James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has opened a new window into the early universe, enabling sensitive, high-resolution images of the near-infrared sky and spectroscopy of faint, distant sources. The JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES) is a collaboration of the NIRCam and NIRSpec GTO teams pooling over 750 hours of JWST time to conduct an ambitious study of galaxy evolution in the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey GOODS-South and GOODS-North fields. I will discuss exciting results from JADES observations about discoveries in the distant (z>12!) universe that provide new insight into the process of early galaxy formation and cosmic reionization. We discuss how our new constraints on star formation and galaxy growth at the very earliest times are rewriting the story of how the first galaxies form and evolve.

Speaker: Brant Robertson (UC Santa Cruz)

The 2025 Fall Colloquium talks are held on Wednesdays at 3:00 PM. This colloquium is hosted by STScI and will be held as an in-person and virtual event.

You may join in person at STScI’s John N. Bahcall Auditorium or virtually on the STScI Research YouTube channel.

Please direct questions or comments to contact above. The 2025 Fall Colloquium Committee members are: Nimisha Kumari (STScI), Elena Manjavacas (STScI), Jack Neustadt (JHU), Kevin Schlaufman (JHU), Adam Smercina (STScI), Ethan Vishniac (JHU).