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Colloquia will be in person in Room 330 and online from 3:30 – 4:30 pm on Wednesdays. All welcome!

Tea, Coffee and Cookies will be served from 3:00 to 3:30 pm in Room 330.

Seminar Zoom Link: https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/95124198614?pwd=dnBzWnhUTmVSRjJZaVR1QnpvazduZz09

Day	Location	Title	Speaker	Host	Recordings / Slides
September 2	330W / Zoom	Entanglement: How the ‘spooky action at a distance’ is powering a technological revolution	Ananda Roy, Rutgers University	Sergei Lukyanov	Recording
September 9	330W / Zoom	Programming Quantum Oscillators: Computation and Simulation with Random-Access Memory	Srivatsan Chakram, Rutgers University	Jed Pixley	Recording
September 16	330W / Zoom	Searching for Dark Matter with Machine Learning	Matthew Buckley, Rutgers University	David Shih	Recording
September 23	330W / Zoom	Interface-Engineered Topological Quantum Matter	Sean Oh, Rutgers University	Sang Cheong
September 30	330W / Zoom	Electric field-effect in soft-lattice materials for emerging electronics and photonics.	Vitaly Podzorov, Rutgers University	Bob Bartynski
October 7 Special Iron's Lecture	330W / Zoom	Listening to the Body: Soft Electronics, Electrophysiology and the Physics of Human–Machine Interfaces	Yael Hanein, Tel Aviv University	Jed Pixley
October 14	330W / Zoom
October 21	330W / Zoom
October 28	330W / Zoom
November 4	330W / Zoom
November 11	330W / Zoom
November 18	330W / Zoom
November 25	330W / Zoom
December 2	330W / Zoom
December 9	330W / Zoom
December 16	330W / Zoom
December 23	330W / Zoom

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Rutgers Nuclear Physics Seminar Schedule

Fall 2023

Seminars are held on Mondays at 1:00 pm in person (room 112W) and via Zoom (unless noted) for the Fall 2023 semester

Seminar Zoom Link: https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/93190640031?pwd=T0NYSmxFdlF3NlNNZEczNHc5WGRMdz09

Day	Title	Speaker
10/9/23, 1:00PM Zoom + Room 112W	Using SABRE to Measure Near-threshold Proton Branching Ratios in 31S Important for ONe Nova Nucleosynthesis	Sudarsan Balakrishnan (Rutgers University)
12/11/23 1:00 PM ZOOM ONLY	"Possible quark-antiquark states confined and bound by the QED interaction"	Cheuk-Yin Wong (Oak Ridge national Laboratory Oak Ridge, Tennessee USA)

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Astrophysics Seminars and Colloquia

Fall 2023

The Astrophysics seminars are held every Thursday at 2:00 pm via Zoom and/or 330W - except where noted.

Departmental colloquia are at 3:30 PM on Wednesdays in room 330W (or online as indicated). Special dates and/or times are noted in bold in the table below.

Seminar Zoom Link: https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/93190640031?pwd=T0NYSmxFdlF3NlNNZEczNHc5WGRMdz09

Day	Title	Speaker	Host
10/5/23 Zoom + Serin 330W	Using Supernovae to Study their Massive Star Progenitors	Azalee Kyra Bostroem, University of Arizona	Matt Buckley
10/26/23 Zoom + Serin 330W	The Topology of Chaos: A Nonlinear Perspective on Accreting Compact Object	Rebecca Phillipson, Villanova University	Matt Buckley
11/2/23 Zoom + Serin 330W	Near-field Cosmology with Stellar Streams	Nora Shipp, Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago	Matt Buckley
11/16/23 Zoom + Serin 330W	Analyzing strong gravitational lenses: successes and pitfalls	Georgios Vernardo, American Muesum of Natural History/CUNY	Matt Buckley
11/30/23 Zoom + Serin 330W	The study of Interstellar Medium diagnostics in local galaxies to Interpret the Reionization-Era	Matilde Mingozzi, STScI	Matt Buckley
12/7/23 Zoom + Serin 330W	Multi-probe cosmology forecasts for LSST	Heather Prince, Rutgers University	Matt Buckley

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Rutgers Astrophysics Past Seminar and Colloquium

Spring 2023

Day	Title (All Abstracts)	Speaker	Host
Jan 18, 2023 Serin W330 + Zoom	Paving the Way for Future Space Telescopes with Theory and Simulations	L.Y. Aaron Yung (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)	Baker
Feb 8, 2023 Serin W330 + Zoom	A Discussion of the Hubble Tension	Jo Dunkley (Princeton University) and Wendy Freedman (University of Chicago)	Hughes
Feb 15, 2023 Serin W330 + Zoom	Dark Energy Science in the Era of Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time	Humna Awan (University of Michigan)	Gawiser
April 6, 2023 Serin W330 + Zoom	Human Capacity Development in Astronomy Related to Big Research Infrastructure in South Africa	Clifford Nxomani (National Research Foundation)	Hughes
April 20, 2023 Serin W330 + Zoom	JWST from photons to science - an interactive tutorial	Camilla Pacifici (Space Telescope Science Institute)	Gawiser
Apr 27, 2023 Serin W330 + Zoom	New precision cosmological constraints from CMB lensing with the Atacama Cosmology Telescope	Mathew Madhavacheril (University of Pennsylvania)	Hughes

Fall 2021

Day	Title	Speaker	Host
Aug 31, 2021 Zoom	Fundamental Physics of Dark Matter from Dwarf Galaxy Surveys	Yao-Yuan Mao (Rutgers University)	McQuinn
Sept 2, 2021 Zoom	Galaxy Ecosystems and the Cosmic Web	Joe Burchett (New Mexico State University)	Andrew
Sept 16, 2021 Zoom	The HI View of the Low Mass Universe	Betsey Adams (ASTRON, the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy)	Alyson
Sept 29, 2021 Zoom	The Gaia mission and science highlights from the Gaia data releases	Anthony Brown (Leiden Observatory)	Andrew
Oct 6, 2021 Zoom	A Halo Census with Galaxies and Light	Annika Peter (Ohio State University)	Matt
Oct 14, 2021 Zoom	Simulating Structure and Galaxy Formation	Mark Vogelsberger (MIT)	Grace
Nov 4, 2021 Zoom	Overview of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, mapper of 1/3 of the visible universe for the next 5 years!	Satya Gontcho a Gontcho (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)	Eric
Nov 18, 2021 Zoom	Deciphering the Effect of AGB Stars on Galaxies	Martha Boyer (STScI)	Kristy
Dec 2, 2021 Zoom	How to decipher the accretion history of galaxies: Insights from stellar halos, bulges and brightest stellar streams	Antonela Monachesi (Universidad de La Serena)	Alyson

Spring 2021

Day	Title	Speaker	Host
Jan 28, 2021 Zoom	What regulates the star formation process in galaxies?	Shmuel Bialy (Harvard ITC)	Blakesley
Feb 4, 2021 Zoom	Discussion of the 2016 paper "Tools for Change: Boosting the Retention of Women in the STEM Pipeline" by Williams et al.	Grace Telford (EIJC)
Feb 11, 2021 Zoom	Betelgeuse Is Pretty Cool: Cosmic Questions for our Naked-Eye Neighbor	Emily Levesque (U. Washington)	Chuck
Feb 25, 2021 Zoom	Science, Spending, and Sausage Making: Determining Funding for Federal Science Agencies	Jeremy Weirich (AURA)	Andrew
Mar 10, 2021 Zoom	Dissecting the Cosmic Web with Fast Radio Bursts	J. Xavier Prochaska (UC Santa Cruz)
Mar 25, 2021 Zoom	The Baryon Cycle in Dwarf-Dwarf Mergers: Fueling Hierarchical Assembly	Sabrina Stierwalt (Occidental College)
Mar 31, 2021 Zoom	Exploring the stellar graveyard with gravitational waves	Laura Cadonati (Georgia Tech)	Andrew
Apr 14, 2021 Zoom	Using our Galaxy as a Gravitational Wave Detector of Giant Black Holes in the Universe	Sarah Burke-Spolaor (West Virginia University)
Apr 22, 2021 Zoom	The VINTERGATAN project: towards understanding the origins of the Milky Way	Oscar Agertz (Lund University)	Alyson
Apr 28, 2021 Zoom	Dark matter constraints from small scale structure	Risa Wechsler (Stanford University)

Spring 2020

Day	Title	Speaker	Host
Feb 13, 2020 Serin 330	Learning the Relationship Between Galaxies's Spectra and Their Star Formation Histories Using Convolutional Neural Networks and Cosmological Simulations	Christopher Lovell (U. Hertfordshire)	Eric

Day

Title

Speaker

Host

Feb 13, 2020

Serin 330

Learning the Relationship Between Galaxies's Spectra and Their Star Formation Histories Using Convolutional Neural Networks and Cosmological Simulations

Christopher Lovell (U. Hertfordshire)

