Archive
Astronomy Open Night has been run since 1973. Here is the list of speakers and talks from 1993 onward.
Fall 1993
Sep 3, 1993 | Prof. Dan Davis | Why is there no San Andreas Fault on Venus? |
Oct 1, 1993 | Prof. Amos Yahil | Unraveling the Secrets of the Universe by Observing Millions of Galaxies |
Nov 5, 1993 | Prof. Fred Walter | The Dawn of a New Era in Astronomy: Scientific Results from the First Three Years of the Hubble Space Telescope |
Dec 3, 1993 | Prof. Michal Simon | Most Stars are born as Twins |
Spring 1994
Feb 4, 1994 | Prof. Jack Lissauer | Rings of the Giant Planets |
Mar 4, 1994 | Prof. Kenneth Lanzetta | New Light on Dark Matter |
Apr 1, 1994 | Prof. Philip Solomon | The Infrared Universe |
May 6, 1994 | Prof. James Lattimer | Supernovae and Neutron Stars |
Fall 1994
Sep 2, 1994 | Prof. Michal Simon | Big New Telescopes: The Gemini Project |
Oct 7, 1994 | Prof. James Lattimer | Impacts in the Solar System: Can We Do Anything |
Nov 5, 1994 | Prof. Ken Lanzetta | Matter Between the Galaxies |
Dec 2, 1994 | Prof. Fred Walter | Cataclysmic Variables: Stars That Go Bump in the Night |
Spring 1995
Feb 3, 1995 | Prof. Deane Peterson | Large Interferometry Arrays: A Revolution Coming in Optical Astronomy |
Mar 3, 1995 | Prof. Philip Solomon | The Age of the Universe |
Apr 7, 1995 | Prof. Amos Yahil | The Information Content of Astronomical Data |
May 5, 1995 | Astronomy Faculty | A Special Program to Commemorate 20 Years of Astronomy Open Nights |
Fall 1995
Sep 8, 1995 | Prof. Michal Simon | Planet Formation in the Binary Star Environment |
Oct 6, 1995 | Prof. Kenneth Lanzetta | Quasar Absorption Lines: Probing Distant Galaxies |
Nov 3, 1995 | Prof. Jack Lissauer | The Galileo Mission to Jupiter |
Dec 1, 1995 | Prof. Philip Solomon | Galaxies in the Distant Universe: How and Why Galaxies Form |
Spring 1996
Feb 2, 1996 | Prof. Philip Solomon | Radio Astronomy and the Ozone Layer |
Mar 1, 1996 | Prof. Amos Yahil | Gravitational Lenses |
Apr 5, 1996 | Prof. James Lattimer | The Search for Planets Around Other Stars: The Difficulties and Rewards |
May 3, 1996 | Prof. Deane Peterson | The Search for Planets Around Other Stars: NASA's Grand New Odyssey |
Fall 1996
Sep 6, 1996 | Prof. James Lattimer | Life on Mars: The Story in the Rocks |
Oct 4, 1996 | Prof. Michal Simon | The Gemini Telescopes: Giants Stirring |
Nov 1, 1996 | Prof. Kenneth Lanzetta | A Glimpse of the Edge of the Universe |
Dec 6, 1996 | Prof. Frederick Walter | Discovery of a Nearby Neutron Star |
Spring 1997
Feb 7, 1997 | Prof. Martin Schoonen | New Thinking on the Origin of Life |
Mar 7, 1997 | Prof. Daniel Davis | Galileo at Jupiter's Moons: Seeing Signs of Stress |
Mar 29, 1997 | Prof. Deane Peterson | SPECIAL LECTURE: HALE-BOPP: The Great Comet of 1997 |
Apr 4, 1997 | Prof. James Neff | Advances in Satellite Studies of the Sun and Imaging of Solar Type Stars |
May 2, 1997 | Prof. Amos Yahil | Will the Cosmic Background Radiation Unravel the Remaining Secrets of Creation? |
Fall 1997
Sep 5, 1997 | Prof. Daniel Davis | Galileo at Jupiter's Moons: Seeing Signs of Stress |
Oct 3, 1997 | Prof. Michal Simon | The Clustering of Young Stars |
Nov 7, 1997 | Prof. James Lattimer | When Neutron Stars Collide |
Dec 5, 1997 | Prof. Kenneth Lanzetta | The Hubble Space Telescope 'Deep Field Image' |
Spring 1998
Feb 6, 1998 | Prof. Fred Walter | The Science in Science Fiction |
Mar 6, 1998 | Prof. Chang Kee Jung | We See Stars Underground |
Apr 3, 1998 | Prof. Gerald Brown | Supernova Explosions, Black Holes and Nucleon Stars |
May 1, 1998 | Prof. Philip Solomon | Radioastronomy: From Black Holes to Star Formation |
Fall 1998
Sep 4, 1998 | Prof. Dan Davis | Things That go Bump in the Crust: How the Sun's Planets Compare |
Oct 2, 1998 | Prof. Jim Lattimer | The New Planets |
Nov 6, 1998 | Prof. Fred Walter | The Science in Science Fiction: Part II |
Dec 4, 1998 | Prof. Ralph Wijers | Gamma Ray Bursts: Mother Nature's Biggest Firecrackers |
Spring 1999
Feb 5, 1999 | Prof. Deane Peterson | Our Changing Views on the Milky Way: It's Not What It Used to Be |
Mar 5, 1999 | Prof. Ken Lanzetta | The Hubble `Deep Field' Goes South—and Records are Broken Again |
Apr 9, 1999 | Prof. Philip Solomon | Galaxies in Collision: Tails, Bridges and Mergers in the Early Universe |
May 7, 1999 | Prof. Miriam Forman | Alien Atoms In the Solar System |
Fall 1999
Sep 3, 1999 | Prof. F. Douglas Swesty | Cosmic Crashes: How Colliding Neutron Stars Teach Us About Einstein's Theory of Relativity |
Oct 1, 1999 | Prof. Michal Simon | The Transits of Mercury |
Nov 5, 1999 | Prof. Fred Walter | Chandra, XMM and X-ray Astronomy Comes of Age |
Dec 3, 1999 | Prof. Ralph Wijers | Tick-tick-tick in the Sky: Neutron Stars as Precision Clocks |
Spring 2000
Feb 4, 2000 | Prof. Kenneth Lanzetta | Giant Eyes: The Next Generation of Very Large Telescopes |
Mar 3, 2000 | Prof. Aaron Evans | Giant Black Holes at the Hearts of Galaxies |
Apr 7, 2000 | Prof. James Lattimer | The Sun, Stars and Jello: New Results from Asteroseismology |
May 5, 2000 | Prof. Chang Kee Jung | Nature's Rare Optical Displays: Rainbows, Sundogs, Green Flashes, Heiligenschein and more... |
June 16, 2000 | Prof. Carolyn Porco, University of Arizona | Special Lecture: Exploration of the Outer Solar System |
Fall 2000
Sep 1, 2000 | Prof. F. Douglas Swesty | The Latest News on Black Holes and Gravitational Lenses |
Oct 6, 2000 | Prof. Ralph Wijers | A Ruckus from the Cradle: Gamma-Ray Bursts in Stellar Nurseries |
Nov 3, 2000 | Prof. Philip Solomon | SIRTF: NASA's `Great Observatory' for the Infrared |
Dec 1, 2000 | Prof. Frederick Walter | AB Doradus: A Sun in the Era of Planet Formation? |
Spring 2001
Feb 2, 2001 | Dr. Dara Norman | Dark Matter and Gravitational Lensing: Finding the Unseen |
Mar 2, 2001 | Prof. James Lattimer | Is Advanced Life Common in the Universe? |
