Astrophysics Seminars
2020-11-18
Weekly Seminars by Invited Researchers
Image Credit: A. M. Geller, J. Hwang, F. Rasio / CIERA
Astrophysics Seminars feature external visiting researchers, and are a regularly occurring seminar series held throughout the Fall, Winter, and Spring academic quarters. They are organized jointly with the Department of Physics & Astronomy.
Astrophysics Seminar Committee
Chair: Wen-Fai Fong
Members: Giacomo Fragione , Kerry Paterson , Sukrit Ranjan , Patrick Sheehan , Tjitske Starkenburg
Giacomo Terreran
Visiting Researchers Program
Past Visitors
Jet Propulsion Laboratory Starshade Scientist, NASA Exoplanet Exploration Program
02/09/2021 - 02/09/2021
Host: Sukrit Ranjan
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
10/27/2020 - 10/27/2020
Host: Patrick Sheehan
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
University of California, Santa Cruz
10/13/2020 - 10/13/2020
Host: Giacomo Terreran
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Vanderbilt University
09/22/2020 - 09/22/2020
Host: Kerry Paterson, Luke Kelley
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
University of California, Berkeley
02/10/2020 - 02/12/2020
Host: Sasha Tchekhovskoy
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
American Museum of Natural History
01/27/2020 - 01/29/2020
Host: Adam Miller
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
01/20/2020 - 01/22/2020
Host: Erin Cox
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Michigan State University
05/13/2019 - 05/15/2019
Host: Cliff Johnson / Pulsar Workshop (Shi Ye)
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Harvard University
02/04/2019 - 02/06/2019
Host: Claude-André Faucher-Giguère
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Massechusetts Institute of Technology
10/29/2018 - 10/31/2018
Host: Diego Munoz
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Carnegie Institute for Science
03/05/2018 - 03/07/2018
Host: Giacomo Terreran
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
McGill University
11/09/2017 - 11/09/2017
Host: Vicky Kalogera, Jim Sauls (CMP)
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
University of New Mexico
09/18/2017 - 09/20/2017
Host: Farhad Yusef-Zadeh
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Institute of Space Sciences (CSIC-IEEC), Barcelona API Astronomical Institute, University of Amsterdam
05/22/2017 - 05/24/2017
Host: Raffaella Margutti
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Columbia Astrophysics Laboratory
04/24/2017 - 04/26/2017
Host: Fabio Antonini
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
University of Toronto
04/10/2017 - 04/12/2017
Host: Daniel Angles-Alcazar
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
KICP; Argonne National Laboratory
03/27/2017 - 03/29/2017
Host: Deanne Coppejans
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
John Hopkins University
02/20/2017 - 02/22/2017
Host: Daniel Angles Alcazar
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
University of California - Los Angeles
01/30/2017 - 02/01/2017
Host: Fabio Antonini
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
University of California - Berkeley
01/09/2017 - 01/11/2017
Host: Mel Ulmer
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
09/26/2016 - 09/28/2016
Host: Sourav Chatterjee
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
09/19/2016 - 09/21/2016
Host: Raffaella Margutti
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Pennsylvania State University
05/30/2016 - 06/01/2016
Host: Daniel Angles-Alcazar
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Pennsylvania State University
05/16/2016 - 05/18/2016
Host: Sourav Chatterjee
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
05/09/2016 - 05/11/2016
Host: Vicky Kalogera
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics
05/02/2016 - 05/04/2016
Host: Sourav Chatterjee
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
04/25/2016 - 04/27/2016
Host: Sourav Chatterjee
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Carnegie Institution of Washington
04/11/2016 - 04/13/2016
Host: Fred Rasio
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Michigan State University
03/28/2016 - 03/30/2016
Host: Fred Rasio, Sourav Chatterjee
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Université de Montréal
02/29/2016 - 03/01/2016
Host: Claude-André Faucher-Gigueré
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
02/22/2016 - 02/24/2016
Host: Laura Fissel
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Institute for Advanced Study
02/15/2016 - 02/17/2016
Host: Fabio Antonini
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
University of Michigan
11/30/2015 - 12/02/2015
Host: Claude-André Faucher-Gigueré
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Institute for Advanced Study
10/26/2015 - 10/28/2015
Host: Vicky Kalogera
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Centre for Planetary Sciences, University of Toronto
10/05/2015 - 10/07/2015
Host: Yoram Lithwick
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
University of California, Santa Cruz
09/28/2015 - 09/30/2015
Host: Claude-André Faucher-Giguère
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
The University of Sydney
04/20/2015 - 04/22/2015
Host: Claude-André Faucher-Giguère
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
04/07/2015 - 04/07/2015
Host: Daniel Angles-Alcazar
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
The University of Chicago
03/31/2015 - 03/31/2015
Host: Claude-André Faucher-Giguère
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Lucianne Walkowicz
Adler Planetarium and LSST
02/16/2015 - 02/18/2015
Host: Francesca Valsecchi
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
University of Chicago
01/05/2015 - 01/07/2015
Host: Claude-André Faucher-Giguère
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Dunlap Institute, University of Toronto
10/21/2014 - 10/22/2014
Host: Laura Fissel
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Ryan Foley
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
10/13/2014 - 10/15/2014
Host: Vicky Kalogera
