Colloquium

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

Upcoming Colloquium

Monday, June 16, 2025 - 3:30PM Ming Sun (University of Alabama in Huntsville)
Multi-phase medium in galaxy groups and clusters
Thursday, June 19, 2025 - 3:30PM Xiaofeng Wang (THU)
Supernova Rate in Local Universe (近邻宇宙超新星诞生率)

Past Colloquium

Thursday, November 27, 2014 - 4:00PM Yu Dai (Caltech)
Mid-Infrared Selected Dust-Rich Quasars: Recovering the Extended Quasar Population
Thursday, November 20, 2014 - 4:00PM Giovanni Covone (University of Naples "Federico II", Italy)
New constraints on the structure of galaxy clusters and cosmological parameters via stacked weak lensing and peak sta...
Monday, November 17, 2014 - 4:00PM Kevin Bundy (IPMU, Japan)
MaNGA: Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory -- An IFU Survey of 10,000 Galaxies
Thursday, November 6, 2014 - 4:00PM Zhihui Du (Tsinghua University)
A Parallel AMR Method for Binary Black Hole Simulation
Thursday, October 16, 2014 - 4:00PM Chris Smith (Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory)
The Future of Optical Astronomy: from Photons to Petabytes
Thursday, October 9, 2014 - 4:00PM Bi-Qing For (University of Western Australia)
The gaseous features of the Magellanic System
Thursday, September 25, 2014 - 4:00PM Shun Zhou (IHEP)
Neutrinos as a Cosmic Messenger
Thursday, September 18, 2014 - 4:00PM Sandra Faber (University of California, Santa Cruz)
CANDELS Greatest Hits
Thursday, September 11, 2014 - 4:00PM Martin Asplund (Australian National University, Australia)
Hunting for the first stars
Thursday, August 28, 2014 - 4:00PM George Hobbs (CSIRO)
Pulsars, gravitational waves, clocks, planets, spacecraft and black holes
Thursday, July 24, 2014 - 4:00PM Hui Li (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Asymmetries in Protoplanetary Transition Disks
Thursday, July 17, 2014 - 4:00PM David Valls-Gabaud (Observatoire de Paris)
The European-Chinese MESSIER satellite: lifting the veil on galaxy formation
Thursday, June 26, 2014 - 4:00PM Li Ji (Purple Mountain Observatory)
What can we learn from X-ray Spectroscopy?
Thursday, June 19, 2014 - 4:00PM Xiaochun Sun (Institute for the History of Natural Sciences, CAS)
An Enterprise with Two Purposes: Measurement of Longitude in 17th and 18th Century China
Thursday, June 19, 2014 - 4:00PM Xiaochun Sun (Institute for the History of Natural Sciences, CAS)
An Enterprise with Two Purposes: Measurement of Longitude in 17th and 18th Century China
Thursday, June 12, 2014 - 4:00PM Hua Feng (Tsinghua University)
Astronomical X-ray polarimetry: a new window about to open
Thursday, May 29, 2014 - 4:00PM Jie Wang (NAOC)
Satellite galaxies in Milky Way
Thursday, May 22, 2014 - 4:00PM Luca Casagrande (Australian National University)
Asteroseismology for Galactic Archaeology: bridging two fields
Friday, May 16, 2014 - 4:00PM Rashid Sunyaev (MPA)
Unavoidable spectral distortions of the Cosmic Background Radiation
Thursday, May 15, 2014 - 4:00PM Jun Zhang (Shanghai Jiaotong)
Cosmology and its large scale probes