Pengcheng Dai
Rice University
Wednesday, December 6, 2024
11:00 a.m.
In-person: QNC 1101
Jungseek Hwang
Sungkyunkwan University
Wednesday, January 15, 2025
2:00 p.m.
In-person: QNC 1201
Sergio de la Barrera
University of Toronto
Wednesday, January 29, 2025
2:00 p.m.
In-person: QNC 1201
Astronomers have discovered thousands of planets orbiting other stars, opening a new chapter in our understanding of the Universe and our place in it. In this month’s KPL astronomy talk, Dr. Michael Balogh will discuss how scientists find and study these distant worlds, and how upcoming technology will help us search for life beyond our solar system.
Jedediah Pixley
Rutgers University
Wednesday, February 26, 2025
2:00 p.m.
In-person: QNC 1201
Igor Mazin
George Mason University
Wednesday, April 16, 2025
2:00 p.m.
In-person: QNC 1201
Liuyan Zhao
University of Michigan
Wednesday, April 23, 2025
2:00 p.m.
In-person: QNC 1201
Astrophysics deals with structures of incredible sizes and scales. But what are the biggest things out there, and how big can something actually get? In this month’s KPL astronomy talk, Roan Haggar will speak about galaxy clusters, the largest objects in our Universe that are held together by gravity, discussing what clusters are made from and what we can learn by studying them.
Chisa Hotta
University of Tokyo
Friday, May 23, 2025
10:30 a.m.
In-person: QNC 1201
In this month’s KPL astronomy talk, Lammim Ahad will discuss some of the important work done by women who contributed significantly to astronomy and astrophysics, but whose contributions were often underappreciated or unrecognized at the time.