Past Events | Department of Astronomy

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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

Tue, April 4, 2023

Astronomy Colloquium - Marshall Perrin

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

Thu, March 30, 2023

Astronomy Colloquium - Richard Teague

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

Shown is a projection of the baryonic density field, where image brightness indicates the projected mass density and color hue visualizes the mean projected gas temperature. The displayed region extends by about 1.2 billion lightyears from left to right. The underlying calculation TNG300 shown here is the presently largest magneto-hydrodynamic simulation of galaxy formation, containing more than 30 billion resolution elements. Credit: IllustrisTNG Collaboration

Thu, March 23, 2023

Astronomy Colloquium - Rebecca Smethurst

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

Thu, March 2, 2023

Astronomy Colloquium - Adam Leroy

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

Representation of Data and Binary in an image

Tue, February 21, 2023

Astronomy Colloquium - Yuan-Sen Ting

2:45 pm
In Person & Online: Fontana Lab - Room 2020 ; Zoom Webinar

A simulated dwarf galaxy when the universe was 0.5 billion years old. Magenta represents cool gas, green is warm ionized gas, and red is hot gas. Image credit: Hopkins et al. 2013

Tue, February 14, 2023

Astronomy Colloquium - Anna Rosen

2:45 pm
In Person & Online: Fontana Lab - Room 2020 ; Zoom Webinar

Artist's impression of the central bulge of the Milky Way. Credit: ESO/NASA/JPL-Caltech/M. Kornmesser/R. Hurt

Tue, January 31, 2023

Astronomy Colloquium - Meridith Joyce

2:45 pm
In Person & Online: Fontana Lab - Room 2020 ; Zoom Webinar

Artist's impression of a neutron-star merger (Courtesy: NASA)

Tue, January 24, 2023

Astronomy Colloquium - Carolyn Raithel

2:45 pm
In Person & Online: Fontana Lab Rm. 2020; Zoom Webinar

Thu, January 19, 2023

Astronomy Colloquium - John Forbes

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

Fri, December 9, 2022

Special Seminar - Chanda Prescod-Weinstein (University of New Hampshire) - Illuminating Dark Matter With Cosmic Probes

12:30 pm
Hybrid: 1080 Physics Research Building and Zoom

An artist's depiction of a supermassive black hole. (NASA/JPL-Caltech)

Thu, December 1, 2022

Astronomy Colloquium - Christina Eilers

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

Artist rendition of a disc surrounding a massive baby star (ESO/L. Calçada/M. Kornmesser)

Thu, November 10, 2022

Astronomy Colloquium - Anna Rosen

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

Dwarf galaxies on small scales in a cosmological context

Thu, November 3, 2022

Astronomy Colloquium - Thales Gutcke

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

Artist rendition of a supermassive black hole (Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)

Thu, October 27, 2022

Astronomy Colloquium - Dan Wilkins

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

Artist's conception of a tidal disruption event, which is when a star is torn apart by a black hole. (NASA/CXC/M. Weiss)

Thu, October 6, 2022

Astronomy Colloquium - Yvette Cendes

1:00 pm
In Person & Online: Physics Research Building - Smith Seminar Room; Zoom Webinar

Artist rendition of a Post-Starburst Galaxy, which are unlike other galaxies as they form as an aftermath of mergers/violent collisions between galaxies. Picture Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/S. Dagnello (NRAO/AUI/NSF)

Thu, September 29, 2022

Astronomy Colloquium - JD Smith

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

Image Description and Credit: Artist's conception of a T-type brown dwarf star, which is more hot and massive compared to other planets, and yet, lacks the mass required to be a star. (NASA/JPL-Caltech)

Thu, September 22, 2022

Astronomy Colloquium - Eileen Gonzales

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

Thu, September 15, 2022

Astronomy Colloquium - Steve Ertel

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

Thu, September 8, 2022

Astronomy Colloquium - Mark Reynolds

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

Asteroseismic model of sound in a red giant.

Thu, September 1, 2022

Astronomy Colloquium - Paul Beck

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

Wed, April 27, 2022

Astronomy Colloquium - Nia Imara

3:00 pm
ONLINE: Zoom

Wed, April 27, 2022

Pre-Colloquium Seminar Series - Nia Imara

2:30 pm
ONLINE: Zoom

Artist's depiction of a hypothetical 10-million-year-old star system. A bright blur in the center that is similar to our Sun, the other orb is a gas-giant planet, similar to Jupiter.

Thu, April 14, 2022

Astronomy Colloquium - Michael Meyer

3:00 pm
Online: Zoom

Thu, April 14, 2022

Pre-Colloquium Seminar Series - Michael Meyer

2:30 pm
ONLINE: Zoom

Image of the Andromeda Galaxy floating near the Satellite galaxies M32 and NGC 205

Thu, April 7, 2022

Astronomy Colloquium - Alex Ji

3:00 pm
ONLINE: Zoom

Thu, April 7, 2022

Pre-Colloquium Seminar Series - Alex Ji

2:30 pm
ONLINE: Zoom

Artist rendition of the center of the Milky Way Galaxy that consists of a black hole which is surrounded by millions of starts that move around it at breakneck speeds.

Thu, March 31, 2022

Astronomy Colloquium - Ted Mackereth

3:00 pm
ONLINE: Zoom

Thu, March 31, 2022

Pre-Colloquium Seminar Series - Ted Mackereth

2:30 pm
ONLINE: Zoom

Observations of M33 using DESI. Shows a spectrum below the image of the sky.

Thu, March 24, 2022

Astronomy Colloquium - Ashley Ross

3:00 pm
Hybrid: In-Person: CBEC 130 and Online: Zoom

Thu, March 24, 2022

Pre-Colloquium Seminar Series - Ashley Ross

2:30 pm
ONLINE: Zoom

Artists drawing of a Milky Way Progenitor at high redshift

Thu, March 10, 2022

Astronomy Colloquium - Rodrigo Herrera-Camus

3:00 pm
ONLINE: Zoom

Thu, March 10, 2022

Pre-Colloquium Seminar Series - Rodrigo Herrera-Camus

2:30 pm
ONLINE: Zoom

Thu, March 3, 2022

Astronomy Colloquium - Sean Andrews

3:00 pm
ONLINE: Zoom

Thu, March 3, 2022

Pre-Colloquium Seminar Series - Sean Andrews

2:30 pm
ONLINE: Zoom

Artist’s illustration of an active galactic nucleus shrouded by gas and dust. Do such sources help or hurt the formation and survival of life in a galaxy? [NASA/JPL-Caltech]

Thu, February 24, 2022

Astronomy Colloquium - Misty Bentz

3:00 pm
ONLINE: Zoom

Thu, February 24, 2022

Pre-Colloquium Seminar Series - Misty Bentz

2:30 pm
ONLINE: Zoom