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	Magnetic Effects in the Hottest Known Exoplanets
Feb 13	Dani Lipman	UConn	3D orbital modeling of CMZ via synthesizing multi-wavelength datasets
Feb 20	Asad Ukani	Northwestern/CIERA	Modeling the Molecular Ring Around the Milky Way Supermassive Black Hole
	Elisabeth Mills	KU	Reconciling 3D models for the central 10 parsecs of the Milky Way
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
	Erica Behrens	U. Virginia	Characterizing Stellar Feedback in the NGC 253 Starburst Nucleus
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
	Mills Group	KU	Research overview
Apr 10	Kirkpatrick 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