Fall 2023 Schedule
Date | Speaker | Title |
September 8, 2023 | Erica June Nelson | The remarkable power of JWST to revolutionize our understanding of galaxy formation |
September 15, 2023 | Laura Sales | Baryonic solutions and challenges for cosmological models of dwarf galaxies |
September 22, 2023 | Gregory G. Howes | Developing Predictive Models of Turbulent Heating in Space and Astrophysical Plasmas |
October 6, 2023 | TBD | TBD |
October 13, 2023 | Jorge Moreno | TBD |
October 27, 2023 | Eliot Quataert | TBD |
November 10, 2023 | Renee Hlozek | TBD |
November 17, 2023 | Anna Watts | TBD |
December 1, 2023 | Meredith MacGregor | TBD |
December 8, 2023 | Raffaella Margutti | TBD |
Past CCA Colloquium Schedules
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Spring 2023
Date Speaker Title February 3, 2023 Eiichiro Komatsu The Temperature of Hot Gas in the Universe February 10, 2023 Megan Bedell and Daniel Foreman-Mackey Colloquium event: CCA wiki edit-a-thon February 17, 2023 Laura Lopez The Importance and Challenges of Assessing Stellar Feedback February 24, 2023 Wladimir Lyra Dynamical Instabilities in the Aid of Planet Formation in Circumstellar Disks March 10, 2023 Keaton Bell An Astrometric and Asteroseismic Synergy for Fundamental White Dwarf Properties March 17, 2023 Viviana Acquaviva Machine Learning with pen and paper March 24, 2023 Adam Kowalski Solar Flare Observations and Model Predictions for the Next Solar Magnetic Activity Maximum March 31, 2023 Sarah Burke Spolaor Hunting for the Biggest Binary Black Holes April 14, 2023 Pedro Espino Constraining high-density deconfinement phase transitions with gravitational wave spectroscopy of binary neutron star mergers April 21, 2023 Kaitlin Kratter The origins of planets and the stars they orbit. April 28, 2023 Ylva Gotberg The discovery and properties of binary-stripped helium stars May 5, 2023 Charlie Conroy Assembling our Galaxy May 19, 2023 Evan Schneider Galaxy Simulations in the Era of Exascale
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Fall 2022
Date Speaker Title September 16 ,2022 Jamie Tayar The Evolution of Stellar Rotation: Alone and Together, Inside and Out September 23 ,2022 Mariangela Lisanti Galactic Probes of Fundamental Dark Matter Physics October 14, 2022 Cassandra Hall Protoplanetary accretion discs, planet formation, and gravitational instability October 21, 2022 Daniel Foreman-Mackey Introduction to Gaussian Processes for Astronomy November 4, 2022 Anastasios Fragkos Unravelling the astrophysical origin of gravitational-wave sources December 2, 2022 Xavier Prochaska Probing the Universe with Fast Radio Bursts December 15, 2022 Kate Daniel Resonant Evolution: The internal dynamical history of the Milky Way -
Spring 2022
Date Speaker Title February 25,2022 Ashley Villar Time-domain Astrophysics in the Era of Big Data March 4,2022 Alice Quillen Soft Astronomy March 18,2022 Marc Kamionkowski Forays with a Formidable Formalism: Total Angular Momentum Waves, Cosmological Perturbations, and Gravitational Waves March 25,2022 Jillian Bellovary Seeking Massive Black Holes in Dwarf Galaxies April 8,2022 Keith Hawkins Galactic Archaeology Across the Milky Way April 15,2022 Alexander Ji Dwarf Galaxy Archaeology in the Gaia Era April 29,2022 Carl Fields Next-Generation Simulations of The Remarkable Deaths of Massive Stars May 6,2022 Dan Kasen Signals from Black Hole + Neutron Star Mergers May 20,2022 Erika Hamden Exploring the Diffuse Universe in the Space Ultraviolet May 26,2022 Risa Wechsler Our Galaxy in Context: Clues to the nature of dark matter, the onset of galaxy formation, and the assembly history of the Milky Way. June 23,2022 Hiranya Peiris Prospects for understanding the physics of the Universe -
Fall 2021
Date Speaker Title September 10, 2021 Joel Primack New Challenges in Cosmology, Galaxy Formation, and Planet Habitability September 17, 2021 Jen van Saders Making Sense of Stellar Rotation in Low Mass Stars September 24, 2021 Kevin Schlaufman Exoplanet Host Star Age Inferences and Their Impacts on Models of Planet Formation and Evolution October 8, 2021 Gelu Nita The Generalized Spectral Kurtosis Estimator: A Review of Its Statistical Properties and Applications October 22, 2021 Erin Kado-Fong Structure, Feedback, and Formation: Dwarf galaxies in the Wide-Field Era October 27, 2021 Bruce Draine A New Model for Interstellar Dust: “Astrodust” + PAHs November 3, 2021 Saul Teukolsky The Coming Revolution in Computational Astrophysics November 18, 2021 Jo Dunkley The Millimeter Sky from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope December 16, 2021 Dan Huber The Demographics of Stars and Exoplanets in the Era of TESS and Gaia -
