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)
TBD
Thursday, January 8, 2026 - 3:30PM Xinwu Cao (ZJU)
TBD

Past Colloquium

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
Thursday, June 26, 2014 - 4:00PM Li Ji (Purple Mountain Observatory)
What can we learn from X-ray Spectroscopy?
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 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