Colloquium

All colloquia are held in the KIAA-PKU auditorium unless otherwise noted.

Upcoming Colloquium

Thursday, September 11, 2025 - 3:30PM Taro Shimizu (MPE)
A New Era of Precision Black Hole Masses with GRAVITY+
Thursday, September 18, 2025 - 3:30PM Eckhard Sturm (MPE)
MICADO and the Extremely Large Telescope - overview, current status, science and synergies
Thursday, October 16, 2025 - 3:30PM Dali Kong (SHAO)
TBD
Thursday, October 23, 2025 - 3:30PM Mark Krumholz (ANU)
TBD
Thursday, October 30, 2025 - 3:30PM Xiaohu Yang (SJTU)
TBD
Thursday, November 6, 2025 - 3:30PM Ran Li (BNU)
TBD
Thursday, November 27, 2025 - 3:30PM Xi Kang (ZJU)
TBD

Past Colloquium

Tuesday, September 18, 2018 - 10:00AM James Moran,Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
The Impact of Masers in Modern Astrophysics
Monday, September 17, 2018 - 4:00PM Carlos S. Frenk,Institute for Computational Cosmology
Cosmology with dwarf galaxies
Friday, September 14, 2018 - 4:00PM Yu-Gang Ma,Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics
From relativistic heavy ion collision to antimatter production
Thursday, September 13, 2018 - 4:00PM Wenbin Lu,California Institute of Technology
The Radiation Mechanism of Fast Radio Bursts
Thursday, August 9, 2018 - 4:00PM Boaz Katz
We don’t know how supernovae explode
Thursday, July 5, 2018 - 4:00PM Eric D. Feigelson,Penn State Univ.
ARIMA, TCF and RF: A new statistical approach to exoplanet transit detection
Thursday, June 28, 2018 - 4:00PM Dr Christian Wolf
The SkyMapper Southern Survey
Thursday, June 14, 2018 - 4:00PM Xinyu Dai,Univ. of Oklahoma
Constraining Planet Mass-Scale Objects in Extragalactic Galaxies and Immediate Environment around Supermassive Black ...
Thursday, June 7, 2018 - 4:00PM Jianfeng WU,Xiamen University
X-ray Emission of High-redshift Jetted Active Galactic Nuclei
Thursday, May 31, 2018 - 4:00PM Qing-hong CAO,Physics School, Peking University
Top quark and Higgs physics in hadron collisions
Thursday, May 24, 2018 - 4:00PM Yu Gao,The Purple Mountain Observatory (PMO)
The Star Formation Law in Dense Molecular Gas
Thursday, May 17, 2018 - 4:00PM Chunhua Qi,CfA
Imaging snow lines in protoplanetary disks
Monday, May 7, 2018 - 4:00PM Alan McConnachie
Opportunities in next generation multi-object spectroscopy: the science and status of the Maunakea Spectroscopic Expl...
Thursday, May 3, 2018 - 4:00PM Zhenya Zheng,Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, CAS
Probing Cosmic Reionization with Lyman Alpha Galaxies
Thursday, April 26, 2018 - 4:00PM Xuelei Chen,NAOC
The Dark Age and Cosmic Dawn
Thursday, April 19, 2018 - 4:00PM Shuangnan Zhang,Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Introduction to Insight-HXMT: China’s first X-ray Astronomy Satellite
Thursday, April 12, 2018 - 4:00PM Xiangxiang Xue,NAOC
The halo of the Milky Way
Wednesday, April 4, 2018 - 4:00PM Dong Lai,Cornell University
Circumbinary Accretion: From Supermassive Binary Black Holes to Circumbinary Planets
Thursday, March 29, 2018 - 4:00PM Peter Meszaros,Penn State Univ.
Ultra-high energy cosmic rays from low-luminosity GRBs
Thursday, March 22, 2018 - 10:00AM Zhanwen Han,The Yunnan Observatories
Binary evolution and its applications