Colloquium

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

Upcoming Colloquium

Thursday, March 12, 2026 - 3:30PM Guangxing Li (YNU)
Computationally Driven Knowledge Discovery in Astronomy
Thursday, April 9, 2026 - 3:30PM Zhiyuan Li (Nanjing University)
TBD
Thursday, April 30, 2026 - 3:30PM Di Li (THU)
TBD
Thursday, June 11, 2026 - 3:30PM Tomoya Kinugawa (Shinshu University)
TBD

Past Colloquium

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
Tuesday, March 13, 2018 - 4:00PM Prof. Yifu Cai
Exploring the very early universe with CMB observations
Tuesday, January 23, 2018 - 4:00PM Dr. Ke Wang
The Dawn of Star Formation: revealing the initial conditions for massive star formation throughout the Milky Way
Monday, January 22, 2018 - 4:00PM Dr. Daniel Ceverino
Galaxy Formation through the Dark Ages Until Today
Thursday, January 18, 2018 - 4:00PM Dr. Dandan XU
Probing the Cosmos through Gravitational Lensing
Wednesday, January 17, 2018 - 4:00PM Dr. Kohei Inayoshi
Black hole evolution: from stellar mass to ultra-massive ones
Tuesday, January 16, 2018 - 4:00PM Dr. Ke Fang
Probing the origins of astroparticles in the multi-messenger era 
Monday, January 15, 2018 - 4:00PM Dr. Chris Ormel
Recent advances in Planet Formation
Thursday, January 11, 2018 - 4:00PM Antonios Tsokaros
The initial value problem of general relativity and applications in astrophysics
Thursday, December 28, 2017 - 4:00PM Cong (Kevin) Xu,Caltech
Close Major-Merger Pairs Since z=1: Evolution of Merger Rate & SFR Enhancement