Colloquium Schedule
Colloquia are held via Zoom at 4:00 p.m. Tuesdays during Spring 2021 (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 2020-2021
Speaker |
Title |
Date |
|---|---|---|
| Department Welcome 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. Students, Faculty and Staff of the Astronomy Department |
September 1 | Grant Mathews (University of Notre Dame) |
Cosmic Supernova Relic Neutrinos |
September 8 |
| Ana Bonaca (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) |
Uncovering the nature of dark matter with stellar streams in the Milky Way |
September 22 |
| Luisa Rebull (Caltech/IPAC) |
Stellar Rotation in Young Clusters using K2 and TESS |
September 29 |
| Evan Kirby (Caltech) |
Galactic Archaeology: Galaxy Formation and Nucleosynthesis |
October 6 |
| Laura Lopez (Ohio State University) |
The Importance and Challenges of Assessing Stellar Feedback |
October 13 |
| Catherine Espaillat (Boston University) |
A panchromatic view of variability in protoplanetary disks |
October 20 |
| Angela Collier (University of Colorado - Boulder) |
Progress Towards Explaining the Hubble Fork Diagram |
October 27 |
| Jennifer van Saders (University of Hawai'i) |
Making Sense of Stellar Rotation in Low Mass Stars: Gyrochronology, Magnetism, and a Sun in Transition |
*Monday* November 9 |
| Lina Necib (Caltech) |
Dark Matter in the Era of Gaia |
November 17 |
| Alexander Ji (Carnegie Observatories) |
Near-field cosmology with the rapid neutron-capture process |
January 26 |
| Koji Mukai (University of Maryland, NASA/GSFC) |
Science with XRISM: Resolving the Nature of the Energetic Cosmos |
March 2 |
| Alyson Brooks (Rutgers University) |
Understanding Dwarf Galaxies in order to Understand Dark Matter |
March 16 |
| John Wise (Georgia Tech) |
The First Stars, Black Holes, and Galaxies in the Universe |
March 23 |
| Melissa Ness (Columbia University) |
Mapping the Milky Way's assembly using stars |
March 30 |
| Caroline Morley (University of Texas, Austin) |
Prospects for Observing Exoplanet Atmospheres As We Enter the Era of JWST |
Cancelled |
| Reva Kay Willams (University of Toledo) |
TBA |
April 20 |