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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.

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  1. JWebbinar 37 - Planning Solar System Observations with JWST

    September 17, 2024 Software and Data

    JWST is capable of observing the majority of solar system objects found beyond the Earth's orbit, such as asteroids, giant planets and their satellites, comets, and trans-Neptunian objects. Solar system...

  2. Fall Colloquium: Presentations from Incoming STScI Postdocs

    September 18, 2024 Colloquia

    Presentations featuring Paul Bennet, Farhan Hasan, Jegug Ih, Ryan Richards Vaught, and Mans Holmberg.

  3. White Dwarf Supernovae

    September 25, 2024 Colloquia

    Type Ia supernovae (SN Ia) play a starring role in our view of the Universe.  Observations of SN Ia led to two cosmological surprises: the discovery of the accelerating Universe and the Hubble Constant...

  4. Webb Office Hours

    September 26, 2024 Community Events

    The JWST User Community is invited to call into Webb Office Hours to ask questions and directly interact with a team of STScI JWST experts via WebEx. We welcome questions about the JWST Pipeline, calibration,...

  5. Cosmic Acceleration in the Roman Era

    October 2, 2024 Colloquia

    Abstract is forthcoming. Speaker: David Weinberg (The Ohio State University)

  6. Planets, Life, and the Universe Lecture

    October 4, 2024 Lectures

    Abstract is forthcoming Speaker: Emily Martin (Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum)

  7. The SAGA Survey: A Census of 101 Satellite Systems around Milky Way-like Galaxies

    October 9, 2024 Colloquia

    I will present the main findings of the third Data Release (DR3) of the Satellites Around Galactic Analogs (SAGA) Survey, a spectroscopic survey characterizing satellite galaxies around Milky Way (MW)-mass...

  8. Accurate Flux Calibration in the Era of Space Astronomy and All-Sky Surveys

    October 22 through 25, 2024 Workshops

    Advances in space telescope technology and all-sky surveys are driving the need for more precise and accurate flux calibration across the observable spectrum.  The Space Telescope Science Institute...

  9. The Formation of Galaxies and Supermassive Black Holes in the First Billion Years

    October 30, 2024 Colloquia

    Abstract is forthcoming. Speaker: Steven Finkelstein (The University of Texas at Austin)

  10. Strange New Worlds

    November 1, 2024 Lectures

    Is there a universal divide between planets with and without atmospheres? Is it based on their incident fluxes and escape velocities? By studying exoplanets that span the cosmic shoreline, we have begun...

  11. Exploring Cosmic Acceleration: Insights from DESI 2024

    November 6, 2024 Colloquia

    The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) collaboration is conducting a five-year redshift survey of 40 million extra-galactic sources over 14,000 square degrees of the northern sky up to the redshift...

  12. There is Light in the Darkness

    November 12, 2024 Lectures

    Speaker: Eleni Vardoulaki (National Observatory of Athens)

  13. Machine Learning the Evolution of Gas from Clouds to Stars

    November 13, 2024 Colloquia

    Abstract is forthcoming Speaker: Stella Offner (The University of Texas at Austin)

  14. The Open Access Era of Exoplanet Characterization at the Onset of Next-Generation Telescopes

    November 20, 2024 Colloquia

    Abstract is forthcoming Speaker: Natasha Batalha (NASA Ames Research Center)

  15. Hunting the Stellar Undead

    December 3, 2024 Lectures

    Speaker: Gregory Sivakoff (University of Alberta)