Thunch is a weekly grad-student run seminar series which gives local and visiting scholars, especially students, the opportunity to present their research to a broad audience at the Princeton Department of Astrophysical Sciences. Potential visiting speakers should contact the Thunch Czars, Yue Pan and Zack Andalman.
When: Thursdays at 12 pm (food), 12:15 pm (talk)
Where: Peyton Hall, "grand central" (big room in the center of the building)
What: food + 45 minute talk and discussion
Rules
- Priority goes to students and to those who have not given a talk recently.
- Visiting speakers must be explicitly invited by the department.
- There is no money in Thunch to pay for travel, so visitors need another source of funding.
- Speakers must send a title and abstract to the Thunch Czars at least one week in advance of their talk.
Now you know everything you need to know about Thunch. Join us for good food and good science. Reach out to the Thunch Czars with any questions.
Fall 2024 Upcoming Speakers:
| Date | Name and Institution | Title | Abstract |
|---|---|---|---|
| September 5th Grad student lightning talks | 1. Zack Andalman, Princeton University 2. Matt Sampson, Princeton University 3. Christian Kragh Jespersen, Princeton University | 1.Thunderstorm - Relativistic Electron Transport in KNe Ejecta 2. Latent ODEs for Astrophysical Systems 3. Inseparable Galaxies | |
| September 12th | Bob Kirshner, Harvard University | Title: The Thirty Meter Telescope: Progress and Prospects Abstract: The Thirty Meter Telescope is a top-ranked priority of the Astro 2020 Decadal Survey because its combination of very large aperture and adaptive optics opens up vast areas for unique observational work across a broad swath of frontier science ranging from exoplanets to the fundamental physics that underlies cosmic acceleration. In this talk, I will describe the telescope and its first-light instrumentation; illustrate some of the science this enables; place the TMT in the context of the US Extremely Large Telescope program and the European-ELT, HST and JWST; and summarize the present status of the design, production. and funding of the TMT by philanthropy, the partners (Caltech and the University of California, Canada, India and Japan), and the US National Science Foundation. I will also describe our ongoing efforts in Hawaii to create a new model of community astronomy for this and other large scientific infrastructure projects. | |
| September 19th | Jacqueline Antwi-Danso, University of Toronto | ||
| September 26th | Haowen Zhang, University of Arizona | ||
| October 3rd | Bingjie Wang, Penn State University | ||
| October 17th | Jean Somalwar, Caltech | ||
| October 24th | David Robinson, University of Michigan | ||
| October 31st | Xiaowei Ou, MIT | ||
| November 7th | Nicholas Rui, Caltech | ||
| November 14th | Christina Willecke Lindberg, Johns Hopkins University | ||
| November 21st | Claire Ye, University of Toronto | ||
| December 5th | Viraj Pandya, Columbia University | ||
| December 12th | Andrew Casey-Clyde, Yale University |
Spring 2024
February 8th: Benjamin Remy (Princeton University)
February 15th: Lauren Weiss (University of Notre Dame)
February 22rd: Martin Elvis (Harvard)
February 29th: Dom Rowan (Ohio State University)
March 7th: Yubo Su (Princeton University)
March 21st: Pascal Marichalar (French National Center for Scientific Research)
March 28th: Yuanhong Qu (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)
April 4th: Nick Kokron (Princeton University)
April 11th: Kovi Rose (University of Sydney)
April 18th (double talk)
Jamila Pegues (Space Telescope Science Institute)
Kris Pardo (University of Southern California)
April 25th: Jackie Faherty (American Museum of Natural History)
May 2nd: Trung Ha (University of North Texas)
May 16th: Stephane Werner (Durham University)
Fall 2023:
September 7th: Andrew Saydjari (Harvard)
September 14th: Samantha Wu (CalTech)
September 21st: Viraj Karambelkar (CalTech)
September 28th: Fan Zou (Penn State)
October 5th: Zhuhai Li (CalTech)
October 12th: Prof. Yue Shen (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
October 19th: Mor Rozner (Israel Institute of Technology)
October 26th: Shangjia Zhang (University of Nevada)
November 2nd: Teodor Grosu
November 9th: Hsiang-Chih Hwang (IAS)
November 16th: Kishore Patra (Berkeley)
November 30th: Princeton Graduate Students
Spring 2023:
February 16th: Chia-Yu Hu (University of Florida)
February 23rd: Dan Foreman-Mackey (CCA)
March 2nd: Lyla Jung (ANU)
March 16th: Vicente Valenzuela-Villaseca (Princeton University)
March 30th: Roohi Dalal (Princeton)
April 6th: David Velasco (Princeton)
April 13th: Zili Shen (Yale)
April 20th: Sabrina Appel (Rutgers)
May 4th: Ewine van Dishoeck Leiden (Leiden Observatory, the Netherlands)
May 11th: Charlotte Ward (Princeton University)
Fall 2022:
September 15th: Aritra Ghosh (Graduate Student, Yale University)
September 22nd: Thales Gutcke (NASA Hubble Fellow and Lyman Spitzer, Jr. Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton)
September 29th: Fengwu Sun (Graduate Student, University of Arizona)
October 6th: Yubo Su (Lyman Spitzer Jr. Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton)
October 13th: Yinhao Wu (Graduate Student, Leicester University)
October 20th: Fall break
October 27th: Lizhong Zhang (Graduate Student, University of California, Santa Barbara)
November 3rd: Oliver Zier (Graduate Student, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching, Germany)
November 10th: Chang-Goo Kim (Post-Doctoral Associate Research Scholar, Princeton)
November 17th: Tsun Hin Navin Tsung (Graduate Student, University of California, Santa Barbara)
December 1st: Ore Gottlieb (Rothschild Fellow, CIERA Postdoctoral Fellow, Northwest University)
December 8th: Sihao Cheng (Postdoc Member at the Institute for Advanced Study)
Spring 2022:
February 3rd: Benjamin Crinquand (Post-Doctoral Associate Research Scholar, Princeton)
February 10th: Matthew Coleman (Post-Doctoral Associate Research Scholar, Princeton)
February 17th: Riddhi Bandyopadhyay (Post-Doctoral Associate Research Scholar, Princeton)
February 24th: Alex Gagliano (Pre-Doctoral Fellow, CCA Flatiron)
March 10th: Igor Andreoni (Postdoctoral Fellow, Joint Space-Science Institute)
March 17th: Sihao Cheng (Postdoctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins University)
March 24th: Keith Hawkins (Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Austin)
March 31th: Frank van den Bosch (Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics, Yale)
April 7th: Mor Rozner (Graduate Student, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)
April 14th: Sam Yee (Graduate Student, Princeton)
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