ASTR 400/500: AU SEMINAR, FALL 2023

Meets in Herman Brown Hall 227, Wednesdays, from 12:05 pm to 12:55 pm.

A description of the course, including attendance policies and grading elements, is provided in the Official Rice Syllabus for ASTR 400/500, Fall 2023. Students are expected to have read this document in its entirety by the end of the first week of classes.


DATE SPEAKER(S) TITLE
Aug 23 Dr. Matthew Baring Organizational Meeting
Aug 30 Charlie Gardner Modeling the Cavity of LkCa15
Shih-Yun Tang Tracing Spot Variability in T Tauri Stars: A Search for the Youngest Hot Jupiters
Sep 6 Dr. Chris Johns-Krull Accretion onto Giant Proto-Planets
Sep 13 Dr. Matthew Baring The Dynamic Character of Magnetars
Sep 20 Ray Hagimoto Measures of non-Gaussianity in Axion-String-Induced CMB Birefringence
Sep 27 Dr. Justin Spilker (Texas A&M University) Cleaning up the Dusty Universe with JWST and ALMA
Oct 4 Sam Millstone Using Analysis of Synthetic Observations to Investigate the Star-Gas Correlation in STARFORGE
Oct 11 Siyang Ling Cosmological Gravitational Production of Massive Spin-2 Particles
Oct 18 Daniela Hikari Yano Exploring aLIGO Sensitivity Across Binary Black Hole Parameter Space
Richard Xiao IXPE X-ray Polarization in Blazars
Oct 25 Toni Panzera Accretion Properties of a Young Brown Dwarf
Anthony Atkinson Getting the Most of High-Contrast Direct-Imaging Data with the dgvAPP360
Nov 1 Nick Proietti Stellar Kinematics of Low-Mass Stars in Trumpler 14 and Trumpler 16
Nov 8 Open
Nov 15 Dr. Elena Pinetti (Univ. Chicago/FermiLab) Probing Dark Matter with Cosmic Voids
Nov 22 --- Thanksgiving Break
Nov 29 Dr. Tom Giblin (Kenyon College) The Universe Needs Gravity

Fall 2023 Seminar Organizer:
Dr. Matthew G. Baring
Herman Brown Hall, Room 366
Telephone: (713) 348-2983
Email: baring at rice.edu