Colloquia
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.
The Colloquia is held in the Gerard P. Kuiper Space Sciences Building, Room 312 Mondays at 3:45 pm see schedule.
Refreshments served at 3:15 pm in the 3rd Floor Atrium (just outside of room 312.)
Please submit new speaker recommendations
TAP Speaker Suggestions Form
Spring 2019 Colloquium Speakers
Ruth Murray-Clay Univ. of California Santa Cruz – September 9, 2019
Title: The Tip of the Planetary Iceberg: How Observed Planets May Differ from their More Distant Cousins
Hagai Perets, Technion Israel Institute of Technology – September 23, 2019
Title: Rock ‘n roll in the Solar system and beyond: outside-the-box thinking on planet and moon formation
Kat Volk, University of Arizona – October 7, 2019
Title: Combining theory and observations of trans-Neptunian objects to pin down Neptune’s migration history
Marco Raveri, University of Pennsylvania – October 21, 2019
Title: Is the standard cosmological model in crisis?
Matthew Kunz, Princeton University – November 4, 2019
David Nesvorny, Southwest Research Institute – November 18, 2019
Camille Avestruz, University of Michigan – December 2, 2019
Past Colloquia Speakers
- Past Speakers
- Spring 2019
- Fall 2018
- Spring 2018
- Fall 2017
- Spring 2017
- Fall 2016
- Spring 2016
- Fall 2015
- Spring 2015
- Fall 2014
- Spring 2013
- Fall 2012
Click on the tabs above to view the past speakers by year
| 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
Elisabeth Krause
Kristopher Klein
Assistant Professor, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory