Colloquium

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

Upcoming Colloquium

Thursday, October 9, 2025 - 3:30PM Song Huang (THU)
Assembling the Most Massive Dark Matter Halos and Their Central Galaxies
Thursday, October 16, 2025 - 3:30PM Dali Kong (SHAO)
TBD
Tuesday, October 21, 2025 - 3:30PM Mark Krumholz (ANU)
Metal transport in the interstellar and circumgalactic medium
Thursday, October 30, 2025 - 3:30PM Xiaohu Yang (SJTU)
TBD
Thursday, November 6, 2025 - 3:30PM Ran Li (BNU)
TBD
Thursday, November 27, 2025 - 3:30PM Xi Kang (ZJU)
TBD

Past Colloquium

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
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