Joint IAS Princeton University Astrophysics Colloquium
Spring 2017

Seminars this semester are held on Tuesdays at 11:00 am in the Peyton Hall auditorium at Princeton University.
Coffee and refreshments are served at 10:30 am in the Peyton Hall common room.
Videos of past talks can be found on the IAS video server or on YouTube.  



Date Speaker Title
February7 Rachel Bezanson
(Princeton )
The Surprisingly Complex Lives of Massive Galaxies
14Desika Narayanan
(Haverford/UFlorida)
Three Problems in Trying to Form Galaxies (and how ISM Physics can Save Us)
21Josh Winn
(Princeton )
The obliquities of planet-hosting stars
28Wendy Freedman
(Chicago )
Increasing Accuracy and Increasing Tension in H0
March7 Mike McDonald
(MIT )
Galaxy Cluster Evolution over the Past 10 Billion Years
14Nathan Schwadron
(UNH )
Opening a New Window on Our Global Heliosphere - IBEX, the Voyagers, and the next steps in exploring this vast frontier
21Lisa Kewley
(ANU )
Galaxy Formation and Evolution in 3D
28Jessica Lu
(UC Berkeley )
Black Holes, Big and Small - A Laser-Guided Adaptive Optics View
April4 Richard French
(Wellesley College )
Highlights of the Cassini Mission to Saturn from the Cassini Radio Science Team
11Tracy Slatyer
(MIT )
The Dark Side of the Cosmic Dawn
18Brad Cenko
(NASA Goddard )
Recent Observational Puzzles from Tidal Disruption Flares: Towards Viable Probes in the LSST Era
24Kaitlin Kratter
(Arizona )
Three puzzles in star and planet formation
May2 Dan Kasen
(UC Berkeley )
The glow of gravitational wave sources: Modeling compact object mergers and the production of the heavy elements

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