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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JWebbinar 37 - Planning Solar System Observations with JWST
September 17, 2024 Software and DataJWST 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...
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Fall Colloquium: Presentations from Incoming STScI Postdocs
September 18, 2024 ColloquiaPresentations featuring Paul Bennet, Farhan Hasan, Jegug Ih, Ryan Richards Vaught, and Mans Holmberg.
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White Dwarf Supernovae
September 25, 2024 ColloquiaType 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...
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Webb Office Hours
September 26, 2024 Community EventsThe 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,...
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Cosmic Acceleration in the Roman Era
October 2, 2024 ColloquiaAbstract is forthcoming. Speaker: David Weinberg (The Ohio State University)
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Planets, Life, and the Universe Lecture
October 4, 2024 LecturesAbstract is forthcoming Speaker: Emily Martin (Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum)
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The SAGA Survey: A Census of 101 Satellite Systems around Milky Way-like Galaxies
October 9, 2024 ColloquiaI 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...
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Accurate Flux Calibration in the Era of Space Astronomy and All-Sky Surveys
October 22 through 25, 2024 WorkshopsAdvances 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...
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The Formation of Galaxies and Supermassive Black Holes in the First Billion Years
October 30, 2024 ColloquiaAbstract is forthcoming. Speaker: Steven Finkelstein (The University of Texas at Austin)
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Strange New Worlds
November 1, 2024 LecturesIs 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...
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Exploring Cosmic Acceleration: Insights from DESI 2024
November 6, 2024 ColloquiaThe 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...
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There is Light in the Darkness
November 12, 2024 LecturesSpeaker: Eleni Vardoulaki (National Observatory of Athens)
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Machine Learning the Evolution of Gas from Clouds to Stars
November 13, 2024 ColloquiaAbstract is forthcoming Speaker: Stella Offner (The University of Texas at Austin)
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The Open Access Era of Exoplanet Characterization at the Onset of Next-Generation Telescopes
November 20, 2024 ColloquiaAbstract is forthcoming Speaker: Natasha Batalha (NASA Ames Research Center)
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Hunting the Stellar Undead
December 3, 2024 LecturesSpeaker: Gregory Sivakoff (University of Alberta)