Events Quarterly: What’s Happening at STScI

STScI Newsletter

2025 / Volume 42 / Issue 01

Mark your calendar to join upcoming workshops, symposia, and other astronomy community events organized by the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland. In this quarterly roundup, you can also find links to recent events. Click on the links for location, registration, recordings, and other event information. View a complete list of past and future events.

Upcoming Events

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Upcoming Symposia and Workshops

Date	Event
May 12–16, 2025	Inter+Stellar: Harnessing the Intersection Between Stars and the Interstellar Medium
July 14–18, 2025	Cosmic Cartography with Roman: Advances in Galaxy Structures, Distributions, Dark Matter, and Dark Energy
July 28–31, 2025	Towards the Habitable Worlds Observatory: Visionary Science and Transformational Technology
August 4–15, 2025	JWST Summer School: High Redshift Transients with JWST

Upcoming Lectures and Colloquia

Date	Event	Speakers
May 7, 2025	Observing the Circum(sub)stellar Environments and Atmospheres of the Lowest-Mass Stars, Brown Dwarfs, and Planets	Kimberly Ward-Duong (Smith College)
May 14, 2025	Opening a New Frontier in Transient Science with the James Webb Space Telescope	Justin Pierel (STScI)
May 21, 2025	The Mysterious Nature of Little Red Dots	Guillermo Barro (University of the Pacific)

Upcoming Committee Meetings

Date	Event
June 2–3, 2025	Space Telescope User Committee Spring Meeting

Recent Events

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Recent Symposia and Workshops

Date	Event
February 11–13, 2025	Galactic Plane Survey Community Workshop
March 11–13, 2025	Transients from Space

Recent Committee Meetings

Date	Event
March 27–28, 2025	The 18th Meeting of the JWST Users Committee (JSTUC) Note: Expand the agendas at the bottom to access presentation slides.
March 2025	MAST Users Group (MUG) 2025 Meeting

Recent Lectures and Colloquia

Date	Event	Speakers
April 30, 2025	Presentations from STScI Postdocs	James DerKacy, Christiana Erba, Ivanna Escala, Chamani Gunasekera, Daniel Maschmann, and Adam Smercina
April 8, 2025	Pathway to a Post-Global Warming Future: Presenting Climate Science with Inspiration, Not (Only) Fear	Jeffery Bennett (CASA Colorado)
April 4, 2025	Animal, Mineral, Microbe: How the Interplay Between Abiotic and Biotic Processes Shapes Deep-Sea Chemoautotrophic Symbioses	Peter Girguis (Harvard University)
April 2, 2025	How to Reionize the Universe: Lessons from Low Redshift	Anne Jaskot (Williams College)
March 14, 2025	Characterizing the Most Common Type of Planet in the Milky Way (that is not found around the Sun)	Johanna Teske (Carnegie Earth and Planets Lab)
March 5, 2025	Mapping out the Dark Matter in the Milky Way	Lina Necib (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
February 27, 2025	Exploring the Solar System with the James Webb Space Telescope	Heidi Hammel, AURA
February 26, 2025	Exoplanet Atmospheres in the Next Decade: Isotopes, Too Many Atmospheres, and Biosignatures	Mercedes López-Morales (STScI)
February 19, 2025	Exoplanet Atmospheres Revealed: Insights from JWST Observations	Néstor Espinoza (STScI)
February 18, 2025	Toward Sustainable Research: Methods and Tools from Labos 1point5	Matthieu Simonin (Inria Centre at Rennes University) and Mickael Coriat (Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie)
February 12, 2025	Spring Colloquium: Presentations from STScI Postdocs	Ilias Goovaerts, Macarena Garcia del Valle-Espinosa, Alexander Madurowicz, Katie Crotts, Rebecca Levy, and Alejandro Crespo Gomez
February 7, 2025	What Biogeochemical Information Is Preserved in the Lipids of Extreme Archaea?	Jeemin Rhim (University of California, Santa Barbara)
February 5, 2025	The Lives and Deaths of Star Clusters, and the Black Holes They Make Along the Way	Carl Rodriguez (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
January 29, 2025	CoolSci Celebratory Talk Series	Bethan James (STScI), Larry Bradley (STScI), Dan Coe (STScI), Elena Manjavacas (STScI), Van Dixon (STScI), Janice Lee (STScI)

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