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Wednesday, October 2nd, 2024
12:15pm – 1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar

IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room)
When Data Is Not Enough: Illustrating Astrophysics for the Public
Robert Hurt, Caltech/IPAC,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Stars Disrupted, Destroyed and Coalesced
Iair Arcavi, Professor, School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University,
Friday, October 4th, 2024
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Non-Thermal Emission Following Compact Objects Mergers
Gilad Sadeh, Graduate Student, Department of Particle Physics & Astrophysics, Weizmann Institute,
Monday, October 7th, 2024
8:15am – 12:30pm
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KISS Short Course - Quantifying Emissions through Greenhouse Gases and Transport

Chen 100
  • Public Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk

Cahill 370
3D Interstellar Medium structure challenges the Serkowski "law" & Hybrid Foreground Removal for CHIME 21 cm Cosmology
Nikos Mandarakas, PhD student, Department of Physics, University of Crete,
Haochen Wang, PhD student, Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
  • Internal Event
Wednesday, October 9th, 2024
12:15pm – 1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar

IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room)
Anthropology of Merging Stars - Tracing the Evolution And Impact of Stellar Mergers with Time-Domain Surveys
Viraj Karambelkar, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
The Evolution, Influence, and Ultimate Fate of Massive Stars
Maria Drout, Assistant Professor, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Toronto,
Friday, October 11th, 2024
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
How strong warps and strong magnetic fields upend the standard accretion disk paradigm
Nick Kaaz, Graduate Student, CIERA, Northwestern University,
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture

Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics
The Voyager Mission to the Outer Planets and Interstellar Space
Alan Cummings, Senior Research Scientist, Department of Astronomy, Caltech,
  • Public Event
Monday, October 14th, 2024
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk

Cahill 370
A fast-cadenced search for gamma-ray burst orphan afterglows with the Deeper, Wider, Faster programme & A multimessenger, multiband view of compact binaries
James Freeburn, PhD student, Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology,
Geoffrey Mo, PhD student, Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, MIT,
  • Internal Event
Wednesday, October 16th, 2024
12:15pm – 1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar

IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room)
DESI Y1 BAO Analysis: Reconstruction of Large-Scale Structures Using Optimal Transport Theory
Farnik Nikakhtar, Yale University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Large-Scale Structure Cosmology: Opportunities in the Systematics-Limited Regime
Elisabeth Krause, Associate Professor, Department of Astronomy, University of Arizona,
Friday, October 18th, 2024
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Binary neutron star mergers in massive scalar-tensor theory
Tsz Lok Lam, Graduate Student, AEI Potsdam,
Monday, October 21st, 2024
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk

Cahill 370
7:30pm – 9:30pm
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Astronomy on Tap

"Echoes of the Big Bang" and "Search for Life in the Universe"
Anastasia Yanchilina, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Geochemistry, Caltech,
Albert Wandui, Postdoctoral Fellow, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
  • Public Event
Wednesday, October 23rd, 2024
12:15pm – 1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar

IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room)
The Origins of Close-in Brown Dwarfs from the Stellar Obliquity Distribution
Steven Giacalone, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Postdoc Lightning Talks
Incoming Astronomy Postdocs and Research Scientists,
Friday, October 25th, 2024
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Title to be announced
Doug Rennehan, Research Fellow, CCA, Flatiron Institute,
Wednesday, October 30th, 2024
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
The Next Decade of Discoveries with Radio Interferometry: Bringing Nature's Deepest Mysteries into View
Michael Johnson, Astrophysicist, Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian,