Events Overview
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 can find current, upcoming, and past events of interest.
Use the filter bar below to search by specific event criteria including Type, Mission, Keyword, and/or Date. Click the Submit button to generate the query. Information and resources for each event can be found by clicking on the "Read More" link. All times listed are Eastern Time, unless otherwise noted.
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JWST at the 55th Annual Division for Planetary Sciences Meeting (Joint with EPSC)
October 1 through 6, 2023 Science MeetingsThe James Webb Space Telescope will be prominently supported during the 55th annual meeting of the AAS Division of Planetary Sciences (DPS). This meeting will be both in-person and virtual. Workshop:...
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Webb's View of Galaxies Over Time
October 3, 2023 LecturesSpeaker: Nimisha Kumari (Space Telescope Science Institute)
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Mapping Feedback in Local Galaxies with HWO-enabling Technology: Adventures in Developing Efficient Extended Source Instruments for UV Missions
October 4, 2023 ColloquiaOn the heels of the recommendations of the 2020 Decadal Survey, the astrophysics community is gearing up to work on the next great space mission – the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO). With sensitivity...
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Exoplanet Characterization from JWST
October 6, 2023 LecturesWe are now one full year into the era of JWST, NASA’s flagship observatory and the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope. Exoplanet characterization has historically been dominated by space-based...
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Imagining Other Worlds: How Planet-Forming Disks Can Shed Light on What is Possible
October 11, 2023 ColloquiaAbstract coming soon. Speaker: Ilse Cleeves (University of Virginia)
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YAE In-Person Family STEM Forum
October 12, 2023 Community EventsPlease join us in-person to learn more about astronomy during our Youth for Astronomy and Engineering Program event "Family STEM Forum" followed by an opportunity to engage in hands-on activities...
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The Intriguing Lives of Galaxies Lacking Dark Matter
October 18, 2023 ColloquiaThe standard cold dark matter plus cosmological constant model predicts that galaxies form within dark-matter haloes, and that low-mass galaxies are more dark-matter dominated than massive ones. The unexpected...
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Gone With the Wind: Assessing the Impact of Stellar Wind Feedback in Massive Star and Star Cluster Formation
November 1, 2023 ColloquiaAbstract coming soon. Speaker: Anna Rosen (San Diego State University)
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Rise of the Glass Animals (and Protozoans): Tracking the Paleozoic Transformation of the Silica Cycle by Biomineralizers
November 3, 2023 LecturesPhanerozoic oceans have witnessed the transformation of the marine silica cycle from a system primarily controlled by abiotic precipitation reactions to one in which silica biomineralization (by diatoms)...
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Making Astronomy Outreach Accessible
November 7, 2023 LecturesSpeakers: Tim Rhue & Margaret Carruthers (Space Telescope Science Institute)
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Cosmology into the Next Decade
November 8, 2023 ColloquiaIn this talk, I will be reviewing the observations that have contributed to the development of the Standard Cosmological Model. I will argue that as we seek to address many of the remaining questions,...
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Improving JWST Data Products Workshop
November 14 through 17, 2023 WorkshopsThis workshop will bring together experienced JWST users who have improved, extended, or superseded the STScI calibration pipeline. The first two days will be a plenary session, where participants...
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Bridging the Divide: A Multi-scale Approach to Galaxy Formation
November 29, 2023 ColloquiaAbstract coming soon. Speaker: Drummond Fielding (Cornell University)
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How Do New Protein Structures Emerge?
December 1, 2023 LecturesThe advent of the Artificial Intelligence era has granted us unprecedented access to protein structural data. How did nature discover folded proteins more than 3 billion years ago? How do new protein structures...
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On Outflows and Gas Reservoirs of the Smallest Galaxies
December 6, 2023 ColloquiaAbstract coming soon. Speaker: Claudia Scarlata (University of Minnesota)