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Case Western Reserve University
04/08/2014 - 04/08/2014
Host: Giles Novak
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii, Manoa
03/18/2014 - 03/18/2014
Host: Fred Rasio
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Quinn Konopacky
University of Toronto
03/11/2014 - 03/11/2014
Host: Nate Kaib
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
University of illinois at Urbana-Champaign
03/04/2014 - 03/04/2014
Host: Yoram Lithwick
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
University of Chicago
02/25/2014 - 02/25/2014
Host: Claude-André Faucher-Giguère
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Linda Strubbe
University of Toronto
11/19/2013 - 11/19/2013
Host: Junfeng Wang
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Karen Yang
University of Michigan
11/05/2013 - 11/05/2013
Host: Farhad Zadeh
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
University of Texas at Austin
10/01/2013 - 10/01/2013
Host: Nicholas Chapman
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Josh Carter
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
03/12/2013 - 03/12/2013
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Jacqueline Radigan
Space Telescope Science Institute
02/04/2013 - 02/13/2013
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Jon Jenkins
SETI Institute/NASA Ames Research Center
11/13/2012 - 11/13/2012
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Simona Vegetti
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
05/29/2012 - 05/29/2012
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Ranga-Ram Chary
California Institute of Technology
03/06/2012 - 03/06/2012
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Ted von Hippel
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
02/07/2012 - 02/07/2012
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Robyn Sanderson
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
11/30/2010 - 11/30/2010
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Charles Gammie
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
02/09/2010 - 02/09/2010
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Ulysses Sofia
Whitman of College
05/19/2009 - 05/19/2009
Host: Dave Meyer
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Grace Wolf-Chase
Adler Planetarium/University of Chicago
03/03/2009 - 03/03/2009
Host: Doug Roberts
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Jungyeon Cho
Chungnam National University, Korea
02/24/2009 - 02/24/2009
Host: Giles Novak
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Todd Tripp
University of Massachusetts
02/17/2009 - 02/17/2009
Host: Dave Meyer
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
James Jackson
Boston University
09/30/2008 - 09/30/2008
Host: Farhad Zadeh
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Matt Haffner
University of Wisconsin, Madison
09/23/2008 - 09/23/2008
Host: Dave Meyer
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Richard White
Space Telescope Science Institute
04/22/2008 - 04/22/2008
Host: Farhad Zadeh
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Daniela Calzetti
University of Massachusetts
04/15/2008 - 04/15/2008
Host: Dave Meyer
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Brenda Matthews
Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics
04/08/2008 - 04/08/2008
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Stelios Kazantzidis
Ohio State University
03/11/2008 - 03/11/2008
Host: Vicky Kalogera
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Matt Haffner
University of Wisconsin
02/26/2008 - 02/26/2008
Host: Dave Meyer
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Fred Adams
University of Michigan
02/19/2008 - 02/19/2008
Host: Soko Matsumura
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Gijs Roelofs
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
02/03/2008 - 02/10/2008
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Fabian Heitsch
University of Michigan
01/22/2008 - 01/22/2008
Host: Farhad Zadeh
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Athol Kemball
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
11/20/2007 - 11/20/2007
Host: Doug Roberts
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Sean Andrews
Harvard Smithsonian CfA
11/06/2007 - 11/06/2007
Host: Dave Meyer
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Fritz Benedict
Univeristy of Texas, Austin
10/02/2007 - 10/02/2007
Host: Fred Rasio
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Milind Diwan
Brookhaven National Library
08/03/2007 - 08/03/2007
Host: Mel Ulmer
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Mark Wardle
Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
07/31/2007 - 07/31/2007
Host: Farhad Zadeh
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Mary Putman
University of Michigan
05/01/2007 - 05/01/2007
Host: Dave Meyer
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
John Beacom
Ohio State University
04/17/2007 - 04/17/2007
Host: Andre de Gouvea
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Jimmy Irwin
University of Michigan
02/27/2007 - 02/27/2007
Host: Mel Ulmer
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Seth Redfield
University of Texas, Austin
02/20/2007 - 02/20/2007
Host: Dave Meyer
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Nuria Calvet
University of Michigan
02/13/2007 - 02/13/2007
Host: Ron Taam
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Kristen Menou
Columbia University
01/30/2007 - 01/30/2007
Host: Vicky Kalogera
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Dan Marrone
University of Chicago
01/23/2007 - 01/23/2007
Host: Giles Novak
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
James de Buizer
Gemini Observatory
01/16/2007 - 01/23/2007
Host: Farhad Zadeh
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Hiroshi Matsuo
National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
11/28/2006 - 11/28/2006
Host: Giles Novak
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Snezana Stanimirovic
University of Wisconsin, Madison
10/31/2006 - 10/31/2006
Host: Dave Meyer
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Stan Peale
