Colloquium

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

Upcoming Colloquium

Thursday, October 30, 2025 - 3:30PM Shihong Liao (NAOC)
Resolving supermassive black hole dynamics in galaxy formation simulations
Thursday, November 6, 2025 - 3:30PM Ran Li (BNU)
Searching the “Little Dark Dots” in the Universe
Thursday, November 13, 2025 - 3:30PM Qingwen Wu (HUST)
The nuclear stellar process and SMBH activity in center of galaxies
Thursday, November 20, 2025 - 3:30PM Weicheng Zang (Westlake University)
TBD
Wednesday, December 3, 2025 - 3:30PM Nagayoshi Ohashi (ASIAA)
TBD
Thursday, December 4, 2025 - 3:30PM Xi Kang (ZJU)
TBD
Thursday, December 18, 2025 - 3:30PM Xiaohu Yang (SJTU)
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Thursday, January 8, 2026 - 3:30PM Xinwu Cao (ZJU)
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Past Colloquium

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
Thursday, December 21, 2017 - 4:00PM Jian-Min Wang
Origin of broad-line regions: from torus to accretion disks
Thursday, December 21, 2017 - 2:00PM Lijing Shao(邵立晶)
Testing strong-field gravity with pulsars and GWs
Thursday, December 14, 2017 - 4:00PM Sherry Suyu
Shedding Light on the Dark Cosmos through Gravitational Lensing
Friday, December 8, 2017 - 3:00PM Xiaofeng Wang,Tsinghua University
Multiple Supernova Explosions from A Zombie Star
Thursday, November 30, 2017 - 4:00PM Nanyao Lu
Mid-J CO Line Emission in LIRGs
Thursday, November 23, 2017 - 4:00PM Martin C. Smith,Shanghai Astronomical Observatory
A Golden Age for Astrometry - Uncovering the Secrets of the Milky Way