Astro/Space Seminar


Astro/Space seminar meets every Friday at 1pm in Malott Hall, room 3005.
Zoom: https://kansas.zoom.us/s/83033748721 (Passcode: 3005)

Spring 2025 Seminar Schedule
DateSpeakerAffiliationTitle
January 24, 2025  Spring Semester Outreach Planning Meeting

January 31, 2025

 

EveryoneKUDepartment Flash Talks
February 7, 2025Rachel FreemanUniversity of FloridaInvestigating the Antarctic ice sheets and its 
consequences for HEP physics
February 14, 2025Alexander Stone-MartinezNew Mexico State UniversityStellar Age estimation using normalizing flows
 Everett McArthurOSUTBD
February 21, 2025Adriana DropulicPrinceton TBD
 Brenda JonesUniversity of MaineConstraining Redshift Evolution of the M_BH-M* 
Relationship out to z~7
February 28, 2025Bren BackhausKUEmission-Line Diagnostics at z>4: Auroral [OIII]
 Olivia CooperUT AustinResolving the evolution of dust-obscured galaxies 
with JWST + ALMA
March 7, 2025Emily MoravecGreen Bank ObservatoryA Cosmic Tango: Radio Galaxies Dance to Galaxy 
Cluster Tunes
 Mindy TownsendSiena CollegeBuilding Community Through Public Astronomy 
March 14, 2025Nissia IndradjajaSan Diego State UniversityTBD
 Samantha BerekUniversity of TorontoTBD
March 28, 2025Adam DongGreen Bank Observatory/NRAO/CHIMEWith Great Telescope Power Comes Great Pulsar 
Research Responsibility - with CHIME
 Dooseok JungUMass AmherstTBD
April 4, 2025Kai SmithKUIdentifying Complex Molecular Species in Clouds 
of the Central Molecular Zone 
 Andrew PittsSan Diego State UniversityTBD
April 11, 2025Jacob TurnerGreen Bank ObservatoryPulsar Cyclic Spectroscopy as a Probe of the 
Interstellar Medium
 Jingyao ZhuColumbia UniversityTBD
April 18. 2025Maleah RhemKUTBD
 Joseph HandKUTBD
April 25, 2025Gaurab SedhainKUBeyond the thin wall approximation: False Vacuum 
Decay
 Kurt HamblinKUTBD
May 2, 2025ChloĆ« BentonUniversity of Colorado, BoulderJWST Reveals Bulge-dominated Star-forming 
Galaxies at Cosmic Noon
 Raga PuchaUniversity of UtahTBD

Past Semesters