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
Fall 2020 Colloquium Speakers
All Fall talks will be facilitated remotely. Please check back for the speaker schedule or join our mailing list below to receive advance notification.
Past Colloquia Speakers
- Past Speakers
- 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
Click on the tabs above to view the past speakers by year
| 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
Assistant Professor, Steward Observatory
Elisabeth Krause
Assistant Professor, Physics & Astronomy Department
Kristopher Klein
Assistant Professor, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory