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.
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Deep Impact: Results from a "Simple" Experiment
February 8, 2006 ColloquiaTo be announced.
Speaker: Mike A'Hearn (University of Maryland)
Astronomy Visualization: The State of the Art
February 7, 2006 LecturesSpeaker: Frank Summers (STScI)
"Astronomy Visualization: The State of the Art" was a special session at the recent American Astronomical Society meeting in Washington, DC. To a standing...
Dark Matter and Dark Energy
February 1, 2006 ColloquiaTo be announced.
Speaker: Rocky Kolb (Fermilab)
The Extended Stellar Halo of the Andromeda Spiral Galaxy
January 25, 2006 ColloquiaTo be announced.
Speaker: Raja Guhathakurta (UCO/Lick Observatory)
Gas Inflow and Secular Evolution in Disk Galaxies
January 18, 2006 ColloquiaTo be announced.
Speaker: Michael Regan (STScI)
The Discovery of Two New Satellites of Pluto & New Horizons Mission Update
January 3, 2006 LecturesSpeakers: Max Mutchler, Hal Weaver (STScI)
The planet Pluto was discovered in 1930, and is roughly 70% the size of Earth's moon. Its satellite Charon, about half the size of Pluto, was discovered...
Recent Results from the Lyot Project
December 14, 2005 ColloquiaTo be announced.
Speaker: Ben Oppenheimer (AMNH)
Star-Formation, Chemical Enrichment, and Feedback at z~23
December 7, 2005 ColloquiaTo be announced.
Speaker: Alice Shapley (Princeton)
Distant Screens: From Extrasolar Planets to Eclipsing the North Star
December 6, 2005 LecturesSpeaker: Ian Jordan (STScI)
Planets around other stars are extremely difficult to see directly because they are lost within the glare of their host star. 'Star visors' or 'star shades'...
The SDSS Survey for Damped Lya Systems: Evolution in Neutral Gas at High Redshift
November 30, 2005 ColloquiaTo be announced.
Speaker: Jason Prochaska (UCO/Lick Observatory)
Binaries in the Solar System
November 16, 2005 ColloquiaTo be announced.
Speaker: Keith Noll (STScI)
What Goes on in the Dark of Galaxy Halos?
November 9, 2005 ColloquiaTo be announced.
Speaker: Mary Putman (University of Michigan)
Active Galaxies at Low and High Redshift: Type II Quasars, Reionization, and Other Insights from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
November 2, 2005 ColloquiaTo be announced.
Speaker: Michael Strauss (Princeton)
The Equation That Couldn't Be Solved
November 1, 2005 LecturesSpeaker: Mario Livio (STScI)
In his new book, Dr. Livio discusses how the concept of symmetry permeates our lives in topics ranging from human perception and the selection of mates, to the arts and...
2005 HST Calibration Workshop
October 26 through 28, 2005 WorkshopsCharge transfer inefficiency, time-dependent sensitivity, fringing effects, point-spread functions, line-spread functions, scattered light, echelle blaze function shifts, charge trapping, hot pixels, cosmic...