Chem (CBEC) - Room 130; Zoom Webinar

Artist’s impression of COROT-7b, an ultra-short-period planet. [ESO/L. Calçada]

Thu, April 20, 2023

Astronomy Colloquium - Sarah Millholland

3:00 pm
In Person & Online: Chem & Biomolecular Eng & Chem (CBEC) - Room 130; Zoom Webinar

This Hubble image shows two galaxies, NGC4038 and 4039, in the process of merging. (Image credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration. Acknowledgement: B. Whitmore ( Space Telescope Science Institute) and James Long (ESA/Hubble).)

Thu, April 13, 2023

Astronomy Colloquium - Sanchayeeta Borthakur

3:00 pm
In Person & Online: Chem & Biomolecular Eng & Chem (CBEC) - Room 130; Zoom Webinar