Calendar - Astronomy

March

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Day

Week

Month

Term

March 2024

Friday, March 1st, 2024

2:00pm – 3:00pm

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TAPIR Seminar

Online and In-Person Event

Planet formation close-in and far-out

Nick Choksi, Graduate Student, Department of Astronomy, UC Berkeley,

Wednesday, March 6th, 2024

12:15pm – 1:00pm

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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar

IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room)

Filament Formation Via Collision-Induced Magnetic Reconnection - Formation of a Star Cluster

Shuo Kong, University of Arizona,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

Simulating Black Hole Feasts, Burps, and Fireworks

Sasha Tchekhovskoy, Associate Professor, Northwestern University,

Friday, March 8th, 2024

2:00pm – 3:00pm

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TAPIR Seminar

Online and In-Person Event

Signatures from late-time disk accretion in neutron star mergers

Wenbin Lu, Assistant Professor, Department of Astronomy, U.C. Berkeley,

Friday, March 15th, 2024

2:00pm – 3:00pm

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TAPIR Seminar

Online and In-Person Event

Explosive Implications of Large-scale Convection in Massive Star Envelopes

Jared Goldberg, Flatiron Research Fellow, CCS, Flatiron Institute,

8:00pm – 10:00pm

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Stargazing Lecture

Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics

SPHEREx: Zooming Out to See the Big Picture

Jamie Bock, Professor, Department of Physics, Caltech,

Public Event

Wednesday, March 20th, 2024

12:15pm – 1:00pm

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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar

Online Event

Polarimetry as a Tool for Physical Characterization of Potentially Hazardous Near-Earth Objects

Maxime Devogele, ESA,

Monday, March 25th, 2024

7:30pm – 9:30pm

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Astronomy on Tap

"Interstellar Dust" and "Black Hole Accretion"

Nadine Hassan, PhD Candidate, Department of Astronomy, Caltech,

Edward Nathan, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Astronomy, Caltech,

Public Event