Astronomy Seminar Schedule

Astronomy Seminars take place Wednesdays at 1:30pm, unless otherwise noted. Seminars are in person in BPS 1400 and are also simulcast on Zoom.

Current Seminar Schedule

Date	Speaker	Institute	Title/Topic
Aug 27	Climate Survey
Sep 3	Group Intros
Sep 10	Rachael Roettenbacher	Univ. of Michigan
Sep 17	Matthew Murphy	MSU
Sep 24	Kosuke Namekata	NAOJ
Oct 1	Madison Brady	MSU
Oct 8	Kyle Kremer	UC San Diego
Oct 15	No Seminar (astro colloq this week)		Visitor Brett Morris will lead a software workshop in this slot.
Oct 22	No Seminar (Fall Break)
Oct 29	Michael Radica	University of Chicago
Nov 5	No Seminar (astro colloq this week, Nick Konidaris)
Nov 12	Ludwig Boess	U Chicago
Nov 19	Anne Medling	U Toledo
Nov 26	No Seminar (Thanksgiving)
Dec 3	Connor McClellan	MSU
Jan 14 2026	Climate Survey
Jan 21 2026	Yuan Li	UMass Amherst
Jan 28 2026
Feb 4 2026	James Beattie	Princeton/CITA
Feb 11 2026	Evan Kirby	Notre Dame
Feb 18 2026
Feb 25 2026	J Michael Shull	CU Boulder
Mar 4 2026	No Seminar (Spring Break)
Mar 11 2026	No Seminar (astro colloq this week, Dani DellaGiustina)
Mar 18 2026	No Seminar (astro colloq this week, Andrew Mann)
Mar 25 2026
Apr 1 2026
Apr 8 2026
Apr 15 2026	Senior thesis talks
Apr 22 2026	Senior thesis talks

Date	Speaker	Institute	Title/Topic	Notes
Sep 25 (Thursday)	Wolfgang Kerzendorf	MSU	Calibrating Stellar Explosions are Probes of the Evolving Universe	PA colloquium, 3:30PM
Oct 16 (Thursday)	Brett Morris	STScI		PA colloquium, 3:30PM
Oct 23 (Thursday)	Darryl Seligman	MSU		PA colloquium, 3:30PM
Nov 6 (Thursday)	Nick Konidaris	Carnegie Observatories		PA colloquium, 3:30PM
Mar 12 2026 (Thursday)	Dani DellaGiustina	University of Arizona/LPL		PA colloquium, 3:30PM
Mar 19 2026 (Thursday)	Andrew Mann	UNC		PA colloquium, 3:30PM

Date	Speaker	Title	Notes