Colloquia
COLLOQUIA SERIES
Each semester the TAP Colloquia Committee invites new speakers working across all fields of theoretical astrophysics to share their current research. Along with providing a one-hour colloquium, each speaker also meets with faculty and students while on campus to discuss research more in depth. The TAP Colloquia series offers 5-6 talks on a bi-weekly basis. The goal of this program activity is to bring scholars to the UA campus to discuss new research, support shared research efforts and cross-fertilization, and increase awareness and communication across the broader U.S. community working in theoretical astrophysics. Click here to view TAP posters.
SIGN UP
Please join us for the Fall Colloquia Series. Sign-up here for the TAP listserv. to receive details for each upcoming talk.
LOCATION
Colloquia are held in person in the Gerard P. Kuiper Space Sciences Building, Room 312, Mondays, 3:30-4:30 pm. Talks are hosted live on Zoom (see a link to subscribe below).
Please join us for refreshments starting at 3:00 pm in the Kuiper Atrium.
UPCOMING SPEAKERS
January 30, 2023
TAP “MEET YOURSELF” EVENT
February 20, 2023
MIKHAIL IVANOV
Hubble, Institute for Advanced Study
February 27, 2023
BRIAN METZGER
Columbia University
March 13, 2023
MARTIN PESSAH
Niels Bohr Institute
March 27, 2023
YAO-YUAN MAO
University of Utah
April 10, 2023
CAROLINE MORLEY
University of Texas – Austin
April 24, 2023
SUSAN CLARK
Stanford University
PREVIOUS YEAR’S SPEAKERS
- Fall 2022
- Spring 2022
- Fall 2021
- Spring 2021
- Fall 2020
- Spring 2020
- Fall 2019
- Spring 2019
- Fall 2018
- Spring 2018
- Fall 2017
- Spring 2017
- Fall 2016
- Spring 2016
- Fall 2015
- Spring 2015
- Fall 2014
- Spring 2013
- Fall 2012
| Gabriele Bozzola | University of Arizona | August 29, 2022 |
| Tanvi Karwal | University of Pennsylvania | September 12, 2022 |
| Saverio Cambioni | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | October 3, 2022 |
| Michael Kesden | University of Texas – Dallas | October 24, 2022 |
| Emily Cunningham | Columbia University | November 7, 2022 |
| Miki Nakajima | University of Rochester | November 21, 2022 |
February 14, 2022
Rebekah Dawson, Penn State
February 28, 2022
Alexander van Engelen, Arizona State
March 14, 2022
Luca Comisso, Columbia University
March 28, 2022
Ferah Munshi, University of Oklahoma
April 11, 2022
Michi Baubock, University of Illinois
April 25, 2022
Kimberly Boddy, University of Texas
| Nicolas Garavito-Camargo | Flatiron, CCA | September 27, 2021 |
| Jimmy Juno | University of Iowa | October 11, 2021 |
| Xiangcheng Ma | University of Arizona | November 8, 2021 |
| Darin Ragozzine | Brigham Young University | November 22, 2021 |
| Seth Jacobson | Michigan State University | April 9, 2021 |
| Emily Lichko | University of Arizona | September 14, 2020 |
| Oliver Gressel | AIP, Leibniz Institute fr Astrophysics Potsdam | October 5, 2020 |
| Jens Jasche | Stockholm University | October 19, 2020 |
| Debora Sijacki | Cambridge Institute of Astronomy | November 2, 2020 |
| Barbara Ercolano | Max Planck Research School on Astrophysics at the Ludwig Maximilians University Munich | November 30, 2020 |
| Fred Adams | University of Michigan | January 27, 2020 |
| Nicole Lloyd-Ronning | Los Alamos National Laboratory | February 10, 2020 |
| Antonija Oklopcic | Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian | February 24, 2020 |
| Andreu Font-Ribera | University College London | March 16, 2020 |
| Colby Haggarty | University of Chicago | April 27, 2020 |
| Ruth Murray-Clay |
Univ. of California Santa Cruz | September 9, 2019 |
| Hagai Perets | Technion Israel Institute of Technology | September 23, 2019 |
| Kat Volk | University of Arizona | October 7, 2019 |
| Marco Raveri | University of Pennsylvania | October 21, 2019 |
| Matthew Kunz | Princeton University | November 4, 2019 |
| David Nesvorny | Southwest Research Institute- Boulder | November 18, 2019 |
| Camille Avestruz | University of Michigan | December 2, 2019 |
| Yacine Ali-Haïmoud |
New York University | January 14, 2019 |
| Kyle Parfrey | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | February 11, 2019 |
| Ken Shen | University of California- Berkeley | February 25, 2019 |
| Kent Yagi | University of Virginia | March 11, 2019 |
| Joshua Lothringer | University of Arizona – TAP Student Research Prize Recipient | April 1, 2019 |
