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, May 7, 2015 - 4:00PM Alex Filippenko (UC Berkeley)
The Lick Observatory Supernova Search with the Katzman Automatic Imaging Telescope
Thursday, April 30, 2015 - 4:00PM Doug Johnstone (National Research Council Canada - Herzberg Astronomy and Astrophysics)
The Evolution of Star-Forming Cores in Molecular Clouds: Using Theoretical Models to Inform Observations
Thursday, April 23, 2015 - 4:00PM Di Li (NAOC)
A Scheme for Star Formation — Molecules, Cores, Filaments, and Psychology
Thursday, April 16, 2015 - 4:00PM Michael Ireland (Australian National University)
Probing Planetary Formation at the Angular Resolution Frontier
Thursday, April 9, 2015 - 4:00PM Zhongxiang Wang (SHAO)
Millisecond pulsar binaries at transition
Monday, March 30, 2015 - 4:00PM Tom Abel (Stanford/KIPAC)
Dark Matter Dynamics
Thursday, March 26, 2015 - 4:00PM Hsiao-Wen Chen (University of Chicago/KICP)
Characterizing Circumgalactic Gas with Absorption Spectroscopy
Thursday, March 19, 2015 - 4:00PM Fabian Walter (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy)
What drives the Star Formation History of the Universe?
Thursday, March 12, 2015 - 4:00PM Yong Shi (Nanjing University)
Star formation law of nearby galaxies
Thursday, March 5, 2015 - 4:00PM Xuebing Wu (KIAA/DoA)
An Ultra-luminous Quasar with Most Massive Black Hole in the Distant Universe
Wednesday, January 21, 2015 - 4:00PM Haibo Yuan (KIAA)
Galactic Tomography with the LAMOST and SDSS
Monday, January 19, 2015 - 4:00PM Liubin Pan (CfA)
Turbulence-induced collision velocity of dust particles
Thursday, January 15, 2015 - 4:00PM Junfeng Wang (Xiamen University)
The Local Universe with High Resolution X-ray Imaging: From Galactic Massive Star Forming Regions to Nearby Active Ga...
Wednesday, January 14, 2015 - 4:00PM Stijn Wuyts (MPE)
Massive Galaxy Growth since Cosmic Noon
Thursday, January 8, 2015 - 4:00PM Daniel Fabrycky (University of Chicago)
Architecture and Timing of Planetary Systems
Thursday, December 18, 2014 - 4:00PM Q.Daniel Wang (University of Massachusetts)
A close-up of the nearest supermasive black hole --- Sgr A*
Wednesday, December 17, 2014 - 4:00PM Douglas NC Lin (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Ubiquity of planets and diversity of planetary systems: Origin and Destiny of multiple super Earths and gas giants
Tuesday, December 16, 2014 - 4:00PM Yingjie Peng (Kavli Institute for Cosmology, University of Cambridge)
From Galaxies to Halos - Reverse Engineering of the Galaxy Population
Thursday, December 11, 2014 - 4:00PM Kejia Lee (KIAA-PKU)
Pulsar timing technique and its applications in gravitational experiments
Thursday, December 4, 2014 - 4:00PM Cheng Li (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory)
Star formation quenching in low-redshift galaxies