Colloquia are held via Zoom or in-person (SW 214) 11:20 AM Fridays during Spring 2025 (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.
Speaker |
Title |
Date |
|---|---|---|
|
Department Welcome |
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| Luis Ho (Peking University/KIAA) |
Supermassive Black Holes from Cosmic Dawn to Dusk | September 13 |
| Phil Armitage (Stony Brook University/CCA) |
Circumplanetary Disks: Where Art Thou? | September 20 |
| Conny Aerts (University of Leuven) |
Asteroseismology of Massive Stars | September 27 |
| Fall Break |
|
October 11 |
| Chris Mihos (Case Western Reserve University) |
The Future of the Cosmos | October 18 |
| Jessica Werk (University of Washington) |
The Multi-scale, Multiphase Physics of Galactic Atmospheres | October 25 |
| Jifeng Liu (National Observatory of China) |
GOTTA - Global Open Transient Telescope Array to probe the extreme dynamical universe | November 1 |
| Kyoungsoo Lee (Purdue University) |
High Redshift Galaxies in Cosmic Filaments and Protoclusters | November 8 |
| Rose Finn (Siena College) |
Probing Gas and Star Formation in Virgo Filament Galaxies | November 15 |
| Kevin Heng (Ludwig Maximilian University) |
The Atmospheres of Exoplanets | November 22 |
| Thanksgiving | November 29 | |
| Dave Charbonneau (Harvard) |
The Terrestrial Worlds of Low-mass Stars | December 6 |
| Abigail Polin (Purdue University) |
Bridging Theory and Observations in Time Domain Astronomy | January 31 |
| Mario Jurić (University of Washington) |
Rubin Observatory: First Commissioning Updates & Possibilities for Early Science | February 7 |
| Fred Ciesla (The University of Chicago) |
Photochemical Processing in Protoplanetary Disks and the Link to Planetary Compositions | February 14 |
| Silvia Toonen (University of Amsterdam) |
Stellar interactions & transients | POSTPONED |
| Kareem el Badry (Caltech) |
Black holes and revelations: unseen companions in stellar binaries | February 28 |
| Johan Samsing (Niels Bohr Institute) |
Ways of Probing the Assembly Mechanism of Individual Black Hole Binary Mergers | March 7 |
| Jenny Greene (Princeton University) |
The Nature of Little Red Dots | March 14 |
| Spring Break | March 21 | |
| Nora Shipp (University of Washington) |
Near-field Cosmology with Stellar Streams | March 28 |
| Jorge Moreno (Pomona University) |
The intriguing lives of galaxies lacking dark matter | April 4 |
| John Salzer (Indiana University) |
Probing Star Formation Across Cosmic Time | April 11 |
| Evan Kirby (University of Notre Dame) |
postponed until Fall 2025 | |
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