The Department of Astronomy at the University of Illinois hosts a weekly colloquium during the academic year for invited speakers to discuss current research topics in astronomy and astrophysics. Colloquia are normally on Tuesday afternoons at 3:45 pm in 134 Astronomy Building, with refreshments and snacks served in Astronomy room 222 at 3:30pm. Find more details.
UPCOMING Fall 2026 COLLOQUIA
September 1st
Dr. Anna Nierenberg from UC Merced, "Measuring the Physical Properties of Dark Matter with Strong Gravitational Lensing"
September 8th
Dr. Kareem El-Badry from Caltech, "Black Holes and Revelations: Unseen Companions in Stellar Binaries"
September 15th
Dr. Daniel Lin from NRAO, "Tracking the Grist and Flakes of Planetesimals with Dust Polarization"
September 22nd
Dr. Charlotte Ward from PSU, "Better Together: Combining the Strenghts of Rubin, Euclid, and Roman for Time-domain Science and Cosmology"
September 29th & 30th [Icko Iben Lecturer]
Dr. David Charbonneau from Harvard, "Exoplanets and Stellar Physics"
October 6th
Dr. Dominic Bedford from NASA
October 13th
Dr. Mathilde Van-Cyuck from UIUC
October 20th
Dr. Anna Ho from Cornell, "Relativistic Stellar Explosions: The Landscape Revealed by Wide-field, High-cadence, Optical Surveys"
October 27th
Dr. Jiayi Sun from Kentucky
November 3rd
Dr. Rachel Bezanson from Pitt
November 10th
Dr. Jessie Muir from Cincinnati
November 17th
Dr. Shazrene Mohamed from Virginia
December 1st
Dr. Nicholas Law from UNC
December 8th
Dr. Juliette Becker from UW Madison, "Planetary Architectures and Insights Towards Planet Formation"
Looking for other talks? SkAI Institute also offers monthly colloquia. You can find more information on their events page.