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| 9/16/2021 | |||||
| 9/23/2021 | |||||
| 9/30/2021 | TBA | Eliot Quaetert, Princeton University | |||
| 10/7/2021 | |||||
| 10/14/2021 | TBA | Shri Kulkarni, California Institute of Technology | |||
| 10/21/2021 | TBA | Gold Lecture - Scott Tremaine, Institute for Advanced Study | |||
| 10/28/2021 | TBA | Rachel Somerville, Flatiron Institute, Center for Computational Astrophysics | |||
| 11/4/2021 | TBA | Gordon Lecture - Maura McLaughlin, West Virginia University | |||
| 11/11/2021 | TBA | Kimee Moore, Caltech | |||
| 11/18/2021 | |||||
| 12/2/2021 | |||||
Planetary Lunch
The Planetary Lunch Seminar Series (PLunch) is an informal seminar series with talks that are relevant to everybody with an interest in planetary science. Speakers include both members of the Cornell community and visitors. Talks are aimed to appeal to and presented by faculty members, research associates, and both graduate and undergraduate students from various academic departments. The seminar is every Monday during the term at 12:20 pm. To view via Zoom, please email Ngoc Truong (tnt45@cornell.edu) for the link.
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Feb 1, 2021
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Future Prospects and Directions with High Resolution Spectroscopy
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Dr. Siddharth Gandhi (Univ. of Warwick)
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Feb 8, 2021
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Atmospheric Characterization with High-Resolution Spectroscopy + Likelihood Mapping |
Miranda Herman (Univ. of Toronto)
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| Feb 15, 2021 | Reading Martian rocks searching for ancient life | Dr. Francesco Salese (Centro de Astrobiologia, Madrid) |
| Feb 22, 2021 | Finding the dry limit for life on Earth | Dr. Armando Azua (Centro de Astrobiologia, Madrid) |
| March 1, 2021 | Transformative advances in post-main sequence planetary system science | Prof. Dimitri Veras - Univ. of Warwick, UK |
| March 8, 2021 | "TRAPPIST-1: Global Results of the Spitzer Exploration Science Program", | Elsa Ducrot -University of Liege - Belgium |
| April 5, 2021 | TBD | Dr. Jeffrey Jung - IAS, Princeton |
| April 12, 2021 |
Lunar Spelunking with Kaguya Selene's Radar Sounder
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Dr. Valerio Poggiali - Cornell |
Astrophysics Lunch
Astrophysics Lunch is a series of informal talks on topics related to theoretical astrophysics, gravitational physics, and cosmology. Speakers are free to present their own research or present papers that they find of particular interest. The audience consists of faculty members, research staff, as well as graduate and undergraduate students, so talks should be at a level accessible to most. Astrophysics Lunch is open to talks from all members of the Cornell community, as well as to visiting scientists. We will reschedule a local speaker in order to accommodate visitors.
Astrophysics Lunch is held every Wednesday during the academic year at 12:15 PM via Zoom.
Please contact Larry Kidder (kidder@astro.cornell.edu) for further information.
| Date | Topic | Speaker |
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| February 17, 2021 |
Multipole Moments of Dynamical Horizons in the Ringdown of Binary Black Holes Hiding Resonant Planets behind a Big Friend: Inclination Dynamics of Resonant Planets under the Influence of an Inclined External Companion |
Ethan Chen Laetitia Rodet |
| February 24, 2021 |
Enhanced Lidov-Kozai migration of the first known exoplanet around a white dwarf Cosmic String Interpretation of NANOGrav Pulsar Timing Data |
Chris O'Connor Soumyajit Bose |
| March 3, 2021 |
Detecting boosts with gravitational waves The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Probing the Baryon Content of BOSS DR15 Galaxies with ACTPol and the Thermal and Pairwise Kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effects |
Mike Boyle Eve Vavagiakis and Patricio Gallardo |
| March 10, 2021 | Formation and dynamics of extreme mass ratio inspirals with environmental effects | Huan Yang (Perimeter/Guelph) |
| March 17, 2021 |
Circumplanetary disk dynamics in exoplanet systems |
Phil Armitage (Stony Brook/Flatiron) |
| March 24, 2021 |
Probing Ionized Gas in Galaxy Haloes with Fast Radio Bursts & Pulsars The Carrasco-Reula formulation of force-free electrodynamics: overview and a numerical implementation |
Stella Ocker Cristobal Armaza |
| March 31, 2021 |
Binary neutron star mergers: Fast ejecta, constraints on the neutron star maximum mass and prospects for electromagnetic precursor signals |
Elias Most (Princeton) |
| April 7, 2021 | Tidal Circularization of Binaries by Resonance Locking |
JJ Zanazzi (CITA) |
| April 14, 2021 |
Magnetohydrodynamic stability of magnetars in the ultra-strong field regime Parameter estimation of eccentric binary black hole systems |
Peter Rau Eamonn O'Shea |
| April 21, 2021 |
Comparing binary black hole remnant properties from horizon-based measurements and asymptotic measurements Observational signatures of eccentric Jupiters inside gas cavities in protoplanetary discs |
Dante Iozzo Jiaru Li |
| April 28, 2021 |
Targeted Numerical Relativity Surrogate Waveform Model for GW190814 Gravitational Radiation from Cosmic String Cusps |
Jooheon Yoo Namitha Suresh |
| May 5, 2021 | Understanding the Origin of Stellar Differential Rotation |
Loren Matilsky (Colorado) |
| May 12, 2021 |
Parameter Estimation in Beyond-GR Waveforms Dynamical architecture of multi-planet systems |
Gabriel Bonilla JT Laune |
| May 19, 2021 | The Gradual Realization that Astronomical Information is Bounded (1965-2020) |
Martin Harwit |
| May 26, 2021 |
Hints of spin-orbit resonances in the binary black hole population The Mass Ratio Distribution of Tertiary Induced Binary Black Hole Mergers |
Vijay Varma Yubo Su |
| June 9, 2021 |
Orbital Evolution of Binary Black Holes in Active Galactic Nucleus Disks: A Disk Channel for Binary Black Hole Mergers? |
Rixin Li
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Galaxy Lunch
The Galaxy Lunch Series is held every Tuesday during the academic year, from 13:00 to 14:00 (new time) via zoom. Please email Jill Tarbell (jtm14@cornell.edu) for zoom link.
