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STScI hosts colloquia, conferences, lectures, meetings, symposia, and workshops that cover a broad array of topics of interest to the astronomical community as well as the general public. From this page, you
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Results: 16
18-22
Nov
2019
Workshops
JWST Master Class Workshop
STScI will host approximately 25 participants for a 4.5-day, in-depth Master Class workshop in Baltimore, MD on November 18-22, 2019. The Master Class will include topics related...
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3
Dec
2019
Lectures
Red and Brown Dwarfs: Understanding our Smallest and Closest (sub)Stellar Neighbors
Speaker: Serge Dieterich (Space Telescope Science Institute)
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4
Dec
2019
Colloquia
They Came from Outer Space: Comets, Unseen Planets, and 'Oumuamua'
Speaker: Scott Tremaine (IAS, Princeton University)
Comets have inspired awe since prehistoric times, but the modern study of comets only began with Halley's successful prediction of the return of...
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6
Dec
2019
Lectures
Reconstructing Life History Before LUCA
Gregory P. Fournier (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Origin of Life studies primarily consist of two sets of inferences: bottom-up, which infer plausible scenarios of abiogenesis given our...
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11
Dec
2019
Colloquia
The Dynamics of the Galactic Bulge: Uncovering the Old Populations that Formed Before the Bar
Speaker: Andrea Kunder (Saint Martin's University)
Using mainly bulge red clump giants (RCG) and giants as tracers, a picture has emerged of the Galactic bulge consisting of a rotating peanut-shaped...
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3-8
Jan
2020
Science Meetings
JWST at the 235th American Astronomical Society Meeting
The 235th American Astronomical Society (AAS) meeting will include updates and events to help the astronomical community prepare for JWST science.
JWST Proposal Preparation Workshop
When:...
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14
Jan
2020
3-5
Feb
2020
Workshops
JWST Master Class Workshop (ESAC, Madrid)
The European Space Agency (ESA) will provide an in-depth Master Class workshop (similar to the STScI Master Class workshop to be held in November 2019) to European astronomers. The workshop will...
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4
Feb
2020
7
Feb
2020
6
Mar
2020
30
Mar
2020
3
Apr
2020
Conferences
Science with the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes VI
Entering a Golden Age for UV – Optical – IR Space Astronomy
Entering a Golden Age for UV – Optical – IR Space Astronomy
We are entering a new golden age for astronomy. A wealth of multiwavelength and now multi-messenger astrophysical observatories, from space and from the ground, are currently operating or being planned,...
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3
Apr
2020
20-23
Apr
2020
Symposia
The Local Group: Assembly and Evolution
The Space Telescope Science Institute is excited to host the 2020 STScI Spring Symposium, “The Local Group: Assembly and Evolution.” The symposium will be held at the Space Telescope Science...
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23-30
Oct
2020
Science Meetings
JWST at the 52nd Annual Division for Planetary Sciences Meeting
The James Webb Space Telescope will be prominently supported during the 52nd annual meeting of the AAS Division of Planetary Sciences, which is going to be held in Spokane, WA.
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