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Astronomy Faculty Meeting

Event interval: Single day event. Campus room: C341. Accessibility Contact: Liza Young. Event Types: Meetings. Target Audience: Faculty. Tuesday, November 4, 2025, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM.

Astronomy Journal Club - Capheine

Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Physics / Astronomy Building (PAT). Campus room: B305. Accessibility Contact: Liza Young. Event Types: Academics. Friday, November 7, 2025, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM.

Astronomy colloquium presentation Toby Burnett

My life in physics/astrophysics and GLAST -> Fermi,   I have been extraordinarily lucky to be born at an optimum time to participate in the revolution in particle physics that brought us the Standard Model, and observe the discovery of pulsars, quasars, black holes in astronomy. More luck put me in a ideal place to perform crucial tasks for the design and approval of the GLAST gamma-ray telescope proposal. After its successful launch and immediate success in generating an all-sky map, it was renamed Fermi, starting a nearly-uninterrupted mapping of the 50 MeV to 1 TeV gamma-ray sky for over 17 years. review its unique characteristics, and our scanning mode of operation. I've concentrated on source detection and localization. One goal has been to account for every photon we see. A lot of science has been done, much depending on our catalogs. Surprisingly, two major mysteries remain, which I'll discuss in detail. Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Physics / Astronomy Auditorium (PAA). Campus room: PAA102. Accessibility Contact: Liza Young. Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars. Thursday, November 13, 2025, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM.

Astronomy Journal Club - Capheine

Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Physics / Astronomy Building (PAT). Campus room: B305. Accessibility Contact: Liza Young. Event Types: Academics. Friday, November 14, 2025, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM.

Astronomy Faculty Meeting

Event interval: Single day event. Campus room: C341. Accessibility Contact: Liza Young. Event Types: Meetings. Target Audience: Faculty. Tuesday, November 18, 2025, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM.

Astronomy colloquium presentation Ethan Nadler

Revealing Dark Matter and Galaxy Formation with Small-scale Structure,   Over the next decade, new facilities including the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will discover hundreds of ultra-faint dwarf galaxies and thousands of strong gravitational lenses. I will describe a research program that uses these observations to probe fundamental galaxy formation and dark matter physics. In particular, I will argue that combining upcoming dwarf galaxy surveys and strong-lensing data will reveal whether completely dark halos exist. I will also present new cosmological zoom-in simulations beyond the cold dark matter paradigm, including self-interacting dark matter models that address current small-scale anomalies. These tools pave the way for new discoveries, including the first tests of early-universe physics and inflation with near-field cosmology. Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Physics / Astronomy Auditorium (PAA). Campus room: PAA102. Accessibility Contact: Liza Young. Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars. Thursday, November 20, 2025, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM.

Astronomy Qual Day

Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Physics / Astronomy Auditorium (PAA). Campus room: PAA 216. Accessibility Contact: Liza Young. Event Types: Academics. Friday, November 21, 2025.

Astronomy Journal Club - Capheine

Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Physics / Astronomy Building (PAT). Campus room: B305. Accessibility Contact: Liza Young. Event Types: Academics. Friday, November 21, 2025, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM.

Astronomy Journal Club - Capheine

Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Physics / Astronomy Building (PAT). Campus room: B305. Accessibility Contact: Liza Young. Event Types: Academics. Friday, November 28, 2025, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM.

Astronomy Faculty Meeting

Event interval: Single day event. Campus room: C341. Accessibility Contact: Liza Young. Event Types: Meetings. Target Audience: Faculty. Tuesday, December 2, 2025, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM.

Astronomy colloquium presentation Brian O-Shea

Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Physics / Astronomy Auditorium (PAA). Campus room: PAA102. Accessibility Contact: Liza Young. Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars. Thursday, December 4, 2025, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM.

Astronomy Journal Club - Capheine

Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Physics / Astronomy Building (PAT). Campus room: B305. Accessibility Contact: Liza Young. Event Types: Academics. Friday, December 5, 2025, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM.

Astronomy Journal Club - Capheine

Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Physics / Astronomy Building (PAT). Campus room: B305. Accessibility Contact: Liza Young. Event Types: Academics. Friday, December 12, 2025, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM.

Astronomy Faculty Meeting

Event interval: Single day event. Campus room: C341. Accessibility Contact: Liza Young. Event Types: Meetings. Target Audience: Faculty. Tuesday, December 16, 2025, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM.

Astronomy Journal Club - Capheine

Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Physics / Astronomy Building (PAT). Campus room: B305. Accessibility Contact: Liza Young. Event Types: Academics. Friday, December 19, 2025, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM.

Astronomy Journal Club - Capheine

Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Physics / Astronomy Building (PAT). Campus room: B305. Accessibility Contact: Liza Young. Event Types: Academics. Friday, December 26, 2025, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM.

Astronomy Faculty Meeting

Event interval: Single day event. Campus room: C341. Accessibility Contact: Liza Young. Event Types: Meetings. Target Audience: Faculty. Tuesday, December 30, 2025, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM.

Astronomy Journal Club - Capheine

Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Physics / Astronomy Building (PAT). Campus room: B305. Accessibility Contact: Liza Young. Event Types: Academics. Friday, January 2, 2026, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM.

Astronomy Journal Club - Capheine

Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Physics / Astronomy Building (PAT). Campus room: B305. Accessibility Contact: Liza Young. Event Types: Academics. Friday, January 9, 2026, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM.

Astronomy Faculty Meeting

Event interval: Single day event. Campus room: C341. Accessibility Contact: Liza Young. Event Types: Meetings. Target Audience: Faculty. Tuesday, January 13, 2026, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM.

Astronomy Journal Club - Capheine

Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Physics / Astronomy Building (PAT). Campus room: B305. Accessibility Contact: Liza Young. Event Types: Academics. Friday, January 16, 2026, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM.

Astronomy Journal Club - Capheine

Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Physics / Astronomy Building (PAT). Campus room: B305. Accessibility Contact: Liza Young. Event Types: Academics. Friday, January 23, 2026, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM.

Astronomy Faculty Meeting

Event interval: Single day event. Campus room: C341. Accessibility Contact: Liza Young. Event Types: Meetings. Target Audience: Faculty. Tuesday, January 27, 2026, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM.

Astronomy Journal Club - Capheine

Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Physics / Astronomy Building (PAT). Campus room: B305. Accessibility Contact: Liza Young. Event Types: Academics. Friday, January 30, 2026, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM.