Fall 2023 To see a list of previous semesters’ seminars, please visit our Past Astrophysics Colloquia page. Fall 2023 Schedule Date Title/Topic Speaker Affiliation Sep 25 A Holistic Perspective of Gas-Giant Planet Formation via Atmospheric Characterization, Planet-Star Synergy, and Large Sky Surveys Zhoujian Zhang University of California, Santa Cruz Oct 10 (Tue) The sky and other ghosts: Astro2020, Great Observatories, and the looming lost decades of discovery Grant Tremblay Harvard University Oct 23 The transient mid-infrared sky: Revealing the enshrouded births, deaths and afterlives of stars through cosmic time Kishalay De Massachusetts Institute of Technology Oct 30 How to effectively and meaningfully engage underserved and disproportionately impacted communities in STEM learning Heidi White Université de Montréal Nov 6 Exploring the cosmic puzzles with gravitational lensing and machine learning Bhuvnesh Jain University of Pennsylvania Nov 27 The Local Bubble and the Local Fluff Catherine Zucker Harvard University Dec 11 Planetary Systems around White Dwarfs Siyi Xu National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory
