Colloquium

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

Upcoming Colloquium

Thursday, October 30, 2025 - 3:30PM Shihong Liao (NAOC)
Resolving supermassive black hole dynamics in galaxy formation simulations
Thursday, November 6, 2025 - 3:30PM Ran Li (BNU)
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Thursday, November 13, 2025 - 3:30PM Qingwen Wu (HUST)
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Thursday, November 20, 2025 - 3:30PM Weicheng Zang (Westlake University)
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Thursday, December 4, 2025 - 3:30PM Xi Kang (ZJU)
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Thursday, December 18, 2025 - 3:30PM Xiaohu Yang (SJTU)
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Thursday, January 8, 2026 - 3:30PM Xinwu Cao (ZJU)
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Past Colloquium

Tuesday, March 4, 2014 - 4:00PM Kyoungsoo Lee (Purdue)
The Varied Fates of Galaxies in the Young Universe
Friday, February 28, 2014 - 4:00PM Linhua Jiang (Arizona State University)
High-Redshift Quasars and Galaxies at the Epoch of Cosmic Reionization
Thursday, February 20, 2014 - 4:00PM Richard de Grijs (KIAA-PKU)
Not-so-simple stellar populations in Local Group star clusters
Thursday, January 16, 2014 - 3:30PM Weimin Yuan (NAOC)
New frontiers in wide-field time-domain X-ray astronomy
Thursday, January 9, 2014 - 4:00PM Andrés Jordán (PUC)
Finding Transiting Exoplanets and Characterizing their Atmospheres: HATSouth and ACCESS
Thursday, January 2, 2014 - 4:00PM Xiaojun Bi (IHEP)
Implications of the AMS-02 results
Thursday, December 19, 2013 - 4:00PM Jifeng Liu (NAOC)
Puzzling accretion onto a black hole in M101 ULX-1
Thursday, December 12, 2013 - 4:00PM Xiangyu Wang (Nanjing University)
The ultra-high energy cosmic rays and their astrophysical sources
Thursday, November 14, 2013 - 4:00PM Pengjie Zhang (Shanghai Jiaotong Univ)
Testing Foundations of Modern Cosmology
Thursday, October 24, 2013 - 4:00PM Ari Laor (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)
Why Are AGN So Similar?
Thursday, October 10, 2013 - 10:45AM Feng Yuan (SHAO/Xiamen)
Outflow from hot accretion flows
Thursday, October 10, 2013 - 10:45AM Feng Yuan (SHAO/Xiamen)
Outflow from hot accretion flows
Thursday, September 26, 2013 - 4:00PM Toshifumi Futamase (Tohoku University, Japan)
SUBARU Weak-Lensing Survey of Dark Matter Subhalos in Coma Cluster
Thursday, September 5, 2013 - 4:00PM Karl Menten (MPI)
Variations of Fundamental Constants with Cosmic History – Pushing the Limits with Radio and (Sub)millimeter Interfer...
Thursday, September 13, 2012 - 4:00PM Prof. Yipeng Jing (SHAO)
Evolution of massive galaxies: the role of galaxy mergers
Thursday, August 16, 2012 - 4:00PM Ewine F. van Dishoeck
Water in space: from interstellar clouds to planet-forming disks
Thursday, July 5, 2012 - 4:00PM Xiaohui Fan (Arizona/KIAA)
Growth of Supermassive Black Holes and Their Environment at z=6-7
Thursday, June 28, 2012 - 4:00PM Andrew Gould (Ohio State)
Microlensing Planets: A controlled Scientific Experiment Drawn From Absolute Chaos
Thursday, June 21, 2012 - 4:00PM Nicolas Chamel (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
Unified equations of state of neutron stars
Thursday, May 24, 2012 - 4:00PM David Valls-Gabaud
Testing the Copernican Principle