FCAD Colloquium Spring 2025 Schedule

All talks take place on Thursdays at 4pm in LGRT-1033

6 February | Prof. Tom Maccarone

Professor at Texas Tech University

X-Ray binary systems in globular clusters

13 February | Dr. Edmund Hodges-Kluck

Researcher at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

X-Ray observations of gas in galaxies, XRISM, Athena 

20 February | Prof. Pieter van Dokkum

Sol Goldman Family Professor at Yale University

Galaxy formation and evolution

27 February | Prof. Catherine Espaillat 

Professor at Boston University

Young stars, planet formation, protoplanetary disks

6 March | Dr. Megan Bedell

Research Scientist at CCA

Spectroscopy of Sun-like stars, exoplanets

13 March | Prof. Elisabeth Newton

Assistant Professor at Dartmouth College

Stellar astrophysics, exoplanets

20 March | Spring Break -- no colloquium

27 March | Dr. Viraj Pandya

NASA Hubble Fellow at Columbia University

Galaxy simulations, ISM feedback

3 April | Prof. Desika Narayanan

Associate Professor at the University of Florida

Theoretical models of galaxy evolution, star formation, and the ISM

10 April | Dr. Matthew Petroff

Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Observational cosmology, CMB, BICEP

17 April | Dr. Rebecca Larson

Postdoctoral Research at Rochester Institute of Technology

Epoch of reionization galaxy observations

24 April | Prof. Mateusz Ruszkowski

Professor at the University of Michigan

Black hole and stellar feedback, numerical simulation

1 May | Prof. Stacey Alberts

Associate Research Professor at Steward Observatory, University of Arizona -- starting a new position at STScI in the spring.

Galaxy evolution, cosmic dust, JWST MIRI

8 May | Prof. Megan Reiter

Assistant Professor at Rice University

Exoplanets, stellar feedback