Departmental Colloquium
Colloquium Speaker: Jamie Tayar (University of Hawaii)
VirtualDr. Jamie Tayar will give a colloquium on Re-envisioning Stellar Physics in the Time Domain Era
Colloquium Speaker: Matthew Shultz (University of Delaware)
VirtualDr. Matthew Shultz will give a colloquium on Magnetic Fields and Magnetospheres of Hot Stars
Colloquium Speaker: Dom Walton (University of Cambridge)
VirtualDr. Dom Walton will give a colloquium on Putting a Spin on Black Holes in the NuSTAR Era
Colloquium Speaker: Burcin Mutlu-Pakdil (University of Chicago)
VirtualDr. Burcin Mutlu-Pakdil will give a colloquium on The Smallest and Faintest Galaxies: Clues to the Nature of Dark Matter and Galaxy Formation
Colloquium – Graduate Student Information
227 Gallalee Hall 514 University Blvd., Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesVice chair of graduate studies Dr. Dean Townsley will be presenting graduate student information.
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium – Fall 2021 – Mukai
227 Gallalee Hall 514 University Blvd., Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesSpeaker: Koji Mukai (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center and University of Maryland) Title: Science with XRISM: Resolving the Nature of the Energetic Cosmos Abstract: The X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM), an international JAXA/NASA collaboration including participation from ESA, will be an advanced X-ray observatory. Resolve, the primary instrument on XRISM, is a high-resolution, non-dispersive X-ray
Colloquium – Koji Mukai
227 Gallalee Hall 514 University Blvd., Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesKoji Mukai (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center and University of Maryland, Baltimore County) will be presenting the colloquium titled "Science with XRISM: Resolving the Nature of the Energetic Cosmos."
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium – Fall 2021 – Michela Negro
227 Gallalee Hall 514 University Blvd., Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesSpeaker: Michela Negro (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/UMBC) Title: High Energy Transient Repeaters: The Case of Gamma-ray Bursts From Magnetar Abstract: Started in the ’60s with the detection of the first cosmological gamma-ray burst by the Vela satellites the astrophysics of high-energy transients has fascinated the community for more than half a century. Gamma-ray burst
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium – Fall 2021 – Shobita Satyapal
VirtualSpeaker: Shobita Satyapal (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/UMBC) Title: In Search of Elusive AGNs in Low Mass Galaxies and Mergers Abstract: Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at the centers of galaxies, which manifest as active galactic nuclei (AGNs) when accreting, are now known to be a fundamental component of galaxies and play an important role in their evolution. Detecting complete samples of AGNs and
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium – Spring 2022 – Burçin Mutlu-Pakdil
227 Gallalee Hall 514 University Blvd., Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesSpeaker: Burçin Mutlu-Pakdil (University of Chicago) Title: The Smallest and Faintest Galaxies: The New Frontier in Dark Matter and Galaxy Formation Studies Abstract: The smallest and faintest galaxies around the Milky Way are the most ancient, most metal-poor, and most dark-matter-dominated systems known. These extreme objects offer unique access to small scales where the stellar and dark matter content can be studied simultaneously. They hold