Eric

Fall 2019

Day	Title	Speaker	Host
Sep 12, 2019 Serin 401	First Star-Forming Structures in Fuzzy Cosmic Filaments	Philip Mocz (Princeton)	Tad
Sep 19, 2019 Serin W330	The SAGA Survey: Exploration of Dwarf Galaxy Satellite Systems	Yao-Yuan Mao (Rutgers)	Andrew
Oct 2, 2019 Serin W330	Robbins Colloquium: Gravitational Waves Astronomy	Gabriela González (LSU)	Kristy
Oct 3, 2019 Serin W330	The Life and Death of Stellar Nurseries: GMCs and Stellar Clusters in Cosmological Simulations	Samantha Benincasa (UC Davis)	Alyson
Oct 10, 2019 Serin W330	A (Massive) Star is Born: How Stellar Feedback Limits Accretion onto Massive Stars	Anna Rosen (Harvard)	Blakesley
Oct 16, 2019 Serin W330	Insight into the Geophysical Evolution of Mars from Remote Sensing	Lujendra Ojha (Rutgers)	Tad
Oct 17, 2019 Serin W330	Using Metals and Stars to Constrain Galaxies’ Past Gaseous Inflows and Outflows	Grace Telford (Rutgers)	Saurabh/Ray
Oct 24, 2019 Serin W330	Interpreting the Kitchen Sink: a Path Towards Better Understanding Galaxy Evolution	John Forbes (CCA)	Andrew/Yssa
Oct 31, 2019 Serin W330	Two Tales of Black Holes and Anisotropies	Yacine Ali-Haïmoud (NYU)	Yao
Nov 6, 2019 Serin W330	Chandra's Remarkable 20 Year View of the Energetic Universe	Jeremy Drake (Smithsonian)	Jack
Nov 14, 2019 Serin W330	Cosmological Probe Combination for Current and Future Surveys	Andrina Nicola (Princeton)	Eric/Charlotte
Nov 21, 2019 Serin W330	Are Exoplanetary Systems Flat?	Kento Masuda (IAS)	Tad/Kyle
Dec 5, 2019 Serin W330	The Life of Galaxies: internal and external processes regulating their star formation cycle	Toby Brown (McMaster)	Andrew/Anthony

Spring 2019

Day	Title	Speaker	Host
Jan 31, 2019 Serin W330	The Atomic to Molecular (HI-to-H2) Transition in Galaxy Star-Forming Regions	Amiel Sternberg (Tev Aviv University, Flatiron Institute, Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics)	Baker/Wu
Feb 7, 2019 Serin W330	The Turbulent Origin of Stars	Phil Chang (U. Wisconsin, Milwaukee)	Pryor/Dettman
Feb 21, 2019 Serin W330	The Journey or the Destination: Isolating the Origin of the Physics Driving Gas Conditions in Galaxy Nuclei	Elisabeth Mills (Brandeis)	Andrew Baker
Feb 28, 2019 Serin W330	Type Ia supernovae: Explosions and Progenitors	Wolfgang Kerzendorf (NYU/Michigan State)	Pryor/Camacho-Neves
Mar 7, 2019 Serin W330	Classification to Cosmology	Tina Peters (Toronto)	Eric Gawiser
Mar 14, 2019 Serin W330	Galaxy Evolution from Large Surveys of Nearby Resolved Galaxies	Karen Masters (Haverford)	Andrew Baker
Apr 11, 2019 Serin W330	Searching for Active Galactic Nuclei in Low-Mass Galaxies	Vivienne Baldassare (Yale)	Keeton/Sharma
Apr 18, 2019 Serin W330	Panning for gold with things that go bang in the night	Jennifer Barnes (Columbia)	Alyson Brooks
Apr 25, 2019 Serin W330	The origin of multiphase galaxy outflows	Evan Schneider (Princeton)	Alyson Brooks
May 2, 2019 Serin W330	Pulsar glitches are fun(damental physics) and NICER	Wynn Ho (Haverford)	Hughes/Arunachalam

Fall 2018

Day	Title	Speaker	Host
Sep 12, 2018 PLH	Understanding Dwarf Galaxies in order to Understand Dark Matter	Alyson Brooks (Rutgers)	Eric
Sep 27, 2018 Serin 401	One Universe, Different Lenses	David Alonso (Oxford)	Eric/Adam
Oct 4, 2018 Serin 401	Dynamical chaos as a tool for elucidating exoplanetary system architectures	Daniel Tamayo (Princeton)	Tad/Kyle
Oct 11, 2018 Serin 401	Pulsar Timing Arrays: The Next Window to Open on the Gravitational-Wave Universe Chiara Mingarelli (Flatiron/CCA)	Chiara Mingarelli (Flatiron/CCA)	Mi/Yssavo
Oct 17, 2018 PLH	Probing Dark Energy with Strong Gravitational Lensing and LSST	Phil Marshall (SLAC)	Eric/Humna
Oct 25, 2018 Serin 401	Weighing Galaxy Clusters with Weak Lensing in Hyper Suprime-Cam Survey	Elinor Medezinski (Princeton)	Saurabh/Peter
Nov 1, 2018 Serin 401	Science and Space Policy and You (Yes, You!) in the Current Era	Ashlee Wilkins (AAS)	Andrew/Jesse
Nov 8, 2018 Serin 401	The Increasing Importance of Dust in Massive Galaxies in the Early Universe	Danilo Marchesini (Tufts)	Alyson/John
Nov 15, 2018 Serin 401	Detection of Cool Accretion Disk around the Galactic Centre Black Hole Sagittarius A*	Elena Murchikova (IAS)	Andrew/Anthony
Nov 29, 2018 Serin 401	Cosmic Mega-city: galaxy constituents in a Coma progenitor at z>3	Kyoung-Soo Lee (Purdue)	Eric/Charlotte
Dec 5, 2018 Serin 401	The 2018 Boyd Colloquium: From Physics to Finance	Betsy Barton (Renaissance Technologies)	Andrew
Dec 6, 2018 Serin 401	Fast and furious: magnetic reconnection in relativistic jets and black hole coronae	Lorenzo Sironi (Columbia)	Jack/Ray

Spring 2018

Day	Title (All Abstracts)	Speaker	Host
Jan 18, 2018 Serin 401	Turbulent Beginnings: A Predictive Theory of Star Formation in the Interstellar Medium	Blakesley Burkhart (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA)	Eric/Humna
Jan 23, 2018 Serin 401	The Low-Mass Galaxy Frontier	Kristen McQuinn (UT Austin)	Alyson/Anna
Jan 25, 2018 Serin 401	Insights into Dark Matter from the Stellar Halos of Galaxies	Robyn Sanderson (Caltech)	Matt/Elaad
Feb 1, 2018 Serin 401	Measuring Dark Energy With Supernovae and Kilonovae	Daniel Scolnic (Chicago)	Saurabh/Kyle
Feb 13, 2018 Serin 401	The First Billion Years of the Universe	Eli Visbal (Flatiron Institute)	Andrew/Aaron
Feb 15, 2018 Serin 401	New Information in Ancient Photons: Novel Approaches to CMB Secondary Anisotropies	J. Colin Hill (IAS)	Jack/Peter
Feb 20, 2018 Serin 401	Cosmic Surveys in the Next Decade: Mapping the Landscape of the Universe	Chihway Chang (Chicago)	Chuck/Catie
Feb 22, 2018 Serin 385	The Nature of Planet Formation	Jacob Simon (Colorado)	Andrew/Jesse
Mar 21, 2018 PLH	Forging the Heaviest Elements	Rebecca Surman (Notre Dame)	Jolie
Mar 22, 2018 Serin 401	Improving Our View of the z>6 Universe with Dust Laws, Lensed Galaxies, and a Candidate Spatially Resolved Arc at z~10	Brett Salmon (STScI)	Andrew/John Wu
Apr 5, 2018 Serin 401	Clusters of Galaxies: Laboratories for Probing the Properties of Baryons and Dark Matter	Esra Bulbul (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA)	Jack/Peter
Apr 12, 2018 Serin 401	Galaxy Evolution in High Definition Via Gravitational Lensing	Jane Rigby (NASA/GSFC)	Chuck/Catie
Apr 19, 2018 Serin 401	Gaia and the Galactic halo	Vasily Belokurov (Cambridge)	Alyson/Kyle
Apr 25, 2018 PLH	The Terrestrial Planets of Other Stars	David Charbonneau (Harvard)	Jha/Yssavo
Apr 26, 2018 Serin 401	How to Learn from Cosmological Data	Ben Wandelt (Flatiron Institute; Sorbonne and Princeton Universities)	Jack

Fall 2017

Day	Title (All Abstracts)	Speaker	Host
Sep 14, 2017 Serin 401	Supernova cosmology in the era of LSST	Mi Dai (Rutgers)	Jha/Camacho
Sep 28, 2017 Serin 401	Reconciling (and using) the stellar and nebular emission of high-redshift galaxies	Chuck Steidel (Caltech)	Baker/Wu
Oct 4, 2017 PLH	The architecture of exoplanetary systems	Josh Winn (Princeton)	Jha
Oct 5, 2017 Serin 401	The rates of supernovae, far and near	Lou Strolger (STScI)	Jha/Dettman
Oct 12, 2017 Serin 401	The mass functions of galaxies and galaxy groups in the RESOLVE survey	Kathleen Eckert (Penn)	Baker/Young
Oct 19, 2017 Serin 401	Very wide binaries and comoving stars from the Gaia mission	Adrian Price-Whelan (Princeton)	Brooks/Wright
Oct 26, 2017 Serin 401	Planet formation through radio eyes	Meredith Hughes (Wesleyan)	Keeton/Rivera
Nov 2, 2017 Serin 401	Ultra-light axions and the cosmic microwave background	Daniel Grin (Haverford)	Keeton/Iyer
Nov 9, 2017 Serin 401	Engineering the measurement of the Hubble Constant	Rachael Beaton (Princeton)	Pryor/Applebaum
Nov 15, 2017 PLH	The multi-messenger picture of a neutron star merger	Brian Metzger (Columbia)	Jha
Nov 16, 2017 Serin 401	Highlights from LIGO's second observing run	Marc Favata (Montclair State)	Somerville/Yung
Nov 30, 2017 Serin 401	Neutrino mass from CMB lensing and cross-correlations	Mathew Madhavacheril (Princeton)	Gawiser/Awan
Dec 7, 2017 Serin 401	Constraints on cosmic-ray acceleration efficiency in Balmer shocks of two young Type Ia supernova remnants in the Large Magellanic Cloud	Luke Hovey (Los Alamos)	Hughes/Arunachalam