In general, the topics are related to galactic and extragalactic astronomy, and large-scale structure. The audience consists of faculty members, research staff, as well as graduate and undergraduate students. Galaxy Lunch is open to talks from all members of the Cornell Astronomy department, as well as to visiting scientists and speakers from different disciplines/departments.
| Date | Topic | Speaker |
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| Feb 9, 2021 | Galaxy Lunch Spring 2021 General Theme: AGN; Intro & Overview | Thomas Nikola |
| Feb 16, 2021 | Cold gas in distant galaxies | Leindert Boogaard (Leiden/MPIA) |
| Feb 23, 2021 | Tracing Galaxy Evolution by Observing the CMB with FYST/PrimeCam | Thomas Nikola |
| Mar 2, 2021 | Prospects of [CII] line intensity mapping the Epoch of Reionization with the Prime-Cam | Christos Karoumpis (Argelander-Institut for Astronomy, Bonn) |
| Mar 9, 2021 | The Herschel Comprehensive ULIRG Emission Survey (HERCULES) | Daniel Vieira |
| Mar 16, 2021 | What happens in the AGN/Starburst galaxy SDSS J100038.01+020822.4? | Christopher Rooney |
| Mar 23, 2021 | Revealing the Accretion Physics of Supermassive Black Holes at Redshift z ~ 7 with Chandra and Infrared Observations | Amit Vishwas |
| Mar 30, 2021 | Physical drivers of emission-line diversity of SDSS AGN with removed star formation contributions | Chris Agostino (Indiana University, Bloomington) |
| April 6, 2021 | A universal model for the integrated H I spectrum | Bo Peng |
| April 13, 2021 | The Discovery of a Highly Accreting, Radio-loud Quasar at z = 6.82 | Lukas Wenzl |
| April 20, 2021 | CANCELED due to CCAT Collaboration Meeting | |
| April 27, 2021 | Disentangling the Causes and the Consequences of the [CII] Deficit | Jessica Sutter, University of Wyoming, Laramie |
| May 4, 2021 | Feedback from Super Star Clusters in the Central Starburst of NGC253 | Rebecca Levy, University of Maryland, College Park |
| May 11, 2021 | Canceled | |
| May 18, 2021 |
1) Plan for next semester |
All |
| May 25, 2021 | Canceled |
The Thomas Gold Lecture Series
On the occasion of the retirement of the world famous astrophysicist, Tommy Gold, the University established the Thomas Gold Lectureship in Astronomy to bring outstanding scientists to Cornell for brief visits.
Former Thomas Gold Lecturers:
- 1987-88: Peter Goldreich (Caltech)
- 1988-89 Joseph Taylor (Princeton)
- 1989-90 Martin Rees (University of Cambridge)
- 1990-91 Dennis Sciama (University of Oxford)
- 1991-92 Gordon Pettengill (MIT)
- 1992-93 Tony Hewish (University of Cambridge)
- 1993-94 Irwin Shapiro (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
- 1994-95 Wallace Sargent (Caltech)
- 1995-96 Lyman Spitzer (Princeton)
- 1996-97 Igor Novikov (Theoretical Astrophysics Center, Copenhagen)
- 1997-98 David Schramm (University of Chicago)
- 1998-99 Mal Ruderman (Columbia University)
- 1999-00 Bohdan Paczynski (Princeton)
- 2000-01 Clifford Will (Washington University)
- 2001-02 Frank Shu (UC Berkeley)
- 2002-03 Vera Rubin (Carnegie Institution of Washington)
- 2003-04 Charles Townes (UC Berkeley)
- 2004-05 Geoff Marcy (UC Berkeley)
- 2005-06 Roger Blandford (Stanford University)
- 2006-07 Andrew Lyne (University of Manchester)
- 2009-10 Don Brownlee (University of Washington)
- 2010-11 Rashid Sunyaev (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics)
- 2011-12 Maria Zuber (MIT)
- 2012-13 David Jewitt (UCLA)
- 2013-14 J. Richard Bond (University of Toronto)
- 2014-15 Reinhard Genzel (Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics)
- 2015-16 Simon White (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics)
- 2016-17 Adam Burrows (Princeton)
- 2017-18 Renu Malhotra (U.Arizona)
- 2018-19 Bruce Draine (Princeton)
Upcoming Lecturer:
- 2020-21 Alessandro Morbidelli (Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur)
The Salpeter Lecture Series
The Salpeter Lecture Series was established in 1998 to honor Professor Edwin E. Salpeter, one of the most important astrophysicists of the 20th century. Under the auspices of the lectureship, distinguished astronomers and astrophysicists are invited to visit Cornell for one to two weeks.