Apr 6, 2001 | Prof. Michal Simon | Extrasolar Planets |
May 4, 2001 | Prof. Aaron S. Evans | Quasars and Their Environments |
Fall 2001
Sep 7, 2001 | Prof. J. Lattimer | Can we measure the radius of a neutron star, and if we can, so what? |
Oct 5, 2001 | Prof. Philip Solomon | Extreme Starbursts in Galaxies |
Nov 2, 2001 | Prof. Kenneth Lanzetta | Cosmology from Distant Supernovae: Is the Expansion of the Universe Accelerating?" |
Dec 7, 2001 | Prof. Frederick Walter | Astronomy and Astrology: The Influence of Stars in our Lives |
Spring 2002
Feb 1, 2002 | Prof. F. Douglas Swesty | Explosions in the Sky: Understanding Supernovae |
Mar 1, 2002 | Prof. Deane Peterson | Measuring Distances in Astronomy: It's Harder Than You Think |
Apr 5, 2002 | Prof. Michal Simon | Weighing the Young Stars |
May 3, 2002 | Prof. Aaron S. Evans | Kuiper Belt Objects: Remnants of The Early Solar System |
Fall 2002
Sep 6, 2002 | Prof. Kenneth Lanzetta | Observing the Most Distant Gas in the Universe |
Oct 4, 2002 | Prof. J. Lattimer | Globular Clusters: Cosmic Singles Bars |
Nov 1, 2002 | Prof. P. Hickson | Very-Large Optical Telescopes |
Dec 6, 2002 | Prof. Philip Solomon | Recent Changes in the Ozone Layer |
Spring 2003
Feb 7, 2003 | SNOW Cancellation | |
Mar 7, 2003 | Prof. F. Douglas Swesty | White Dwarves: Out With A Dramatic Whimper |
Apr 4, 2003 | Prof. Michal Simon | The Next Big Hit |
May 2, 2003 | Dr. Hsien Shang | The Solar System: How It All Began |
Fall 2003
Sep 5, 2003 | Prof. Jim Lattimer | 30 Years of Neutron Star Mergers |
Oct 3, 2003 | Prof. Fred Walter | 30 Years Since UHURU: X-Ray Astronomy Comes of Age |
Oct 31, 2003 | Prof. Aaron Evans | The Evolution of Bright Infrared Galaxies |
Dec 5, 2003 | SNOW CANCELLATION: Lecture Postponed to Next Semester |
Spring 2004
Feb 6, 2004 | Dr. Sharada Iyer Dutta | Since 1930 - Celebrating the Neutrino from Physics to Astrophysics |
Mar 5, 2004 | Prof. Michal Simon | The Next Transit of Venus |
Apr 2, 2004 | Prof. Kenneth Lanzetta | The Ultra Deep Field: Hubble's Look at the Outer Fringes |
May 7, 2004 | Prof. Douglas Swesty | Measuring the Universe With Thermonuclear Supernovae |
Fall 2004
Sep 3, 2004 | Prof James Lattimer | What is a Neutron Star Made Of? |
Oct 1, 2004 | Dr Carolyn Porco | SPECIAL LECTURE (5pm): In Orbit! The Voyage of Cassini to Saturn |
Oct 1, 2004 | Prof Frederick Walter | SMARTS: Big Science with Small Telescopes |
Oct 29, 2004 | Prof Philip Solomon | The Spitzer Telescope: A New Look at the Infrared Universe |
Dec 4, 2004 | Prof Aaron Evans | A Near-Infrared View of Galaxies with the 2 Micron All Sky Survey |
Spring 2005
Feb 4, 2005 | Prof F. Douglas Swesty | GRB 03039 and the Connection Between Gamma-Ray Bursts and Supernovae |
Mar 4, 2005 | Prof Michal Simon | Exoplanets |
Apr 8, 2005 | Prof Deane Peterson | Cassini at Saturn |
May 6, 2005 | Dr Eric Myra | Numerical Telescopes: Exploring the Frontiers of Astrophysics and Advanced Computing |
Fall 2005
Sep 2, 2005 | Prof F. Douglas Swesty | The Evolution of Elements in the Galaxy |
Sep 30, 2005 | Prof James Lattimer | Supernova Memories |
Oct 28, 2005 | Prof Aaron Evans | Deep Impact |
Dec 2, 2005 | Prof Frederick Walter | A Little Knowledge Is a Dangerous Thing |
Spring 2006
Feb 3, 2006 | Prof Michal Simon | Brown Dwarfs - Failed Stars or Overgrown Planets? |
Mar 3, 2006 | Dr. Kenneth DeNisco | Cassini: Another Year at Saturn |
Mar 31, 2006 | Prof Kenneth Lanzetta | Dark Energy, Dark Matter |
May 5, 2006 | Prof Michael Zingale | Understanding Type Ia Supernovae |
Fall 2006
Sep 1, 2006 | Prof James Lattimer | Asteroids Can Be Painful |
Oct 6, 2006 | Prof Kenneth Lanzetta | The New Age of Precision Cosmology |
Nov 3, 2006 | Prof Anand Sivaramakrishnan | Hunting for Planets Outside the Solar System |
Dec 1, 2006 | Prof Frederick Walter | Thermonuclear Bombs in Space: The Novae |
Spring 2007
Feb 2, 2007 | Dr. Kathleen Flint | Astronomy from the South Pole |
Mar 2, 2007 | Prof. Aaron Evans | Transiting Planets |
Mar 30, 2007 | Dr. James Pizagno | Dark Matter and Stellar Mass in the Universe |
May 4, 2007 | Prof. Michael Zingale | Do You Really Know Your Own Sun? |
Fall 2007
Sep 7, 2007 | Prof. Jim Lattimer | The Top of Astronomy: Pulsars |
Oct 5, 2007 | Prof. Michal Simon | Is Pluto a Planet? |
Nov 2, 2007 | Prof. Fred Walter | What Big Eyes You Have! |
Dec 7, 2007 | Prof. F. Douglas Swesty | Merging White Dwarf Stars |
Spring 2008
Feb 1, 2008 | Prof. Anand Sivaramakrishnan | A Clearer View of the Skies using Adaptive Optics |
Mar 7, 2008 | Prof. Alan Calder | Twinkle, Twinkle, Exploding Star, How We Wonder What You Are! |
Apr 4, 2008 | Dr. Kathleen Flint Ehm | Dwarf Satellites: The search for the Universe’s smallest galaxies |
May 2, 2008 | Prof. Michael Zingale | Computing the Stars: How Computers Are Used in Astrophysics |
Fall 2008
Sep 5, 2008 | Prof. Jim Lattimer | Now You See Them, Now You Don't: What Transits Can Tell Us About Extrasolar Planets |
Oct 3, 2008 | Prof. Anand Sivaramakrishnan | The James Webb Space Telescope: A First Light Machine |
Oct 31, 2008 | Prof. Stanimir Metchev | From Stars to Planets |
Dec 5, 2008 | Prof. F. Douglas Swesty | The Violent Deaths of Massive Stars |
Spring 2009
Feb 6, 2009 | Prof. Alan Calder | Are you there E.T.? It's us, Earth: An Update on the Search for Life in the Universe |
Mar 6, 2009 | Prof. Deane Peterson | The Early Solar System: Not So Musical Chairs |
Apr 3, 2009 | Prof. Anand Sivaramakrishnan | Finding Planets Around Bright Stars |
May 1, 2009 | Prof. Michael Zingale | We Are All Made of Stars: A Survey of Stellar Nucleosynthesis |
Fall 2009
Sep 4, 2009 | Prof. James Lattimer | When Neutron Stars Collide |
Oct 2, 2009 | Prof. Anand Sivaramakrishnan | Planet-Hunting with Space Telescopes |
Nov 6, 2009 | Prof. F. Douglas Swesty | Evidence for the Big Bang |
Dec 4, 2009 | Prof. Stanimir Metchev | Astrometry: a Tool for the Impatient Astronomer |
