CfA Colloquium Schedule

Click on the speaker's name for her/his website, on the title to view the abstract, and on "Video" to see a video of the talk. For future talks, contact the host to arrange a meeting with the speaker.

Date Speaker Title Host Contact
01/28/2021 Prof. Heather Knutson
Caltech
Exploring the Mysterious Origins of Super-Earths and Mini-Neptunes

David Charbonneau
02/04/2021 Prof. Joss Bland-Hawthorn
University of Sydney
Galactic seismology: the evolution of bending waves and density waves after the Sagittarius impact

Ana Bonaca
02/11/2021 Dr. Rebecca Charbonneau, Dr. Emily Margolis
Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian
Observing the Past: Practical Applications of the History of Astronomy

Daina Bouquin
02/18/2021 Prof. Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard
Stellar Astrophysics Centre, Aarhus University
Probing Red Giants with Kepler

Dimitar Sasselov
02/25/2021 Dr. Andra Stroe
Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian
Shocking tales of structure formation: Evolving galaxies and black holes in evolving environments

Clay Fellowship Lecture

Charles Alcock
03/04/2021 Prof. Naoki Yoshida
University of Tokyo
Cosmic Relic Neutrinos and Large-Scale Structure: Nonlinear Clustering and the Neutrino Mass

Sownak Bose
03/11/2021 Katherine Freese
University of Texas
Dark Matter in the Universe

Fabio Pacucci
03/18/2021 Prof. Andrea Ghez
UCLA
Our Galactic Center: A Unique Laboratory for the Physics & Astrophysics of Black Holes

Charles Alcock
03/25/2021 Professor Reva Kay Williams
University of Toledo
Extracting X-Rays, Gamma-Rays, and Relativistic Electron-Positron (e-e+) Pairs from the Ergosphere of Rotating Black Holes Using the Penrose Mechanism

Ramesh Narayan
04/01/2021 Prof. Elena Gallo
University of Michigan
A census of the black hole population in nearby low mass galaxies

Fabio Pacucci
04/08/2021 TBA
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04/22/2021 TBA
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04/29/2021 TBA
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05/06/2021 TBA
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05/13/2021 TBA
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05/20/2021 TBA
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