Colloquium Schedule

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