Fall 2024 Seminar Schedule:


Location: Malott 3005
or
via Zoom.
The Fall 2024 seminar schedule is available here.





Spring 2024 Seminar Schedule:


Location: Malott 2055
or
via Zoom.

When Fridays at 1pm Where Malott TBD
Date Speaker Institution Title Confirmed if external
1/19 Sanyukta Agarwal KU Timing analysis of Black holes X-ray binaries using NuSTAR





1/26








2/2


yes




yes
2/9 Tony Renzaglia KU Modeling Ion Transport in the Mars' Crustal Magnetic Fields





2/16 Joseph Hand KU Identifying Potential Technosignatures in APOGEE Data Using ALIAS

Natalie Butterfield NRAO Results from the FIREPLACE survey of the Galactic Center
2/23 Dani Lipman UConn 3-D CMZ: Distinguishing Near vs. Far Distances in the Galactic Center Using Spitzer and
Herschel

Rhys Seeburger MPIA Spectral Disentangling for Large Surveys
3/1 Stephen Schan KU Trajectories Around Blackholes Yes

Katrin Lehle ITA Heidelberg Cool-Core Demographics Unveiled: Insights From TNG-Cluster
3/8 Alex Kyriacou KU Searching for high energy cosmic rays with the Radar Echo Telescope

Meg Davis UConn Reliable Identification of Binary Supermassive Black Holes from Rubin Monitoring
3/15 Spring Break
No Seminar yes
3/22 Nazar Budaiev UF Protostellar cores in Sagittarius B2 yes

Taehwa Yoo UF Core fragmentation into young stellar objects in massive star-forming region W51 yes
3/29 Natalia Guerrero UF Plausibility of Capture into High-Obliquity States for Exoplanets in the M Dwarf Habitable Zone

Mathew Yu UCLA

4/5 Juan Ammerman-Yebra USC On the transition radiation interpretation of anomalous ANITA events yes

Emilio Marfil Universidad Complutense de Madrid Characterization of exoplanetary systems around M dwarfs with CARMENES yes
4/12 Evert Nasedkin MPIA Systematic Characterization of the HR 8799 planets with VLTI/GRAVITY yes

ZJ Zhang UCSC Elemental Abundance of Directly Imaged Exoplanets and Their Host Stars yes
4/19 David Coria KU Tracing Giant Exoplanet Formation: Complementary Host Star Abundances for Sub-Stellar CNO Isotopologue Detections

Caprice Phillips The Ohio State

4/26 Mills Group

yes

Mills Group


Fall 2023 Seminar Schedule:


(TBD)

Fall 2022 Seminar Schedule:


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