Astro/Space Seminar

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

Spring 2026 Seminar Schedule
Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
Jan 23	KU outreach planning meeting
Jan 30	Md. Abdullah Al Zaman	KU	Toward Refined Eta Earth Constraints

Feb 6	Hayley Beltz	KU	TBD
Feb 13	Dani Lipman	UConn	TBD

Feb 20	Elisabeth Mills	KU	Nearby Galaxy centers
	Asad Ukani	Northwestern/CIERA	Modeling the Molecular Ring Around the Milky Way Supermassive Black Hole
Feb 27	Savannah Gramze	U. Florida	Variation in the Dust-to-Ice Ratio in CMZ Clouds

Mar 6	Serena Cronin	Maryland	PAHs in the M82 Galactic Wind

Mar 13	Grant Donnelly	University of Toledo	TBD
	Edgar Vidal	Tufts U.	Modeling the JWST Number Counts
Mar 20	No talk: Spring Break
Mar 27	Utsav Siwakoti	KU	TBD
	Katie Sheriff	KU	TBD
Apr 3	Leonardo Clarke	UCLA	TBD

Apr 10	Mills Group	KU	Research overview
Apr 17	Chris Cappiello	WashU	Can a Dark Inferno Melt Earth's Core?
	Ekrem Esmer	WashU	Characterizing the Multiplanetary System TOI-1233
Apr 24	Vicki Kuhn	University of Missouri, Columbia	TBD
	Gourab Nandi	University of Missouri, Columbia	Size evolution of galaxies to z=4
May 1	Rudnick Group	KU	Research Overview
May 8	SpaceFest 2026 https://physics.ku.edu/spacefest2026

Past Semesters