Colloquium Schedule

Colloquium schedule

Colloquia are held via Zoom or in-person at 11 AM Fridays during Fall 2022 (unless noted below).
If you are not on our colloquium email list and would like to attend, please contact astdept@iu.edu to be added to the list and receive Zoom links and announcements.

Academic year 2021-22

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