Archive of Past Seminars
2015-2016
Aug 25: Segev BenZvi (U. of Rochester) - "Physics at the End of the Electromagnetic Spectrum: First Results from HAWC"
Sep 1: Dan Coe (STScI) - "Hunting the First Galaxies with Gravitational Lensing"
Sep 8: Coral Wheeler (UC Irvine) - "Sweating the small stuff: Simulating dwarf galaxies, ultra-faint dwarf galaxies, and their own tiny satellites"
Sep 16: Eric Carlson (UCSC) - "Confronting the Fermi Galactic Center Excess with 3D Models of the Gamma-Ray Sky"
Sep 23: Adrian Price- Whelan (Columbia U) - "Tidal streams in triaxial systems"
Sep 29: Renee Hlozek (Princeton) - "CMB cosmology with ACT, Planck and ACTPol"
Oct 6: Cecilia Lunardini (Arizona State U) - "Star formation and high energy neutrinos at IceCube: a correlation?"
Oct 13: Fraser Cain (Universe Today) - "They need you (more than you need them)"
Oct 14: Pamela Gay, Fraser Cain, Dr. Ronald Sega, and Ty Owen, Host/MC: Paul Sutter - Special Public Lecture "Next Frontiers Symposium: Space Science and Exploration"
Oct 20: Adrienne Erickcek (North Carolina) - "An Early-Universe Boost to the Dark Matter Annihilation Rate"
Oct 27: John Forbes (UCSC) - "Galaxies in the balance"
Nov 3: Morgan MacLeod (UCSC) - "Common Envelope and the Formation of Close Neutron Star Binaries"
Nov 6: Tathagata Ghosh (Texas A&M) - AstroParticle Lunch: "Limits on cascade annihilation models and decaying dark matter lifetime from dwarf galaxies using Fermi-LAT"
Nov 9: Chanda Prescod-Weinstein (MIT) - "Condensed Dark Matter: An Axion Story" and "Let Physics Be the Dream It Used To Be"
Nov 10: Josiah Schwab (UC Berkeley) - "Single and Double Degenerate Pathways towards Accretion-Induced Collapse"
Nov 10: Cora Dvorkin (Harvard), Host: Chris Hirata - Physics Colloquium "Deciphering the Early Universe: Connecting Theory with Observations"
Nov 17: Ana Bonaca (Yale) - "The Milky Way in Stereo: Constraints on the Galactic Gravitational Potential from Multiple Stellar Streams"
Nov 18: Kip Thorne (Caltech) - Smith Lecture "Black Holes, Gravitational Waves and Interstellar"
Nov 20: Peter Denton (Vanderbilt) - "Cosmic Ray Anisotropy with Partial Sky Exposure"
Nov 24: Michael Troxel (Manchester) - "Disentangling Fundamental Physics from Subtle Systematics in Cosmic Shear and Large-Scale Structure"
Dec 1: Markus Ackermann (DESY, UW Madison) - "Cosmic neutrinos - what we know, what we suspect"
Dec 8: Cameron Hummels (Caltech) - "Revolutionizing our understanding of galaxy evolution through simulations of the CGM"
Jan 12: Jesse Thaler (MIT) - "Hidden Sectors and Dark Forces"
Jan 19: Yuanyuan Zhang (Michigan) - "Studying the Galaxies inside Clusters with the Dark Energy Survey"
Jan 26: Maria Drout (Harvard) - "Peculiar Transients as Probes of Stellar Evolution and Mass-Loss"
Feb 2: Laura Blecha (U. of Maryland) - "The Dynamic Lives of Supermassive Black Holes in Merging Galaxies"
Feb 9: Katie Auchettl (OSU) - "Supernova remnants interacting with molecular clouds" and Jordan Hanson (OSU) - "A review of uhe neutrino detection using the Askaryan effect"
Feb 16: Carlos Arguelles (MIT) - "Results from the Search for eV-Sterile Neutrinos with IceCube-86"
Feb 23: Ian Shoemaker (Penn State) - "Secluded Neutrinos: From the Early Universe to IceCube"
Mar 1: Dawn Erb (Haverford College) - "Low Mass Galaxies and their Gas at the Peak Epoch of Star Formation"
Mar 8: Alex Drlica-Wagner (Fermilab) - "Fundamental Physics with the Smallest Galaxies"
Mar 15: Mattia Fornasa (GRAPPA/Amsterdam) - "Anisotropies as a probe the Diffuse Gamma-Ray Background"
Mar 22: Dragan Huterer (Michigan) - "Growth of cosmic structure - the next frontier"
Mar 29: Brant Robertson (UCSC) - "New Constraints on Cosmic Reionization from Planck and Hubble Space Telescope"
April 5: Shirley Ho (Carnegie Mellon) - "Joining Forces Against the Dark Universe: From the Cosmic Microwave Background to Large Scale Structure"
April 12: Anja von der Linden (Stony Brook) - "Weighing the Giants: Cluster Masses and Cosmology"
April 19: Douglas Scott (UBC) - "The Universe According to Planck"
April 26: Valerie Connaughton (USRA) - "Fermi's role in the era of multi-messenger astronomy"
May 3: Esra Bulbul (MIT) - "A Case for the 3.55 keV Line: Claims, Counterclaims, Reasons, and Evidence"
May 6: Juri Smirnov (Max-Planck) - "Light from Dark Matter"
May 10: Or Graur (NYU/Harvard) - "Revealing the Progenitors of Explosive Transients with Spectroscopic Surveys"
May 17: Rebecca Surman (Notre Dame) - "Forging the heaviest elements"
May 24: Ian Roederer (Michigan) - "Rare Elements from the First Stars to Today"
May 31: Alexia Lewis (U. of Washington) - "A sub-kiloparsec scale view of star formation in M31"
June 7: Jonathan Blazek (OSU) - "Accurate Cosmology with Observations of Galaxies" and Ashley Ross (OSU) - "Results from the Completed SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey"
June 21: Joe McEwen (OSU) - "FAST-PT: a novel algorithm to calculate convolution integrals in cosmological perturbation theory" and Michael Fausnaugh (OSU) - "Reverberation Mapping of AGN Accretion Disks"
June 28: Rebecca Leane (Melbourne/Physics) - "Dark Forces in the Sky: Signals from Z' and the Dark Higgs" and Radek Poleski (OSU) - "Ice giant exoplanets"
July 5: Mauricio Bustamante (OSU) - "Probing neutrino lifetime using high-energy astrophysical neutrinos" and Stephan Frank (OSU) - "Introducing Agnostic Spectral Stacking as a Powerful Method to detect and characterise Weak QSO Absorber Populations"