Spring & Summer 2010
Feb 5, 2010 | Prof. Michal Simon | Where Are We? |
Mar 5, 2010 | Prof. F. Douglas Swesty | Standard supernovas and the future of the Universe |
Apr 9, 2010 | Prof. Alan Calder | Mars: A Travelogue |
May 7, 2010 | Prof. Michael Zingale | Measuring Distances in the Universe |
June 4, 2010 | Prof. F. Douglas Swesty | Evidence for Dark Matter |
July 2, 2010 | Mr. Joshua Schlieder | All the Neighbors are Moving! Astrometry in the Solar Neighborhood |
Fall 2010
Sep 3, 2010 | Prof. James Lattimer | Measuring Neutron Stars: The Tale of the Tape |
Oct 1, 2010 | Dr. Jennifer Donovan Meyer | Observing Galaxies Large and Small with the Hubble Space Telescope |
Oct 29, 2010 | Prof. Fred Walter | Thermonuclear Bombs in Space: The Novae |
Dec 3, 2010 | Prof. Stanimir Metchev | Extremely High-Contrast Astronomical Imaging—the Dawn of Comparative Exoplanetology |
Spring 2011
Feb 4, 2011 | Dr. Emily Rice, AMNH | What is a Planet? |
Mar 4, 2011 | Prof. Alan Calder | Fires and Floods on White Dwarfs: A Nova Model |
Apr 1, 2011 | Stony Brook Astronomy Club | Observing at Mt. Stony Brook and Other Activities of The Astronomy Club |
May 6, 2011 | Prof. Mike Zingale | Stellar Violence |
Fall 2011
Sep 2, 2011 | Prof. James Lattimer | Black Holes Large and Small |
Oct 14, 2011 | Prof. Alan Calder | Exploring Jupiter with Juno |
Nov 11, 2011 | Prof. Stanimir Metchev | 2012 - Myth, Fiction, and Fact |
Dec 16, 2011 | Prof. Fred Walter | Innumeracy |
Spring 2012
Jan 20, 2012 | Prof. Anand Sivaramakrishnan | Unfolding the James Webb Space Telescope |
Feb 17, 2012 | Prof. Michal Simon | The Exoplanetary Systems: Very, Very Unexpected New Worlds |
Mar 16, 2012 | Prof. Alan Calder | Cosmic Candle Making with Type Ia Supernovae |
April 20, 2012 | Thomas Sebring (Xoptx) | Special ASNY Talk: How to Build a Really Big Telescope |
Apr 27, 2012 | Prof. Michael Zingale | Motions in the Skies |
Special Summer 2012 Session
June 5, 2012 | Transit of Venus |
Fall 2012
Sept 7, 2012 | Prof. Jin Koda | Lights, Telescopes, and Interferometers |
Oct 5, 2012 | Prof. Michal Simon | Tides in the Solar System |
Nov 2, 2012 | POSTPONED UNTIL SPRING DUE TO HURRICANE SANDY | |
Dec 7, 2012 | Prof. Stan Metchev | Homing in on Another Earth |
Spring 2013
Feb 1, 2013 | Prof. James Lattimer | The Discovery of Superfluidity in the Core of a Neutron Star |
Mar 1, 2013 | Prof. Fred Walter | The Disappearing Sunspots and the Coming Maunder Minimum |
Apr 5, 2013 | Prof. Neelima Sehgal | Dark Energy and the Accelerating Universe |
May 3, 2013 | Prof. Michael Zingale | When Asteroids Attack! |
Fall 2013
Oct 4, 2013 | Prof. James Lattimer | New Discoveries About Neutron Stars |
Nov 1, 2013 | Prof. Alan Calder | The Visit of Comet ISON |
Dec 6, 2013 | Prof. Rouven Essig | The Hunt for Dark Matter |
Spring 2014
Feb 7, 2014 | Mr. Rahul Patel | Looking For Solar System 2.0 By Studying Extra Solar Debris Disks |
Mar 7, 2014 | Prof. Michal Simon | Time Domain Astronomy |
Apr 4, 2014 | Dr. Alexander Van Engelen | The History and Evolution of the Universe |
May 2, 2014 | Prof. Michael Zingale | Solar Storms and the Threat to Earth |
Fall 2014
Sept 5, 2014 | Prof. Tim Glotch | Science and Exploration of the Moon
enabled by Stony Brook's RIS4E Team Celebrating International Observe the Moon Night |
Oct 3, 2014 | Prof. Fred Walter | Habitable Planets: Hype or Hope? |
Oct 31, 2014 | Prof. Rosalba Perna | Cosmic Explosions |
Dec 5, 2014 | Adam Jacobs | (Super)computing the Stars |
Spring 2015
Feb 6, 2015 | Prof. Doug Swesty | What we know (and don't know) about core collapse supernovae |
Mar 6, 2015 | Prof. Glenda Denicoló (SCCC) | Women in Astronomy (note: will take place in Simon's Center room 103) |
Apr 3, 2015 | Prof. Neelima Sehgal | Illuminating Dark Matter, Neutrinos, and Inflation using the Oldest Light in the Universe |
May 8, 2015 | Prof. Michael Zingale | Harnessing the Power of the Sun: The Challenges of Terrestrial Fusion |
Fall 2015
Sept 4, 2015 | Prof. James Lattimer | Blowing in the Ether: Eintstein's Legacy |
Oct 2, 2015 | Prof. Alan Calder | What did New Horizons teach us about the system formerly known as Planet Pluto? |
Oct 30, 2015 | Prof. Fred Walter | The Past and Future Habitability of Mars |
Dec 4, 2015 | Dr. Takamitsu Tanaka | Supermassive black holes: the most powerful and ancient objects in the Universe |
Spring 2016
Feb 5, 2016 | Max Katz (CANCELED DUE TO SNOW) | Seasons in the Sun | |
Mar 4, 2016 | Prof. Doug Swesty | New Clues About the Origins of Core-Collapse Supernovae | |
Apr 8, 2016 | Prof. Neelima Sehgal | Detecting Gravitational Waves from the Infant Universe | |
May 6, 2016 | Prof. Michael Zingale | Why Do Stars Explode? |
Fall 2016
Sept 2, 2016 | Prof. James Lattimer | Where Do Elements Heavier Than Iron Come From? |
Sept 30, 2016 | Prof. Doug Swesty | Ripples in Space-time: Detecting Gravitational Waves |
Oct 28, 2016 | Prof. Alan Calder | NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter |
Dec 2, 2016 | Dr. Simone Dall'Osso | Black Holes from Early Speculations to Modern Astrophysics |
Spring 2017
Jan 27, 2017 | Prof. Marilena Loverde | A History of Structure in the Universe |
Mar 3, 2017 | Prof. Fred Walter | White Dwarfs: the most interesting boring stars in the universe |
Apr 7, 2017 | Prof. Neelima Sehgal | Unveiling the First Moments of the Universe’s Creation with the Simons Observatory |
May 5, 2017 | Prof. Michael Zingale | Computing the Stars |
Fall 2017
Sept 1, 2017 | Prof. Frederick Walter | Solar Eclipses and Where to Find Them: America's Eclipse of August 21 2017 |
Oct 6, 2017 | Prof. Doug Swesty | Man-made Space Weather: a Catastrophe for Modern Civilization? |
Nov 3, 2017 | Mr. Donald Willcox | Saturn in 13 Years: the Cassini-Huygens Mission |
Dec 1, 2017 | Prof. James Lattimer | When Neutron Stars Collide: The Story of GW170817 |
Spring 2018
Feb 2, 2018 | Prof. Alan Calder | On Being (Un)Certain About Supernova Explosions |
Mar 2, 2018 | Prof. Jin Koda | Discoveries |
Apr 6, 2018 | Prof. Neelima Sehgal | The Cosmic Neutrino Background: Capturing the Universe’s Oldest Photograph |
May 4, 2018 | Prof. Michael Zingale | Stellar Nucleosynthesis and the Origin of the Elements |
Fall 2018
Sept 7, 2018 | Prof. Frederick Walter | The SMARTS way to observe: What recent observations tell us about galactic novae |
Oct 5, 2018 | Prof. Alan Calder | Searching for Life in the Universe |
Nov 2, 2018 | Prof. James Lattimer | More Results from the Neutron Star Merger GW170817 |
Dec 7, 2018 | Prof. Anja von der Linden | Gravitational Lensing |
Spring 2019
Feb 1, 2019 | Sydney Andrews | The Life and Death of Massive Stars | |
Mar 1, 2019 | Prof. Philip Armitage | The Interstellar Visitor 'Oumuamua | |
Apr 5, 2019 | Dr. Alice Harpole | Fast Radio Bursts | |
SPECIAL EVENT Wednesday Apr 17, 2019 | Dr. Jeffrey Bennett | Global Warming Demystified | |
May 3, 2019 | Prof. Michael Zingale | Gamma-Ray Bursts |
Fall 2019
Sept 6, 2019 | Dr. Doug Swesty | Our First Look at the Black Hole |
Oct 4, 2019 | Prof. Alan Calder | An update on NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter |
Nov 1, 2019 | Lucie Baumont | Unmasking the Dark Universe with Galaxy Clusters |
Dec 6, 2019 | Prof. Phil Armitage | Is there anybody out there? Searching for another Earth |
Spring 2020
Feb 7, 2020 | Prof. Jim Lattimer | Gravitational Waves Galore! | |
Mar 6, 2020 | Dr. Ricardo Herbonnet | Observational cosmology with galaxy clusters |
Fall 2020
Sept 4, 2020 | Prof. Doug Swesty | Neutron Star or Black Hole? |
Oct 2, 2020 | Prof. Fred Walter | The Sun in Time: Solar Irradiance and Climate Change |
Nov 6, 2020 | Dr. Richard Anantua | The Relativity of Space and Time in Popular Science |
Dec 4, 2020 | Prof. Anja von der Linden | The Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) |
Spring 2021
Feb 5, 2021 | Prof. Jim Lattimer | The Youngest-Known Neutron Star< |
Mar 5, 2021 | Prof. Alan Calder | An Update on the Search for Life in the Universe |
Apr 2, 2021 | Prof. Kenneth Lanzetta | The Condor Telescope Array |
May 7, 2021 | Prof. Michael Zingale | When Asteroids Attack |
Fall 2021
Sept 3, 2021 | Prof. Fred Walter | Stellar Variability as viewed by TESS |
Oct 1, 2021 | Prof. Will Farr | Ringing Black Hole Bells and Other Exciting Recent Results in Gravitational Wave Astronomy |
Nov 5, 2021 | Prof. Alan Calder | An update on NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter |
Dec 3, 2021 | Prof. Doug Swesty | SN2020fqv: observing the death throes of a massive star |
Spring 2022
Feb 4, 2022 | Prof. Jim Lattimer | The Latest Discoveries About Neutron Stars |
Mar 4, 2022 | Dr. Sayan Mandal | Probing the Early Universe through Magnetic Fields |
Apr 1, 2022 | Prof. Ken Lanzetta | Update on the Condor Telescope Array |
May 6, 2022 | Prof. Michael Zingale | Making the Elements |