| Eve Lee | Caltech | April 15, 2019 |
| Yanqin Wu | University of Toronto | April 29, 2019 |
| Jia Liu |
Princeton | September 17, 2018 |
| Konstantin Batygin | CalTech | October 1, 2018 |
| Shea Garrison-Kimmel | CalTech | October 15, 2018 |
| Monica Valluri | University of Michigan | October 29, 2018 |
| Gil Holder | University of Illinois | November 19, 2018 |
| Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz | University of California- Santa Cruz | December 3, 2018 |
| Kathryn Johnston | Columbia University | February 19, 2018 |
| Jim Stone | Princeton University | March 12, 2018 |
| Graciela Gelmini | UCLA | March 19, 2018 |
| Rachel Somerville | Rutgers University | March 26, 2018 |
| Aaron Zimmerman | University of Toronto | April 9, 2018 |
| Emily Rauscher | University of Michigan | April 23, 2018 |
| Sarah Stewart-Mukhopadhyay | UC Davis | August 28, 2017 |
| Daniel Tamayo | University of Toronto | September 11, 2017 |
| Chris Hayward | Flatiron Institute | October 2, 2017 |
| Annika Peter | Ohio State University | October 16, 2017 |
| Renee Hlozek | University of Toronto | November 27, 2017 |
| Jim Fuller | Caltech | December 4, 2017 |
| David Radice | Princeton | March 20, 2017 |
| Elisabeth Krause | Stanford | March 24, 2017 |
| Matt Hedman | Cornell | March 27, 2017 |
| Simeon Bird | JHU | March 30, 2017 |
| Vassilios Paschalidis | Princeton | April 10, 2017 |
| Zhaohuan Zhu | UNLV | April 14, 2017 |
| Gongjie Lie | Harvard | April 17, 2017 |
| Ann-Marie Madigan | Berkley | September 26, 2016 |
| Alexandre Lazarian | U of Wisconsin-Madison | October 10, 2016 |
| Francis Nimmo | U California, Santa Cruz | October 24, 2016 |
| Laura Blecha | U Maryland, College Park | November 7, 2016 |
| Will East | Perimeter Institute | November 21, 2016 |
| Andy Strominger | Harvard | January 25, 2016 |
| Robin Canup | Southwest Research Institute | February 22, 2016 |
| Jerry Sellwood | Rutgers U | February 1, 2016 |
| Matthew Baring | Rice University (Houston) | March 7, 2016 |
| Myoungwon Jeon | U of Texas | March 21, 2016 |
| Ewine Van Dishoeck | April 4, 2016 | |
| Tracy Slatyer | MIT | April 11, 2016 |
| Adam Showman | University of Arizona | September 14, 2015 |
| Jeremy Heyl | U of British Colombia | September 28, 2015 |
| Dimitrios Psaltis | University of Arizona | October 12, 2015 |
| Norbert Wex | Max Planck Institute for Radioastronomie | October 26, 2015 |
| Eliot Quataert | UC Berkeley | November 9, 2015 |
| Diego Munoz | Cornell University | November 23, 2015 |
| Tessa Baker | Oxford University | December 7, 2015 |
| Jonathan Mitchell | UCLA | February 9, 2015 |
| Cameron Hummels | UA | February 23, 2015 |
| Eliot Quataert | Berkeley | March 9, 2015 |
| Cathie Clarke | IoA, UK | March 23, 2015 |
| Smadar Naoz | UCLA | April 6, 2015 |
| Norbert Wex | MPIfR Germany | April 20, 2015 |
| Cora Dvorkin | Harvard | April 27, 2015 |
| Evan Scannapieco | ASU | October 6, 2014 |
| Nick Cowen | Amherst College | October 20, 2014 |
| Phil Armitage | U of Colorado, Boulder | November 3, 2014 |
| Priya Natarayanan | Yale | November 17, 2014 |
| Evan Schneider | UA Astronomy | December 8, 2014 |
| Name | Affiliation | Date |
| Peter Behroozi | Stanford | January 14, 2013 |
| Konstantin Batygin | Caltech GPS | January 28, 2013 |
| David Arnet | UA | February 4, 2013 |
| Charlie Conroy | UCSC | March 4, 2013 |
| Lars Hernquist | Harvard | March 18, 2013 |
| Yoram Lithwick | Northwestern | April 1, 2013 |
| Zhi-Yun Li | Univ of Virginia | April 22, 2013 |
| Herve Dole | ? | April 29, 2013 |
| Name | Affilation | Date |
| Adam Burrows | Princeton | September 10, 2012 |
| Doug Lin | UC Santa Cruz | October 8, 2012 |
| Rebekah Dawson | Harvard-Smithsonian Ctr for Astrophysics | October 22, 2012 |
| Eugene Chiang | Berkeley | October 29, 2012 |
| Charlie Conroy | UC Santa Cruz | November 5, 2012 |
| Phil Arras | Univ of Virginia | November 19, 2012 |
| Mark Vogelsberger | CfA | December 3, 2012 |
| Siming Liu | Purple Mountain Observatory | December 10, 2012 |
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Kaitlin Kratter
Associate Professor, Steward Observatory
Elisabeth Krause
Assistant Professor, Physics & Astronomy Department
Kristopher Klein
Assistant Professor, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory