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Astrophysics Calendar

The calendar is a collection of events hosted by The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University, and other local institutions and groups focused on Astrophysics and Astronomy. Emails are sent out every Friday with the calendar for the upcoming week and daily emails are sent with each days events. If you are interested in being added to the calendar distribution list, please contact Amanda Cenker, Academic Assistant at IAS.

Mar
19
2024

Institute for Advanced Study / Princeton University Joint Astrophysics Colloquium

A "Cloud-Scale" View of the Matter Cycle in Galaxies
Adam Leroy
11:00am|Peyton Hall Auditorium

The gas-star formation-feedback "matter cycle" acts in many ways as the engine of galaxy evolution. Over the last decade, the PHANGS surveys have carried out surveys across the electromagnetic spectrum aimed at resolving galaxies into the...

Mar
19
2024

Princeton Center for Heliophysics Seminar

Energy Storage and Release in the Solar Atmosphere
Nicholeen Viall
2:00pm|Virtual Meeting

There have been remote observations of the solar atmosphere for centuries, and in situ measurements of the heliosphere for almost 60 years. Computer simulation capabilities have vastly improved, and simulation techniques of the coupling between the...

Mar
19
2024

Princeton University Donald R. Hamilton Colloquium Series

Free Probability Approaches to Quantum Dynamics
Silva Pappalardi
4:00pm|Jadwin Hall A-10

Abstract: Understanding how to characterize quantum chaotic dynamics is a longstanding question.

In this colloquium, I will discuss recent developments that identify Free Probability --  a generalization of probability theory to non-commuting objects...

Mar
21
2024

Institute for Advanced Study Astrophysics Seminar

Black holes and revelations: unseen companions in stellar binaries
Kareem El-Badry
11:00am|Bloomberg Lecture Hall

The Milky Way contains of order 10^8 stellar-mass black holes (BHs). Yet, fewer than 100 BH candidates are known, and only about 20 are dynamically confirmed. Our view of the BH population has been shaped almost entirely by observations of X-ray...

Mar
21
2024

Princeton University Thunch Talk

Reserving Mauna Kea for astronomy : a social and political history, from Kuiper to TMT
Pascal Marichalar
12:00pm|Peyton Hall, Grand Central

Intrigued by the recent Thirty Meter Telescope protests on Mauna Kea in Hawai‘i, I launched on a historical study of how astronomy came to the mountain, based on the observatories’ own archives, most of which had never been studied. These documents...

Mar
22
2024

Princeton University Astroplasmas Seminar

Understanding the cyclotron-line formation in accreting-magnetic neutron stars via relativistic Monte Carlo radiative transfer simulations.
Nick Loudas
12:30pm|Dome Room, Peyton Hall or Zoom

Accretion-powered X-ray Pulsars (XRPs) are strongly magnetized neutron stars (NSs), that accrete matter from a donor companion star, often exhibiting a cyclotron resonant scattering feature (CRSF) in their X-ray spectra. Accretion onto their...