Spring 2017

Day	Title (All Abstracts)	Speaker	Host
Jan 26, 2017 Serin 401	Neutrons in Type Ia Supernovae: the most dangerous and terrifying particles in the Universe!	Carles Badenes (Pittsburgh)	Hughes/Arunachalam
Feb 2, 2017 Serin 401	A Multi-Scale Approach to Modeling the Baryon Cycle	Romeel Davé (Univ. Western Cape)	Sellwood/Brennan
Feb 16, 2017 Serin 401	Dark influences: the impact of dark satellites on dwarf galaxies	Tjitske Starkenburg (Simons CCA)	Somerville/Ahmed
Feb 23, 2017 Serin 401	Weak lensing in the nonlinear regime	Jia Liu (Princeton)	Gawiser/Camacho
Mar 2, 2017 Serin 401	Galactic Archaeology with Spectroscopy and Gaia	Keith Hawkins (Columbia)	Baker/Rivera
Mar 9, 2017 Serin 385	The All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae	Ben Shappee (Carnegie/Princeton)	Jha/Dettman
Mar 23, 2017 Serin 401	Using neutral hydrogen to measure cosmic magnetism and CMB foregrounds	Susan Clark (Columbia)	Baker/Wu
Mar 30, 2017 Serin 401	Enhancing Cosmic Probes of Gravity with Weak Lensing	Anthony Pullen (NYU)	Gawiser/Mitchell
Apr 6, 2017 Serin 401	Improving Gaia Parallaxes with a Data-Driven Model of the Color-Magnitude Diagram	Lauren Anderson (Simons CCA)	Somerville/Applebaum
Apr 13, 2017 Serin 401	Weighing the Giants: Cluster Masses and Cosmology	Anja von der Linden (Stony Brook)	Pryor/Brennan
Apr 19, 2017 PLH	Observing the signature of a single prolific r-process event in an ultra-faint dwarf galaxy	Anna Frebel (MIT)	Pryor/Yung
Apr 26, 2017 PLH	Star Hacking – Finding the Next Earth and Getting There	Hakeem Oluseyi (Florida Tech/NASA)	Baker
Apr 27, 2017 Serin 401	Exploring the low surface brightness sky with the Dragonfly Telephoto Array	Pieter van Dokkum (Yale)	Jha/Wright

Fall 2016

Day	Title (All Abstracts)	Speaker	Host
Sep 7, 2016 PLH	Not-So-Dense Gas in Not-So-Distant Galaxies	Andrew Baker (Rutgers)	Sellwood
Sep 8, 2016 Serin 385	Probing Dark Energy and Dark Matter with High-Redshift Galaxies in the Era of Big Data	Eric Gawiser (Rutgers)	Somerville
Sep 15, 2016 Serin 401	Galaxy-galaxy lensing for cosmology in the Dark Energy Survey	Juliana Kwan (U. Penn)	Gawiser/Iyer
Sep 29, 2016 Serin 401	Cosmology with large imaging surveys: from precision to accuracy	Boris Leistedt (NYU)	Gawiser/Awan
Oct 6, 2016 Serin 401	Gas Flows on Various Scales	Mary Putman (Columbia)	Sellwood
Oct 13, 2016 Serin 401	Missing baryons and missing metals in galaxies: Clues from our Milky Way	Smita Mathur (Ohio State University)	Somerville/Yung
Oct 20, 2016 Serin 401	Lagrangian analysis of cosmological simulations	Shy Genel (SCCA)	Brooks/Sloane
Oct 27, 2016 Serin 401	Measuring the scatter in the cluster optical richness-mass relation with machine learning	Steve Boada (Rutgers)	Hughes
Nov 3, 2016 Serin 401	The Satellite Populations of Milky Way-like Galaxies	Marla Geha (Yale)	Pryor/Applebaum
Nov 10, 2016 Serin 385	From Black Holes to Dark Energy, with a journey from New Jersey to Texas	Karl Gebhardt (UT Austin)	Gawiser/Pryor
Dec 1, 2016 Serin 401	ETHOS - From dark particle physics to the matter distribution of the Universe and beyond	Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine (Harvard)	Keeton/Mitchell
Dec 7, 2016 PLH	The Polarized Microwave Background: ACTPol and Beyond	Jo Dunkley (Princeton)	Jha
Dec 8, 2016 Serin 401	The Rise of the Quenched Galaxies in The Romulus Simulations	Michael Tremmel (UW)	Somerville/Brooks/Wright

Spring 2016

Day	Title	Speaker	Host
Jan 21, 2016 Serin 385	The James Webb Space Telescope	Jonathan Gardner (GSFC)	Somerville
Jan 28, 2016 Serin 401	Rings and Radial Waves in the Milky Way's Stellar Disk	Heidi Newberg (RPI)	Sellwood
Feb 11, 2016 Serin 401	A New Population of X-ray Transients? and ALMA Observations of the Frontier Fields	Franz Bauer (Pont. U. Catolica)	Gawiser
Mar 2, 2016 PLH	Self-calibration, Systematic Errors, and Exoplanet Discovery	David Hogg (NYU)	Jha
Mar 10, 2016 Serin 401	Ali Baba & The 40 Thieves: An Extremely High Resolution Dwarf Galaxy Simulation	Ferah Munshi (Rutgers)	Pryor
Mar 24, 2016 Serin 401	Cross Correlations with CMB Secondaries: Constraining Cosmological Parameters and Cluster Astrophysics	Nicholas Battaglia (Princeton)	Hughes
Mar 30, 2016 PLH	Next Generation Cosmological Constraints on the Dark Sector and Gravity	Rachel Bean (Cornell)	Gawiser
Apr 7, 2016 Serin 401	Explosions in my Data	Federica Bianco (NYU)	Jha
Apr 13, 2016 PLH	Planet Formation under the Microscope: The Role of Ice Physics and Chemistry in the Compositions of Nascent Planets	Karin Öberg (Harvard)	Baker
Apr 28, 2016 Serin 401	Fireworks from Massive Stars at the End of their Lives	Raffaella Margutti (NYU)	Jha

Fall 2015

Day	Title	Speaker	Host
Sept 10, 2015 Serin 401	Understanding the Physics of Galaxy Clusters	Andrea Morandi (U. Alabama-Huntsville)	Matilsky
Sept 17, 2015 Serin 401	New Insights on the Origin of Cosmic Rays	Damiano Caprioli (Princeton)	Hughes
Sept 24, 2015 Serin 401	The Ups and Downs of Galaxies	Camilla Pacifici (STScI)	Gawiser
Oct 1, 2015 Serin 401	Bridging the Gap: Connecting Supernova Remnants to Supernovae	Brian Williams (GSFC-NASA)	Hughes
Oct 7, 2015 PLH	The Origin of Spirals in Galaxies	Jerry Sellwood (Rutgers)	Matilsky
Oct 15, 2015 Serin 401	The Role of Cosmic Ray Feedback in Galaxy Formation	Greg Bryan (Columbia)	Keeton
Oct 26, 2015 Serin 401	Subhalos in the real Universe: satellite galaxy-galaxy lensing	Cristobal Sifon (Leiden)	Hughes
Oct 29, 2015 Serin 401	Scrutinizing the Relationship Between Galaxies and Supermassive Black Holes	Jillian Bellovary (AMNH)	Brooks
Nov 4, 2016 PLH	Self-calibration, systematic errors, and exoplanet discovery	David W. Hogg (NYU)	Matilsky
Nov 5, 2016 Serin 401	Dark Matter Models in the Local and High-z Universe	Brandon Bozek (University of Texas)	Brooks
Nov 19, 2016 Serin 401	The Assembly of Disk Galaxies	Susan Kassin (STScI)	Brooks
Dec 3, 2016 Serin 401	The Complex Interplay between Star Formation and Galaxy Evolution at low and high redshifts	Desika Narayanan (Haverford College)	Somerville

