Astronomy

Speaker: Lucas Macri (Project Director, US-ELT Program, NSF NOIRLab)

Host: Steve Kawaler

Title: The Hubble Tension in the era of JWST

Speaker:  Dr. Charlotte Wood (ISU)
(soon North Carolina A&T State University)

Title:  Creating an Independent Distance Ladder to Type Ia Supernovae using Surface Brightness Fluctuations

Speaker: Dr. JJ Hermes (Boston University)

Title: Searching for signposts of failed white dwarf supernovae

Speaker:  Curtis Struck, Professor Emeritus

Title:  The how and why of exponential surface density profiles in galaxy disks

Speaker: Dr. Tabassum Tanvir (Iowa State University)

Title: Environmental variation of the low-mass IMF

Speaker: Eli Brunner-Huber (Iowa State)

Title: Hunting for Intermediate-Mass Black Holes Using X-ray and Optical Images of Galaxies.

Speaker: Dr. Lee Anne Willson (ISU)

Title: Energy Balance and Radiative Transfer in Earth’s Atmosphere: An astronomer’s perspective
 

Speaker: Dr. Hyunsun Jun (Northwestern College- (Orange City, IA)

Host: Steve Kawaler

Title: Black Hole Feeding and Feedback in Distant Active Galaxies
 

Speaker: Pat Kelly (University of Minnesota)

Host: Charlotte Wood

Title: Lensed Transients and Quick Response Telescopes

Speaker: Steve Doran (ISU)

Host: Jake Simon

Title: Measuring the neutrino-Oxygen neutral current quasi-elastic cross section using the Accelerator Neutrino Neutron Interaction Experiment

Speaker: Peter Garnavich

Title: White Dwarf Pulsars and Cataclysmic Propellers

Abstract: 

Speaker: Amanda Weinstein (ISU)

Title: Astrophysics: What's P5 Got to Do With It?

Speaker: Charlotte Wood (ISU)

Host: Charles Kerton

Title: Echoes of Silence: What Scattered Light Echoes Can Tell Us About Supernovae

Speaker: Henry Prager

Title: Updates on the Atmospheric Properties of Pulsating Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars

Abstract:

Speaker: Weston Hall (ISU)

Host: Charles Kerton

Title: Asteroseismology of White Dwarf Stars Observed with NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope

Speaker: Nate Kaib (PSI)

Host: Jake Simon

Title: Passing Stars as an Important Driver of Paleoclimate and the Solar System's Orbital Evolution

Speaker: Lee Anne Willson (ISU)

Host: Charles Kerton

Title: Ames Climate Action Plan Update

Speaker: Irina Plaks (ISU)

Title: Probing Galaxy Evolution Using RR Lyrae Stars

Speaker: Steve Lawrence (Hofstra University)

Host: Charlotte Wood

Title: Reflections of a Violent Past: Light echoes from Supernova 2016adj in the Dust Lane of Centaurus A.

Speaker: Ian Clark (ISU)

Title: Outbursting DAV White Dwarfs and Undergraduate Classroom Based Research

Abstract: TBD