APS Colloquia

Colloquia for Fall 2017

Date Speaker Institution Talk Title Contact
28 Aug Mary Putman University of Columbia An Overview of Galactic Gas Accretion Charles Danforth
11 Sep Keivan Stassun Vanderbilt University The Royal Road, Redux: Eclipses and Transits in the Era of Gaia and TESS Zach Berta-Thompson
12 Sep Keivan Stassun Vanderbilt University / Fisk University A Model for Dramatically Increasing Diversity at the PhD Level in Science and Engineering Zach Berta-Thompson
18 Sep Konstantin Batygin Caltech Planet Nine from Outer Space: Status Update Ann-Marie Madigan
25 Sep Nick Stone Columbia Murmurs from Dormant Black Holes: The Theory and Observation of Tidal Disruption Events Ann-Marie Madigan
02 Oct Emily Rauscher University of Michigan Pushing Down and Out: characterizing hot Jupiters in detail and expanding into new regimes Zach Berta-Thompson
09 Oct Amy Reines Montana State University The Origin of Supermassive Black Holes Ann-Marie Madigan
16 Oct Lindsay Glesener University of Minnesota Hunting the smallest flares: the first focused hard X-ray observations of the Sun Adam Kowalski
23 Oct Alex Parker SWRI New Moons Beyond Neptune: Exploring the companions of worlds within the Kuiper Belt Ann-Marie Madigan
30 Oct Jorge Moreno Pomona College Galaxy Mergers on FIRE-2 Zach Berta-Thompson
31 Oct Jorge Moreno Pomona College Surviving and Thriving as Students of Color in STEM Zach Berta-Thompson
06 Nov Kevin France CU - APS The Potential Habitability of Rocky Planets Around Red Dwarfs: Stellar Drivers for Atmospheric Chemistry and Stability Adam Kowalski
13 Nov Iair Arcavi UC Santa Barbara The Discovery of the First Kilonova Ann-Marie Madigan
27 Nov Robert Anderson CU - GEOL Alpine Ice on Planet Earth: Glaciers and Their Rocky Cousins Ann-Marie Madigan
04 Dec Mark Rast CU - APS The continuing saga of supergranulation: Solar and stellar convective scale determination Adam Kowalski
11 Dec Beth Willman LSST/ University of Arizona The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Zach Berta-Thompson
12 Dec Beth Willman LSST/ University of Arizona Adventures in Diversity and Inclusion at Haverford and LSST Zach Berta-Thompson

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