Fall 2014

Day	Title	Speaker	Host
Sept 4, 2014 Serin 401	The First z>2 Large-Scale Structure Map with Lyman-Alpha Forest Tomography from LBGs	Khee-Gan Lee (MPIA)	Matilsky
Sept 11, 2014 Serin 401	Young Brown Dwarfs as Exoplanet Analogs	Emily Rice (AMNH/College of Staten Island)	Brooks
Sept 15, 2014 Serin 401	Time Delay Cosmology	Eric Linder (Berkeley/LBNL)	Keeton
Sept 17, 2014 PLH	Peering into the past with gravitational lensing	Chuck Keeton (Rutgers)	Keeton
Sept 18, 2014 Serin 401	Feedback-regulated star formation on galactic and cosmological scales	Claude-Andre Faucher-Giguere (Northwestern University)	Somerville
Sept 24, 2014 PLH	The Challenge of Galaxy Formation	Joseph Silk (Johns Hopkins University)	Sellwood
Oct 1, 2014 PLH	Think Globally, Act Locally: Physical Models of Galaxy Formation in a Cosmological Framework	Rachel Somerville (Rutgers)	Somerville
Oct 2, 2014 Serin 401	The Next Steps in Exoplanet Discovery and Characterization	Joshua Pepper (Lehigh University)	Brooks
Oct 9, 2014 Serin 401	Using Blind HI Surveys to Study Galaxy Evolution Across Cosmic Time	Ximena Fernandez (Columbia University)	Baker
Oct 15, 2014 PLH	The Potential Dark Matter Signal in Light from the Central Milky Way	Tracy Slatyer (MIT)	Brooks/Buckley
Oct 16, 2014 Serin 401	Sizing up the Stars	Tabetha Boyajian (Yale University)	Keeton
Oct 23, 2014 Serin 401	The effect of feedback on galaxy growth, disc formation, and r-process enrichment in cosmological simulations	Freeke van de Voort (UC Berkeley)	Brooks
Oct 30, 2014 Serin 401	Neutron Stars and Black Holes: Insights into their Formation, Evolution, and Structure from their Masses and Radii	Feryal Ozel (U Arizona)	Jha
Nov 6, 2014 Serin 401	Lighting Up The Dark: Where Is The Dark Matter?	Neta Bahcall (Princeton)	Sellwood
Nov 13, 2014 Serin 401	Hunting the Most Distant Stars in the Galaxy	John Bochanski (Rider University)	Teyssier
Nov 20, 2014 Serin 401	The Dark Side of Galaxy Evolution	Andrew Hearin (Yale University)	Brooks
Dec 4, 2014 Serin 401	Digging for Treasure: supernovae buried in galaxy spectra	Or Graur (NYU)	Jha

Spring 2014

Day	Title	Speaker	Host
Jan 23, 2014 Serin 401	Star Formation From Galaxies to Cores	Mordecai-Mark Mac Low (American Museum of Natural History)	Sellwood
Jan 29, 2014 PLH	Cosmic Beauty and Blemishes	Marc Kamionkowski (Johns Hopkins University)	Gawiser
Feb 6, 2014 Serin 401	Our Developing Understanding of the Stellar Initial Mass Function	Dennis Zaritsky (University of Arizona)	Sellwood
Feb 19, 2014 PLH	Black Hole Accretion	Ramesh Narayan (Harvard University)	Sellwood
Feb 27, 2014 Serin 401	What have galaxies done with their metals?	Molly Peeples (STScI)	Somerville
Mar 6, 2014 Serin 401	HSTPROMO: Local Group Dynamics from HST Proper Motions	Roeland van der Marel (STScI)	Pryor
Mar 13, 2014 Serin 401	The All-Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae (ASAS-SN): Big Science with Small Telescopes	Jose Prieto (Princeton University)	Keeton
Mar 27, 2014 Serin 401	Tracking Baryon Cycling Across Halo Mass	Charlotte Christensen (U Arizona)	Somerville
Apr 3, 2014 Serin 385	Precise Radial Velocities for the Future of Eoxplanet Detection	Jason Wright (Penn State)	Gawiser
Apr 10, 2014 Serin 401	Constrained Simulation of the Bullet Cluster	Craig Lage (NYU)	Hughes
Apr 17, 2014 Serin 401	Modeling AGN Feedback in Cool-Core Galaxy Clusters	Yuan Li (Columbia)	Hughes
Apr 22, 2014 Serin 401	Dynamics of the Milky Way Bulge and its X-shaped Structure	Juntai Shen (Shanghai Observatory)	Sellwood
Apr 24, 2014 Serin 401	A Newly Discovered Population of Dwarf Galaxies in the Early Universe: Contribution to the Star Formation Rate Density and the Ionizing Background	Brian Siana (UC Riverside)	Brooks
May 1, 2014 Serin 401	Atomic and Molecular Gas Properties of Nearby Galaxies	Guinevere Kauffmann (Max Planck Inst for Astrophysics)	Somerville

Fall 2013

Day	Title	Speaker	Host
Sep 12, 2013 Serin 401	Galaxy Zoo: Observing Secular Evolution through Bars	Edmond Cheung (U.C. Santa Cruz)	Sellwood
Sep 19, 2013 Serin 401	Beyond Dark Energy	Bhuvnesh Jain (U. Penn)	Jha
Sep 25, 2013 Wright Lab Auditorium	Giant Planets in Dusty Disks: How Solids Affect Planet Formation	Sally Dodson-Robinson (U. Delaware)	Somerville
Oct 3, 2013 Serin 401	A New Probe of the Distribution of Dark Matter in Spiral Galaxies	Sukanya Chakrabarti (RIT)	Gawiser
Oct 10, 2013 Serin 401	Modeling multiphase gas and sub-mm line emission in galaxies	Gergo Popping (Groningen)	Somerville
Oct 17, 2013 Serin 401	From clouds to protostars (and then back to the cloud): studying the early stages of star formation and stellar feedback	Héctor Arce (Yale)	Brooks
Oct 23, 2013 PLH	What is the Nature of Dark Energy and Dark Matter?	Tommaso Treu (U.C. Santa Barbara)	Keeton
Oct 31, 2013 Serin 401	Black Hole Growth in Hierarchical Galaxy Formation	Ena Choi (Princeton & Rutgers)	Pryor
Nov 7, 2013 Serin 401	Deficit Spending and the Cluster Baryon Budget	Ann Zabludoff (Arizona)	Hughes
Nov 13, 2013 PLH	A Galactic Scale Gravitational Wave Observatory	Maura McLaughlin (West Virginia)	Baker
Nov 21, 2013 Serin 401	Dynamically Extreme Stellar and Galactic Populations in the Via Lactea II Cosmological Simulation and Their Observable Counterparts	Maureen Teyssier (Rutgers)	Gawiser
Dec 5, 2013 Serin 401	Spiral Structure as an Indicator of Mass Distribution in Disk Galaxies	Joel Berrier (Rutgers)	Matilsky
Dec 9, 2013 Serin 401	Galaxy Clusters in the Distant Universe	Vy Tran (Texas A&M)	Baker

Spring 2013

Day	Title	Speaker	Host
Jan 24, 2013 Serin 401	HATs of various sort	Gaspar Bakos (Princeton University)	Jack
Jan 31, 2013 Serin 401	A Full-Scale Intervention of How Galaxies Form with New Constraints from the Circumgalactic Medium	Benjamin D. Oppenheimer (Leiden University)	Marcel / Rachel
Feb 7, 2013 Serin 401	Gravitational waves and stalled satellites from massive galaxy mergers at z < 1	Sean McWilliams (Princeton University)	Terry
Feb 14, 2013 Serin 401	Optical Cluster Cosmology	Eduardo Rozo (KIPAC; Stanford)	Felipe
Feb 21, 2013 Serin 401	Self-Regulated Star Formation in Galactic Disks	Eve Ostriker (Princeton University)	Andrew
Feb 28, 2013 Serin 401	Accretion and Ejection Physics around Black Holes: X-ray Spectroscopy and Variable Outflows	Joey Neilsen (Boston University)	Tad
March 7, 2013 Serin 401	The dark and the light: Black holes, dark halos, and their influence on galaxy evolution	Ryan Hickox (Dartmouth College)	Eric
March 13, 2013 Serin 401	First Results From The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) High-Energy X-ray Mission	Fiona Harrison (CalTech)	Jack
March 14, 2013 Serin 401	Cluster Cosmology with the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT)	Matthew Hasselfield (Princeton University)	Felipe
April 4, 2013 Serin 401	Observational Signatures of Coalescing Compact Binaries	Brian Metzger (Columbia University)	Tad
April 10, 2013 Serin 401	More Physics from the Cosmic Microwave Background from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope	Suzanne Staggs (Princeton University)	Jack
April 18, 2013 Serin 401	Spin Measurements of Stellar-Mass Black Holes from X-ray Continuum Fitting and Modeling Relativistically Broadened Iron Lines	Jack Steiner (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA)	Jerry
April 25, 2013 Serin 401	Gravitational Lensing Analysis of the 12 'high-redshift' MACS Galaxy Clusters	Mathilde Jauzac (UKZN)	Chuck
May 2, 2013 Serin 385	Outstanding Questions for Exoplanetary Science and Astrobiology	Caleb Scharf (Columbia University)	Rachel

