Events Quarterly Winter 2026: What’s Happening at STScI

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2026 / Volume 43 / Issue 01

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Published January 28, 2026

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
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
May 11–15, 2026	The Metal-Poor Frontier: Understanding Low-Metallicity Stars and Galaxies Across Cosmic Time

Upcoming Committee Meetings

Date	Event
March 10–12, 2026	Space Telescope Institute Council (STIC)
March 31–April 2, 2026	AURA Board Member Representatives Meeting
April 3, 2026	AURA Board Meeting
April 22–23, 2026	Space Telescope User Committee (STUC) Spring Meeting
May 6–7, 2026	James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Users Committee (JSTUC) Meeting

Upcoming Lectures and Colloquia

Date	Event	Speakers
February 4, 2026	Dead Men Do Tell Tales: What Supernova Remnants Say about Type Ia Supernova Progenitors	Carlos Badenes (University of Pittsburgh)
February 11, 2026	Little Red Dots as Black Hole Stars	Rohan Naidu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
February 18, 2026	Finding Targets for Habitable Worlds Observer: Extremely Precise Radial Velocity Surveys and the Hunt for Earth Analogs	Eric Ford (Pennsylvania State University)
February 25, 2026	Supernova Remnants: Laboratories for Extreme Physics and Cosmic Calibration	Danny Milisavljevic (Purdue University)
March 4, 2026	Giant Planets to Terrestrial Worlds from the Outside In	Brendan Bowler (University of California, Santa Barbara)
March 25, 2026	Searching for Supermassive Black Hole Binaries in the Era of Multi-Messenger Astronomy	Maria Charisi (Washington State University)
April 1, 2026	Stirring the Pot: How a Galaxy Quenches Star Formation Without Removing Its Fuel	Katey Alatalo (STScI)
April 8, 2026	Results from the Dark Energy Survey and Looking Ahead	Chihway Chang (University of Chicago)
April 15, 2026	Spring Colloquium: Presentations from Postdocs	To be announced
April 22, 2026	Protoplanetary Disk Dynamics for Binaries and Planets	Kaitlin Kratter (University of Arizona)
April 22, 2026	Unraveling the Dynamical History of Andromeda	Ekta Patel (Villanova University)
May 6, 2026	Divergent Small Bodies: Interstellar Interlopers and Dark Comets	Darryl Seligman (Michigan State University)
May 20, 2026	Mapping Dark Matter with Stellar Streams	Nora Shipp (University of Washington)

Recent Events

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Recent Conferences, Symposia, and Workshops

Date	Event
November 4–7, 2025	Atmospheric Escape and Replenishment in Planetary Systems
October 6–10, 2025	2025 NASA Hubble Fellowship Program (NHFP) Symposium

Recent Committee Meetings

Date	Event
December 18–19, 2025	Space Telescope User Committee (STUC) Fall Meeting
December 15–16, 2025	MAST Users Committee Meeting
December 8, 2025	Roman Science User Panel
December 2–3, 2025	James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Users Committee (JSTUC) Meeting

Recent Lectures and Colloquia

Date	Event	Speakers
January 28, 2026	CoolSci: Celebrating STScI Achievement in Astronomical Research Award Winners	Gagandeep Anand (STScI), Néstor Espinoza (STScI), Nimisha Kumari (STScI)
January 20, 2026	CoolSci: Presentations from STScI Postdocs	Vital Fernandez (STScI), Doyeon Avery Kim (STScI), Benjamin Gibson (STScI), John Soltis (STScI)
January 14, 2026	CoolSci: Celebrating STScI Achievement in Astronomical Research Award Winners	Marco Chiaberge (STScI), Stephanie La Massa (STScI), Marc Rafelski (STScI)
December 17, 2025	Planets, Asteroids, and Interstellar Interlopers, OH MY! Revealing the Solar System with JWST	Stefanie Milam (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)
December 10, 2025	Fundamental Properties and Atmospheric Chemistry of Cool Brown Dwarfs with JWST	Mike Cushing (University of Toledo)
December 3, 2025	Metal-Poor Massive Stars and Cosmic Mysteries from Redshift 10+ to the Local Universe	Peter Senchyna (Carnegie Science)
November 20, 2025	Photometric Calibration Uncertainties in Stage IV Supernova Cosmology	Kene Anumba (Duke University)
November 19, 2025	Trustworthy Machine Learning for Astrophysical Discovery	Michelle Ntampaka (STScI)
November 12, 2025	Understanding Dwarf Galaxies to Understand Dark Matter	Alyson Brooks (Rutgers University)
October 30, 2025	JWST as a New Voyager for Giant Planet Systems	Leigh Fletcher (University of Leicester)
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)

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