2025-2026 Seminar Series

Please join us each Tuesday at 12:00 pm for the weekly CCAPP Seminar given by local and non-local scholars in the fields of cosmology and astrophysics.  Seminars are held in person with Zoom access.  Please email the seminar coordinators for the password.

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"

Upcoming seminars

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 10: Stephanie O'Neil (U of Pennsylvania)

March 24: Roman Gerasimov (U of Notre Dame)

March 31: Federico Berlfein (Carnegie Mellon)