July 12: Janie Hoormann (Washington U, St. Louis) - "Using Simulations of the X-ray Emission from Black Holes to Dissect the Inner Regions of Accretion Flow" and Jamie Tayar (OSU) - "Asteroseismic Tests of Stellar Isochrones"
July 19: Carl Pfendner (OSU) - "Background Rejection in the ARA Experiment"
July 26: Shirley Li (OSU) - "Observing Neutron Stars" and Kelly Denney (OSU) - "On the Reliability of CIV-based Black Hole Masses: We're Making Progress"
Aug 2: Kenny Ng (OSU) - "Searching for Dark Matter with NuSTAR" and Oindree Banerjee (OSU) - "ANITA 4: A TUFF new mission to discover ultra-high energy neutrinos"
Aug 9: Anna Nierenberg (OSU) - "Strong narrow-line lensing and the subhalo mass function" and Jordan Hanson (OSU) - "Experimental Particle Astrophysics in Antarctica"
Aug 16: Tim Linden (OSU) - "The Galactic Center Environment and the Galactic Center GeV Excess"
2016-2017
Sep 13: Yuan-Sen Ting (Harvard) - "Unraveling the History of the Milky Way"
Sep 20: Susan Clark (Columbia) - "Using Neutral Hydrogen to Measure Cosmic Magnetism and CMB Foregrounds"
Sep 27: Allison Merritt (Yale) - "Unveiling the Low Surface Brightness Universe: The Dragonfly Nearby Galaxies Survey"
Oct 4: Alex Ji (MIT) - "Dwarf Galaxy Archaeology with the r-process Galaxy Reticulum II"
Oct 11: Tea Temim (Space Telescope Science Institute, STScI) - "Supernovae as Drivers of Dust Evolution in Galaxies"
Oct 18: Miguel Mostafa (Penn State) - "First year of data from the High Altitude Water Cherenkov observatory"
Oct 25: Julian Munoz - "Compact and diffuse dark matter"
Nov 1: Angela Burden (Yale) - "Measuring BAO in galaxy surveys"
Nov 8: Anna Rosen (UCSC) - "The Destructive Birth of Massive Stars and Massive Star Clusters"
Nov 15: James Guillochon (CfA) - "Tidal disruptions of stars by supermassive black holes: dynamics, light, and relics"
Nov 29: Jessie Shelton (UIUC) - "Hidden sectors and dark matter"
Nov 30: Risa Wechsler (Stanford) - "Probing the Dark Universe with Galaxy Surveys"
Dec 6: Ben Safdi (MIT) - "Cosmic Axion Detection with an Amplifying B-field Ring Apparatus"
Jan 17: Sukhdeep Singh (Carnegie Mellon U) - "Lensing Cross Correlations: Measurements and Applications"
Jan 17: David Hogg (NYU) - Physics Colloquium "Data-driven Models of Stars"
Jan 22: Laura Cadonati (Georgia Tech) - Science Sundays: "Listening to the Universe with Gravitational Waves"
Jan 24: Arka Banerjee (U of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) - "Simulating nonlinear cosmological structure formation with massive neutrinos"
Jan 25: Susmita Adhikari (U of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) - Special Seminar/Cosmolunch: "Outskirts of Dark Matter Halos"
Jan 31: Justin Spilker (Arizona) - "How to Turn Off Star Formation: Assembling Early Passive Galaxies"
Feb 7: Chang Hoon Hahn (NYU) - "Fundamental Physics with the Next Galaxy Surveys"
Feb 8: David Cinagro (Wayne State U) - Cosmology Lunch: "Search For Type Ia Supernova NUV-Optical Subclasses"
Feb 14: Azadeh Fattahi (U of Victoria) - "APOSTLE Local Group simulations: why bother with faint galaxies?"
Feb 15: Alan Stern (New Horizons) - 9th Annual Biard Lecture "The Exploration of Pluto"
Feb 21: Alyson Brooks (Rutgers) - "Re-Examining Astrophysical Constraints on the Dark Matter Model"
Feb 28: Foteini Oikonomou (Penn State) - "Multi-messenger results at ultra-high energies from the Pierre Auger Observatory"
Mar 7: Elisabeth Krause (Stanford) - "Combining Cosmological Probes from the Dark Energy Survey, and Beyond"
Mar 19: John Beacom (OSU Physics and Astronomy) - Science Sundays: "Neutrino Astronomy Made Easy"
Mar 21: Pat Slane (CfA, Harvard-Smithsonian) - "Energetic Windbags Young and Old: The Evolving Story of Pulsar Wind Nebulae"
Mar 28: Matthew Walker (CMU) - "Dark Matter in the Smallest Galaxies"
March 29: Alexander Mead (Univ of British Columbia) - Cosmology Lunch
April 4: Dan Scolnic (KICP, Chicago) - "Using Type Ia Supernovae To Measure The Hubble Constant and Dark Energy"
April 7: Nick Rodd (MIT) - AstroParticle Lunch "Gamma-ray Constraints on Decaying Dark Matter and Implications for IceCube"
April 11: Kerstin Perez (MIT) - "High-energy X-rays from the Galactic Center: "zombie stars" and particle physics"
April 18: Mariangela Lisanti (Princeton) - "The Search for Extragalactic Dark Matter"
April 26: Richard Miller (Alabama) - "Ex Luna, Scientia: The Lunar Occultation Explorer (LOX)"
May 2: Emily Levesque (Wisconsin) - "Discovery of a Thorne-Zytkow Object Candidate in the Small Magellanic Cloud"
May 10: Charlotte Mason (UCLA) - "What can galaxies tell us about the Epoch of Reionization?"
May 16: Tuguldur Sukhbold (OSU Physics) - "On the origin of light s-process elements" and Ashley Ross (OSU Physics) - "What to know about BAO: The status of cosmological distance measurements using the baryon acoustic oscillation feature"
May 23: Ami Choi (OSU Physics) - "Towards accurate cosmology with overlapping galaxy surveys" and Tim Linden (OSU Physics) - "Utilizing HAWC Observations to Shed Light on Milky Way Pulsars"
May 30: Ying Zu (OSU Physics) - "Learning Galaxy Formation from Large-Scale Structure and Weak Lensing" and Michael Troxel (OSU Physics) - "Cosmological constraints from cosmic shear in the Dark Energy Survey"
June 6: Jamie Tayar (OSU) - "Core and Surface Rotation Rates of Evolved Intermediate Mass Stars" and Radek Poleski (OSU) - "Ice giant exoplanets - what do we know about them?"
