Department Colloquia

Upcoming Department Colloquia



Colloquium: The Wide-angle View of Dark Matter in Nearby Galaxies

Robyn Sanderson (University of Pennsylvania)
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory, A8

The Gaia astrometric survey has delivered a detailed “close-up” of our Galaxy, the Milky Way, by measuring precise 3D positions and…



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Liang Wu (University of Pennsylvania)
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory, A8


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Colloquium: Twenty-five Years of Science with Chandra

Hans Moritz Guenther (MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research)
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Chandra is one of NASA's "great observatories" and was launched in 1999. In this talk, I will review Chandra's history and instruments and show highlights from an absolutely astonishing 25 years of science…



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Past Department Colloquia



Colloquium: Theia: Illuminating Neutrinos with a New Kind of Detector

Josh Klein (University of Pennsylvania)
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory, A8


Primakoff Lecture: Deciphering the Higgs boson: insights and revelations a decade after the discovery

Andreas Hoecker (CERN)
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory, A8

The discovery of the Higgs boson by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) marks a breakthrough in particle physics, and it stands with the greatest scientific discoveries of all time.…



Colloquium: Change Physics Culture Now

Jessica Esquivel (Fermilab)
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory, A8

This presentation will overview initiatives created to overcome inequity in physics. We will discuss grassroots efforts like Black in Physics, institution-adjacent efforts like Change-Now at Fermilab, and APS-funded…



Colloquium: The Dawn of Gravitational Wave Astronomy at Light-year Wavelengths

Stephen Taylor (Vanderbilt University)
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory, A8

For more than 15 years, NANOGrav and other pulsar-timing array collaborations have been carefully monitoring networks of…



Rittenhouse Lecture: An imperfect view of the Universe

Alan Heavens (Imperial College London)
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory, A4

Our most expensive telescopes make exquisite images of the distant Universe, but however good the telescope, the images are flawed.  The light has been on a long journey, navigating through the rich array…