Astronomy
Astronomy
Past Events
- Imaging Black Holes: Beyond the Shadow (Jason Dexter, University of Colorado Boulder) -
- Star formation in nearby galaxies: the why and the where (Sara Ellison, University of Victoria) -
- Getting Your Science Story to the Media—and the Masses (Wayt Gibbs and Alan Boyle, TBA) -
- The Dawn of Multi-Messenger Astrophysics with Gravitational Waves: the first joint detection of GWs and Light (Raffaella Margutti, Northwestern) -
- Data Science for (X-ray) Astronomy (Daniela Huppenkothen, UW/DIRAC) -
- Testing the Caustic Ring Dark Matter Halo Model Against Observations in the Milky Way (Julie Dumas, Vanderbilt) -
- Telescopes for Eyes: What Jumping Spiders Can Teach Us About Seeing the World (Nate Morehouse, University of Cincinnati) -
- Origins of Structure in Planetary Systems (Ruth Murray-Clay, UCSC) -
- JWST is Coming to a Lagrangian Point Near You! (George Rieke, University of Arizona) -
- Strange Nonchaotic Stars (John Lindner, The College of Wooster) -
- Polarimetry for biosignatures and habitability markers (Kim Bott, University of Washington) -
- Observational Assessment of Stellar Feedback in Nearby Galaxies (Laura Lopez, OSU) -
- Planet Nine from Outer Space (Konstantin Batygin, Caltech) -
- Weak gravitational Lensing by Large-Scale Structure (Hendrik Hildebrandt, Bonn University) -
- Two Stars of Stellar Evolution: Karl-Heinz Bohm and Erika Bohm-Vitense (Julie Lutz, Bruce Balick & Emily Levesque, University of Washington) -
- The quest to measure the cosmic initial conditions (Matt McQuinn, University of Washington) -
- Observational Constraints on Supernova Progenitor Systems (Melissa Graham, University of Washington) -
- Quasars and the Ionization of the Intergalactic Medium: Helium Reionization and Beyond (David Syphers, Eastern Washington University) -
- Upcoming Planetary Defense Challenges (Ed Lu, B612 Foundation) -
- The Evolution of Massive Stars: Closing the Loop in the Local Group (Philip Massey, Lowell Observatory) -
- Resolving the Small-Scale Structure of the Cool Circumgalactic Medium (Kate Rubin, San Diego State University) -
- TBA (Jonelle Walsh, Texas A&M University) -
- The Latte Project: Simulating the Milky Way with its Dwarf Galaxy Population (Andrew Wetzel, Caltech) -
- UW Astronomy: State of the Department & Plans for the Next Year (Julianne Dalcanton, University of Washington) -
- Adventures in planetary science (Don Brownlee, University of Washington) -
- Rare Elements from the First Stars to Today (Ian Roederer, University of Michigan) -
- The Supernova Impostor SN 2010da (Breanna Binder, UW Bothell) -
- New Horizons Exploration of the Pluto System (Will Grundy, Lowell Observatory) -
- Stars in the Laboratory: Presolar Stardust in the Solar System (Larry Nittler, Carnegie Institute of Washington DTM) -
- Rare Elements from the First Stars to Today (Ian Roederer, University of Michigan) -
- A Detailed View of Mass Loss in Massive Stars (Jamie Lomax, University of Oklahoma) -
- Low Mass Galaxies and their Gas at the Peak Epoch of Star Formation (Dawn Erb, University of Wisconsin, Madison) -
- The Universe’s most extreme star-forming galaxies (Caitlin Casey, University of Texas, Austin) -
- The Optical-Infrared Extinction Curve and its Variation in the Milky Way (Eddie Schlafly, University of California, Berkeley) -
- MathAcrossCampus Lecture - Branching Out Across the Solar System (Taylor Perron, MIT) -
- Planet-disc interactions in binary star systems (Rebecca Martin, University of Nevada) -
- AGN Triggering in Galaxy Mergers as Traced by Dual AGN and Offset AGN (Julie Comerford, University of Colorado) -
- From Imaging Disks and Gas Giant Planets with the Gemini Planet Imager to Habitable Earth-like planets with the ELTs (Christian Marois, NRC & University of Victoria) -
- Probing Cosmological Reionization with the High-redshift Lyman-alpha Forest (Anson D’Aloisio, University of Washington) -
- The Formation of Planets from the Direct Accretion of Pebbles (Hal Levison, South West Research Institute) -
- A PHAT New Measurement of High-Mass Stellar IMF (Dan Weisz, University of Washington) -
- Compact Binary Studies with PTF, ZTF, and Beyond (Eric Bellm, Caltech) -
- Radii, rotation, and relaxation: stellar populations and kinematics of young open clusters (Kevin Covey, TBA) -
- New Insights into Astrophysical Turbulence (Brant Robertson, UC Santa Cruz) -
- TBA (Dan Foreman-Mackey, University of Washington) -
- Tending the Fire: Growing Blacks Holes through Galaxy Mergers and Gas Accretion (Mike Koss, ETH Zurich) -
- Through Curving Wherewhen: Quasar Cosmology with SDSS-IV (Adam Myers, University of Wyoming) -