Past Speakers
Fall 2021:
September 9th:
Tim Miller (Yale)
Title: Moving beyond the Sersic profile
September 16th:
Biwei Dai (Berkeley)
Title: Translation and Rotation Equivariant Normalizing Flow (TRENF) for Optimal Cosmological Analysis
September 30th:
Zhuo Chen (University of California, Los Angeles)
Title: A new window on star formation history at the Galactic Center
October 7th:
Andrés A. Plazas Malagón (Princeton)
Title: Systematic errors in weak gravitational lensing for cosmological investigations
October 14th:
Dhruba Dutta Chowdhury (Yale)
Title: Constraining Dark Matter through Gravitational Heating and Cooling Processes
October 28th:
Tansu Daylan (MIT & visiting Princeton)
Title: Using TESS Full Frame Images to find exoplanets transiting faint stars
November 4th:
Keming Zhang (Berkeley)
Title: Fast 2-body microlensing inference with neural posterior estimation
November 11th:
Daniel Tamayo (Princeton)
Title: The long-term chaotic dynamics of exoplanet systems
November 18th:
Changhoon Hahn (Princeton)
Title: Accelerated Bayesian Galaxy SED Modeling
Spring 2021:
Jan 21
Archie Bott (Princeton)
Title: Alfvénic turbulence in an expanding, collisionless, magnetized plasma
Feb 4
Philip Mocz (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
Title: Cosmological Simulations with Quantum Computers
Feb 18
Jamey Szalay (Princeton)
Title: Moon-Magnetosphere interactions at Jupiter: New Insights from Juno
Feb 25
Vladimir Zhadankin
Title: Numerical experiments on relativistic plasma turbulence
Mar 4
Christopher Spalding (Princeton)
Title: The ancient Solar wind as a sculptor of terrestrial planetary formation
Mar 11
Kassandra Anderson (Princeton)
Title: Exciting and Erasing Obliquities in Exoplanetary and Stellar Binary Systems
Mar 18
Keivan Stassum (Vanderbilt University) & Nina Hernitschek (Vanderbilt University)
Title: The Era of Big Data in Astronomy - Machine Learning for All-Sky Surveys
Mar 25
Andrea Afruni (University of Groningen)
Title: Modeling the flows of circumgalactic gas from and to galaxies
April 8
Scott Carsten
Title: Dwarf Galaxies: Probes of Galaxy Formation and Small-Scale Structure
April 15
Lachlan Lancaster (Princeton)
Title: A Fractal Theory of Stellar Wind Feedback in the Dense Turbulent ISM
April 22
Erin Kado-Fong (Princeton)
Title: Disks, Halos, and Puffballs: On the origin and nature of dwarf galaxy stellar structure
April 29
Lucia Armillotta (Princeton)
Title: Cosmic-ray transport in simulations of star-forming galactic disks
May 6
Christian Aganze (UC San Diego)
Disks, Halos, and Puffballs: On the origin and nature of dwarf galaxy stellar structure
Fall 2020
Sep 3: Song Huang (Princeton)
Utilizing the Stellar Halo of Massive Galaxies for Cluster Cosmology
Sep 10: Remy Joseph (Princeton)
Astronomical Image modeling and applications: deblending, strong gravitational lensing and more
Sep 17: Hiroki Nagakura (Princeton)
Towards comprehensive understanding of core-collapse supernovae
Sep 24: Alex Chen (Princeton)
Numerical Adventures into the Magnetospheres of Neutron Stars
Oct 1: Brandon Hensley (Princeton)
Rethinking the Nature of Interstellar Dust
Oct 8: Jamie Rankin (Princeton)
Cosmic-rays Beyond the Heliosphere: A Survey of Discoveries and Mysteries
Oct 15: Guðmundur Stefánsson (Princeton)
Detection and Characterization of M-dwarf Planets with Next Generation Instruments
Oct 22: Chris Hamilton (University of Cambridge)
Secular dynamics of binaries in stellar clusters
Oct 29: Kishalay De (Caltech)
The dynamic lives and fates of accreting white dwarfs in wide-field time domain surveys
Nov 5: George Wong (University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign)
Interpreting black hole observations with numerical simulations
Nov 12: Jeong-Gyu Kim (Princeton)
Modeling Dispersal of Giant Molecular Clouds by UV Radiation Feedback
Nov 19: Ben Horowitz (Princeton)
HyPhy: Mapping Dark Matter to Hydrodynamics with Posterior Inference
Dec 3: Matthias Raives (Princeton)
The Core-Collapse Supernova Critical Condition and the Birth of Millisecond Proto-Magnetar Winds
Dec 10: Arun Kannawadi (Princeton)
Cosmic shear surveys - Present & Future
Jan 14: Dan Taranu (Princeton)
-=Fall/Winter 2018=-
Oct 11th: Vladimir Zhdankin (Princeton)
Title: Non-thermal Particle Energization in Relativistic Plasma Turbulence
Oct 18th:
Oct 25th:
Nov 1st: Jing Luan (IAS)
Nov 8th: Sean Ressler (UC Berkeley)
-=Fall/Winter 2017=-
Sep 7: Kate Alexander, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Cosmic Extremes: Probing Energetic Transients with Radio Observations
Sep 14: Or Graur, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Rage against the dying of the light: what can we learn from three-year-old supernovae?
Sep 21: Yong Zheng, Columbia University
The Cycle of Gaseous Baryons between the Disk and Halo
Oct 5: Stephane Courteau, Queen's University
Puzzles in Galaxy Scaling Relations
Oct 12: Ben Tal Margalit, Columbia University
White Dwarf – Neutron Star Mergers: from Peculiar Supernovae to Pulsar Planets
Oct 19: Jean-Baptiste Fouvry, IAS
Finite-N effects and secular evolution of self-gravitating systems
Oct 26: Philip Cowperthwaite, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
GW170817: The Dawn of Joint Gravitational Wave and Electromagnetic Astronomy
Nov 2: Song Huang, University of California, Santa Cruz
New Insights about the Assembly of Massive Galaxies from the Hyper Suprime-Cam
Nov 9: Cameron Liang, University of Chicago
Clouds in the Galactic Sky - Observations and Simulations of the Circumgalactic Medium
Nov 16: Aleksey Generozov, Columbia University
Formation of X-ray binaries via tidal capture in the Galactic Center
Nov 30: Adam Jermyn, Cambridge University
Enhanced Rotational Mixing in Massive Stars
Dec 7: James Cho, on leave from Queen Mary University of London
Storms and Jets on Giant Planets
Dec 14: Peter Melchior, Princeton University
What do galaxies, roof tops, and cocktail parties have in common?
-=Winter/Spring 2017=-
Feb 2: Massimo Gaspari, Princeton University
Unifying the micro and macro properties of AGN feedback and feeding
Feb 16: Lile Wang, Princeton University
Simulating FUV Photoevaporation of Protoplanetary Disks
Feb 23: Johan Samsing, Princeton University
Dynamical Formation of High-Eccentricity Gravitational Wave Mergers and Nuclear Transients
Mar 2: Ondrej Pejcha, Princeton University
Cool and Luminous Outbursts from Merging Binary Stars
Mar 9: Yi-Min Huang, Princeton University (PPPL)
New Perspectives on Magnetic Reconnection -- From Plasmoid Instability to Self-Generated Turbulence
Mar 23: Nicholas Battaglia, Princeton University
Cosmology with Shadows in the Microwave Sky
Mar 30: Viktoriya Giryanskaya, Princeton University
Progenitors of Type II Plateau Supernovae
Apr 13: Elinor Medezinski, Princeton University
Weighing Galaxy Clusters with Weak Lensing in the Hyper-SuprimeCam Survey
Apr 20: Sean Johnson, Princeton University
A relationship between quasar activity and diffuse cool halo gas -- feeding or feedback?
Apr 27: Adrian Price-Whelan, Princeton University
Perturbations to stellar streams from the Galactic bar
May 4: Ammar Hakim, Princeton University (PPPL)
Integrating kinetic effects in plasma fluid models, with application to global simulations
May 11: Semyeong Oh, Princeton University
Co-moving stars in Gaia DR1
May 18: Jia Liu, Princeton University
Viewing the universe through gravitational lenses
May 25: William Jones, Princeton University
Cosmology from the Stratosphere: A search for primordial gravitational waves, and measurements of gravitational lensing from near space
June 8: Leslie Hunt, Arcetri Observatory
Molecular gas in low-metallicity starbursts
June 22: Mamoru Doi, University of Tokyo
-=Fall/Winter 2016=-
Sep 8: Jorge Moreno, California State Polytechnic University
Sep 15: Yuan-Sen Ting, Harvard University
Sep 22: Vasileios Paschalidis, Princeton University
Sep 29: Daniel Lecoanet, Princeton University
Oct 20: Ari Silburt, University of Toronto
Oct 6: Dale Kocevski, University of Kentucky
Oct 27: Erez Michaely, Technion
Nov 3: Nia Imara, Harvard University
Nov 10: Nadine Neumayer, Max-Planck-Institute for Astronomy
Nov 17: Anna Rosen, UC Santa Cruz
Dec 1: Jane Dai, University of Maryland
Dec 8: Sherwood Richers, California Institute of Technology
Dec 15: Yajie Yuan, Princeton University
-=Winter/Spring 2016=-
Feb 18: Mark Walker, Manly Astrophysics
Apr 7: Alex Hill, Haverford University
Apr 13: Gongjie Li, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Apr 21: Ximena Fernández, Columbia University
Apr 28: Mariangela Lisanti, Princeton University
May 12: Alyson Brooks, Rutgers University
May 26: Dominika Wylezalek, Johns Hopkins University
-=Fall/Winter 2015=-
Sep 10: Allison Kirkpatrick, University of Massachusetts
Sep 17: Claude-Andre Faucher-Giguere, Northwestern University
Oct 8: Gurtina Besla, University of Arizona
Oct 15: Alex Howe, Princeton University
Oct 22: Or Graur, NYU
Oct 29: Wendy Ju, Princeton University
Nov 12: Jacqueline Faherty, Carnegie Institute
Nov 19: Jedidah Isler, Vanderbilt University
Dec 10: Morgan MacLeod, UCSC
Dec 17: Maggie Turnbull, SETI
-=Winter/Spring 2015=-
Jan 29: Jason Kalirai, STSI
Feb 5: David Kipping, Columbia University
Feb 19: Brice Menard, JHU
Feb 26: Alexie Leauthaud, IPMU
Mar 5: Matt Kunz, Princeton University
Mar 12: Ben Shappee, Carnegie Pennsylvania
Mar 26: Jim Bosch, Princeton University
Apr 2: Omer Bromberg, Princeton University
Apr 9: KG Lee, MPI-Heidelberg
Apr 23: Rogier Windhorst, ASU
Apr 30: Jeff Newman, Pittsburgh
May 7: Renée Hlozek, Princeton University
May 14: Jose Garmilla, Princeton University
May 21: Ai-Lei Sun, Princeton University
May 28: Banibrata Mukhopadhyay, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
August 27: Xue-Bing Wu, Peking University