Faculty Research Talks

Sept 5
Paul Hayne - “Searching for Ice on the Moon”
Nick Schneider - "MAVEN/IUVS: Things we didn’t expect to see at Mars"

Sept 12
Brian Fleming - “Small Sats for Big Sci”
Jason Dexter - "Resolving Black Holes"

Sept 19
Kevin France - "Protoplanetary Disks, Exoplanetary Atmospheres, and Space Instrumentation"
Jeff Linsky - "The very different spectral energy distributions of late-M stars compared to Solar-type stars and effects on exoplanet atmospheres"

Sept 26
Juri Toomre - "Building the differential rotation and magnetism of our nearest star"
Serena Criscuoli - "Solar and stellar atmospheres: bridging theory and observations"

Oct 3
Mike Chaffin - "An unconventional channel for Martian water loss: modeling hot H escape today and throughout time"
Meredith MacGregor - "Exploring Planet Formation and Habitability"

Oct 10

Maria Kazachenko - "The Golden Age of Solar Astrophysics"

Oct 17
Ben Brown - "The Dedalus Project: Open Science Approaches to Problems in Stellar and Planetary Fluid Dynamics"
 

Oct 24
John Bally - "Protostar collisions and infrared transients"
Kevin Reardon - "New Views of the Dynamic Solar Chromosphere"

Oct 31

John Keller - "Citizen Science Research through TNO Occultations and Astronomy Education Research"

Nov 7

Jeremy Darling - "Cosmology, Black Holes, Masers, and Molecules"

Nov 14
Steve Cranmer - "Turbulent Origins of Solar and Stellar Winds"
Dave Brain - “Do Habitable Worlds Require Magnetic Fields?”

Nov 21
Nils Halverson - “Next-generation Cosmic Microwave Background experiments from the ground and space”

Dec 5
Larry Esposito - "Predator-Prey Models to Explain Saturn Ring Textures"
Zach Berta-Thompson - “Exoplanets as Laboratories for Planetary Processes”

September 6
1 - Nick Schneider, "MAVEN/IUVS: Things we didn’t expect to see at Mars"
2 - Eliot Young, "Pluto's Coupled Surface and Atmosphere from New Horizons Maps and Stellar Occultation Lightcurves"

September 13
1 - Paul Hayne, "Dark Sides of the Moons"
2 - Jack Burns, "Dark Matter in the Dark Ages"

September 20
1 - Mitch Begelman, "Accretion Disks, Elevated"
2 - Bob Ergun, "Space and Astrophysical Plasma Research: Magnetic Reconnection, Turbulence, and Particle Acceleration"

September 27
1 - Juri Toomre, "Joys of Stellar Convection and Dynamos"
2 - Brad Hindman, "Rotational Influence on Stellar Convection"

October 4
1 - John Keller, "Citizen Science & Astronomy Ediucation Research"
2 - Julie Comerford, "Supermassive Black Holes"

October 11
1 - Kevin France, "Protoplanetary Disks, Exoplanetary Atmospheres, and Space Instrumentation"
2 - Jason Glenn, "The Galaxy Evolution Probe:  A Time Machine to Map the History of Star Formation"

October 18
1 - Brian Fleming, "The hunt for the sources of re-ionization"
2 - Sebastian Pineda, "Far Ultraviolet M-dwarf Evolution Survey: the High-Energy Emission of Young Active M-dwarfs"

October 25
1 - Steve Cranmer, "Turbulent Origins of Solar and Stellar Winds"
2 - Doug Duncan, "Technology & Teaching"

November 1
1 - Larry Esposito, "Predator-Prey Ring Dynamics"
2 - Nils Halverson, "Searching for Evidence of Inflation with the LiteBIRD Cosmic Microwave Background Satellite Mission"

November 8
1 - Adam Kowalski, "A 7-Day Multi-Wavelength Flare Campaign on AU Mic"
2 - John Bally, "Star Formation from Orion to the Galactic Center"

November 15
1 - Ann-Marie Madigan, "The Importance of Being Eccentric"
2 - Andrew Hamilton, "Extreme Physics Inside Black Holes"

November 22
No talk; fall break

November 29
1 - Maria Kazachenko, "Solar Eruptive Events: Causes and Consequences"
2 - Ben Brown, "Stellar Dynamos in the Modern Age: Global Modeling Informed by Studies of Fundamental Fluid Dynamics"

December 6
1 - Zach Berta-Thompson, "Exoplanets with TESS and Beyond"
2 - Kevin Reardon, "The Curious Case of the Solar Chromosphere"