University of California, Santa Barbara
10/22/2006 - 10/24/2006
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Stanislav Boldyrev
University of Wisconsin, Madison
10/03/2006 - 10/03/2006
Host: Farhad Zadeh
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Stephan Meyer
University of Chicago
09/26/2006 - 09/26/2006
Host: Mel Ulmer
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Daniel Chung
University of Wisconsin
05/16/2006 - 05/16/2006
Host: Andre de Gouvea
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Alex Lazarian
University of Wisconsin
05/09/2006 - 05/09/2006
Host: Giles Novak
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Robert Millis
Lowell Observatory
05/04/2006 - 05/04/2006
Host: Dave Meyer
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Riccardo Giovanelli
Cornell University
05/02/2006 - 05/02/2006
Host: Mel Ulmer
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Mike A’Hearn
University of Maryland
04/25/2006 - 04/25/2006
Host: Dave Meyer
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Richard Lovelace
Cornell University
04/11/2006 - 04/11/2006
Host: Ron Taam
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Dave Strickland
Johns Hopkins University
02/21/2006 - 02/21/2006
Host: Farhad Zadeh
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Knox Long
Space Telescope Science Institute
11/08/2005 - 11/08/2005
Host: Ron Taam
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Mordecai MacLow
American Museum of Natural History
11/01/2005 - 11/01/2005
Host: Farhad Zadeh
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Martin Houde
University of Western Ontario
10/04/2005 - 10/04/2005
Host: Giles Novak
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Benjamin McCall
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
05/17/2005 - 05/17/2005
Host: Dave Meyer
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
David Neufeld
Johns Hopkins University
05/03/2005 - 05/03/2005
Host: Farhad Zadeh
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Hannah Jang-Condell
Institute for Advanced Study
03/29/2005 - 03/29/2005
Host: Carnegie Institute of Washington
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Richard Crutcher
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
02/15/2005 - 02/15/2005
Host: Giles Novak
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Sara Ellison
University of Victoria
11/09/2004 - 11/09/2004
Host: Dave Meyer
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Chris DePree
Agnes Scott College
11/02/2004 - 11/02/2004
Host: Farhad Zadeh
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Andrey Kravtsov
University of Chicago
09/28/2004 - 09/28/2004
Host: Mel Ulmer
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Arieh Konigl
University of Chicago
05/04/2004 - 05/04/2004
Host: Farhad Zadeh
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Sarah Church
Standford University
04/20/2004 - 04/20/2004
Host: Giles Novak
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Jason Tumlinson
University of Chicago
03/30/2004 - 03/30/2004
Host: Dave Meyer
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Jason Prochaska
University of California - Santa Cruz
03/02/2004 - 03/02/2004
Host: Dave Meyer
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Thomas Pannuti
California Institute of Technology
02/10/2004 - 02/10/2004
Host: Farhad Zadeh
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Ricardo Demarco
Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris
02/03/2004 - 02/03/2004
Host: Mel Ulmer
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Chris Walker
University of Arizona
01/20/2004 - 01/20/2004
Host: Giles Novak
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Caty Pilachowski
Indiana University
12/09/2003 - 12/09/2003
Host: Ron Taam
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Steven Federman
University of Toledo
11/04/2003 - 11/04/2003
Host: Dave Meyer
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Amy Barger
University of Wisconsin - Madison
10/28/2003 - 10/28/2003
Host: Mel Ulmer
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Joesph Weingertner
George Mason University
10/21/2003 - 10/21/2003
Host: Giles Novak
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Marc Pound
University of Maryland
05/20/2003 - 05/20/2003
Host: Farhad Zadeh
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Walter Lewin
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
05/07/2003 - 05/10/2003
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Rebecca Bernstein
University of Michigan
04/29/2003 - 04/29/2003
Host: Mel Ulmer
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Mark Wardle
Macquarie University (Australia)
04/17/2003 - 04/17/2003
Host: Farhad Zadeh
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Michael Smutko
University of Chicago
04/15/2003 - 04/15/2003
Host: Mel Ulmer
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Michael Weinstein
Pennsylvania State University
04/03/2003 - 04/03/2004
Host: Mel Ulmer
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Ray Jayawardhana
University of Michigan
02/25/2003 - 02/25/2003
Host: Vicky Kalogera
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Alexander Heger
University of Chicago
02/18/2003 - 02/18/2003
Host: Ron Taam
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Eve Ostriker
University of Maryland
10/22/2002 - 10/22/2002
Host: Giles Novak
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Peter Timbie
University of Wisconsin
10/08/2002 - 10/08/2002
Host: Mel Ulmer
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Frank Marshall
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
05/09/2002 - 05/09/2002
Host: Farhad Zadeh
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Donald Lubowich
Hofstra University and American Institute of Physics
03/28/2002 - 03/28/2002
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Derck Massa
Goddard Space Flight Center
03/14/2002 - 03/14/2002
Host: Jim Lauroesch
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars
Brad Peterson
Ohio State University
11/08/2001 - 11/08/2001
Host: Mel Ulmer
Programs: Astrophysics Seminars