June 13: Anna Nierenberg (OSU) - "Constraining CDM with narrow-line lensing" and Mauricio Bustamante (OSU) - "A first measurement of high-energy neutrino cross sections with astrophysical neutrinos"
June 20: Xiao Fang (OSU) - "Quadruple Systems: Hints on Supernova Formation" and Su-Jeong Lee (OSU) - "Producing an SDSS-BOSS CMASS sample with imaging from the Dark Energy Survey to test gravity"
June 27: Shirley Li (OSU) - "Observing supernova neutrinos to late times" and Niall MacCrann (OSU) - "Cosmological constraints from galaxy clustering and weak lensing using Dark Energy Survey Year 1 data: Methodology and Validation"
July 11: Francesco Capozzi (OSU) - “Fast neutrino flavour conversions near the supernova core” and Marshall Johnson (OSU) - "Transiting Planets around Hot Stars"
July 18: Qingwen Tang (OSU) - "Modelling the high-energy gamma rays in the LMC field" and Cassi Lochhaas (OSU) - "Fast Winds Drive Slow Shells: The CGM as Galactic Wind-Driven Shells"
July 25: Jack Elvin-Poole (University of Manchester) - "The sterile neutrino: a combined view of cosmological limits with oscillation searches" and Oindree Banerjee (OSU) - "Development of new binned analysis technique for ANITA"
2017-2018
Aug 29: Johnny Greco (Princeton) - "Illuminating Low-Surface-Brightness Galaxies with the Hyper Suprime-Cam Survey"
Sep 5: Michael Troxel (OSU Physics) - Physics Colloquium "Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Cosmological Constraints from Galaxy Clustering and Weak Lensing"
Sep 12: Bram Ochsendorf (Johns Hopkins University) - "What drives the formation of massive stars and clusters?"
Sep 14: Rick Pogge (OSU Astronomy) - "What drives the formation of massive starts and clusters?"
Sep 19: Francesco Capozzi (OSU) - "New opportunities in solar neutrinos" and Heidi Wu (OSU) - "Sample variance in the local measurements of the Hubble constant"
Sep 21: Ali Kheirandish (WIPAC) - "Multimessenger astronomy and the origin of IceCube cosmic neutrinos"
Sep 26: Chris Kochanek (OSU) - "The All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae"
Sept 29: Sumit Sarbadhicary (U. of Pittsburgh) - "The progenitors of supernovae from Local Group stellar populations and supernova remnants"
Oct 3: Teresita Suarez Noguez (UCL) - "Quasar beaming: effects on the large-scale Lyman alpha forest"
Oct 10: Ben Monreal (Case Western) - "Project 8 and the search for the absolute neutrino mass"
Oct 17: Kyle Dawson (Utah) - "Cosmology from Spectroscopic Surveys: eBOSS and Beyond"
Oct 21: Laura Lopez and Adam Leroy - Friends of Ohio State Astronomy and Astrophysics (FOSAA)
Oct 24: Yao-Yuan Mao (Pittsburgh) - "Mass' not the only thing: Secondary effects in the galaxy-halo connection"
Oct 27: Jorge Cham (PhD Comics) - Special CCAPP Public Lecture: "We Have No Idea: A Guide to the Unknown Universe"
Oct 31: Ben Margalit (Columbia) - "White Dwarf – Neutron Star Mergers: from Peculiar Supernovae to Pulsar Planets"
Nov 7: Yashar Hezaveh (Stanford) - "The future of mapping dark matter structures with strong gravitational lensing, new surveys, and machine learning"
Nov 14: Danielle Leonard (CMU) - "Measuring the scale-dependence of intrinsic alignments using multiple shear estimates"
Nov 28: Brian Metzger (Columbia) - "Kilonova Emission from a Binary Neutron Star Merger" and Ken Shen (UC Berkeley) - "A Paradigm Shift for Type Ia Supernova Progenitors"
Dec 3: Joe Lykken (Fermilab) - Science Sundays: "Particle Physics: New Research Frontiers"
Dec 5: Brian Metzger (Columbia) - "Kilonova Emission from a Binary Neutron Star Merger"
Dec 12: Zhongxu Zhai (NYU) - "Galaxy clustering and cosmological constraints"
Jan 11: Andrina Nicola (ETH Zurich) - "Integrated approach to cosmology"
Jan 16: Steven Prohira (Kansas) - "Radio interactions with particle-shower-plasmas: implications for high-energy neutrino detection"
Jan 23: Semyeong Oh (Princeton) - "Comoving stars in Gaia DR1"
Jan 25: Lluis MasRibas (UiO) - "Extended Emission Halos as a Probe of Galaxy and Reionization Physics"
Jan 30: John Ginder - "Invitations to Industry - Ford Motor Company"
Feb 6: Parker Fagrelius (UC Berkeley) - "Addressing Challenges for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI)"
Feb 13: Yacine Ali-Haimoud (NYU) - "Primordial black holes in the era of Planck and LIGO" and Rachel Mandelbaum (Carnegie Mellon) - "Cosmology with the Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) survey"
Feb 20: Rachel Mandelbaum (CMU)- "Cosmology with the Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) Survey"
Feb 20: Luke Roberts (MSU) - "Neutrino Driven Core Collapse Supernovae and the Evolution of Their Remnants"
Feb 26: Kelly Denney - "Invitations to Industry -Illumination Works"
Feb 27: John Beacom (OSU) - "Solar Neutrinos: Is There a Future?”
Mar 2: Yusuke Koshio (Okayama University, Japan) - "Supernova neutrino observation - current status and future prospect"
Mar 20: Sean Couch (MSU) - "Understanding Massive Stellar Death: Predictive Simulation of Core-collapse Supernovae"
Mar 27: Ofer Cohen (UMass Lowell) - "The Sun - Our Mysterious Neighbor"
April 3: Daniel Castro (CfA, Harvard) - "Particle Acceleration in the Remnants of Supernova Explosions"
April 10: Matt Povich (Cal Poly Pomona) - "Calibrating Star Formation Rates in the Milky Way's Biggest, Baddest Young Star-Forming Regions"
April 13: Marcelle Soares-Santos (Brandeis) - "DESGW: Discovering the Optical Counterparts of Gravitational Wave Emitting Neutron Star Mergers with DECam"
April 23: Jill Gerke - "Invitations to Industry - MIT Lincoln Laboratory"
April 24: Antonio Boveia (OSU) - "Is there Dark Matter at the LHC?"