Fall 2012

Day	Title	Speaker
Sept 6, 2012 Serin 385	The Local Type Ia Supernova Progenitors	Ashley Pagnotta (AMNH)
Sept 13, 2012 Serin 385	X-ray Spectroscopy of Young Supernova Remnants: Revealing Stellar Nucleosynthesis and the Progenitor Environment	Hiroya Yamaguchi (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA)
Sept 20, 2012 Serin 385	Occupy Dark Matter: Uncovering the 99% of Dusty Galaxies which Lie Beneath the Confusion Noise Floor	Marco Viero (Caltech)
Sept 27, 2012 Serin 385	Cosmology with Shear Peak Statistics	Deborah Bard (SLAC)
Oct 4, 2012 Serin 385	Simulating the Fundamental Plane of Early-Type Galaxies	Lauren Porter (UC Santa Cruz)
Oct 11, 2012 Serin 385	The Lyman Continuum Escape Fraction and Other Curiosities in HST Deep UV Surveys	Harry Teplitz (IPAC)
Oct 17, 2012 Serin 385	Cosmology with Cold Dark Matter and Dark Energy: Large-Scale Triumphs and Small-Scale Challenges	Joel Primack (UC Santa Cruz)
Oct 25, 2012 Serin 385	Towards 1% Measurements of Cosmological Distances with Cosmic Sound	Nikhil Padmanabhan (Yale)
Nov 8, 2012 Serin 385	Probing the Gas Around Galaxies and Black Holes	Aleks Diamond-Stanic (UC San Diego)
Nov 14, 2012 Serin 385	The First Black Holes in the Universe	Priya Natarajan (Yale)
Nov 29, 2012 Serin 385	Counting Giants: Cosmology from Massive Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Galaxy Clusters	Felipe Menanteau (Rutgers)
Dec 6, 2012 Serin 385	Observing the Unobservable: Tracing Dark Matter Haloes and Galaxy Assembly	Genevieve Graves (Princeton)
Dec 12, 2012 Serin 385	Characterizing Exoplanets: Transits and Direct Imaging	Ray Jayawardhana (U Toronto)

Spring 2012

Day	Title	Speaker
Jan 6, 2012 Serin 385	Understanding the Spectral Energy Distribution of Galaxies	Viviana Acquaviva (Rutgers)
Jan 18, 2012 PLH	Supernovae and the Discovery of the Accelerating Universe	Adam Riess (JHU)
Jan 20, 2012 Serin 385	Searching for Simplicity in the High-Redshift Universe	Kristian Finlator (UCSB)
Jan 23, 2012 Serin 385	Computational Cosmology and Galaxy Formation	Michael Kuhlen (UCB)
Jan 27, 2012 Serin 385	Toward the formation of Realistic Galaxies	Alyson Brooks (CalTech)
Jan 30, 2012 Serin 385	Galaxies and Quasars at the Cosmic Dawn	Yuexing Li (Penn State)
Feb 17, 2012 Serin 385	First Measurements of Cosmic Ray Composition using the Ice Cube Neutrino Observatory	Karen Andeen (Rutgers)
Feb 24, 2012 Serin 385	The Puzzle of LINERs and the Warm Ionized Gas in Early-Type Galaxies	Renbin Yan (NYU)
March 2, 2012 Serin 385	Cold Flow Disks and Gas Halos Around Galaxies	Ari Maller (CUNY)
March 9, 2012 Serin 385	New Observational Constraints on the Structure of the Milky Way Disk	Jo Bovy (IAS)
April 6, 2012 Serin 385	New Results from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope	Renee Hlozek (Princeton)
April 11, 2012 PLH	The Astrophysics of Black Hole Spin	Chris Reynolds (Maryland)
April 13, 2012 Serin 385	New Light on Stellar Astrophysics with Kepler	Lucianne Walkowicz (Princeton)
April 20, 2012 Serin 385	Damped Lyman Alpha Absorption Systems: Neutral Gas Reservoirs for Star Formation in Early Galaxies	Art Wolfe (UCSD)
April 25, 2012 PLH	Structure, Reactions, Astrophysics – Overlaps in Low-Energy Nuclear Physics	Kate Jones (Tennessee)
April 27, 2012 Serin 385	Dwarf Novae, Classical Novae and Supernovae – the Same DNA	Michael Shara (AMNH)
May 4, 2012 Serin 385	Optimal Mass Configurations for Lensing High-Redshift Galaxies	Ken Wong (Arizona)

Fall 2011

Day	Title	Speaker	Host
Sept 9, 2011 Serin 385	Searching for redshift ~7 quasars with UKIDSS	Daniel Mortlock (Imperial College London)	Somerville
Sept 23, 2011 Serin 385	Stellar Forensics with Explosions: Supernovae, GRBs, and their Environments	Maryam Modjaz (NYU)	Somerville
Sept 30, 2011 Serin 385	Astrophysically Motivated Bulge-disk decompositions in the SDSS	Claire Lackner (Princeton)	Somerville
Oct 7, 2011 Serin 385	Reading the Elements	Kathryn Johnston (Columbia)	Somerville
Oct 14, 2011 Serin 385	What the CANDELS Survey is Telling us about AGN Host Galaxies at z~2	Dale Kocevski (UC Santa Cruz)	Somerville
Oct 21, 2011 Serin 385	Lyman alpha emitters: galaxies with active star formation and something else	Lucia Guaita (Stockholm University)	Somerville
Nov 4, 2011 Serin 385	Real estate within 100 parsecs of the Sun: a census of local M dwarfs for exoplanet surveys and Galactic archaeology	Sebastian Lepine (AMNH)	Somerville
Nov 11, 2011 Serin 385	The Unseen Sources of Early Enrichment and Reionization: Explanations for the Evolution of C IV Density at z = 5-6	Roban Kramer (ETH Zurich)	Somerville
Nov 18, 2011 Serin 385	The Role of Dwarf Galaxy Interactions in Shaping the Magellanic System and Implications for Magellanic Irregulars and Dwarf Spheroidals	Gurtina Besla (Columbia)	Somerville
Dec 9, 2011 Serin 385	Gamma-Ray Bursts as Tools for Extragalactic Astrophysics and Cosmology	Rosalba Perna (U. Colorado)	Somerville

Spring 2011

Day	Title	Speaker	Host
Jan 19, 2011 PLH	Galaxy Formation in the Cosmic Ecosystem	Romeel Davé (U Arizona)	Matilsky
Jan 21, 2011 Serin 385	Stellar Populations of Dwarf Early-Type Galaxies in the Coma Cluster	Ana Matkovic (Penn State)	Matilsky
Jan 31, 2011 PLH	Distant Galaxies, Dark Matter, and Dark Energy	Eric Gawiser (Rutgers)	Matilsky
Feb 9, 2011 Serin 385	Gravitational Weak Lensing Tomography and Examples of its Application	Will Dawson (UC Davis)	Matilsky
Feb 22, 2011 Serin 372	Resonant Stripping as the Origin of Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies	Elena D'Onghia (CfA)	Matilsky
Feb 25, 2011 Serin 385	Thermodynamics of the Hot Gas in Galaxy Groups and Clusters	Ian McCarthy (University of Cambridge)	Matilsky
March 1, 2011 Serin 372	How do galaxies get their gas?	Dušan Kereš (Berkeley)	Matilsky
March 11, 2011 Serin 385	Extreme-Contrast Imaging: the Dawn of Comparative Exoplanetology	Stanimir Metchev (Stony Brook)	Matilsky
March 21, 2011 Serin 385	Gravitational Lensing by Compact Objects in the Galactic Center: Can we exclude or detect a boson star?	Amitai Bin-Nun (Penn)	Matilsky
March 25, 2011 Serin 385	The CO Survey of Nearby Galaxies with Nobeyama and CARMA	Jennifer Donovan Meyer (Stony Brook)	Matilsky
April 1, 2011 Serin 385	Cold Streams, Hot Winds	Ryan Joung (Columbia University)	Matilsky
April 8, 2011 Serin 385	Exoplanets: Misaligned, Migratory, Metallic, and Mini	Geoff Marcy (Berkeley)	Matilsky
April 9, 2011 PLH	Earth-Size Exoplanets and Intelligent Life in the Universe	Geoff Marcy (Berkeley)	Matilsky
April 13, 2011 PLH	Dense Gas in Distant Galaxies	Andrew Baker (Rutgers)	Matilsky
April 15, 2011 Serin 385	Casting shadows on the standard interstellar medium paradigm with GALFA-HI	Josh Peek (Columbia University)	Matilsky
April 22, 2011 Serin 385	The Factory & The Beehive: Stellar Rotations at 600 Myr	Marcel Agüeros (Columbia University)	Matilsky
April 27, 2011 PLH	Surveying the Accelerating Universe with Supernovae	Saurabh Jha (Rutgers)	Matilsky
April 29, 2011 Serin 385	Head in the Clouds: The Spectra of Brown Dwarfs and Massive Exoplanets	Kelle Cruz (Hunter College)	Matilsky
May 13, 2011 Serin 385	Dark Energy and the Accelerating Universe: One Observationalist's Mid-Semester Report Card	Saul Perlmutter (Berkeley/LBL)	Matilsky
May 18, 2011 Serin 385	On the Physics and Chemistry of Electromagnetic Interactions at Icy Worlds	Kevin Hand (NASA/JPL)	Matilsky

