Note the special times of faculty job talks in late January / early February. Talks in red are general colloquia, talks in blue are specialist seminars.
DATE | SPEAKER | INSTITUTE | TITLE | HOST |
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Wed Jan 04 11:45am | Alice Zurlo | U. Chile & U. Diego Portales | Characterization of exoplanetary systems with the direct imaging technique: the first results of SPHERE@VLT | Greta Guidi |
Fri Jan 06 11:45am | Hume Feldman | University of Kansas | A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Convergence: The Cosmic Velocity Field | Brent Tully |
Wed Jan 11 11:45am | Richard Binzel | MIT | Pluto Revealed: Latest Results from NASA's New Horizons Mission | Rob Jedicke |
Wed Jan 18 11:45am | Stam Owocki | U. Delaware | Magnetospheres of Magnetic Massive Stars | Rolf Kudritzki |
Mon Jan 23 1:30pm | Jennifer van Saders | Carnegie Obs. | Time-domain Timepieces: Inferring Precision Stellar Ages | Dan Huber |
Tue Jan 24 11:30am | Jennifer van Saders | Carnegie Obs. | Stellar Rotation in the Era of Kepler | Dan Huber |
Thu Jan 26 1:30pm | Benjamin Shappee | Carnegie Obs. | The Progenitors of Type Ia Supernovae | John Tonry |
Fri Jan 27 11:30am | Benjamin Shappee | Carnegie Obs. | The All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae | John Tonry |
Mon Jan 30 1:30pm | Ondrej Pejcha | Princeton | The Rugged Landscape of Core-Collapse Supernova Explosions | Brent Tully |
Tue Jan 31 11:30am | Ondrej Pejcha | Princeton | Cool and Luminous Outbursts from Merging Binary Stars | Brent Tully |
Thu Feb 02 1:30pm | Ji Wang | Caltech | Where and How to Find Habitable Terrestrial Planets | Christoph Baranec |
Fri Feb 03 11:30am | Ji Wang | Caltech | New Frontier of Exoplanetary Science: High Dispersion Coronagraphy | Christoph Baranec |
Mon Feb 06 1:30pm | Wen-Fai Fong | U. Arizona | Unfolding the Dynamic and Colorful Lives of Compact Object Mergers | Jelena Maricic |
Tue Feb 07 11:30am | Wen-Fai Fong | U. Arizona | Progenitors to Probes: The Local and Galactic Environments of Gamma-ray Bursts | Jelena Maricic |
Thu Feb 09 1:30pm | Ruobing Dong | U. Arizona | Observational Planet Formation I: Introducing the New Field | Mike Liu |
Fri Feb 10 11:30am | Ruobing Dong | U. Arizona | Observational Planet Formation II: The Coming Era of New Facilities and Large Samples | Mike Liu |
Mon Feb 13 1:30pm | Gongjie Li | Harvard | Unveiling the Origin of Planetary Systems by Dynamical and Statistical Approaches | Esther Hu |
Tue Feb 14 11:30am | Gongjie Li | Harvard | On the Spin-axis Dynamics of Planets | Esther Hu |
Wed Feb 22 11:45am | Ruth Angus | Columbia | Unlocking stellar ages with Gaia: prospects for galactic archaeology and exoplanet populations | Dan Huber |
Wed Mar 01 11:45am | Ilse Cleeves | Harvard CfA | From Disks to Planets Through the Astrochemical Lens | Nienke van der Marel |
Thu Mar 02 11:30am | Xudong Sun | Stanford | Investigating the Momentum Processes of Solar Eruptions Using Photospheric Magnetic Field Observations | Esther Hu |
Fri Mar 03 1:30pm | Xudong Sun | Stanford | The Magnetic Origin of Non-Eruptive Large Solar Flares | Haosheng Lin |
Mon Mar 06 10:45am | Yukio Katsukawa | Hinode Sci Ctr, NAOJ | High Resolution Solar Physics: Probing Elemental MHD Processes | Haosheng Lin |
Tue Mar 07 1:30pm | Yukio Katsukawa | Hinode Sci Ctr, NAOJ | Space-based spectro-polarimetry from HINODE to CLASP, SUNRISE, and beyond | Haosheng Lin |
Wed Mar 08 11:45am | Claire Moutou | CFHT | SPIRou at CFHT: a window for nIR spectropolarimetry science at Maunakea | Eugene Magnier |
Thu Mar 09 1:00pm | Hannah Schunker | Max Planck Inst for Solar System Research | Solving the Solar Dynamo Problem | Shadia Habbal |
Fri Mar 10 1:30pm | Hannah Schunker | Max Planck Inst for Solar System Research | Constraining the Origin of Surface Activity on the Sun: The case for high resolution observations | Haosheng Lin |
Wed Mar 15 11:45am | Hai Fu | U. Iowa | Understanding Galaxy Evolution with Massive Starburst Galaxies | Robert Jedicke |
Wed Mar 22 11:45am | Monique Chyba | UH Dept of Math | Fuel-minimal rendezvous missions with a large population of temporarily captured orbiters | Robert Jedicke |
Wed Mar 29 11:45am | Kathy Cooksey | UH Hilo | Designing Undergraduate Research Projects: A Case Study | Geoff Mathews |
Wed Apr 05 11:45am | CANCELLED | Rob Jedicke | ||
Wed Apr 12 11:45am | Mark Waterson | SKA | The Square Kilometre Array Radio Telescope Project | Eugene Magnier |
Thu Apr 20 11:45am | Wladimir Lyra | Cal State, Northridge | Planet signatures in transition disks | Nienke van der Marel |
Wed Apr 26 11:45am | Paul Lucey | UH HIGP | The Ebb and Flow of Water on the Moon | Rob Jedicke |
Wed May 03 11:45am | No Colloquium | UH IfA | Falling Walls Lab in Auditorium | Guenther Hasinger |
Wed May 17 11:45am | Franz Bauer | Pontificia Universidad Catolica | The ALMA Frontier Fields | Len Cowie |