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
Jan 15	Climate Survey
Jan 22	Allyson Bieryla	CfA | Harvard & Smithsonian	Exoplanets and Solar Eclipses for Research and Community Engagement
Jan 29	Michiel Lambrechts	Univ. of Copenhagen	Planet formation
Feb 5	Lia Corrales	Univ. of Michigan	The cosmic journey of the elements, from dust to life
Feb 12	Rafael Luque	Univ. of Granada	Exoplanets
Feb 19	Aaron Bello-Arufa	JPL	Exoplanet atmospheres
Feb 26	Lieke Van Son	Flatiron	Gravitional-wave progenitors, binary evolution
Mar 5	No Seminar (Spring Break)
Mar 12	Jack Schulte & Sierra Casten	MSU
Mar 19	Alex Rodriguez	Univ. of Michigian	Galaxy clusters, cosmology, and velocity dispersion
Mar 26	Bryan Terrazas	Oberlin College	Galaxy evolution and feedback modeling
Apr 2	Andy Tzandikas	Univ. of Washington	Transients and time domain astronomy
Apr 9	Bertram Bitsch	University College Cork	Planetary dynamics
Apr 16	Undergraduate Thesis Talks
Apr 23	Undergraduate Thesis Talks

Other Astronomy Related Talks

Date	Speaker	Institute	Title/Topic	Notes
Mar 13 (Thursday)	Dong Lai	Cornell University	Hot Jupiters and Super-Earths: Spin-Orbit Dynamics in Exoplanetary Systems	PA colloquium, 3:30PM
Mar 20 (Thursday)	Nicole Nie	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Geochemical insights into lunar formation and surface evolution	EES Seminar, 3:00PM
Apr 10 (Thursday)	Grant Tremblay	Harvard Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory	The Sky and Other Ghosts: Our Fading Age of Discovery	PA colloquium, 3:30PM
Apr 17 (Thursday)	Jessie Christiansen	Caltech/IPAC	Exoplanets	PA colloquium, 3:30PM
Apr 24 (Thursday)	Katherine de Kleer	Caltech	All Io	PA colloquium, 3:30PM

Graduate Student Defenses

Date	Speaker	Title	Notes
Feb 10	Erica Thygesen		1:00PM - 3:00PM