Heidelberg Joint Astronomical Colloquium

Website: https://zah.uni-heidelberg.de/hjac
Usual location: Philosophenweg 12, Main lecture hall (gHS)
Contact: Ralf Klessen, Richard Tuffs

Recent Talks:

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Stellar populations as fossil record of galaxy evolution across half of the cosmic history
Anna Gallazzi
21 Apr 2026, 16:30

Strongly Interacting Multiple Planet Systems as a Rosetta Stone for Planet Formation
Trifon Trifonov
28 Apr 2026, 16:30

Solar models and their uncertainties: the current state and the impact for PLATO
Gaël Buldgen
5 May 2026, 16:30

Ultraviolet spectroscopy of metal-poor stars: new advances and new opportunities
Ian Roederer
12 May 2026, 16:30

Early Galactic Disks and Their Connections to Present-Day Galaxies
Oscar Agertz
19 May 2026, 16:30

Stellar evolution & black hole coagulation in AGNs: an analogue of planet formation
Douglas Lin
26 May 2026, 16:30

Astrostatistical innovations to decode the history of our galaxy
Aarya Patil
2 Jun 2026, 16:30

NLTE effects in the atmospheres of ultra-hot Jupiters
Luca Fossati
9 Jun 2026, 16:30

Solving Inverse Problems in Astronomy with Invertible Neural Networks
Victor Ksoll
16 Jun 2026, 16:30

From Cosmic Dawn to Present-Day: Galaxy Formation and Evolution Through Cosmic Time
Rhea-Silvia Remus
23 Jun 2026, 16:30

Black holes and revelations: unseen companions in stellar binaries
Kareem El-Badry
30 Jun 2026, 16:30

Expediting Astronomical Discovery with AI Agents: Progress, Challenges, and Future Directions
Yuan-Sen Ting
7 Jul 2026, 16:30

The Interstellar Visitors
Colin Snodgrass
14 Jul 2026, 16:30

Distant Quasars: The Observational Key to the Formation of Structure Across Scales
Sarah Bosman
21 Jul 2026, 16:30

Again! - but faster, better, and with more physics: ML-accelerated inference of galaxy properties in deep and wide surveys of the universe
Joel Leja
20 Oct 2026, 16:30

WST - The Wide Field Spectroscopic Telescope
Roland Bacon
27 Oct 2026, 16:30

Decoding Galaxies & Star Formation Feedback with 100,000 Star Clusters: PHANGS-HST & JWST today, the future with HWO
Janice Lee
3 Nov 2026, 16:30

Dusty common envelope interactions and luminous red novae
Orsola De Marco
10 Nov 2026, 16:30

Cosmology and Supernovae through Cosmic Lenses
Sherry Suyu
17 Nov 2026, 16:30

A view of the first galaxies through the intergalactic medium
Laura Keating
24 Nov 2026, 16:30

Resetting Cosmic Ray Propagation Theory
Ellen Zweibel
1 Dec 2026, 16:30

New Insights into Cosmic Dawn from JWST
Charlotte Mason
8 Dec 2026, 16:30

Cosmic-ray feedback in the multiphase interstellar medium
Lucia Armillotta
15 Dec 2026, 16:30

The nature of the first stars: data-driven constraints
Stefania Salvadori
12 Jan 2027, 16:30

When Particles Don't Random-Walk: Superdiffusion and the Largest Shocks in the Universe
Marcus Brüggen
19 Jan 2027, 16:30

Studying the atmospheres of exoplanets in multiple dimensions
Paul Mollière
26 Jan 2027, 16:30

Resolving the Multiphase, Multiscale Universe
Max Gronke
2 Feb 2027, 16:30