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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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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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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Kinematic Lensing with the Roman Space Telescope
September 19, 2024 LecturesThe Nancy Grace Roman Space will address science cases ranging from exoplanets to galaxy evolution to fundamental physics. The High Latitude Survey (HLS) component is designed to constrain dark energy...
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NASA's Next Big Thing: The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
September 3, 2024 LecturesSpeaker: Ori Fox (Space Telescope Science Institute) NASA's upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is readying for launch in late 2026. Roman will be able to survey the sky 1,000 times...
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Modeling and Performance Analysis of iEFC for the Roman/CGI SPC Mode
August 15, 2024 LecturesHigh-order wavefront sensing and control (HOWFSC) is key to creating a dark hole region within the coronagraphic image plane where high contrasts are achieved. The Roman Coronagraph is expected to perform...
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2024 HotSci at JHU/STScI: Getting Ready for Roman
June 26, 2024 Colloquia"Getting Ready for Roman" featuring Annalisa Calamida (STScI) on The Roman Galactic Bulge Time-Domain Community Survey, Rachael Beaton (STScI) on Roman & the Quest to find the Smallest...
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Roman at the 244th American Astronomical Society Meeting
June 9 through 13, 2024 Science MeetingsThe 244rd American Astronomical Society (AAS) meeting will feature a variety of events focused on science with Roman, such as town halls, presentations, and iPosters. Staff will be available at the...
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Accounting for Spontaneous Charge Production in the EMCCD Gain Register
May 16, 2024 LecturesAn electron-multiplying charge-coupled device (EMCCD) is often used for taking images with space telescopes and other devices. Photons hit the pixels and photo-electrons are created, and these are multiplied...
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