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Monday, February 3rd, 2025
7:30pm – 9:30pm
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Astronomy on Tap

"Fast Radio Bursts" and "Building Europa Clipper"
Stella Ocker, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Astronomy, Caltech,
Matthew Stumbo, System Integration and Test Engineer, NASA JPL,
  • Public Event
Wednesday, February 5th, 2025
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Probing Supermassive Black Holes and Quasars with the SDSS-V Black Hole Mapper Reverberation Mapping Project
Catherine (Kate) Grier, Assistant Professor, Department of Astronomy, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
Monday, February 10th, 2025
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk

Cahill 370
Constraints on Remnant Planetary Systems as a Function of Main-Sequence Mass with HST/COS
  • Internal Event
Wednesday, February 12th, 2025
12:15pm – 1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar

IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room)
Census of Black Hole Accretion Structure and Mass
Yasaman Homayouni, Pennsylvania State University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Revisiting the Core Accretion Paradigm for Giant Planet Formation: Analytic Framework for the Late Infall Stage and the Distribution of Planetary Masses
Fred Adams, Ta-You Wu Collegiate Professor of Physics, University of Michigan,
Friday, February 14th, 2025
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Mapping the Dark Matter Distribution of Galaxies with Stellar Streams
Jacob Nibauer, Graduate Student, Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University,
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture

Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics
Powerful Jets from Supermassive Black Holes
Martijn Oei, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Astronomy, Caltech,
  • Public Event
Wednesday, February 19th, 2025
12:15pm – 1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar

IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room)
Finding Black Holes with Microlensing: Current and Future Prospects
Casey Lam, Carnegie Observatories,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
The Multi-Scale Circumgalactic Medium
Peng Oh, Professor, University of California Santa Barbara,
Friday, February 21st, 2025
7:00pm – 2/23 2:00pm
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Death Valley Dark Sky Festival

  • Public Event
Monday, February 24th, 2025
7:30pm – 9:30pm
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Astronomy on Tap

"The Sun's Life and Death" and "Seeing the Invisible"
Antonio Rodriguez, PhD Candidate, Department of Astronomy, Caltech,
Mandy Chen, Brinson Postdoctoral Fellow, Caltech and Carnegie Observatories,
  • Public Event
Tuesday, February 25th, 2025
4:30pm – 6:00pm
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Sample Return Missions from Small Bodies – Hayabusa, Hayabusa2, and Beyond

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
  • Public Event
Wednesday, February 26th, 2025
12:15pm – 1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar

IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room)
Panchromatic Observations of Extreme Red Supergiant Explosions
Wynn Jacobson-Galán, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Tales of Dust-Enshrouded Eruptions: Solving Missing Links from Planets to Supermassive Black Holes
Kishalay De, Assistant Professor, Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Columbia University,
Friday, February 28th, 2025
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Templates for all seasons?!? Gravitational waveforms from perturbation theory for LISA (and LIGO/Virgo/Kagra?!?)
Gabriel Piovano, Postdoctoral Fellow, Physique théorique et Mathématique, Université Libre de Bruxelles,