May 1: Sheila Kannappan (UNC) - "ulti-Scale Galaxy Physics: From Gas and Star Formation to Cosmic Structure"
May 22: Vasiliy Demchenko (Edinburgh) - "The Vast, Expanding Emptiness of the Cosmic Web" and Brian Clark (OSU) - "Askaryan Radio Array: Detector Status and Prospects for Using Directional Reconstruction in Point-Source Searches"
May 29: Ashley Ross (OSU) - "Cosmology from Galaxy Clustering"
June 5: Andres Salcedo (OSU) - "Secondary and Neighbor Bias in Halo Clustering" and Heidi Wu (OSU) - "Probing Dark Energy with Galaxy Clusters"
June 7: Alice Pisani (Flatiron Institute) - "Constraining Cosmology with Cosmic Voids"
June 12: Marshall Johnson (OSU) - "Spin-Orbit Misalignments of Planets around Hot Stars as a Tracer of Planet Migration" and Judit Prat (Barcelona) - "Photometric redshifts and cosmology from weak lensing cross-correlations in DES"
June 19: Tim Linden (OSU)
June 26: Danielle Berg (OSU) - "The Evolution of C/O in Low-Metallicity Galaxies" and Dyas Utomo (OSU) - "Star Formation Efficiency per Free Fall Time in Nearby Galaxies"
July 10: Niall MacCrann (OSU) - "Testing LambdaCDM with weak lensing and galaxy statistics in the Dark Energy Survey" and Katie Auchettl (OSU) - "Using supernova remnants to understand the progenitors of core collapse supernovae"
July 17: Ben Wibking (OSU) - "Does radiation pressure on dust drive galactic winds?" and Paulo Montero Camacho (OSU) - "Exploring circular polarization in the CMB due to conventional sources of cosmic birefringence"
July 24: Paul Sutter (OSU) - "Let's Talk About Talking About Science" and Jenna Freudenburg (OSU) - "Measuring weak lensing magnification with the Fundamental Plane"
July 31: Radek Poleski (OSU) - "Measuring masses of wide orbit planets" and Tuguldur Sukhbold (OSU)
Aug 7: Ami Choi (OSU) - "Cosmology with WFIRST: From photons to dark energy" and Xiao Fang (OSU)
Aug 14: Ben Buckman (OSU) - "Cosmic Rays are Dynamically Weak in Starburst Galaxies: A Multiwavelength Analysis of M82" and Michael Troxel (OSU) - "Weak lensing cosmology"
Aug 21: Cassi Lochhaas (OSU) - "Properties of the Simulated Circumgalactic Medium" and Sujeong Lee (OSU) - "Producing an SDSS-BOSS CMASS sample with imaging from the Dark Energy Survey"
2018-2019
Sep 4: Takahiro Sudoh (OSU Physics) - "High-energy gamma-ray and neutrino production in star-forming galaxies across cosmic time"
Sep 4: Johnny Greco (OSU Physics) - "Uncovering diffuse galaxies across environments with the Hyper Suprime-Cam"
Sep 11: Jose Manuel Zorrilla Matilla (Columbia) - "Extracting Cosmological Information from Weak Lensing Surveys"
Sep 18: Mehr Un Nisa (Rochester) - "Looking for new Physics with HAWC Observations of the Moon and the Sun"
Sep 25: Kris Pardo (Princeton) - "Astrophysical Tests of Gravitation and Dark Matter"
Oct 2: Matt Orr (Caltech) - "Spatially Resolving Star Formation Scaling Relations in Cosmological Simulations"
Oct 9: Kareem El-Badry (Berkeley) - "Dwarf galaxies as laboratories for astrophysics and cosmology"
Oct 16: Tanvi Karwal (Johns Hopkins) - "Early dark energy as a solution to the Hubble tension"
Oct 23: Eduardo Rozo (Arizona) - "Cosmic Concordance?"
Oct 30: Claire Guepin (IAP) - "Chasing the Cosmic Accelerators with Multiple Messengers"
Nov 6: Hongwan Liu (MIT) - "DarkHistory: A Code for Computing Ionization and Thermal Histories with Dark Matter Energy Injection"
Nov 13: Ekta Patel (Arizona) - "The Dynamics of Local Group Satellite Galaxies in the Era of Precision Astrometry"
Dec 4: Emanuele Castorina (Berkeley) - "Towards precise measurements of Primordial non-Gaussianities in the Large Scale Structure of the Universe"
Jan 15: Johannes Lange (Yale) - "Probing Galaxy Formation and Cosmology in the Non-Linear Regime"
Jan 22: Yi-Kuan Chiang (Johns Hopkins) - "From the diffuse sky to cosmological galaxy formation"
Jan 29: Fiorenzo Vincenzo (Hertfordshire, UK) - "Galactic astroarchaeology with cosmological chemodynamical simulations"
Feb 5: Tsang Keung Chan (UC San Diego) - "The Importance of Cosmic Ray Feedback"
Feb 12: Steven Prohira (OSU) and Jack Elvin-Poole (OSU) - "Detection of neutrino induced cascades with radar" (Prohira) "Cosmology from galaxy clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing in the Dark Energy Survey" (Elvin-Poole)
Feb 18: Hugh Lippincott (Fermilab) - "Doping xenon for improved performance - searching for dark matter with xenon detectors"
Feb 19: Albert Chuang (Stanford) - "Robust sub-percentage measurements from large-scale structure of galaxy clustering"
Feb 20: Carsten Rott (SKKU) - "Science prospects and status of the JSNS^2 Experiment"
Feb 26: Cliff Johnsn (Northwestern) - "Beyond The Solar Neighborhood: Studying Star Formation in Low-mass Molecular Clouds in the Small Magellanic Cloud"
March 5: Jennifer Marshall (Texas A&M) - "The Future of Massively Multiplexed Spectroscopy: The Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer"
March 19: Marilena Loverde (Stony Brook University) - "Structure Formation Beyond Lambda CDM"
March 26: Gopolang Mohlabeng (Brookhaven) - "Revisiting the dark photon explanation of the muon g-2 anomaly"
April 2: Melanie Simet (UC Riverside) - "Weak Lensing with Current and Future Surveys"
April 16: Rachael Beaton (Princeton) - "Engineering the Measurement of the Hubble Constant"
April 23: Vivian Miranda (U of Arizona) - "The connected universe: Relating Early, Intermediate and Late Universe with cosmological data"
April 30: Adam Lidz (U. Penn) - "Cosmic Reionization from the Lyman-alpha Forest, 21 cm, and Line-Intensity Mapping"
May 6: Anna Franckowiak (DESY) - "Multi-messenger Astronomy with IceCube Neutrinos"
May 28: Will Percival (Univ of Waterloo) - "Making cosmological measurements with standard rulers and standard shapes"
June 18: Marshall Johnson (OSU Astronomy) - "Constraining the Origins of Hot Jupiters with Spin-Orbit Misalignments"
June 25: Ashley Ross (OSU Physics) - "The Status of Galaxy Redshift Surveys"
Stephen Prohira (OSU Physics) - "The anomalous events detected by ANITA: an overview"
July 2: Ami Choi (OSU Physics) -"Accurate Cosmology with Near-Infrared Detectors"
July 16: Heidi Wu (OSU Physics) and Brian Clark (OSU Physics) - "Probing Cosmic Acceleration with Galaxy Clusters" (Wu) "The Quest for Ultra-High Energy Neutrinos"
July 23: Radek Poleski (OSU Astronomy) and Tim Linden (OSU Physics) - "Microlensing Brown Dwarfs" (Poleski) "Thermal WIMPs on the Brink" (Linden)
July 30: Tuguldur Sukhbold (OSU) and Debopam Som (OSU) - Type II core-collapse supernova progenitors (Sukhbold) "Global properties of circumgalactic medium at high-redshift: A spectroscopic study ofstrong Lyman-a forest absorbers" (Som)
August 6: Danielle Berg (OSU), Dyas Utomo, and Krijn de Vries - "Extreme UV Emission: Clues from Reionization-Era Analogs" (Berg), "Star Formation Efficiency in Nearby Galaxies" (Utomo), "From Cherenkov to Transition radiation" (de Vries)
August 13: Axel Widmark (Stockholm University) and Junichiro Kawamura - "Measuring the local matter density using Gaia DR2" (Widmark) "WIMPs in BSM Models" (Kawamura)
August 20: Johnny Greco (OSU Physics) - "Counting Giants"
2019-2020
Aug 27: Carolyn Raithel (Arizona) - "Constraints on the Neutron Star Equation of State from Gravitational Wave Events"
Sep 3: Annika Peter (OSU) - TBD
Sep 10: Shany Danieli (Yale) - "Diffuse Galaxies As a Probe for Dark Matter"
Sep 17: Subhash Bose/ Todd Thompson (OSU)- TBD
Sep 24: Amy Sardone/ Juri Smirnov (OSU Postdocs) - TBD
Oct 1: Samantha Benincasa (UC Davis) - "The Life and Death of Stellar Nurseries: GMCs and Stellar Clusters in Cosmological Simulations"
Oct 8: Eric Huff (JPL) - Recent progress by Dark Sector staff and postdocs on the use of machine learning methods
Oct 15: Eric Bell (Michigan) - "Islands no more: how do mergers affect galaxies and their satellites?"
Oct 22: Jason Nordhaus (RIT) - "Common Envelope Evolution"
Oct 29: Michael Tremmel (Yale) - "The RomulusC Simulation: Exploring Galaxy Evolution in Clusters at Unprecedented Resolution"
Nov 5: Ivanna Escala (Caltech) - "Chemical Abundances in the Outer Disk, Giant Stellar Stream, and Inner Halo of Andromeda"
Nov 12: Carlos Blanco (Chicago) - "New Constraints on Dark Matter from Organic Targets: What Organic Chemistry Can do for Direct Detection"
Nov 19: Anna Wright (Rutgers) - "Denizens of the Low Surface Brightness Universe"
Dec 3: Alexie Leauthaud (UC Santa Cruz) - "Galaxies and Dark Matter: Cosmology, Correlations, and Conundrums"
Dec 10: Jae Hyeok Chang (Stonybrook) - "Exotic Compact Objects in a Dissipative Dark Sector"
Jan 10: Juliana Stachurska (Berlin) - "Astrophysical Tau Neutrinos in IceCube and a New Measurement of the Neutrino Flavor Composition"
Jan 14: Chad Bustard (Wisconsin) - "Cosmic Ray Transport and the Galaxy Gas Cycle"
Jan 21: Chris Mihos (Case Western) - "Diffuse Light around Galaxies and Galaxy Clusters"
Jan 28: Arnaud De Mattia (Paris) - "The extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: clustering measurements, lessons and prospects"
Feb 4: Miao Li (Flatiron Institute- Simons CCA) - "The Nature and Impact of Supernovae Feedback in Galaxy Formation"
Feb 11: Nir Mandelker (Yale) - "The Multiphase Circum- and Intergalactic Media at the Nexus Between Galaxy Formation and Cosmology"
Feb 18: Yi-Kuan Chiang (OSU) and Anna Porredon (OSU) - "Probing the Cosmic Energy Density Inventory with Tomographic Intensity Mapping" and "Cosmology from the Combination of Clustering and Weak Lensing: Impact of Lensing Sample"
Feb 25: Andrew Pace (Carnegie Mellon) - "Probing Dark Matter with Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies"
March 3: Alexis Plascencia (Case Western) - "Neutrino-Dark Matter Connections in Gauge Theories"
March 17: Florian Beutler (Portsmouth) - "Expanding the BAO science case"
March 24: Vivienne Baldassare (Yale) - TBD
March 31: Jay Strader (Michigan State) - "Compact binaries and the origin of millisecond pulsars"
April 7: Peter Melchior (Princeton) - "Data Fusion for Astronomy and Cosmology"
April 28: Sarah Bridle (Manchester) - (Remote Talk) "Change your diet: the easiest way to help reduce your climate impact"
2020-2021
Jul 30: Teresa Marrodan (Max Planck Inst, Heibelberg) - "Observation of excess electronic recoil events in XENON1T"
Sept 15: Fiorenzo Vincenzo (Physics) "Chemical evolution of the Milky Way discs: providing stronger constraints from observations" and Ashley Ross (Physics) "Cosmology from Redshift Surveys: Results from the completed SDSS IV eBOSS dataset and looking forward to DESI"
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Oct 6: Alexander Stephan (Astronomy) and Jack Elvin-Poole (Physics)
Oct 13: Chun-Hao To (Stanford) "Cosmological " and Kishalay De (Caltech) ""
Oct 20: Rebecca Levy (Maryland) "Probing Feedback from Super Star Clusters in the Central Starburst of NGC253 with ALMA" and Yun-Ting Cheng (Caltech) "Cosmology and Astrophysics with Intensity Mapping"
Oct 27: Samantha Benincasa (Physics) and Yi-Kuan Chiang (Physics)
Nov 17: Curtis McCully (LCO & UCSB) "Type lax Supernovae: Not All White-Dwarf Supernovae are Good for Cosmology" and Vedran Brdar (Fermilab & Northwestern U.) "Beyond the Standard Model Interpretation of recent NANOGrav result"
Dec 1: Omar Contigiani (Leiden) "The boundary of clusters" and Kathryn Neugent (Washington) "The Binary Fraction of Red Supergiants in the Local Group Galaxies"
2021-2022
Sept 7: Emily Griffith (OSU Astronomy) "The Impact of Black Hole Formation on Population Averaged Supernova Yields" & Tharindu Jayasinghe Arachchilage (OSU Astronomy) "The Unicorn: Discovery of a nearby, mass gap black hole candidate"
Sept 14: Sanjana Curtis (U of Virginia) "Core-Collapse Supernovae: From Neutrino-Driven 1D Explosions to Light Curves and Spectra"
Sept 21: Kaeli Hughes (U of Chicago) - Price Prize Talk - "Turning on the radio: the search for Astrophysical Neutrinos with the Askaryan Radio Array"
Sept 28: Hui Kong (OSU Physics) "Image simulation and sample characterization of DESI LRGs" & Grace Olivier (OSU) "Image simulation and sample characterization of DESI LRGs"
