Colloquium

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

Upcoming Colloquium

Thursday, March 27, 2025 - 3:30PM Juntai Shen (SJTU)
Structure and dynamics of the local group galaxies
Thursday, April 3, 2025 - 3:30PM John Carpenter
The ALMA Wideband Sensitivity Upgrade
Thursday, April 10, 2025 - 3:30PM Thomas Rodriguez Greve (Technical University of Denmark)
Protoclusters at Cosmic Dawn - The Emergence and Prominence of the Largest Structures in the Universe
Thursday, April 17, 2025 - 3:30PM Bin Dong (PKU)
From Digitization to Intelligentization
Thursday, April 24, 2025 - 3:30PM Mark Thompson (University of Leeds)
TBD
Thursday, May 8, 2025 - 3:30PM Xuelei Chen (NAOC)
TBD
Thursday, May 15, 2025 - 3:30PM Jiwei Xie (NJU)
TBD
Thursday, May 22, 2025 - 3:30PM Weimin Yuan (NAOC)
TBD
Thursday, May 29, 2025 - 3:30PM Sophia Dai (NAOC)
TBD
Thursday, June 5, 2025 - 3:30PM Jianghui Ji (PMO)
TBD

Past Colloquium

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
Thursday, May 8, 2014 - 4:00PM Andrew Gould (Ohio State)
Microlensing's New Frontier: Parallax
Thursday, April 24, 2014 - 4:00PM Steven Rieder (Groningen)
The Clustered Universe
Thursday, April 17, 2014 - 4:00PM Zhiyuan Li (Nanjing)
A Parsec-scale Jet from The Galactic Center Black Hole: Interaction with Local Gas
Thursday, April 10, 2014 - 4:00PM Tinggui Wang (USTC)
Multi-scale Outflows in Active Galactic Nuclei