When: Thursdays Time: 9:30am-10:30am Where: Hybrid format, in person meetings in the Dome Room Organizers: Sanghyuk Moon <sanghyuk.moon[at]princeton.edu>; Nora Linzer <nlinzer[at]princeton.edu>; Eve Ostriker <eco[at]astro.princeton.edu> |
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SFIR (pronounced “sapphire”) is the Star Formation/ISM Rendezvous, a seminar covering research on all aspects of star formation and the interstellar medium in both the Milky Way and external galaxies. SFIR is open to all interested members of the Princeton+IAS astrophysics community, as well as visitors from other departments.
Members of the department (students, postdocs, and faculty) and visitors present research talks, at varying levels of formality, allowing for extensive discussion. Contributions may also include journal-club style presentations and other updates and discussions.
SFIR Speaker Schedule
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9/22/22 | Yue Hu University of Wisconsin |
Characterizing 3D magnetic fields in star-forming regions |
9/29/22 | Ahmad Ali University of Exeter |
How does stellar feedback in star-forming regions depend on environment? |
10/6/22 | Deanne Fisher Swinburne |
Testing Theories of Regulated Star Formation in Clumpy, Gas Rich Disk Galaxies |
10/27/22 | Alex Gurvich Northwestern |
Rapid galactic disk settling at the end of bursty star formation in the FIRE simulations |
11/3/22 | Matilde Mingozzi STSci |
Exploring UV diagnostics of the interstellar medium in local high-z analogs in the JWST era |
11/10/22 | Caleb Choban UC San Diego |
Interstellar Dust Evolution in Cosmological Zoom-in Simulations |
11/17/22 | Jonathan Stern Tel-Aviv University |
Is 'Disk Settling' Driven by the Physics of the Circumgalactic Medium? |
12/1/22 | Ben Keller University of Memphis |
New Frontiers in Understanding Feedback-Regulated Galaxy Formation with Simulation |
12/8/22 | Xihan Ji University of Kentucky |
Deciphering the imprint of stellar feedback in HII regions with nebular diagnostics |
12/15/22 | ChongChong He University of Maryland, College Park |
Star Formation Laws Regulated by Photoionization Feedback and Formation of Large Keplerian Disks in Magnetized Cores |
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4/20/22 | Grace Telford Rutgers |
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4/13/22 | Eric Moseley Princeton |
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4/6/22 | Laura Sommovigo Pisa |
Newborn but dusty: the puzzle of EoR galaxies |
3/30/22 | Brent Tan UCSB |
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3/23/22 | Thales Gutcke Princeton |
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3/16/22 | Ulrich Steinwandel CCA |
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3/16/22 | Xinfeng Xu JHU |
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2/23/22 | Tim-Eric Rathjen Cologne |
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12/15/21 |
Elena Lacchin INAF |
Hydrodynamic simulations of multiple stellar populations in globular clusters |
12/8/21 | Marta Reina-Campos McMaster University |
Modelling stellar cluster populations alongside their host galaxies in a cosmic environment: the EMP-Pathfinder simulations |
12/1/21 | Gregory Green MPIA |
Applications of auto-differentiation to dust, stars, dynamics |
11/24/21 | James Beattie ANU |
Global properties of compressible MHD turbulence and going beyond two moment star formation rate theories |
11/17/21 | Maria José Maureira MPE |
Physical conditions and dynamics of deeply embedded low-mass protostars at 10 au scales |
11/10/21 | Leire Beitia-Antero Complutense University of Madrid |
The role of charged dust grains in shaping the evolution of molecular cloud envelopes |
11/3/21 | Ashley Barnes The Argelander-Institut für Astronomie (AIfA), University in Bonn |
Under pressure: constraining the dominant pre-SNe feedback mechanisms for several thousand star-forming regions |
10/27/21 | Shivan Khullar University of Toronto, Canadian Institute for Astrophysics |
Star formation thresholds and the density PDF |
10/20/21 | Noe Brucy CEA Saclay |
Understanding the Schmidt-Kennicutt relation: the crucial role of large-scale turbulent driving |
10/13/21 | Kimberly Emig NRAO |
From Star-formation to Recombinaton: Expanding our View of the RRL Universe |
10/6/21 | Sergio Martinez-Gonzales INAOEP |
Destruction, Survival, and Growth of Dust Grains within Superbubbles |
9/15/21 | Kedron Silsbee MPE |
Cosmic ray propagation and mall-scale turbulence in the dense ISM |
9/8/2021 | Max Gronke JHU |
Best friends & mortal enemies: The impact of turbulence on multiphase gases |
5/5/21 | Archana Soam NASA Ames | Threads & flows in the dusty universe: Importance of astronomical polarimetry and spectroscopy in probing star forming regions |
4/28/21 | Jonathan Henshaw Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg |
Everything Flows: The dynamics of the molecular interstellar medium |
4/21/21 | Enrico Di Teodoro Johns Hopkins University |
Cold galactic outflows in the Milky Way- Magellanic system |
4/14/21 | Jaime Pineda Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching |
Feeding a Protostar with 10,500 au Scale Streamers |
4/7/21 | No lecture | |
3/31/21 | Catherine Zucker Harvard University, Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics |
Probing the Structure and Dynamics of our Local ISM on Parsec to Kiloparsec Scales |