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STScI hosts colloquia, 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. Did Earth Lose Its Balance Before The First Animals Evolved?

    November 12, 2010 Lectures

    A low-latitude distribution of continents may be a prerequisite for the global glaciations that appear to have affected Earth at least twice during the emergence of animals. However, a preponderance of...

  2. Dust Formation and Evolution in Core-Collapse Supernovae: Clues to Understanding the Dust Content of Early Galaxies

    November 10, 2010 Colloquia

    To be announced. Speaker: Geoff Clayton (Louisiana State University)

  3. Super-Earths and Life

    November 3, 2010 Colloquia

    To be announced. Speaker: David W. Latham (Harvard-Smithsion Center for Astrophysics)

  4. How Galaxies Get Their Gas

    November 2, 2010 Lectures

    Speaker: Jason Tumlinson (STScI) It is is common to think of galaxies as vast collections of billions of stars. Such a view is only partly correct, for it overlooks the great clouds of gas and dust...

  5. The Growth of Galaxies at z ~ 2: Insights from IFU Surveys

    October 27, 2010 Colloquia

    Key insights are gained from studies of the spatially-resolved dynamics, star formation, and physical properties from near-IR integral field spectroscopy, now possible with instruments such as SINFONI...

  6. IFUs in the Era of JWST

    October 26 through 28, 2010 Workshops

    Optical/near-IR integral field (or 3D) spectroscopy is now a well developed field, with integral field units (IFUs) being operated on a large number of ground- and space-based telescopes. With IFUs integrated...

  7. X-rays and Planet Formation

    October 20, 2010 Colloquia

    To be announced. Speaker: Eric Feigelson (Pennsylvania State University)

  8. The Lifecycle of Matter in the Large Magellanic Cloud: Insights from Spitzer and Herschel

    October 13, 2010 Colloquia

    To be announced. Speaker: Margaret Meixner (STScI)

  9. Follow the Elements: An Early Whiff of Oxygen

    October 8, 2010 Lectures

    The oxygenation of the Earth's surface, which occurred ca. 2.3 billion years ago, is the earliest unambiguous imprint of biology on a planetary scale. Therefore, the search for molecular oxygen features...

  10. Highlights of the CoRoT mission: Asteroseismology, stellar activity, and exoplanet search

    October 6, 2010 Colloquia

    To be announced. Speaker: Annie Baglin (Observatoire de Paris-Meudon) Host: Myron Smith

  11. Dusty Origins: The First Steps Toward Planet Formation and the Birth of Stardust

    October 5, 2010 Lectures

    Speaker: Ben Sargent (STScI) Perhaps the second most famous quote from Carl Sagan (after his  "billions" usage) is that we are made of stardust. Our planet Earth formed via accretion...

  12. Ages of large impact basins on Mars: Implications for the Late Heavy Bombardment in the inner Solar System and the possibility of early life

    September 29, 2010 Colloquia

    To be announced. Speaker: Herbert Frey (GSFC) Host: Keith Noll

  13. Stellar Plasma Physics Under the Microscope: Solar Activity Comprehensively Covered

    September 22, 2010 Colloquia

    To be announced. Speaker: Karel Schrijver (Lockheed-Martin Advanced Technical Center)

  14. The Delivery of Volatiles and Organics: From Earth to Exoearths in the Era of JWST

    September 13 through 15, 2010 Workshops

    The presence of water and other volatiles is critical to life as we know it, yet the origin and abundance of water on Earth remains an exciting and hotly debated question. With the rapidly increasing knowledge...

  15. Thermal tides: An explanation for the inflated radii of the hot Jupiters

    September 8, 2010 Colloquia

    To be announced. Speaker: Aristotle Socrates (Institute of Advanced Study)