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Astronomy
Past Events
- Imaging Black Holes: Beyond the Shadow: Jason Dexter, University of Colorado Boulder - February 13, 2020
- Star formation in nearby galaxies: the why and the where: Sara Ellison, University of Victoria - November 30, 2017
- Getting Your Science Story to the Media—and the Masses: Wayt Gibbs and Alan Boyle, TBA - November 16, 2017
- The Dawn of Multi-Messenger Astrophysics with Gravitational Waves: the first joint detection of GWs and Light: Raffaella Margutti, Northwestern - November 9, 2017
- Data Science for (X-ray) Astronomy: Daniela Huppenkothen, UW/DIRAC - November 2, 2017
- Testing the Caustic Ring Dark Matter Halo Model Against Observations in the Milky Way: Julie Dumas, Vanderbilt - October 26, 2017
- Telescopes for Eyes: What Jumping Spiders Can Teach Us About Seeing the World: Nate Morehouse, University of Cincinnati - October 5, 2017
- Origins of Structure in Planetary Systems: Ruth Murray-Clay, UCSC - June 1, 2017
- JWST is Coming to a Lagrangian Point Near You!: George Rieke, University of Arizona - May 18, 2017
- Strange Nonchaotic Stars: John Lindner, The College of Wooster - May 11, 2017
- Polarimetry for biosignatures and habitability markers: Kim Bott, University of Washington - May 4, 2017
- Observational Assessment of Stellar Feedback in Nearby Galaxies: Laura Lopez, OSU - April 27, 2017
- Planet Nine from Outer Space: Konstantin Batygin, Caltech - April 20, 2017
- Weak gravitational Lensing by Large-Scale Structure: Hendrik Hildebrandt, Bonn University - April 13, 2017
- Two Stars of Stellar Evolution: Karl-Heinz Bohm and Erika Bohm-Vitense: Julie Lutz, Bruce Balick & Emily Levesque, University of Washington - April 6, 2017
- The quest to measure the cosmic initial conditions: Matt McQuinn, University of Washington - March 30, 2017
- Observational Constraints on Supernova Progenitor Systems: Melissa Graham, University of Washington - December 8, 2016
- Quasars and the Ionization of the Intergalactic Medium: Helium Reionization and Beyond: David Syphers, Eastern Washington University - November 10, 2016
- Upcoming Planetary Defense Challenges: Ed Lu, B612 Foundation - November 3, 2016
- The Evolution of Massive Stars: Closing the Loop in the Local Group: Philip Massey, Lowell Observatory - October 27, 2016
- Resolving the Small-Scale Structure of the Cool Circumgalactic Medium: Kate Rubin, San Diego State University - October 20, 2016
- TBA: Jonelle Walsh, Texas A&M University - October 13, 2016
- The Latte Project: Simulating the Milky Way with its Dwarf Galaxy Population: Andrew Wetzel, Caltech - October 6, 2016
- UW Astronomy: State of the Department & Plans for the Next Year: Julianne Dalcanton, University of Washington - September 29, 2016
- Adventures in planetary science: Don Brownlee, University of Washington - May 26, 2016
- Rare Elements from the First Stars to Today: Ian Roederer, University of Michigan - May 19, 2016
- The Supernova Impostor SN 2010da: Breanna Binder, UW Bothell - May 5, 2016
- New Horizons Exploration of the Pluto System: Will Grundy, Lowell Observatory - April 28, 2016
- Stars in the Laboratory: Presolar Stardust in the Solar System: Larry Nittler, Carnegie Institute of Washington DTM - April 21, 2016
- Rare Elements from the First Stars to Today: Ian Roederer, University of Michigan - April 14, 2016
- A Detailed View of Mass Loss in Massive Stars: Jamie Lomax, University of Oklahoma - April 7, 2016
- Low Mass Galaxies and their Gas at the Peak Epoch of Star Formation: Dawn Erb, University of Wisconsin, Madison - March 10, 2016
- The Universe’s most extreme star-forming galaxies: Caitlin Casey, University of Texas, Austin - March 3, 2016
- The Optical-Infrared Extinction Curve and its Variation in the Milky Way: Eddie Schlafly, University of California, Berkeley - February 25, 2016
- MathAcrossCampus Lecture - Branching Out Across the Solar System: Taylor Perron, MIT - February 19, 2016
- Planet-disc interactions in binary star systems: Rebecca Martin, University of Nevada - February 18, 2016
- AGN Triggering in Galaxy Mergers as Traced by Dual AGN and Offset AGN: Julie Comerford, University of Colorado - February 11, 2016
- 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 - February 4, 2016
- Probing Cosmological Reionization with the High-redshift Lyman-alpha Forest: Anson D’Aloisio, University of Washington - January 28, 2016
- The Formation of Planets from the Direct Accretion of Pebbles: Hal Levison, South West Research Institute - January 21, 2016
- A PHAT New Measurement of High-Mass Stellar IMF: Dan Weisz, University of Washington - January 14, 2016
- Compact Binary Studies with PTF, ZTF, and Beyond: Eric Bellm, Caltech - December 3, 2015
- Radii, rotation, and relaxation: stellar populations and kinematics of young open clusters: Kevin Covey, TBA - November 12, 2015
- New Insights into Astrophysical Turbulence: Brant Robertson, UC Santa Cruz - November 5, 2015
- TBA: Dan Foreman-Mackey, University of Washington - October 29, 2015
- Tending the Fire: Growing Blacks Holes through Galaxy Mergers and Gas Accretion: Mike Koss, ETH Zurich - October 22, 2015
- Through Curving Wherewhen: Quasar Cosmology with SDSS-IV: Adam Myers, University of Wyoming - October 15, 2015