Fall 2024 Schedule

For Fall 2024, we will be organizing the seminar in hybrid mode every Wednesday from 12pm to 1pm eastern time. The zoom link will be sent via deptartment wide email and the in-person session will be held in KT 501. While the seminar is held in virtual or hybrid mode, we ask our attendees to follow our Guidelines for Virtual Engagement. Below is the current schedule for this semester, with speakers, home institutions, talk titles, and arXiv links if available at this time.

Date Speaker Institution Topic
Aug. 28 Laya Ghodsi (remote) University of British Columbia Multiphase circumgalactic medium of MACS1931-26 BCG
Sept. 4 Chris Carr Columbia University The All-Sky Impact of the LMC on the Milky Way Circumgalactic Medium
Sept. 11 Jonah Gannon (remote) Swinburne University of Technology The Building Evidence that Some Ultra-Diffuse Galaxies are `Failed Galaxies'
Sept. 25 Bingjie Wang Penn State Uncovering Early Galaxy Formation with JWST: A Modeling Perspective
Oct. 2 Rayna Rampalli Dartmouth On Heterogeneity in Stellar Kinematics and Chemistries within the Milky Way
Oct. 9 Chris Hayward CCA Bursty star formation: physical drivers and implications for JWST observations of high-redshift galaxies
Oct. 16 Rodrigo Cordova Rosado Princeton University Black hole growth and connections to dark matter halos: New insights from wide-field cosmological surveys
Oct. 23 Tatsuya Akiba University of Colorado On the Hunt for Rogue Supermassive Black Holes Using Tidal Disruption Events
Oct. 30 Austen Gabrielpillai CUNY Semi-analytic satellites -- Satellite evolution in Milky Way-like environments via a robust CGM co-evolution model
Nov. 6 Ore Gottlieb CCA Bridging Physics and Multi-messenger Observations of Black Hole-Powered Events
Nov. 13 Sal Fu UC Berkeley Detailed Views of the Baryon Cycle of Dwarf Galaxies via Narrowband Imaging
Nov. 20 Joseph Breneman Rutgers University TBA
Dec. 4 Aklant Bhowmick University of Florida TBA

Fall 2024 Organizers: Chloe Neufeld. and Sebastian Monzon.