Roman Events
Events inspired by or relevant to the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope mission are organized by STScI and other partners of the Roman Space Telescope project
Archived presentations and webcasts from conferences, workshops, and lectures organized by and held at STScI are available below. Use the filter bar to search by specific event criteria including Type, Keyword, and/or Date. Click the Submit button to generate the query. Information and resources for each event, including links to view the presentations (when available), can be found by clicking on the "Read More" link.
IPAC's Roman website also maintains an extensive listing of Roman-related conferences and meetings by all project partners.
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Roman at the 247th American Astronomical Society Meeting
January 4 through 8, 2026 Science MeetingsThe 247th American Astronomical Society (AAS) meeting will feature a variety of events focused on science with Roman, such as town halls, splinter sessions, and iposter presentations. Staff will be available...
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Photometric Calibration Uncertainties in Stage IV Supernova Cosmology
November 20, 2025 LecturesUpcoming supernova surveys, such as the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (Roman) and the Vera Rubin Observatory’s LSST, are expected to discover over a million supernovae, vastly increasing current...
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Atmospheric Escape and Replenishment in Planetary Systems Workshop
November 4 through 7, 2025 WorkshopsThe competition between atmospheric mass-loss through escape versus replenishment by outgassing determines the formation, evolution, and ultimate fate of planetary atmospheres inside and outside the Solar...
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Optimizing Roman Photometric Redshifts for HLIS
September 25, 2025 LecturesPhoto-z’s are crucial for the main cosmology, galaxy evolution, and transient science drivers of Roman. The transformative nature of the Roman dataset presents both new challenges but also new opportunities...
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The Roman Galactic Bulge Time Domain Survey
August 21, 2025 LecturesRoman's wide-field infrared camera, with a field of view 100 times larger than the Hubble Space Telescope, will provide unique time-domain astronomy in crowded fields that have been inaccessible with...
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Accreting Neutron Stars and Black Holes in our Galaxy through the Lens of Roman
July 31, 2025 LecturesOver the past decade, our understanding of the population and behavior of compact objects has shifted significantly, thanks to a multitude of novel facilities, from gravitational wave observatories, astrometry...
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The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope: Years in the Making - Steps from Discovery
July 16, 2025 LecturesSpeakers: Dr. Kristen McQuinn (Space Telescope Science Institute) and Robyn Sanderson (University of Pennsylvania) The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is NASA’s next large strategic mission. In...
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Cosmic Cartography with Roman: Advances in Galaxy Structures, Distributions, Dark Matter, and Dark Energy
July 14 through 18, 2025 SymposiaThe Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, planned to launch in late 2026, will be capable of surveying the sky 1000 times faster than the Hubble Space Telescope with similar sensitivity and resolution. A...
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Roman at the 246th American Astronomical Society Meeting
June 8 through 12, 2025 Science MeetingsThe 246th American Astronomical Society (AAS) meeting will feature a variety of events focused on science with Roman, such as town halls, splinter sessions, and iposter presentations. Staff will be available...
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Chromatic Effects on the PSF and Shear Measurement for the Roman Space Telescope
May 15, 2025 LecturesWeak gravitational lensing is a key cosmological probe that requires precise measurement of galaxy images to infer shape distortions, or shear, and thereby constrain cosmology. Accurate estimation of the...
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Transients From Space
March 11 through 13, 2025 WorkshopsTransient science is entering an exciting new era of discovery. The 2020 Decadal Survey named Time Domain Astronomy (TDA) as a top priority, and NASA’s Physics of the Cosmos (PCOS) program has...
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Galactic Plane Survey Community Workshop
February 11 through 13, 2025 WorkshopsThe Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, NASA's next flagship observatory, is planned for launch in late 2026. An Early-Definition Astrophysics Survey Assessment Committee composed of community members...
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Roman at the 245th American Astronomical Society Meeting
January 12 through 16, 2025 Science MeetingsThe 245th American Astronomical Society (AAS) meeting will feature a variety of events focused on science with Roman, such as town halls, splinter sessions, and iposter presentations. Staff will be available...
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Accurate Flux Calibration in the Era of Space Astronomy and All-Sky Surveys
October 22 through 25, 2024 WorkshopsAdvances in space telescope technology and all-sky surveys are driving the need for more precise and accurate flux calibration across the observable spectrum. The Space Telescope Science Institute...
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Cosmic Acceleration in the Roman Era
October 2, 2024 ColloquiaCosmic acceleration is one of the most surprising cosmological discoveries of the past century. Even the "simplest" explanations require new, cosmologically dominant energy components with exotic...
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