Colloquium Schedule

Colloquium Schedule

Colloquia are held via Zoom or in-person (SW 214) 11:20 AM Fridays during Spring 2026 (unless noted below).

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Academic Year 2025-2026

Speaker

Title

Date

Department Welcome & Research Round Robin

September 8

Evan Kirby

University of Notre Dame

September 12

Sarah Pearson

Niels Bohr Institute

Testing Dark Matter with Extragalactic Stellar Streams September 19

Marcio Catelan

Universidad Catolica de Chile

From Past to Present: Highlights from Time-Resolved Photometric Surveys September 26

Daniel Eisenstein

Harvard University

 Measuring Cosmic Sound with the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

October 3
- fall break - October 10

Kaitlin Kratter

University of Arizona

Star Formation is Binary Formation October 17

Brandon Hensley

Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)

October 24
-Peer Review Workshop- October 31

Yuan-Sen Ting

The Ohio State University

November 7

Eric Ford

Penn State

November 14

Abdurro'uf

Indiana University

November 21

Amaury Triaud

University of Birmingham

December 5