Spring 2021
Date Speaker Title January 22, 2021 Sarbani Basu The Sun in Time and Other Mysteries January 29, 2021 Mike Blanton Galaxies Near and Far with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey February 5, 2021 Nick Battaglia Constraining Galaxy Formation and Baryonic Effects on LSS with Observations of the Thermal and Kinetic Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effects February 12, 2021 Andrei Beloborodov Magnetic power in the universe of bright transients March 12, 2021 Barry McKernan Decoding Galactic Architects: What Can We Learn About AGN From The Things In Them? March 19, 2021 David Schwab Entropic forces from noisy training in overparameterized neural networks March 26, 2021 Lam Hui Wave Dark Matter April 2, 2021 Laura Newburgh New Probes of Old Structure: Cosmology with 21cm Intensity Mapping April 16, 2021 Jeremy Tinker How much control does dark matter have over galaxy formation? April 23, 2021 Rachel Bean ”Testing gravity with large scale structure” May 7, 2021 Mary Putman The Local Gaseous Universe May 21, 2021 Karin Öberg Astrochemistry and the Compositions of Planets -
Fall 2020
Date Speaker Title September 18, 2020 Marilena Loverde Mining The Cosmic Web September 25, 2020 Stephon Alexander The Story of a Halo: Chern-Simons Theory, Cosmic Inflation and Dark Genesis October 9, 2020 Johanna Vos The Story of a Halo: Chern-Simons Theory, Cosmic Inflation and Dark Genesis October 16, 2020 Saavik Ford AGN disks have things in them--and those things are important October 23, 2020 Matias Zaldarriaga Modeling the clustering of matter on large scales: progress and recent results October 30, 2020 Sarah Millholland Tidal Sculpting of Short-Period Exoplanets November 6, 2020 Andrei Gruzinov Non-Gibbs Statistical Equilibrium of Star Clusters November 20, 2020 Yacine Ali-Hamoud Insights into searches for the nanohertz gravitational-wave background with a Fisher analysis December 11, 2020 Racheal Roettenbacher Making Use of Imaged Spotted Stellar Surfaces December 18, 2020 Frans Pretorius Non-linear Black Hole Ringdown -
Spring 2020
Date Speaker Title January 31, 2020 Gwen Eadie Astrostatistics in the Era of Large Surveys: from the Milky Way to individual stars February 7, 2020 Saurabh Jha White Dwarf Supernovae: Astrophysics and Cosmology February 21, 2020 Matteo Viel Hydrogen as a Cosmological Probe March 13, 2020 Mary Putman March 20, 2020 Dan Huber March 27, 2020 Bruce Draine April 3, 2020 Risa Wechsler April 17, 2020 Joel Primack April 24, 2020 Samaya Nissanke May 1, 2020 Jen van Saders May 8, 2020 Janna Levin May 29, 2020 Charlie Conroy -
Fall 2019
Date Speaker Title September 27, 2019 Anthony Pullen Intensity Mapping to probe the Interstellar Medium October 11, 2019 Zoltain Hiam Formation and Growth of Massive Black Holes October 18, 2019 Jenny Greene Dwarf Galaxies and Their Black Holes October 25, 2019 Maryam Modjaz Stellar Forensics with the most powerful explosions in the Universe November 8, 2019 Jess Werk The Circumgalactic Medium November 15, 2019 Rosalba Perna Mergers of Compact-Objects In the Gravitational Wave Era December 13, 2019 Volker Springel Hydrodynamical galaxy formation simulations: Current results and future prospects December 20, 2019 Beth Willman TBD -
Spring 2019
Date Speaker Title January 25, 2019 Doug Kothe Delivering on the Exascale Computing Project Mission for the U.S. Department of Energy February 1, 2019 Andrew MacFadyen Gas dynamics and electromagnetic signatures of gravitational wave sources February 8, 2019 Max Gaspari Raining on Galaxies and Black Holes: Unifying the Micro and Macro Properties of AGN Feeding and Feedback February 15, 2019 Sarah Ballard Lifetimes of Planetary Systems around Small Stars February 22, 2019 Reinhard Genzel Testing General Relativity with Infrared Interferometry in the Center of the Milky Way March 8, 2019 Josh Peek Kinetic Tomography, Spiral Structure, and the Perseus Illusion March 15, 2019 Gwen Rudie The Circumgalactic Medium of Star-Forming Galaxies at 2 March 22, 2019 Rachael Beaton Engineering the Measurement of the Hubble Constant March 29, 2019 David Kipping Exomoons and other strange transit signals April 5, 2019 Lorenzo Sironi Fast and furious: magnetic reconnection in relativistic jets and black hole corona April 12, 2019 Michele Cappellari Studying galaxy evolution with integral-field spectroscopy April 26, 2019 Kathryn Johnston TBD May 10, 2019 John Wise The First Stars, Black Holes, and Galaxies in the Universe May 17, 2019 Mark Krumholz Star formation, turbulence, transport, and feedback: towards a unified model for the dynamical state of galactic discs May 31, 2019 Sara Ellison Galaxy mergers in the nearby Universe