Fall 2010

Day	Title	Speaker	Host
Sep 3, 2010 Serin 385	Submillimeter Galaxies in the Age of LMT and ALMA	Grant Wilson (Massachusetts)	Baker
Sep 17, 2010 Serin 385	Evolution of Giant Molecular Clouds in Galaxies	Jin Koda (Stony Brook)	Baker
Oct 1, 2010 Serin 385	The Galaxy Stellar Mass Function in COSMOS: New Results on an Old Galaxy Dichotomy	Niv Drory (MPE)	Baker
Oct 8, 2010 Serin 385	Planet Migration in the Solar System	Renu Malhotra (Arizona)	Baker
Oct 15, 2010 Serin 385	Insights into Galaxy Formation and Cosmology from Weak Lensing	Rachel Mandelbaum (Princeton)	Baker
Oct 20, 2010 PLH	Clusters and Cosmology from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope	Jack Hughes (Rutgers)	Baker
Oct 22, 2010 Serin 385	Combining Optical and Radio Catalogs to Test Active Galactic Nuclei Unification	Paul Wiita (TCNJ)	Baker
Oct 29, 2010 Serin 385	Exploiting Microwave Imaging Spectroscopy for Advances in Solar Astrophysics	Dale Gary (NJIT)	Baker
Nov 3, 2010 PLH	Detecting Gravitational Waves (and doing other cool physics) with Millisecond Pulsars	Scott Ransom (NRAO)	Baker
Nov 5, 2010 Serin 385	Direct Imaging of Exoplanets	Rebecca Oppenheimer (AMNH)	Baker
Nov 12, 2010 Serin 385	Galaxy Gas Flows	Mary Putman (Columbia)	Baker
Dec 1, 2010 PLH	The Quest to Understand the Origins of the Big Bang	Matias Zaldarriaga (IAS)	Baker
Dec 3, 2010 Serin 385	Some Results from the Herschel Space Observatory	Bruce Draine (Princeton)	Baker
Dec 8, 2010 PLH	The Fast Track to Finding an Inhabited Exoplanet	David Charbonneau (Harvard)	Baker
Dec 10, 2010 Serin 385	The Life Cycle of Massive Galaxies	Mariska Kriek (CfA)	Baker

Spring 2010

Pryor

Day	Title	Speaker	Host
Jan 29, 2010 Serin 385	Characterizing The CMB at Arcminute Scales: First Results from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope	Amir Hajian (Princeton)	Pryor
Feb 19, 2010 Serin 385	Tracking Down the Missing Population of Obscured AGN	Jennifer Donley (STScI)	Pryor
Feb 24, 2010 PLH	Where Did Half the Starlight in the Universe Go?	Mark Devlin (Penn)	Pryor
Mar 26, 2010 Serin 385	Joint Astrophysics/Nuclear Seminar: Recoil Separators for Explosive Hydrogen Burning Studies	Michael Smith (ORNL)	Pryor
Apr 2, 2010 Serin 385	The Dependence of Gas Richness and Disk Building on Galaxy Mass	Sheila Kannappan (UNC)	Pryor
Apr 9, 2010 Serin 385	Exploding Supermassive White Dwarfs from the Nearby Supernova Factory	Richard Scalzo (Yale)	Pryor
Apr 16, 2010 Serin 385	Witnessing Galaxy Formation and Evolution at z>2 with SINFONI	Giovanni Cresci (Arcetri Observatory)	Pryor
Apr 21, 2010 PLH	Chandra's First Decade of Discovery	Harvey Tananbaum (CfA)	Pryor
Apr 30, 2010 Serin 385	Searching for Exo-earths and Measuring the Acceleration of the Universe with Femtosecond Laser Frequency Combs and G-CLEF at the GMT	Andrew Szentgyorgi (CfA)	Pryor

Fall 2009

Day	Title	Speaker	Host
Sept 11, 2009 Serin 385	The Darkest Galaxies	Marla Geha (Yale)	Keeton
Sept 16, 2009 PLH	Shedding Light on Dark Matter with Gravitational Lensing	Chuck Keeton (Rutgers)	Keeton
Sept 18, 2009 Serin 385	Extinction Curves with Gravitationally Lensed Quasars	Ardis Eliasdottir (Princeton)	Keeton
Sept 25, 2009 Serin 385	New Observational and Theoretical Insights on Cas A	Kris Eriksen (Rutgers)	Keeton
Sept 30, 2009 PLH	The Intertwined Lifecycle of Galaxies and Their Black Holes	Rachel Somerville (STScI)	Keeton
Oct 9, 2009 Serin 385	Infrared-Luminous Galaxies at High-Redshift	Josh Younger (IAS)	Keeton
Oct 16, 2009 Serin 385	Planetesimal Disk Dynamics and Microlensing	Kevin Heng (IAS)	Keeton
Oct 30, 2009 Serin 385	Multiwavelength Observations of Gamma-ray Binaries	Ginny McSwain (Lehigh)	Keeton
Nov 6, 2009 Serin 385	The animated sky revealed by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope	Isabelle Grenier (Paris)	Keeton
Nov 13, 2009 Serin 385	Electromagnetic Signals of Binary Black Hole Mergers	Sean O'Neill (Maryland)	Keeton
Dec 4, 2009 Serin 385	The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: An Overview and Progress Report	Toby Marriage (Princeton)	Keeton
Dec 11, 2009 Serin 385	Computing the Cosmos: From Galaxy Formation to Dark Energy	Daisuke Nagai (Yale)	Keeton
Dec 18, 2009 Serin 401	ALMA: A Report from the Trenches	Andrew Baker (Rutgers)	Keeton

Spring 2009

Day	Title	Speaker	Host
Jan 23, 2009 Serin 385	Cosmic acceleration: dark energy or modified gravity?	Viviana Acquaviva (Princeton)	Gawiser
Feb 6, 2009 Serin 385	Control of Star Formation by Gravitational Instability	Mordecai-Mark Mac Low (American Museum of Natural History)	Gawiser
Feb 13, 2009 Serin 385	The Stellar Population Synthesis Technique	Charlie Conroy (Princeton)	Gawiser
Feb 18, 2009 PLH	Stellar Explosions, Neutrinos and Nucleosynthesis	Gail McLaughlin (N.C. State)	Gawiser
Mar 6, 2009 Serin 385	The Role of AGN in the Great Migration of Galaxies from the Blue Cloud to the Red Sequence	Kevin Schawinski (Yale)	Gawiser
Mar 13, 2009 Serin 385	The James Webb Space Telescope and its Potential for Exoplanet Science	Mark Clampin (Goddard Space Flight Center)	Gawiser
Mar 27, 2009 Serin 385	Insights into Galaxy Evolution from Deep Spitzer Far Infrared Surveys	Minh Huynh (Caltech)	Gawiser
April 3, 2009 Serin 385	Ten Billion Years of Chemical Evolution in Star-Forming Galaxies	John Moustakas (NYU)	Gawiser
April 10, 2009 Serin 385	Star Formation in the Local Universe	Luciana Bianchi (Johns Hopkins)	Gawiser
April 15, 2009 PLH	Megamasers, the Hubble Constant, and Dark Energy	Jim Braatz (National Radio Astronomy Observatory)	Gawiser
April 17, 2009 Serin 385	Winds, Bubbles and Supernovae	Vikram Dwarkadas (University of Chicago)	Gawiser
May 1, 2009 Serin 385	Clues to the Building Blocks of the Universe from Old Stellar Populations and their Chemical Compositions	Inese Ivans (Carnegie Observatories & Princeton University)	Gawiser

Fall 2008

Day	Title	Speaker	Host
Sept 12, 2009 Serin 385	The evolution of spheroidal galaxies over the last 8 billion years	Sugata Kaviraj Oxford University	Sellwood
Sept 19, 2009 Serin 385	Via Lactea II - A high-resolution view of galactic dark matter	Michael Kuhlen Institute for Advanced Study	Sellwood
Oct 3, 2009 Serin 385	The Physics of CMB Foregrounds: From Spinning Dust to Annihilating Dark Matter	Greg Dobler Harvard CfA	Sellwood
Oct 10, 2009 Serin 385	Anomalies in Dark Matter Results	Neal Weiner New York University	Sellwood
Oct 17, 2009 Serin 385	The Evolution of Galaxies in Different Environments	Jacqueline van Gorkom Columbia University	Sellwood
Oct 31, 2009 Serin 385	Spiral Galaxy Kinematics Over the Last 8 Gyr	Susan Kassin Oxford University	Sellwood
Nov 7, 2009 Serin 385	X-raying Low-Luminosity Accretion Flows	Andy Young Bristol University	Sellwood
Nov 12, 2009 PLH	Where did we come from and are we alone?	Paul Falkowski Rutgers University	Sellwood
Nov 14, 2009 Serin 385	Reports on the SALT Board and SWG meetings	Ted Williams and Jack Hughes Rutgers University	Sellwood
Nov 21, 2009 Serin 385	Galaxies on the fringe: star formation and dynamics in gas rich dwarfs	Stacy McGaugh University of Maryland	Sellwood
Dec 12, 2009 Serin 385	Should we take galaxy morphology seriously?	Michael Blanton New York University	Sellwood

Spring 2008

Day	Title	Speaker	Host
Jan 25, 2008 Serin 385	Into the High-Redshift Molecular Universe	Andrew Harris University of Maryland	Hughes
Feb 1, 2008 Serin 385	Life Cycles of Star Clusters: From Formation to Dissolution	Michael Fall STScI/IAS	Hughes
Feb 8, 2008 Serin 385	Heating and Acceleration in Coronal Mass Ejections: What can we learn from in-situ measurements?	Cara Rakowski Naval Research Lab	Hughes
Feb 15, 2008 Serin 385	Radio Emission from the Magnetar SGR 1806-20 Giant Flare	Yosi Gelfand NYU	Hughes
Feb 18, 2008 Serin 385	Gravitational lensing, distant dark matter, and nearby planets	Rosanne DiStefano Harvard-Smithsonian CfA	Hughes
Feb 29, 2008 Serin 385	Understanding Titan from the perspective of Earth's climate	Jonathan Mitchell IAS	Hughes
March 7, 2008 Serin 385	Dark Matter and Black Holes: Shedding Light on Galaxy Formation	Karl Gebhardt University of Texas	Hughes
March 14, 2008 Serin 385	Light Echoes of Ancient and Historic SNe	Armin Rest Harvard University	Hughes
March 26, 2008 PLH	Escorting Hans Bethe Down the Path to Nothingness (Black Holes)	Gerry Brown SUNY Stony Brook	Hughes
March 28, 2008 Serin 385	The Galaxy-Dark Matter Connection	Frank van den Bosch MPIA - Heidelberg	Hughes
March 31, 2008 Serin 385	Binary Compact Objects and Their Powerful Astrophysics	Vicky Kalogera Northwestern	Hughes
Apr 2, 2008 PLH	What is the Key to the Supernova Explosion Mechanism?	Adam Burrows Princeton	Hughes
Apr 4, 2008 Serin 385	Massive galaxies in massive datasets	Mariangela Bernardi University of Pennsylvania	Hughes
Apr 11, 2008 Serin 385	WMAP Five-Year Results	Joanna Dunkley Princeton/Oxford	Hughes
Apr 18, 2008 Serin 385	The SDSS-II Supernova Survey	Masao Sako University of Pennsylvania	Hughes
Apr 21, 2008 Serin 385	The Phenomenology of Structure Formation in the Universe	Ravi Sheth University of Pennsylvania	Hughes
Apr 25, 2008 Serin 385	Probing Black Holes and Accretion Flows in X-ray Binaries with Spectral Models	Shane Davis IAS	Hughes
Apr 30, 2008 PLH	Peeking in Ancient Holes and Seeking the Holy Grail	Amber Miller Columbia University	Hughes
May 2, 2008 Serin 385	The Distribution of Baryons in Galaxy Clusters and Groups	Anthony Gonzalez University of Florida	Hughes
May 16, 2008 Serin 385	Statistics of Dark Matter Halos via Maximum-Likelihood Weak Lensing Mass Reconstruction	Hossein Khiabanian Brown University	Hughes

Fall 2007

Day	Title	Speaker	Host
Sept 14, 2007 Serin 385	The physical and chemical impact of protostellar outflows on the interstellar medium	Héctor Arce (AMNH, Yale)	Jha
Sept 21, 2007 Serin 385	A radio view of the GRB-SN connection	Alicia Soderberg (Princeton)	Jha
Sept 24, 2007 Serin 385	The formation of massive galaxies	Thorsten Naab (Munich)	Jha
Sept 28, 2007 Serin 385	Environmental effects on Virgo Cluster spiral galaxies	Jeff Kenney (Yale)	Jha
Oct 5, 2007 Serin 385	Lyman-alpha emitters at z = 3.1 in the Extended Chandra Deep Field South	Caryl Gronwall (Penn State)	Jha
Oct 12, 2007 Serin 385	The quest for the modal content of stellar disks	Mir Abbas Jalali (Sharif U, IAS)	Jha
Oct 19, 2007 Serin 385	Alignment of the spins of supermassive black holes prior to coalescence	Tamara Bogdanovic (U Maryland)	Jha
Oct 26, 2007 Serin 385	Making sense of the Local Group	Kathryn Johnston (Columbia)	Jha
Nov 2, 2007 Serin 385	Galaxy cluster mergers	Alexia Schulz (IAS)	Jha
Nov 9, 2007 Serin 385	Balmer-dominated supernova remnants (and beyond)	Kevin Heng (IAS)	Jha
Nov 16, 2007 Serin 385	The first stars and black holes and how they regulated the reionization history	Zoltan Haiman (Columbia)	Jha
Dec 7, 2007 Serin 385	Dark Energy or Modified Gravity?	Ed Bertschinger (MIT)	Jha

Spring 2007

Day	Title	Speaker	Host
Jan 24, 2007 Serin 112	The Origin of the Elements	James Truran (U Chicago)	Matilsky
Jan 26, 2007 Serin 385	Probing the Growth of Massive Galaxies at High Redshifts with Sub/millimeter Observations	Jason Glenn (U Colorado)	Matilsky
Feb 9, 2007 Serin 385	Unraveling the Galaxy to Find the First Stars	Jason Tumlinson (Yale)	Matilsky
Feb 14, 2007 Serin 385	The r Process	Hendrik Schatz (Michigan State)	Matilsky
Feb 16, 2007 Serin 385	How Collisionless Shocks Work (And How They Don't)	Anatoly Spitkovsky (Princeton)	Matilsky
Feb 23, 2007 Serin 385	Observing Black Holes with 1-meter Telescopes	Charles Bailyn (Yale)	Matilsky
March 2, 2007 Serin 385	Neptune’s Satellite Triton: A Retrospective	Doug Hamilton (U Maryland)	Matilsky
March 5, 2007 Serin 385	Dynamics of High Redshift Galaxies	Reinhard Genzel (UC Berkeley)	Matilsky
March 9, 2007 Serin 385	Precision Bothrology: Towards a Physical Model of Sagittarius A*	Charles Gammie (U Illinois)	Matilsky
March 23, 2007 Serin 385	The Importance of Lens Environments	Ann Zabludoff (U Arizona)	Matilsky
March 30, 2007 Serin 385	The Seeds of the Morphology-Density Relation at z~2?	Alice Shapley (Princeton)	Matilsky
April 6, 2007 Serin 385	The Challenges of Modeling Type Ia Supernovae	Mike Zingale (SUNY Stony Brook)	Matilsky
April 9, 2007 Serin 112	Hadronic Resonances in STAR	Sevil Salur (Yale)	Matilsky
April 13, 2007 Serin 385	Insights on AGNs from SDSS and Spitzer Spectra	Lei Hao (Cornell)	Matilsky
April 20, 2007 Serin 385	Probing the Nature of Dark Matter and Dark Energy Using Gravitational Lensing	Priya Natarajan (Yale)	Matilsky

Fall 2006

Day	Title	Speaker	Host
Sept 15, 2006 Serin 385	Constraining the History of Star Formation of Early-Type Galaxies	Ricardo P. Schiavon (U Virginia)	Baker
Oct 6, 2006 Serin 385	Subaru Surveys for Galaxies at z = 3-7	Masami Ouchi (STScI)	Baker
Oct 13, 2006 Serin 385	Super-Eddington Luminosities from Super-Eddington Accretion: Powering Ultra-Luminous X-ray Sources with Stellar Mass Black Holes	Aristotle Socrates (Princeton)	Baker
Oct 20, 2006 Serin 385	Cluster Mass Profiles and Mass-to-light Ratios from Weak Lensing in the SDSS	Erin Sheldon (NYU)	Baker
Oct 27, 2006 Serin 385	Detonating Failed Deflagrations of Type Ia Supernovae	Tomasz Plewa (U Chicago)	Baker
Nov 3, 2006 Serin 385	The Growth of Galaxies by Merging	David Hogg (NYU)	Baker
Nov 10, 2006 Serin 385	From B&W to RGB to UV+IR: Tuning Into the Physics of Galaxy Formation and Evolution	David Schiminovich (Columbia)	Baker
Nov 29, 2006 PLH	What Can We Learn from Galaxy Clustering?	David Weinberg (Ohio State)	Baker
Dec 1, 2006 Serin 385	Observations of Stellar Explosions and Jets	Jeno Sokoloski (Columbia)	Baker
Dec 8, 2006 Serin 385	Growing Black Holes From Seeds	Jenny Greene (Princeton)	Baker

Fall 2005

Day	Title	Speaker	Host
Sept 16, 2005 Serin 385	The Upper End of the Supermassive Black Hole Mass Function	Elena Dalla Bonta' (U Padova)	Pryor
Sept 28, 2005 Serin 385	Beyond Dark Energy	Sean Carroll (U Chicago)	Pryor
Oct 14, 2005 Serin 385	Testing CDM Paradigm Predictions with Disk Galaxy Dynamics	Kristine Spekkens (NRAO/Rutgers U)	Pryor
Oct 21, 2005 Serin 385	Using Gravitational Lensing to Probe the Coevolution of Supermassive Black Holes and Quasar Host Galaxies	Chien Peng (STScI)	Pryor
Nov 4, 2005 Serin 385	Cool Visitors from the Galactic Halo: the Local Population of Low-mass Subdwarfs	Sebastien Lepine (AMNH)	Pryor
Dec 9, 2005 Serin 385	The Least Luminous Galaxies in the Universe: Clues to the "Missing Galaxy" Problem	Beth Willman (NYU)	Pryor

