Current Schedule

Fall 2026 Schedule

For Fall 2026, we will be organizing the seminar in person in the KT 5th floor conference room (KT 501).

Date (Eastern Time) Organizer Long-Form Speaker Title/URL of paper/topic
Sept. 15
12pm - 1pm
Barry T. Chiang Leonard Romano (Ludwig Maximilian Universität München) Characterizing Stellar Bars in Hydrodynamical Simulations of Disk Galaxies
Sept. 29
12pm - 1pm
Barry T. Chiang Subarna Chaki (U. of Hamburg)
Kito Liao (NYU)
Chaki: Modelling the baryonic content of galaxy clusters using interpretable machine learning
Liao: An effective theory of electron painting on dark matter structure
Oct. 13
12pm - 1pm
Selim Kalici Naomi Gluck (Yale) Benchmarking Machine Learning Emulators of Stellar Evolution for Precision Asteroseismology
Oct. 27
12pm - 1pm
Barry T. Chiang Pradyumna Sadhu (UC Riverside) Satellites galaxy abundances in galaxy groups and clusters within ΛCDM: from ultrafaints to ellipticals
Nov. 10
12pm - 1pm
Barry T. Chiang Dilys Ruan (Rutgers) Tracing Dwarf Galaxy Halos through HI Gas Kinematics
Dec. 8
12pm - 1pm
Barry T. Chiang Robel Geda (Princeton) Disk Formation and Periodic Star Formation in Dwarf Galaxies

Fall 2026 Organizers: Barry T. Chiang and Selim Kalici.