Oct 12: Dhruba Dutta Chowdhury (Yale) "Constraining Dark Matter through Gravitational Heating and Cooling Processes"
Oct 19: Marta Reina-Campos (McMaster University) "Tracing the structure of DM haloes using GC populations: insights from the E-MOSAICSsimulations"
Oct 26: Axel Widmark (University of Copenhagen) "Weighing the Galactic disk using phase-space spirals"
Nov 2: Huanqing Chen (Chicago) "Probing the Environment of First Quasars Using Proximity Zone Spectra" & Taylor Hoyt (Chicago) "Resolving Debate Over the Tip of the Red Giant Branch Method's Calibration and its Application to Measuring the Hubble Constant"
Nov 9: Geert Raaijmakers (U of Virginia) "Unraveling neutron star interiors with multimessenger observables" & Boryana Hadzhiyska (Harvard) "Forward modeling in the era of cosmological surveys"
Nov 16: Shivam Pandey (U of Pennsylvania) "Cross-correlation of DES Y3 lensing and ACT/Planck thermal Sunyaev Zel’dovich Effect" and Nicole Sanchez (U of Washington, Seattle) "Connecting Cosmic Gas Flows and Metal Enrichment to Supermassive Black Hole Growth in Galactic Evolution"
Nov 23: Milena Crnogorcevic (U of Maryland) "Axion-like particles and where to find them: Searching for ALPs from core-collapse supernovae with Fermi" & Lachlan Lancaster (Princeton) "Stellar Winds in Turbulent Environments"
Nov 30: Trevor Dorn-Wallenstein (U Washington) "Constraining Core Collapse Scenarios in Massive Stars" & Kartick Sarkar "Non-equilibrium ionization and radiation transport in galactic bubbles and winds"
Dec 7: Erin Kado-Fong (Princeton) - Price Prize Talk - "Structure, Feedback, and Formation: Dwarf galaxies in the Wide-Field Era"
Jan 4: Carles Sanchez (U of Pennsylvania) "Pushing the limits of the Dark Energy Survey: Selecting and characterizing high redshift galaxy samples for optimal CMB lensing cross-correlations" & Cyril Creque-Sarbinowski (Johns Hopkins) "Signatures of Electromagnetic Charge in Cosmology"
Jan 11: Michael Tucker (University of Hawai'i) "How White Dwarfs Explode as Type Ia Supernovae"
Jan 18: Maria Werhahn (Germany) "Simulating galaxy formation with cosmic rays: the multi-frequency view" and Manisha Shrestha "A new polarimetric approach to GRB jets and kilonovae emission in the era of gravitational waves"
Jan 25: Kathryn Neugent and "Red Supergiant Binaries on the Path to Becoming Gravitational Wave Events" Vicky Fawcett (Durham, UK) "How are red and blue quasars different?"
Feb 1: Payel Mukopadhyay & Yueying Ni (Carnegie Mellon) "Supermassive Black Holes in Cosmological Simulations"
Mar 1: Oscar Agertz "The VINTERGATAN project: towards understanding the origins of the Milky Way" (Lund Observatory, Sweden)
Mar 8: Mehdi Rezaie (Kansas State University) "Robust Measurements of the Large-Scale Clustering of Galaxies and Quasars"
Mar 15: Agnès Ferté (JPL) "Testing Cosmology with Weak Lensing Surveys"
Apr 5: Krijn de Vries (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) "Cosmic neutrino sources, from gamma-ray bright to obscured"
Apr 19: Marcos Santander (University of Alabama) "News form the Very-High-Energy Gamma-Ray Sky"
Apr 26: Chelsea Harris (Michigan State) "Understanding the Emerging Class of Type Ia Supernovae with Circumstellar Material"
May 12: Sarah Loebman (University of California, Merced) "Star Clusters on FIRE: Resolving Clustered Star Formation in Cosmological Simulations"
May 24: James Wadsley (McMaster Univ) "Galaxy Formation: Successes, Challenges, and Simulations."
2022-2023
Aug 30: Karla Arellano-Córdova (UT Austin) "The potential synergy between UV+optical spectra across cosmic time"
Sept 6: Volodymyr Takhistov (IPMU) "Marvelous Manifestations of Primordial Black Holes: from Multiverse to Neutron Star Explosions"
Sept 13: Milena Crnogorcevic (University of Maryland) "New Physics through a Multimessenger Lens: an Exploration of the High-energy Universe"
Sept 20: Maddie Lucey (U of Texas) - Price Prize Talk - "Ancient Stars and the Inner Galaxy as tracers of the Milky Way’s Early Evolution"
Sept 27 - Check out CCAPP Fellows Symposium 2022
Oct. 4: Yi Jia (MIT) - "Latest Results from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer"
Oct 11 - Check out the annual Biard Public Lecture
Oct. 18:
Claire Lamman (Harvard) "Fake Redshift-Space Distortions"
Sanaea Rose (UCLA) "Collisions in Galactic Nuclei: Stars, Binaries, and Black Holes"
Oct. 25:
Yuhan Yao (Caltech) "The X-ray Bright Tidal Disruption Event AT2021ehb"
Erez Michaely (UCLA) "Collisional dynamics in the field: Ultra-wide systems as sources for binary exotica"
Nov. 1:
Gabi Sato-Polito (JHU) "New windows into cosmic history"
Justin Myles (Stanford) "Novel Methods to Leverage Spectroscopic Overlap of Imaging Surveys"
Nov. 8:
Akaxia Cruz (University of Washington) "Astrophysical Implications of Self-Interacting Dark Matter"
Shyam Menon (ANU) "The Nature of Stellar Feedback and Star Formation in Dusty Starburst Environments"
Nov. 15:
Navin Sridhar (Columbia University) "Applications of hyper-accreting sources to common envelope mergers, fast radio bursts, and high energy neutrinos"
Rebecca Diesing (University of Chicago) "Understanding the multi-wavelength emission from astrophysical shocks"
Nov 22: Kung-Yi Su (Harvard) "AGN jet across multiple scales"
Nov 29: (no Seminar)
Dec 6: Nihan Pol (Vanderbilt) "The Landscape of nanohertz gravitational wave astronomy"
Dec. 13: Zhilei Xu (MIT) "Precision Cosmology: from CMB to 21cm"
Jan 17: Hans Niederhausen (Michigan State) "High Energy Astrophysics with IceCube: Evidence for neutrino emission from the nearby active galaxy NGC 1068"
Jan 24: Benedikt Diemer (University of Maryland) "A dynamics-based density profile for dark matter halos"
Jan 31: Elias Aydi (Michigan State) "New insight into classical novae"
Feb 7: (no Seminar)
Feb 14: Jakob den Brok (Univ of Bonn / Harvard CfA) "Unraveling the molecular gas conditions across nearby galaxies – new insights from recent large mm line programs"
Feb 21: Zahra Tabrizi (Northwestern) "Beyond the Standard Model with Neutrinos" -- This Seminar was cancelled.
