Colloquium Schedule

Colloquia are held via Zoom at 3:30 p.m. Tuesdays during Spring 2022  (unless noted below)
If you are not on our colloquium email list and would like to attend, please contact astdept@iu.edu to receive a Zoom link. Space is limited.

Academic Year 2021-2022

Speaker	Title	Date
Department Welcome Swain West 130 Tea Room 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. Students, Faculty and Staff of the Astronomy Department		August 31
Caroline Morley (University of Texas - Austin)	Empirically Determining Substellar Cloud Compositions in the Era of JWST	September 14
Kristian Finlator (NMSU)	Linking Galaxy Formation with Cosmic Reionization	October 5
Ruth Angus (AMNH)	Measuring the Ages and Rotation Rates of Cool Stars with TESS and Other Photometric Surveys	October 12
Ting Li (University of Toronto)	The Southern Stellar Stream Spectroscopic Survey: Overview and Latest Results	October 19
Laura Kreidberg (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy)	Planets are Places: Characterization of Other Worlds in the 2020's and Beyond	3:00 PM November 2
Josh Simon (Carnegie)	A 4D View of the Local Group	November 16
Jim Fuller (Caltech)	Surprising Impacts of Gravity Waves	December 7
Shuo Kong (The University of Arizona)	Molecular Cloud Formation via Collision-induced Magnetic Reconnection	February 8
Brad Hansen (UCLA)	Close stellar encounters and the chances of interstellar migration	February 22
Jeremy Bailin (University of Alabama)	Understanding the formation globular clusters and the Milky Way using self enrichment of iron	March 8
Norman Murray (University of Toronto)	Why the day is 24 hours long	March 22
Giacomo Fragione (Northwestern University)	Intermediate-mass black holes: past, present, future	March 29
Sarbani Basu (Yale University)	What is the composition of the Sun?	April 5
Michael Tremmel (Yale University)	From Dwarf Galaxies to "Wanderers": Insights from Simulations on the Most Elusive Populations of Supermassive Black Holes	April 19
Eve Lee (McGill University)		April 26

Colloquium List for Academic Year: 2020-2021, 2019-2020, 2018-2019, 2017-2018, 2016-2017, 2015-2016, 2014-2015, 2013-2014, 2012-2013.