Colloquia: Spring / Summer 2019

All colloquia are held at 11:45 am HST unless otherwise noted.

Information for speakers.

The IfA Colloquia are kindly sponsored by the Friends of the IfA.

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NOTE: colloquia with dates in red are not at the regular times; dates in blue indicate talks broadcast from Hilo; speaker names in red are associated with IfA / P&A faculty search, names in blue are associated with the Hilo faculty search

See Below or Click Here for the related talks @ Physics & Astronomy
See Further Below or Click Here for the related Hilo position seminars
DATE	SPEAKER	INSTITUTE	TITLE	HOST
Wed Jan 16 11:45am	Chung-Pei Ma	Berkeley	Massive Elliptical Galaxies and Their Central Black Holes	B. Tully
Thu Jan 17 1:00pm	Cesar Esteban	Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias	Improving the determination of Galactic abundance gradients with very deep spectra of HII regions	F. Bresolin
Tue Jan 22 11:45am	Greg Chun	UH Mānoa	Maunakea kuahiwi ku ha`o i ka mālie: Maunakea: The astonishing mountain standing in the calm Moving forward by moving center	R. Gal
Wed Jan 23 11:45am	Decker French	Carnegie Obs	Bold Nuclei in Old Galaxies	B. Tully
Fri Jan 25 11:45am	Wai Ling (Kimmy) Wu	KICP Chicago	Stress-testing LCDM and Searching for New Physics using CMB observations	B. Tully
Mon Jan 28 11:45am	Eric Baxter	U Penn	Halos big and small: studying the halos of galaxy clusters and planetary systems with a combination of CMB and galaxy surveys	B. Tully
Fri Feb 01 11:45am	Paul Duffell	CfA	Everything from Planet Migration to relativistic jet-driven supernovae	B. Tully
Mon Feb 04 11:45am	Coral Wheeler	Caltech	Be it therefore resolved: cosmological simulations of dwarf galaxies with extreme resolution	B. Tully
Fri Feb 08 11:45am	Timothy Linden	Ohio State	Evidence for a New Component of Solar Gamma-Ray Emission	B. Tully
Mon Feb 11 11:45am	Alvise Raccanelli	CERN	Pushing the boundaries of the cosmological model with large-scale surveys	B. Tully
Fri Feb 15 11:45am	Jeremy Sakstein	U Penn	Testing Gravity with Astrophysics	B. Tully
Tue Feb 19 11:45am	Trent Dupuy	Gemini	How Dynamical Systems Can Reveal the Origins of Planets Large and Small	B. Tully
Wed Feb 20 11:45am	Jabran Zahid	CfA	Coevolution Revolution	B. Tully
Thu Feb 21 11:45am	Carlos Badenes	U. Pitt.	Finding the double sunsets: short-period binaries in large spectroscopic surveys	B. Shappee
Fri Feb 22 11:45am	Daniel Gruen	Stanford	Understanding cosmology and the evolution of structure are not two different endeavors	B. Tully
Mon Feb 25 11:45am	Michael Bottom	JPL	New directions in direct imaging of exoplanets	D. Hall
Wed Feb 27 11:45am	Carey Lisse	JHU-APL	First Results From the NASA New Horizons Mission Flyby of KBO Ultima Thule	N. Haghighipour
Thu Feb 28 11:45am	Christian Schwab	Macquarie U.	New Frontiers in Exoplanet Science with the NEID and HPF Spectrographs	P. Martin
Mon Mar 04 11:45am	Sagi Ben-Ami	SAO	Searching for Earth 2.0 -- a practical approach	M. Chun
Wed Mar 06 11:45am	Maxwell Millar-Blanchaer	JPL	Characterization of Directly Imaged Planets in Polarized Light	C. Baranec
Tue Mar 12 11:45am	Meg Urry	Yale	New Insights into the Cosmic Growth of Supermassive Black Holes	D. Sanders
Wed Mar 13 11:45am	Evan Kirby	Caltech	Nucleosynthesis in Degenerate Objects	D. Huber
Wed Mar 27 11:45am	Jeffery Bennett		The Race Between Education and Catastrophe	R. Gal
Wed Apr 03 11:45am	James Kirk	SAO/CfA	The LRG-BEASTS transmission spectroscopy survey: WASP-39b	E. Magnier
Wed Apr 10 11:45am	Patrick Dufour	Montreal	Why you should care about white dwarf stars	E. Magnier
Wed May 08 11:45am	Priya Natarajan	Yale	Tracing the Origin of the First Black Holes in the Universe	R. Gal
Thu May 09 11:45am	Andrew Baker	Rutgers	Dusty Star-Forming Galaxies at High Redshift	R. Gal
Tue Jun 04 11:45am	Aparna Bhattacharya	UMCP	Microlensing Finds Cool Exoplanets	M. Liu
Wed Aug 07 11:45am	Jorge Moreno Soto	Pomona College	The evolution of the interstellar medium in merging galaxies	D. Sanders

Related Talks @ Physics & Astronomy (Watanabe Hall #112 or #420, see below)
DATE	SPEAKER	INSTITUTE	TITLE	HOST
Tue Jan 22 3:00pm WAT 420	Decker French	Carnegie Obs	New Connections between Supermassive Black Holes and their Host Galaxies
Thu Jan 24 3:30pm WAT 112	Wai Ling (Kimmy) Wu	KICP Chicago	Testing inflation with the BICEP/Keck Array and South Pole Telescope
Tue Jan 29 3:00pm WAT 420	Eric Baxter	U Penn	Cosmology with CMB lensing correlations
Thu Jan 31 3:30pm WAT 112	Paul Duffell	CfA	Moving Mesh Astrophysics
Tue Feb 05 3:00pm WAT 420	Coral Wheeler	Caltech	Sweating the small stuff: dwarf galaxies as a testbed for fundamental physics and cosmology
Thu Feb 07 3:30pm WAT 112	Timothy Linden	Ohio State	Using Neutron Stars to Probe Fundamental Physics
Tue Feb 12 3:00pm WAT 420	Alvise Raccanelli	CERN	Fundamental physics with multi-messenger cosmology
Thu Feb 14 3:30pm WAT 112	Jeremy Sakstein	U Penn	New Frontiers in Fundamental Physics
Tue Feb 19 3:00pm WAT 420	Jabran Zahid	CfA	Shining a Light on Dark Matter
Thu Feb 21 3:30pm WAT 112	Daniel Gruen	Stanford	Testing cosmology with weak lensing beyond the power spectrum

Hilo Position Seminars : Dates in red indicate speakers in Manoa; blue indicate speakers in Hilo
DATE	SPEAKER	INSTITUTE	TITLE	HOST
Wed Feb 20 2:00pm	Trent Dupuy	Gemini	Extending Stellar Astrophysics to Planetary Masses	M. Chun
Tue Feb 26 2:00pm	Michael Bottom	JPL	Imaging other Earths with secondhand spy satellites and starshades	C. Baranec
Fri Mar 01 2:00pm	Christian Schwab	Macquarie U.	Laser-locked Etalons as wavelength calibrators for extreme precision Doppler spectroscopy	E. Hu
Tue Mar 05 2:00pm	Sagi Ben-Ami	SAO	Novel Instruments for Transient Spectroscopy	M. Liu
Thu Mar 07 2:00pm	Maxwell Millar-Blanchaer	JPL	Debris disks in Polarized Light with the Gemini Planet Imager	M. Liu