227 Gallalee Hall

Speaker: 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

Speaker: 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

Dr. Christina Ignarra (Stanford) will give a colloquium on the LZ dark matter experiment.

Dr. Alvine Kamaha (University of Albany) will give a colloquium on the LZ dark matter experiment.

Dr. Nevin Weinberg will give a colloquium on "When stars go nonlinear: large amplitude tides and stellar oscillations"

Dr. Chao-Chin Yang will give a colloquium on "Planetesimal Formation through the Streaming Instability"

Dr. Ke Fang will give a colloquium.

Dr. Dominic Walton will give a colloquium on "The Extremes of Accretion: Ultraluminous X-ray Sources and Super-Eddington Pulsars"

Dr. Maria Charisi will give a colloquium on "Searching for supermassive black hole binaries in the era of multi-messenger astronomy".