Events Overview
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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Crash of the Titans
June 12, 2012 LecturesSpeaker: Frank Summers (STScI) While it has been long known that our Milky Way Galaxy and the Andromeda Galaxy are approaching each other and will have an encounter in a few billion years, the specifics ...
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Spectra of Transiting Extrasolar Planets: Past, Present, and Future
May 30, 2012 ColloquiaTo be announced. Speaker: Peter R. McCullough (Space Telescope Science Institute)
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The Galaxy-Halo Connection across Mass and Time
May 23, 2012 ColloquiaTo be announced. Speaker: Risa Wechsler (Stanford)
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The 5th Meeting of the JWST Advisory Committee (JSTAC)
May 18, 2012 Committee MeetingsA webex JSTAC meeting was held on May 18th, 2012 to review the status of JWST. The committee heard presentations from NASA HQ, the STScI Directorate, and the JWST Mission Office at STScI. More information ...
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Habitable Planet Detection and Characterization with Far Infrared Coherent Interferometry
May 16, 2012 ColloquiaStudies of the planet abundance as a function of stellar mass have shown a strong increase in the frequency of planet occurrence around stars more massive than 1.5 Msun, and that such stars are deficit ...
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Probing Structure Formation and Cosmology with Galaxy Clusters across Cosmic Time
May 10, 2012 ColloquiaSpeaker: Piero Rosati (ESO) I will briefly review how multi-wavelength studies of distant galaxy clusters can set important constraints on structure formation and cosmological scenarios. Their mass function ...
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Gas Flows in Galaxies
May 7 through 10, 2012 SymposiaThe flows of gas into galaxies, and from them back to their environments, have assumed increasing importance at the frontier of galaxy formation studies. The purpose of our Symposium is to bring together ...
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The Phylogenomic Record: Reconstructing the Timing and Mechanisms of Early Life Evolution
May 4, 2012 LecturesThe first two billion years of life on Earth left scant, inconclusive material evidence of its existence, despite its undoubtedly complex and profound impact on our planetary system. As a consequence, ...
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Core-Collapse Supernovae: Astrophysical Laboratories for Stellar Evolution and Explosion
May 2, 2012 ColloquiaTo be announced. Speaker: Luc Dessart (OAMP)
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The June 5, 2012 Transit of Venus and Astronomy in Greater Baltimore
May 1, 2012 LecturesSpeakers: Lucy Albert (STScI), Herman Heyn (Baltimore's Street-Corner Astronomer), Paul Sokolowski (Harford Astronomical Society), Wayne Bird (Westminster Astronomical Society), Bob Prokop (Howard ...
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Clusters of Galaxies: An All-Purpose Laboratory for Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
April 25, 2012 ColloquiaTo be announced. Speaker: Tesla Jeltema (UC Santa Cruz)
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Convection, Rotation, and Magnetism in Stars: Puzzles and Perspectives
April 18, 2012 ColloquiaTo be announced. Speaker: Matt Browning (Exeter)
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The Faint Early Sun: Paradox, Problem, or Distraction?
April 9 through 10, 2012 WorkshopsThe problem of the faint early Sun has been around for many years, and it boils down to this: We presume that the Sun started its life on the zero-age main sequence (ZAMS) with essentially the same mass ...
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The Deep Biosphere in Igneous Oceanic Crust
April 6, 2012 LecturesOver the past two decades, there has been an increasing awareness within the geological, microbiological, and oceanographic communities of the potentially vast microbial biosphere that is harbored beneath ...