Astro/Space Seminar


Astro/Space seminar meets every Friday at 1pm in Malott Hall, room 3005.

Zoom: https://kansas.zoom.us/j/86250149451 (Passcode: 3005)

Fall 2024 Seminar Schedule
DateSpeakerAffiliationTitle
August 30, 2024  Welcome and Introductions
September 7, 2024

 

Stuart Fisher TaylorSETI Institute, Participation WorldscopeUnexpected Peak-Gap-Peak Feature in Distribution of Exoplanets; Messaging ExtraTerrestrials
September 13, 2024Chip KobulnickyU. WyomingExoplanet science at Wyoming: Hot Jupiter Transmission Spectroscopy and Transit Characterization of Planets Around Low-Mass Stars 
September 20, 2024Samuel BellerUniversity of ToledoProbing the Fundamental Properties of Brown Dwarfs in the Era of JWST
 Sebastian LopezOhio State UniversityThe Multiwavelength Properties of Starburst-Driven Outflows
September 27, 2024Andrew Casey-ClydeUniversity of Connecticut/ Yale UniversityMulti-messenger Constraints on Supermassive Black Hole Binaries
 Roxana PopescuUniversity of Massachusetts, AmherstTracing the Total Stellar Mass and Star Formation of Galaxy Protoclusters
October 4, 2024Ismael MirelesUniversity of New MexicoDiscovering New Planets in TESS Warm Jupiter Systems
 Jace RusznakIndiana UniversityConnecting Exoplanets and Brown Dwarfs Through Stellar Obliquity
October 11, 2024Zuzanna KocjanUniversity of MarylandHot gas accretion fuels star formation faster than cold accretion in high redshift galaxies
 Katya LeidigUniversity of MarylandUsing Stellar Halos as a Dark Matter Mass Proxy
October 18, 2024Andrew MizenerUniversity of Massachusetts, AmherstDo User Choices Matter In SED Fitting? Tests of Stellar Population and Dust Extinction Models with the CLUES Sample
 Laurin GrayIndiana UniversityRotations and Radii of Young, Sun-like Stars in NGC 2264
October 25, 2024Joseph HandUniversity of KansasUsing Orbital Geometries to Find Potential Exoplanet-Hosting Binary Star Systems
 Greg TroianiUniversity of KansasCosmic Collisions: Exploring Galaxy Mergers Through JWST
November 1, 2024Serena CroninUniversity of MarylandIonized Gas Measurements of the NGC 253 Superwind with VLT/MUSE
 Matt LastovkaUniversity of MarylandDetecting Exomoons of Wide-Separation Giant Planets using the Roman Space Telescope
November 8, 2024Ren KoontzYale UniversityCold Infalling Streams of Gas Towards YSO
 ChloĆ« BentonCU-BoulderJWST Reveals Bulge-dominated Star-forming Galaxies at Cosmic Noon
November 15, 2024Fraser GillanQueen's University BelfastDust production rates in Jupiter-family Comets: A four-year study with ATLAS photometry
 Joe DeMartiniUniversity of MarylandThe Physical Response of (99942) Apophis to the 2029 Earth Close Encounter
November 22, 2024Aiswarya ArunUniversity of ChileEvolution of Protostellar Outflows: Characterizing the Morphology and Mass Ejection from YSOs with ALMA Band 6
 Ellis BogatUniversity of MarylandDirect-Imaging Exoplanets with the James Webb Space Telescope
December 6, 2024  MARAC