Colloquium

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

Upcoming Colloquium

Thursday, April 30, 2026 - 3:30PM Donghui Quan (Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University)
From Traditional Approaches to AI-Empowered Exploration of Molecular Complexity in the Interstellar Medium
Thursday, May 7, 2026 - 3:30PM Mengtao Tang (Shanghai Jiaotong Univ.)
Insight into Galaxies in the Early Universe from JWST Spectroscopy
Thursday, May 14, 2026 - 3:30PM Di LI (THU)
Galileo, Hertz and the "Time Frontier"
Thursday, May 21, 2026 - 3:30PM Ningchen Sun (UCAS)
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Thursday, May 28, 2026 - 3:30PM Aaron Ludlow (Univ. of West Australia)
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Thursday, June 4, 2026 - 3:30PM Hongping Deng (SHAO)
TBD
Thursday, June 11, 2026 - 3:30PM Tomoya Kinugawa (Shinshu University)
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Past Colloquium

Thursday, November 20, 2025 - 3:30PM Weicheng Zang (Westlake University)
Towards a Revolution of Microlensing Planets: from Ground to Space, from Mass-ratio to Mass
Thursday, November 13, 2025 - 3:30PM Qingwen Wu (HUST)
The nuclear stellar process and SMBH activity in center of galaxies
Thursday, November 6, 2025 - 3:30PM Ran Li (BNU)
Searching the “Little Dark Dots” in the Universe
Thursday, October 30, 2025 - 3:30PM Shihong Liao (NAOC)
Resolving supermassive black hole dynamics in galaxy formation simulations
Tuesday, October 21, 2025 - 3:30PM Mark Krumholz (ANU)
Metal transport in the interstellar and circumgalactic medium
Thursday, October 16, 2025 - 3:30PM Dali Kong (SHAO)
Spatial Symmetry Breaking in Rapidly Rotating Self-gravitating Convective Planetary Interiors
Thursday, October 9, 2025 - 3:30PM Song Huang (THU)
Assembling the Most Massive Dark Matter Halos and Their Central Galaxies
Thursday, September 25, 2025 - 3:30PM Yang Huang (UCAS)
Mapping the Milky Way with Large-Scale Surveys: Stellar Parameters, Assembly History, and Dark Matter
Thursday, September 18, 2025 - 3:30PM Eckhard Sturm (MPE)
MICADO and the Extremely Large Telescope - overview, current status, science and synergies
Monday, June 16, 2025 - 3:30PM Ming Sun (University of Alabama in Huntsville)
Multi-phase medium in galaxy groups and clusters
Thursday, June 12, 2025 - 3:30PM Zhiyu Zhang (NJU)
CNO isotopic abundance gradients of the Milky Way and their application to molecular cloud dynamics
Thursday, June 5, 2025 - 3:30PM Jianghui Ji (PMO)
Closeby Habitable Exoplanet Survey (CHES): an Astrometry Mission for Probing Nearby Habitable Planets
Thursday, May 29, 2025 - 3:30PM Sophia Dai (NAOC)
Active galactic nuclei and mergers in IR-bright galaxies 红外亮星系中的活动星系核和并合事件
Thursday, May 22, 2025 - 3:30PM Weimin Yuan (NAOC)
Einstein Probe: starting to explore the dynamic X-ray universe
Tuesday, May 20, 2025 - 3:30PM S. R. Kulkarni(Caltech Optical Observatories)
The Restless Universe (and the Periodic Table)
Thursday, May 15, 2025 - 3:30PM Jiwei Xie (NJU)
Observational Planetary Evolution Revealed by LAMOST-Gaia-Kepler
Thursday, May 8, 2025 - 3:30PM Xuelei Chen (NAOC)
Hongmeng: Prospects of ultralong wavelength Astronomy 开辟鸿蒙:超长波天文学的发展前景
Thursday, April 24, 2025 - 3:30PM Mark Thompson (University of Leeds)
MeerKAT and the SARAO MeerKAT 1.3 GHz Galactic Plane Survey
Thursday, April 17, 2025 - 3:30PM Bin Dong (PKU)
From Digitization to Intelligentization
Thursday, April 10, 2025 - 3:30PM Thomas Rodriguez Greve (Technical University of Denmark)
Protoclusters at Cosmic Dawn - The Emergence and Prominence of the Largest Structures in the Universe