Events Quarterly Fall 2025: What’s Happening at STScI

STScI Newsletter
2025 / Volume 42 / Issue 02

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Published October 30, 2025

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

Upcoming Events

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Upcoming Conferences, Symposia, and Workshops

Date Event
November 4–7, 2025 Atmospheric Escape and Replenishment in Planetary Systems
March 9–12, 2026

Language AI in the Space Sciences

April 13–16, 2026

Science with the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes VIII: Enriching the Universe: From Primordial Nucleosynthesis to Exoplanet Atmospheres

 

Upcoming Committee Meetings

Date Event
November 13–14, 2025*

Space Telescope User Committee (STUC) Fall Meeting

December 2–3, 2025*

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Users Committee (JSTUC)


*Dates subject to confirmation 
 

Upcoming Lectures and Colloquia

Date Event Speakers
October 30, 2025 JWST as a New Voyager for Giant Planet Systems

Leigh Fletcher (University of Leicester)

November 12, 2025

Understanding Dwarf Galaxies to Understand Dark Matter

Alyson Brooks (Rutgers University)
November 19, 2025

Trustworthy Machine Learning for Astrophysical Discovery

Michelle Ntampaka (STScI)

December 3, 2025

Metal-Poor Massive Stars and Cosmic Mysteries from redshift 10+ to the Local Universe

Peter Senchyna (Carnegie Science)

December 10, 2025

Fundamental Properties and Atmospheric Chemistry of Cool Brown Dwarfs with JWST

Mike Cushing (University of Toledo)

 

 

Recent Events

Find event summaries, reports, and recordings.

Recent Conferences, Symposia, and Workshops

Date Event
October 6–10, 2025

2025 NASA Hubble Fellowship Program (NHFP) Symposium

August 4–15, 2025

JWST Summer School: High Redshift Transients with JWST

 

Recent Committee Meetings

Date Event Speakers
September 18, 2025

JSTUC Community Forum

 
September 15, 2025

Rocky Worlds DDT Information Session

Néstor Espinoza and Hannah Diamond-Lowe (STScI)

 

Recent Lectures and Colloquia

Date Event Speakers
October 22, 2025

Resolved Stellar Populations and the ISM: Small Scales, Big Fun

Julianne Dalcanton (Flatiron Institute)

October 8, 2025

Dust-Enshrouded Eruptions from Planets to Supermassive Black Holes

Kishalay De (Columbia University)

October 1, 2025

The Thermal Histories of Solar System Moons and Asteroids from JWST/ALMA

Katherine de Kleer (California Institute of Technology)

September 24, 2025

A Thousand Earths: Progress Toward a Constellation of Very Large Space Telescopes for Statistical Biosignature Surveys in Extrasolar Planets

Dániel Apai (University of Arizona)
September 17, 2025

Again! But Faster, Better, and with More Physics: ML-accelerated Inference of Galaxy Properties in Deep and Wide Surveys of the Universe

Joel Leja (Pennsylvania State University)

September 17, 2025

Alien Skies: Exploring Distant Exoplanet Atmospheres with Webb

Néstor Espinoza (STScI)
September 10, 2025 Gaia’s Binary Star Revolution Kareem El-Badry (California Institute of Technology)
September 10, 2025 Problem Management: From Firefighting to Fire Prevention Michael Barna (Kepner-Tregoe)
September 3, 2025

Finding the Most Distant Galaxies in the Universe with JWST

Brant Robertson (UC Santa Cruz)

August 27, 2025 FORGE’d in FIRE: New Physics Connecting Back Holes, Stars, Galaxies, and the CGM on au-to-Mpc Scales

Phil Hopkins (California Institute of Technology)

August 20, 2025

2025 HotSci at JHU/STScI: ISM Feedback

Kalina Nedkova (STScI), Calum Hawcroft (STScI)
August 14, 2025 ACROSS: Enabling Time Domain and Multi-Messenger Astrophysics with NASA Missions Samuel Wyatt (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)

 

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