Theoretical AstroPhysics Including Relativity and Cosmology

Theoretical Astrophysics and Relativity Seminars AY 2025-2026

Organizers	Emails end @caltech.edu
High Energy Astrophysics	Compact Objects and Plasma Astrophysics	Galaxy Formation and Evolution	Gravitational Waves
Xiaoshan Huang xshuang	Yici Zhong yczhong	Nondh Panithanpaisal nondh	Lisa Drummond lisadrum

Seminars will be Hybrid: 370 Cahill & ZOOM
on Fridays at 2:00pm, unless otherwise noted in red

Fall Term Winter Term Spring Term Summer

Fall Term 2025
Date	Speaker (Affiliation)	Title	Organizer
September 26	Xihui Zhao IAS & Tsinghua Univ	Cosmic Ray Magnetohydrodynamics: A New Two-Moment Framework with Numerical Implementation	Haiyang Wang
October 3
October 10	Minghao Guo Princeton Univ	Accretion and Feedback from Galaxies to Event Horizons	Zhong
October 17	Roberto Tejada Arevalo Princeton	The Evolution of Gas Giant Planets	Fuentes
October 24	Hyerin Cho CfA, Harvard	Bridging Scales in Black Hole Accretion and Feedback: Relativistic Jet linking the Horizon to the Host Galaxy	Zhong
October 31	Luca Reali Johns Hopkins Univ	Title to be announced	Drummond
November 7	Abinaya Rajamuthukumar MPA-Garching	Title to be announced	Fuller/Scherbak
November 14	Zeyuan Xuan UCLA	Title to be announced	Drummond
November 21	Yixian Chen Princeton Univ	Title to be announced	Zhong/Huang
November 28		NO SEMINAR -- Thanksgiving Holiday November 27-28
December 5	Soham Mandal Univ of Virginia	Title to be announced	Huang
WINTER RECESS: Dec 12 - Jan 4

Winter Term 2026
Date	Speaker (Affiliation)	Title	Organizer
January 9
January 16
January 23
January 30
February 6
February 13
February 20
February 27
March 6
March 13
SPRING RECESS: March 19 - March 29

Spring Term 2026
Date	Speaker (Affiliation)	Title	Organizer
April 3
April 10
April 17
April 24
May 1
May 8
May 15
May 22
May 29
June 5		NO SEMINAR -- Caltech Commencement
June 12		NO SEMINAR -- Caltech Commencement

TAPIR SEMINARS WILL RESUME FALL TERM 2027