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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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  1. 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...

  2. Current Views for Interstellar Dust

    November 4, 2009 Colloquia

    To be announced. Speaker: Bruce Draine (Princeton)

  3. 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...

  4. 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...

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

    October 28, 2009 Colloquia

    To be announced. Speaker: Mike Swain (JPL)

  6. 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)

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

    October 14, 2009 Colloquia

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

  8. Revealing the ISM of High z Star-Forming Galaxies with GRB Afterglow Spectroscopy

    October 7, 2009 Colloquia

    To be announced. Speaker: Jason X. Prochaska (University of California, Santa Cruz)

  9. Hubble: Back in Business and Better than Ever

    October 6, 2009 Lectures

    Speaker: Frank Summers (STScI) In May 2009, the astronauts of shuttle mission STS-125 visited the Hubble Space Telescope for Servicing Mission 4.  This was the most ambitious servicing ever...

  10. Refining the Hubble Constant with a Differential Distance Ladder

    September 30, 2009 Colloquia

    To be announced. Speaker: Adam Riess (JHU/STScI)

  11. Spiral Arm Substructure in Nearby Galaxies

    September 29 through October 1, 2009 Workshops

    A 3-day workshop at STScI on "pearls," "feathers," and "spurs" in spiral galaxies. The workshop brought observers together with theorists and modelers, and focused...

  12. The Structure and Dynamics of the Milky Way

    September 23, 2009 Colloquia

    To be announced. Speaker: Mark Reid (Center for Astrophysics, Harvard)

  13. Toward a Galactic Distribution of Planets

    September 16, 2009 Colloquia

    To be announced. Speaker: Andy Gould (The Ohio State University)

  14. Evolution of Disks Among Solar-like and Intermediate Mass Stars

    September 9, 2009 Colloquia

    To be announced. Speaker: Steve Strom (National Optical Astronomy Observatory)

  15. The Evolution of Circumstellar Disks: What Kinds of Planets Form in What Kinds of Disks?

    September 9, 2009 Colloquia

    To be announced. Speaker: Steve Strom (NOAO)