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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
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
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium – Spring 2022 – Chris Ashall
227 Gallalee Hall 514 University Blvd., Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesSpeaker: Chris Ashall (University of Hawai'i) Title: The Variety of Thermonuclear Supernova Abstract: Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia) mark the demise of white dwarfs (WD). These cosmic explosions release as much luminous energy as the sun produces over its entire lifetime. As cauldrons of nucleosynthesis, SNe Ia provide the interstellar medium with Fe-group elements and
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium – Spring 2022 – David Nataf
227 Gallalee Hall 514 University Blvd., Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesSpeaker: David Nataf (Johns Hopkins University) Title: On the Milky Way’s Extinction Curve and Oldest Stellar Populations Abstract: The study of Galactic astronomy is being revolutionized by the plethora of incredible data from various new surveys, facilities, and the use of modern probabilistic methods. In this talk of two parts, I first describe efforts to