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