Former Salpeter Lecturers:
- 1999 Sterl Phinney (CalTech)
- 2000 Lars Bildsten (Univ. California-Berkeley)
- 2001 Dave Stevenson (CalTech)
- 2002 John Carlstrom (Univ. Chicago)
- 2003 Shri Kulkarni (CalTech)
- 2004 Andrea Ghez (UCLA)
- 2005 Victoria Kaspi (McGill)
- 2006 Avi Loeb (Harvard)
- 2007 Jonathan Lunine (Univ. of Arizona)
- 2008 Alexei Filippenko (Univ. California-Berkeley)
- 2009 Gilles Chabrier (ENS Lyon)
- 2010 David Spergel (Princeton University)
- 2011 Sara Seager (MIT)
- 2012 Elliot Quataert (UC Berkeley)
- 2013 Eve Ostriker (Princeton)
- 2014 Adam Showman (University of Arizona)
- 2015 Daniel Eisenstein (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
- 2016 Fiona A. Harrison (California Institute of Technology)
- 2017 Alyssa Goodman (Harvard)
- 2018 Fred Rasio (Northwestern)
- 2019 May Ruth Murray-Clay (UCSC)
- 2019 Nov Brian Metzger (Columbia University)
The Yervant Terzian Lecture Series
On the occasion of Yervant Terzian's 70th birthday, the University established the Yervant Terzian Lectureship in Astronomy to bring outstanding scientists to Cornell for brief visits. The Lectureship was endowed by a generous gift from Friend of Astronomy Charles Mund, Jr.
Former Terzian Lecturers:
- 2010 Nobel Prize Winner, John C. Mather (NASA/GSFC)
- 2011 Mario Livio (Space Telescope Science Institute)
- 2012 Michel Mayor (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
- 2013 Jay Pasachoff (Williams College)
- 2014 Bruce Balick (University of Washington)
- 2015 Ken Kellermann (National Radio Astronomy Observatory)
- 2016 Kip Thorne (California Institute of Technology)
- 2017 Shri Kulkarni (Director Caltech Optical Observatories) (Watch Dr Kulkarni's Lecture The Restless Universe (Palomar Transient Factory)
- 2018 Silvia Torres-Peimbert (National Autonomous University of Mexico)
The William E. & Elva F. Gordon Distinguished Lectureship
William E. Gordon, then professor of electrical engineering at Cornell, proposed the construction of the Arecibo telescope in 1958 to study the Earth's ionosphere via the incoherent scatter of powerful radio waves from the individual electrons in the ionospheric plasma. Gordon raised the funding for the telescope and organized its construction. Completed in 1963, the 305m (1000ft) diameter telescope and its powerful radar systems have been continuously upgraded over the intervening years and have been used to made major advances in the areas of ionospheric physics, radio astronomy and planetary science.
The Gordon Lectures are made possible by an endowment by Tom and Betty Talpey. Tom and Betty Talpey were one of the families that moved with the Gordon's to Arecibo in the summer of 1960 to supervise the telescope's construction and build the observing instrumentation.
Former Gordon Lecturers:
- 2002 Harold Ewen (University of Massachusetts)
- 2003 Tor Hagfors (Max Planck Institute for Aeronomy)
- 2005 Gordon Pettengill (MIT)
- 2006 Jocelyn Bell Burnell (University of Oxford)
- 2008 Lewis Duncan (Rollins College)
- 2009 Shri Kulkarni (Caltech)
- 2011 Joint Lecture & Arecibo Observatory Staff Event:
Donald Farley (Cornell University)
Miguel Feyjoo (Engineer)
Herbert Carlson (Utah State University)
Carl Heiles (UC Berkeley)
Donald B. Campbell (Cornell University) - 2013 Lara Waldrop (Univ. Illinois Urbana-Champaign) and Jean-Luc Margot (UCLA)
- 2015 Xavier Siemens (Univ. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
- 2018 Gregg Hallinan (Caltech)
- 2019 Amelie Saintonge (University College London)
Upcoming Lecturer:
- 2021 Maura McLaughlin (West Virginia University)