Feb 28: Solene Chabanier (LBNL) "Toward precision cosmology with the Lya forest"
Mar 7: Mathieu Renzo (Flatiron Institute) "Explosive connections between massive binaries and stellar transients"
Mar 14: Antonella Palmese (Carnegie Mellon) "Probing the Universe’s expansion and the origin of compact object binaries with multi-messenger astronomy"
-- This Seminar was cancelled and will be rescheduled
Mar 21: Matthew Digman (Montana State University) "Multi-Messenger Science and LISA Pre-Merger Alerts"
Mar 28: Molly Peeples (Space Telescope Science Institute) "Figuring Out Gas & Galaxies In Enzo"
Apr 4:Boryana Hadzhiyska (LBNL)
-- This Seminar was cancelled and will be rescheduled
Apr 11: Kohta Murase (Pennsylvania State University) "High-Energy Neutrino Astrophysics in the Multimessenger Era"
Apr 18: Andrew Robertson (JPL) "Trying to understand the dark stuff"
Apr 25: Eduardo Rozo (University of Arizona) "A Field-Based Inference Approach to Cosmic Shear"
May 2: Stephen Chen (IAS) "Zeldovich Control Variates: Using the Cumulant Theorem to Save You CPU Hours"
2023-2024
September 12: Lucy Lu (Columbia ): "Rewinding the Milky Way in Time"
September 19: Oliver Philcox (Columbia): "Reflecting the Universe in a Mirror"
September 26: Zahra Tabrizi (Northwestern): "Beyond the Standard Model with Neutrinos"
October 3: Biprateep Dey (UPittsburgh): "Photometric Redshifts for Next Generation of Sky Surveys"
October 13: Dragan Huterer (Michigan): "Evidence for the Suppression of Structure Growth in the Standard Cosmological Model"
October 17: Jason Hinkle (UHonolulu at Manoa): "Messy Eaters: The Feeding Behaviors of Supermassive Black Holes"
October 24: Dhayaa Anbajagane (UChicago): "Exploring the frontiers of the primordial universe using weak lensing surveys"
October 27: Xinyi Chen (Yale) -- "Probing primordial non-Gaussianity by reconstructing the initial conditions with machine learning"
October 31: Steve Sclafini (UWisconsin) -- "Mapping the Milky Way with Neutrinos"
November 7: Jordan Eagle (NASA) -- "Pulsar Wind Nebulae Studies in the Gamma-ray Era with the Fermi-LAT"
November 14: Cuncheng Chen (UChicago) -- "Spatially-resolved CGM dynamics in both non-active and active halos"
December 1: Roohi Dalai (Princeton) -- "New Cosmology Constraints from the Hyper Suprime-Cam Year 3 Data Release"
December 5: Nepomuk Otte (GA Tech) -- "Trinity the PeV Neutrino Observatory"
December 12: Don Dixon (Vanderbilt) -- "Rotationally Driven Ultraviolet Emission of Red Giant Stars II, Metallicity, Binarity and Sub-subgiants"
January 23: Georgios Valogiannis (UChicago) -- "Precise Cosmological Constraints from BOSS Galaxy Clustering using the Wavelet Scattering Transform"
January 30: Catherine Fielder (Arizona) -- "All Puffed Up: Tidal Heating as an Ultra Diffuse Galaxy Formation Pathway"
February 20: Wenzer Qin (MIT) -- "Probing exotic energy injection with the CMB and early star formation"
February 27: Christopher Carr (Columbia)-- "Coupling & Collisions: The Dynamic Lives of Galactic Atmospheres"
March 5: Marco Muzio -- "New probes of ultrahigh energy cosmic ray source evolution"
March 12: Pierre Heidmann (OSU) -- "Topological Stars and Black Holes"
March 19: Joshua Speagle -- "I spy with my (little?) AI: Applications of Statistical Learning in Modern Astrophysics"
March 26: Maria Han Veiga (OSU) -- "Arbitrarily high-order spectral difference method for Euler equations with a posteriori limiting"
April 2: Doug Cowen (PennState)-- "Astrophysical Tau Neutrinos"
April 9: Martin Lemoine (A&C (CNRS - U. Paris-Cité))-- "Turbulent plasmas as high-energy particle accelerators"
April 16: Carolina Cuesto Lazaro (MIT) -- "Big Data Cosmology Meets AI"
April 23: Kayla DeHolton (Penn State)-- "Measuring Atmospheric Neutrino Oscillations with IceCube"
April 30: Jessica Muir (Perimeter) -- "Cosmology beyond ΛCDM with the Dark Energy Survey"
May 7: Moritz Fischer -- "How could we probe the angular dependence of dark matter self-interactions?"
May 10: Keir Rogers -- "A new five-sigma tension between the cosmic microwave background and large-scale structure: twenty years of growing evidence for new physics in the Lyman-alpha forest"
June 25: Molly Wolfson -- "Constraining Reionization with the z > 5 Lyman-α forest"
Special CCAPP Seminars
June 23: Markus Boettcher (North-West University, Potchefstoom, South Africa), "Neutrino Emission from Blazars"
July 5: Shilo Xia (LBNL), "LZ Calibration Systems and First Dark Matter Search Results"
2024-2025
2024-2025
August 27: Abigial Lee (2024 Price Prize Winner): "The J-region Asymptotic Giant Branch (JAGB) method: An Independent Measurement of the Hubble Constant using Carbon Stars as Standard Candles"
September 17: Jiachuan Xu (Arizona): "The Weak Lensing Hat-trick: Constraining Cosmology with Galaxy, CMB, and Kinematic Lensing"
October 1: Hanjue Zhu (2024 Price Prize Winner): "Probing the Frontiers of Reionization: Understanding the Physics of the Intergalactic Medium"
October 8: Hyebin Jeon (UChicago) "Cosmic-ray isotope measurements with HELIX"
October 15: Jingyao Zhu (Columbia): "The HI content and ram pressure stripping in dwarf satellite galaxies"
October 22: Mainak Mukhopadhyay (PennState): "Multi-messenger signatures from magnetar remnants of binary neutron star mergers"
October 29: Rahul Jayaraman (MIT): "Time-Domain Astrophysics with the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite"
November 5: Uendert dos Santos Andrade (UMichigan): "Testing the Consistency of Growth and Expansion with the Dark Energy Survey"
November 12: Erwin Lau (Harvard): "Cosmology and Astrophysics with Multiwavelength Cross-Correlations of Galaxy Clusters and Groups"
November 19: Raphael Errani (CMU): "How micro galaxies could help constrain the properties of dark matter"
January 21: Mohit Bhardwaj (CMU): "Decoding the Mysteries of Fast Radio Bursts: Diverse Origins and Future Prospects"
February 4: Austin Cummings (Penn State): "Hunting High Energy Neutrinos with Balloons"
February 18: Ariane Dekker (UChicago): Cancelled
March 4: Ming-Feng Ho (UMichigan): "Bayesian Modeling of Damped Lyman Alpha Absorber Detection Using Gaussian Processes"
March 11: Spring Break
March 18: Tanvi Karwal (UChicago): "Theoretical approaches to cosmic tensions"
March 25: Yuan Li (UMass): "Turbulence in the intra-cluster medium"
April 1: Siddhartha Gupta (Princeton): "A Nonthermal Journey: Injection, Acceleration, and Back-reaction of Cosmic Rays"
April 8: Noemie Anne Beatrice Globus (IA-UNAM/Stanford) --Zoom-- "The Chiral Puzzle of Life"
April 15: Matthew McQuinn (UWashington): "History of the Intergalactic Medium History"
April 22: Rasmi Hajjar (CSIC - U of Valencia): "On the Cosmoloigcal Constraints on Neutrino Masses"
June 24: Abigail Bishop (UW Madison): "Benefits of Looking for Coincident Events, Taus, and Muons with the Askaryan Radio Array"
2025-2026
2025-2026
September 2: Vedant Chandra (Harvard, 2025 Price Prize Award Winner), "Tales from the Milky Way's Distant Horizon"
September 9: Jennifer Mead (Columbia), "The Chemical Record: Elements of Galactic Memories"
September 23: Ellis Owen (RIKEN), "From Galaxies to Cosmological Structures: The Multi-Scale Influence of Cosmic Rays and their Multi-Messenger Signatures"
September 30: Gokul Srinavasaragavan (U of Maryland, 2025 Price Prize Award Winner), "The Diversity of Massive Stellar Deaths and Relativistic Jets: Unraveling a Cosmic Tandem"
October 7: Canceled
October 21: Helena Richie (U of Pittsburgh), "Dust Survival in Galactic Outflows: Insights from a New Suite of High-Resolution Simulations"
October 28: Ketan Rikame (India), "Probing Compact Objects in the X-ray Sky: Flares and Bursts during X-ray Binary Eclipses, and Polarization in the 8-30 keV Band with the Indian X-ray Polarimeter"
November 4: Alex Krolewski (U of Waterloo), "A New Lens on the Universe’s Expansion and the Growth of Matter Perturbations"
November 18: C. Manea (U of Utah) & M. McKenzie (Carnegie Science Observatories), "High Precision Differential Spectroscopy and Isotopic Abundances in the Era of Big Data"
December 2: Matthew Craigie (NASA JPL), "Discovering New Patterns in Cosmological Data with Interpretable Deep Learning"
December 9: Anna Suliga (NYU), "New Neutrino Interactions and Core-Collapse Supernovae"
December 16 to January 6: Holiday Break
January 13: Jorge Cortes (UC Santa Cruz), "Particle Acceleration from the Intrabinary Shock in “Spider” Pulsars"
January 27: Katelin Schutz (McGill), "Searching for new particles in dense astrophysical media" via Zoom
January 28: Victor See (U of Birmingham), "How does stellar metallicity affect stellar magnetic activity, rotation and exoplanet atmospheres?"
February 3: Carla Fröhlich (NCSU), "Supernovae: From nuclei to photons"
February 10: Alexander Kyriacou (U of Kansas), "Radio Detection of Ultra-High-Energy Neutrinos in Evolving Polar Ice"
February 17: Aditya Vijaykumar (U of Toronto), "Gravitational-wave observations as astrophysical probes"
February 24: Anirudh Chiti (Stanford), "Signatures of the First Stars and Galaxies in the Local Group"
March 3: Avery Tishue (U of Illinois), "Fundamental Physics with kSZ Tomography: Progress and Challenges"
March 10: Stephanie O'Neil (U of Pennsylvania), "Probing Atomic Dark Matter with Stellar Streams"
March 23: Lauren Henderson (U of Notre Dame), "Galactic archeology through the lens of neutron capture nucleosynthesis"
March 24: Roman Gerasimov (U of Notre Dame), "Exploring Unusual Stellar Chemistry with Unconventional Observables"
March 31: Federico Berlfein (Carnegie Mellon), "Weak lensing with the Roman Space Telescope: Challenges and wavelength-dependent systematics"
April 7: Bill Chen (U Michigan), "What stellar streams reveal about star clusters in the earliest galaxies"
April 14: Federica Pompa (LNGS-INFN), "Within the neutrino-fog: CEvNS as precision Standard Model test and new physics probe"
April 21: Sayan Saha (Northeastern), "Mapping Dark Matter from the Stratosphere: A First-of-Its-Kind Weak-Lensing Mission (SuperBIT)"
April 27: Alex Lague (U Pennsylvania), "The Kinematic Sunyaev–Zel’dovich Effect: From Inflation to Baryonic Feedback"
May 20 (Wed): Samuel Lu (UC San Diego), "The non-thermal physics of cosmic rays and magnetic fields in galaxy formation and evolution"