Featured Event
Astronomy Public Observing Night
Gallalee Hall Rooftop Observatory Gallalee Hall, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesDr. Preethi Nair will lead observations of the waxing Gibbous Moon.
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium – Fall 2020 – Walker
VirtualStephen Walker from UA Huntsville will present a talk on Galaxy Cluster Outskirts: Pushing Back the Final Frontier in Cluster Astrophysics.
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium – Fall 2020 – Peter
"Testing the nature of dark matter with galaxies" by Annika Peter (Ohio State University)
Colloquium Speaker: Tanmoy Lasker (University of Bath)
VirtualDr. Tanmoy Lasker will give a colloquium on Extreme astrophysics with relativistic transients
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
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
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