Upcoming Seminars
The IR SIG organizes a monthly webinar series, dedicated to all topics in infrared astronomy. Please contact a member of the SIG Leadership Council if you would like to present a seminar or if you have a question about the seminar series. Instructions for joining the seminar can be found below.
September 8, 2020
TBA
Prof. Mark Devlin (University of Pennsylvania)
Seminars will usually be held on the first Tuesday of each month at 1 pm Eastern/10 am Pacific time.
NOTE: We are now using Zoom to host our webinars
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Advice to Webinar Participants
Use the chat window to report technical problems and/or post questions for the speaker or the IR SIG Leadership Council. During the Q&A period at the end of the talk, the moderator will unmute participants who have posted questions to allow them to ask their question directly to the speaker. Please be respectful of other participants and take turns asking questions- don't talk over each other! The chat window will remain open for 15 minutes after the webinar to collect feedback, comments, and additional questions for consideration by the SIG Leadership Council. All webinars will be recorded and available for later viewing on this web page.
August 4, 2020
"Magnificent Constructions: How Massive Galaxies Stop Forming Stars"
Slide Set
Dr. Kevin Cooke (University of Kansas)
July 7, 2020
"Galactic Feedback and the Rise of Metals Across Cosmic Time"
Dr. Justin Spilker (NASA Hubble Fellow, University of Texas at Austin)
June 2, 2020
"SPHEREx: The All-Sky Spectral Survey Satellite"
Slide Set
Prof. Jamie Bock (Caltech)
May 5, 2020
"CCAT-Prime: The Telescope, the Instruments, and the Science Drivers"
Slide Set
Dr. Thomas Nikola (Cornell University)
March 31, 2020
"A Molecular Inventory of the Orion Hot Core in Mid-Infrared with SOFIA/EXES"
Slide Set and Chat Window
Dr. Sarah Nickerson (NASA Ames, Bay Area Environmental Research Institute)
November 12, 2019
"Ingredients for Solar-like Systems and Perspectives in the IR"
Chat Window
Dr. Maria Drozdovskaya (Center for Space and Habitability, Universität Bern)
June 4, 2019
"Building the Future: The NASA in-Space Assembled Telescope Study"
Slide Set and Questions
Dr. Nick Siegler (JPL)
March 5, 2019
"Interferometry from Space: Fulfilling an Astrophysics Roadmap Vision"
Dr. David Leisawitz (NASA GSFC) and Dr. Hal Yorke (SOFIA SMO Director)
January 15, 2019
"The Leighton Chajnantor Telescope"
Slide Set
Prof. Sunil Golwala (Caltech)
October 2, 2018
"Astrochemical studies of planet-forming disks: future prospects at far-IR wavelengths"
Dr. Catherine Walsh (University of Leeds)
September 11, 2018
"Millimetre-wave instrumentation for heterodyne astronomy – phased array feeds and orthomode transducers"
Dr. Lisa Locke (Jansky Fellow, NRAO)
August 21, 2018
"The Future of Exoplanet Characterization in the Infrared"
Dr. Tiffany Kataria (JPL)
June 12, 2018
"SPHEREx: An All-Sky Infrared Spectral Survey Explorer Satellite"
Prof. Jamie Bock (Caltech)
Note: This webinar was canceled due to technical difficulties,
May 1, 2018
"Cluster formation in Orion: the slingshot mechanism"
Prof. Amelia Stutz (University of Concepcion, Chile)
April 10, 2018
"Exploring the Dynamic Infrared Sky with Spitzer, JWST and Beyond"
Dr. Ryan Lau (Caltech)
March 6, 2018
"The Role of Polarized Dust in and around Active Galactic Nuclei"
Dr. Enrique Lopez Rodriguez (SOFIA Science Center)
December 5, 2017
"On-Chip, submm-wavelength spectroscopy with superconducting circuits for near-future astronomical instruments"
Prof. Erik Shirokoff (University of Chicago)
November 7, 2017
"Constraining molecular compositions in protoplanetary disks and new challenges for disk models"
Dr. Ilse Cleeves (Harvard CfA)
October 3, 2017
"Extreme Gas Properties Around the Nearest Supermassive Black Hole"
Dr. Betsy Mills (Boston University)
September 5, 2017
"The Intricate Role of Cold Gas and Dust in Galaxy Evolution at Early Cosmic Epochs"
Prof. Dominik Riechers (Cornell University)
August 15, 2017
"Simulations of FIR line emission from galaxies at high redshift"
Dr. Karen Olsen (Exploration Fellow, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University)
Note: There is a slight delay between sound and video during this webinar recording due to a bad internet connection. Our apologies!
July 11, 2017
"High mass star formation in massive clusters"
Dr. Adam Ginsburg (Jansky Fellow, NRAO)
May 2, 2017
"SOFIA Today"
Dr. Hal Yorke (SOFIA SMO Director) and Dr. Kimberly Ennico Smith (NASA SOFIA Project Scientist)
April 14, 2017
"Infrared Observations of the Co-evolution Between Galaxies and Supermassive Black Holes"
Prof. Alex Pope (UMass Amherst)
March 3, 2017
"The Diverse Impact of Chemical Environment on Interstellar Molecular Evolution: Past Successes and Future FIR Opportunities"
Dr. Brett McGuire (NRAO/Jansky Fellow)
February 3, 2017
"The Origins Space Telescope and Star Formation in the Galactic Center"
Dr. Cara Battersby (Harvard CfA)
December 2, 2016
"The Formation of Planets and Habitable Worlds with the JWST and the Origins Space Telescope"
Slide Set
Dr. Klaus Pontoppidan (Space Telescope Institute)
November 15, 2016
"Exploring the Solar System with Astrophysics Assets: Future Science with JWST and OST"
Dr. Stefanie Milam (NASA/GSFC)
October 7, 2016
"ALMA in the next decade"
Dr. Al Wootten (NRAO/ALMA)
August 19, 2016, 1 pm EDT
"Debris Disks and the FIR Surveyor: New insights into the formation and evolution of planetary systems"
Slide Set
Dr. Kate Su (University of Arizona)
July 15, 2016
"The Far-Infrared Surveyor Decadal Mission Concept Study"
Dr. Margaret Meixner (STScI)