Spring 2005

Day	Title	Speaker	Host
Feb 11, 2005 Serin 385	Physics of Primordial Galaxies	Oleg Gnedin (Ohio State)	Sellwood
Feb 14, 2005 Serin 385	The GRism ACS Program for Extragalactic Science (GRAPES): from Galactic dark matter to cosmic reionization	Sangeeta Malhotra (STScI)	Sellwood
Feb 16, 2005 Serin 385	Lyman alpha galaxies	James Rhoads (STScI)	Sellwood
Feb 18, 2005 Serin 385	The Warm-Hot Intergalactic Medium in the Low-Redshift Universe	Ken Sembach (STScI)	Sellwood
Feb 21, 2005 Serin 385	A Model of Galaxy Formation for the Next Decade	Andrew Benson (Oxford U)	Sellwood
Feb 28, 2005 Serin 385	Millimeter Observations of High-Redshift Galaxies	Andrew Baker (NRAO/U Maryland)	Sellwood
March 2, 2005 Serin 385	Dark Insights From Light: Cosmology, the Crucible for Fundamental Physics	Rachel Bean (Princeton U)	Sellwood
March 4, 2005 Serin 385	Understanding Dark Matter: from Accelerators to Galaxies	Ted Baltz (Stanford U)	Sellwood
March 25, 2005 Serin 385	Mass Distributions in Spiral Galaxies	Stacy McGaugh (U Maryland)	Sellwood
April 8, 2005 Serin 385	Evolution in galaxy properties and kinematics to z~1 from the DEEP redshift survey	Benjamin Weiner (U Maryland)	Sellwood
April 22, 2005 Serin 385	A tour in the Neutron Star Zoo	Rosalba Perna (JILA, U Colorado)	Sellwood
April 29, 2005 Serin 385	The Loss Cone in Triaxial Galaxies	Kelly Holley-Bockelmann (Penn State)	Sellwood

Fall 2004

Day	Title	Speaker	Host
Sept 17, 2004 Serin 385	Quasar Physics from SDSS, Chandra, and Spitzer	Gordon Richards (Princeton)	Keeton
Sept 20, 2004 Serin 385	Chemical Evolution and Kinematics of the Large Magellanic Cloud Bar	Andrew Cole (Groningen)	Keeton
Sept 24, 2004 Serin 385	The Planetary Nebula System of M33	Robin Ciardullo (Penn State)	Keeton
Oct 1, 2004 Serin 385	Formation and Early Evolution of Globular Clusters	Sergey Mashchenko (McMaster)	Keeton
Oct 8, 2004 Serin 385	Searching for Galaxy Clusters in the Dark	Jack Hughes (Rutgers)	Keeton
Oct 15, 2004 Serin 385	The Properties of Extremely Low Luminosity Galaxies	Michael Blanton (NYU)	Keeton
Oct 22, 2004 Serin 385	Morphological Evolution of Galaxies from GOODS	Swara Ravindranath (STScI)	Keeton
Nov 5, 2004 Serin 385	First Results from the CAPMAP Experiment	Phil Farese (Princeton)	Keeton
Nov 12, 2004 Serin 385	A Substantial Population of Distant Red Galaxies	Pieter van Dokkum (Yale)	Keeton
Nov 19, 2004 Serin 385	The Case of the Mysterious Winking Star	Josh Winn (CfA)	Keeton
Dec 3, 2004 Serin 385	Peanut-shaped Bulges: Some Face-on and One Edge-on	Victor Debattista (Washington)	Keeton

Last Updated: 1 August, 2023

Colloquia will be in person and online from 3:30 – 4:30 pm on Wednesdays.

Seminar Zoom Link: https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/95124198614?pwd=dnBzWnhUTmVSRjJZaVR1QnpvazduZz09

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Day	Location	Title	Speaker	Host	Recordings / Slides
9/6/2023	W330/Zoom	How Supermassive Black Holes Ignite the Intergalactic Medium: Tales from the Low Redshift Lyman-alpha Forest	Blakesley Burkhart (Rutgers University)	Eric Gawiser	Recording
9/13/2023	W330/Zoom	Neutrinos and New Frontiers in Physics	Andrew Mastbaum (Rutgers University)	Yuri Gershtein	Recording
9/20/2023	W330/Zoom	Near-Field Cosmology Insights from Resolved Stellar Populations Using the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes	Kristen McQuinn (Rutgers University)	Charles Keeton	Recording
9/27/2023	W330/Zoom	A three-dimensional view of gas in galaxies	Andrew Baker (Rutgers University)	John Hughes	Recording
10/4/2023	W330/Zoom	Imaging Antiferromagnetic Domains and Catching them in Action	Valery Kiryukhin (Rutgers University)	Robert Bartynski	Recording
10/11/2023	W330/Zoom	Chirality and Kinetomagnetism	Sang-Wook Cheong (Rutgers University)	John Hughes	Recording
10/18/2023	NO COLLOQUIUM THIS WEEK
10/25/2023	W330/Zoom	Strongly Correlated One Dimensional Systems and Eigenstate Phase Transitions	Parameshwar Pasnoori (University of Maryland)	Natan Andrei	Recording
11/1/2023	W330/Zoom	PHAT & PHATTER: Dissecting the Nearest Spiral Galaxies with the Hubble Space Telescope	Allen B. Robbins Colloquium: Julianne Dalcanton (Director of the Center for Computational Astrophysic in NYC)	Alyson Brooks	Recording
11/8/2023	W330/Zoom	Back to fundamental QCD - How do Quarks and Gluons Evolve in Space and Time?	Raghav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli (Vanderbilt University)	Sevil Salur	Recording
11/15/2023	W330/Zoom	Doug and Inyoung Boyd Colloquium The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Physics in the AI Sciences	David Farhi (OpenAI)	Daniel Friedan	Recording Slides
11/22/2023	NO COLLOQUIUM THIS WEEK
11/29/2023	W330/Zoom	Senior Honors Theses	Suchindram Dasgupta, Taha Kaleem, Chirag Khurana	Stephen Schnetzer	Recording
12/6/2023	W330/Zoom	Innovations in Course Structure, Resources, and Teaching Practices	Charles Ruggieri (Rutgers University)	Ronald Ransome	Recording
12/9 - 12/10/2023	Physics Lecture Hall	24th Rutgers Faraday Children's Holiday Lecture Saturday: 3-4:30 pm Sunday: 1-2:30 pm
12/13/2023	W330/Zoom	The NANOGrav Experiment: current results and future directions	Chiara Mingarelli (Yale University)	Eric Gawiser	Recording

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Fall 2023

The seminars are held every Friday at 1:00 PM unless otherwise noted -

via Zoom and/or 330W - except where noted.

Seminar Zoom Link: https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/95075567101?pwd=ZmJVRnEzTlpoZkNiUFljRzJGdjk0dz09

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Day	Title	Speaker	Host
September 15	Determining Hadron Multiplicity and other Event Classifiers with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks in the MINERvA experiment	José Luis Bonilla Ramírez (University of Guanajuato)	Andrew T. Mastbaum
September 22 at 10:30 AM	Understanding the deep inelastic region using (anti)neutrino scattering on a variety of nuclear targets	Vaniya Ansari (Aligarh Muslim University)	Andrew T. Mastbaum
MONDAY - September 25 at 11:00 AM	Semi-inclusive differential cross-section measurement numu-Helium and 1D and 2D muon kinematics	Christian Nguyen (University of Florida)	Andrew T. Mastbaum
September 29 - Room 372E	The Piper at the Gates of Dome: Probing low-mass new physics with the CMS data scouting and parking pipelines	Andre Frankenthal (Princeton University)	Andrew T. Mastbaum
October 6	Antineutrinos at SNO+	Anthony Zummo (University of Pennsylvania)	Andrew T. Mastbaum

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Day	Location	Title	Speaker	Host	Recordings / Slides
September 3	No Colloquium this week
September 10	330W / Zoom	Seeking order from Chaos: A classical twist to quantum computers	Jed Pixley, Rutgers	Piers Coleman	Recording
September 17	No Colloquium this week
September 24	330W / Zoom	Quantum fluctuations on triangular lattices of Ising spins	Collin Broholm, Johns Hopkins University	Sang-Wook Cheong	Recording
October 1	330W / Zoom	Exploding White Dwarfs in a New Light with JWST	Lindsey Kwok, Northwestern University/CIERA	Saurabh Jha	Recording
October 8	No Colloquium this week
October 15	No Colloquium this week
October 22	330W / Zoom	That’s Not Physics	Andrew Zangwill, GA Tech	Len Feldman	Recording
October 29	No Colloquium this week
November 5	330W / Zoom	An Open Conversation with Executive Dean Juli Wade	Executive Dean Juli Wade, Rutgers
November 12	330W / Zoom	Muon Colliders: the Next Generation of Particle Accelerators	Tova Holmes, University of Tennessee	Eva Halkiadakis	Recording
November 19	330W / Zoom	New frontiers for many-body physics	Vedika Khemani, Stanford University	Piers Coleman	Recording
November 26	No Colloquium this week
December 3	330W / Zoom	Technology Transfer/New Ventures - Physics & Astronomy	Technology Transfer & New Ventures Team - Rutgers Office of Research	Jack Hughes	Recording
December 10	330W / Zoom	Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition: A Physics viewpoint	Anirvan Sengupta, Rutgers University	Piers Coleman	Recording
December 17	No Colloquium this week

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