Colloquium

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

Upcoming Colloquium

Thursday, April 9, 2026 - 3:30PM Zhiyuan Li (Nanjing University)
The Murmuring Monster in Action: Feeding and Feedback of Dormant SMBHs in the Local Universe
Thursday, April 23, 2026 - 3:30PM Dong Lai (TDLI, Shanghai Jiaotong Univ.)
Pendulum, Polarized X-rays from Magnetars and Eccentric Planets
Thursday, April 30, 2026 - 3:30PM Di Li (THU)
TBD
Thursday, May 7, 2026 - 3:30PM Mengtao Tang (Shanghai Jiaotong Univ.)
TBD
Thursday, May 21, 2026 - 3:30PM Ningchen Sun (UCAS)
TBD
Thursday, May 28, 2026 - 3:30PM Aaron Ludlow (Univ. of West Australia)
TBD
Thursday, June 4, 2026 - 3:30PM Hongping Deng (SHAO)
TBD
Thursday, June 11, 2026 - 3:30PM Tomoya Kinugawa (Shinshu University)
TBD

Past Colloquium

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
Thursday, April 3, 2014 - 4:00PM Jilin Zhou (Nanjing)
Formation of planetary architecture and the detection of exoplanets in Antarctic
Thursday, March 27, 2014 - 4:00PM Joshua Winn (MIT/KIAS)
Spin-Orbit Interactions for Exoplanetary Systems
Thursday, March 20, 2014 - 4:00PM Greg Herczeg (KIAA)
Stars in adolescence: wild accretion, manic depression, fits of irrational outbursts, and pimply spots
Thursday, March 13, 2014 - 4:00PM Wei Cui (Purdue)
Active Galactic Nuclei at the Highest Gamma-Ray Energies
Thursday, March 6, 2014 - 4:00PM Gonzalo J. Aniano Porcile (IAS, Institut d'astrophysique spatiale)
All Sky dust modelling with Planck, IRAS and WISE Observations
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