Astro/Space Seminar

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

Zoom: https://kansas.zoom.us/j/86879646382  (Passcode: 3005)

Spring 2025 Seminar Schedule

 

Date

SpeakerAffiliationTitle
August 22, 2025EveryoneKUDepartment Flash Talks
August 29, 2025Md. Abdullah Al ZamanKUSterna: a python-based observation planning tool for exoplanet science
 Michael ZhangU. ChicagoThe carbon-rich atmosphere of a windy pulsar planet
September 5, 2025Bingqing SunU. MassachusettsThe Role of Spiral Arms in Galaxies
 Allison KirkpatrickKUMEGA Galaxies
September 12, 2025Owen ZafutaUniversity of KansasNRAO REU project
 Dhwani Vani Univeristy of KansasBiosignatures in Stone and Space: Raman Spectroscopy Bridging Geology and Astronomy
September 19, 2025Lucciana Caceres HUniveristy of KansasNOIRLab - Gemini South Observatory Internship 
 Madeline EvensonUniversity of KansasUtilizing JWST data of galaxies z=2.55-3.7 to investigate connections between emission line spectra and morphological properties
September 26, 2025Denvir HigginsUC BerkeleyUnveiling Orbital Dynamics in Cislunar Space: Machine Learning from a Million Simulations
 Drew LapeerUMAss AmherstProbing Hierarchical Star Formation with Emerging Young Star Clusters
October 3, 2025Vince Estrada-CarpenterArizona State UniversityStudying Spatially Resolved Star-Forming Clumps with JWST/NIRISS
 Sara DuvalU ToledoMolecular Hydrogen Excitation in M82 with JWST MIRI MRS
October 10, 2025Yael AlushThe Hebrew UniversityEMRIs in Kerr Spacetime: The Role of Inclination Diffusion
 Jessica RanshawIndiana UniversityTBD
October 17, 2025
Lauren Biddle
University of Texas at Austin 
--> Princeton
Primordial Obliquities of Sun-like Stars and Their Planet-forming Disks
 
October 24, 2025
Michael Radica
UChicago
How to Observe 3D Atmospheres for Impatient Exoplaneteers
 
October 31, 2025Jason PeroUniversity of KansasSimulating Space-Based IFS Exoplanet Spectroscopy
 Maleah RhemUniversity of KansasTBD
November 7. 2025Liza SazonovaUniversity of WaterlooTBD (something about galaxy morphology)
 Greg RudnickUniversity of KansasDisruptions of the baryon cycle in dense galaxy environments
November 14, 2025Katie SheriffUniversity of KansasTBD
 Ashley LieberUniversity of KansasTBD
November 21, 2025Xinyu MaiUniversity of Kansas 
 Utsav SiwakotiUniversity of KansasTBD
November 28, 2025
Thanksgiving Break
 
December 5, 2025Brooke Kimsey-MillerIndiana UniversityTBD
 Yanzhe (Jenny) ZhangUMass AmherstTBD

Past Semesters