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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. How the Galaxy Obtains its Baryons

    December 16, 2009 Colloquia

    To be announced. Speaker: Mary Putman (Columbia) Host: Chris Thom

  2. Exoplanets: From Discovery to Characterization & Beyond

    December 9, 2009 Lectures

    This event is the 4th Annual Bahcall Lecture. At the dawn of the first discovery of exoplanets orbiting sun-like stars, fourteen years ago, few believed that exoplanet atmosphere observations were possible....

  3. Astronomers Learn to Work in Space

    December 8, 2009 Lectures

    Although telescopes in space are close analogues of those on the ground, adapting them to work satisfactorily in earth orbit proved challenging, particularly for observations of sources other than the...

  4. Cometary Amino Acids from the STARDUST Mission

    December 4, 2009 Lectures

    NASA's Stardust spacecraft returned samples from comet 81P/Wild 2 to Earth in January 2006. Examinations of the organic compounds in cometary samples can reveal information about the prebiotic organic...

  5. Pretty Good Novae: V838 Monocerotis and Luminous Transients in Nearby Galaxies

    December 3, 2009 Colloquia

    To be announced. Speaker: Howard Bond (STScI)

  6. The Uses of Stellar Flares

    December 1, 2009 Lectures

    Speaker: Rachel Osten (STScI)

  7. The Formation of Realistic Galaxy Disks

    November 18, 2009 Colloquia

    To be announced. Speaker: Alyson Brooks (California Institute of Technology)

  8. The Carina Nebula: Massive Star Feedback and the Evolution of a Giant HII Region

    November 11, 2009 Colloquia

    To be announced. Speaker: Nathan Smith (UCB) Host: Nolan Walborn

  9. Impacting the Origin of Life: the Case for Phosphorus

    November 6, 2009 Lectures

    Phosphorus is a key element in biological systems, acting in cell replication as RNA and DNA, in cell structure as phospholipids, and in metabolism as ATP. Given its ubiquity in biochemistry, phosphorus...

  10. Current Views for Interstellar Dust

    November 4, 2009 Colloquia

    To be announced. Speaker: Bruce Draine (Princeton)

  11. The 1st Meeting of the JWST Advisory Committee (JSTAC)

    November 4 through 5, 2009 Committee Meetings

    The 1st meeting of the JSTAC appointed by Matt Mountain was held at the STScI on Nov 4-5th, 2009. In addition to hearing briefings on the technical and scientific progress of the project, the JSTAC discussed...

  12. Seeing Stars at the White House

    November 3, 2009 Lectures

    Speakers: Vanessa Thomas, Max Mutchler (STScI) On October 7th, 2009, professional and amateur astronomers set up telescopes on the White House lawn to give President Obama, his family, and a group...

  13. Exoplanet Spectroscopy: A Bright Present, a Brilliant Future

    October 28, 2009 Colloquia

    To be announced. Speaker: Mike Swain (JPL)

  14. Empirical Constraints on the Formation and Evolution of Low-Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs: A Data-Intensive Approach

    October 21, 2009 Colloquia

    To be announced. Speaker: Keivan Stassun (Vanderbilt)

  15. Galaxy Collisions: A Factory for Quasars, Feedback, Ellipticals, and Disks?

    October 14, 2009 Colloquia

    To be announced. Speaker: Phil Hopkins (UCB) Host: Rachel Somerville