Theoretical AstroPhysics Including Relativity and Cosmology

Theoretical Astrophysics and Relativity Seminars AY 2026-2027

Organizers	Emails end @caltech.edu
Grav Waves (LISA & Neutron Stars)	Stellar Physics & Planetary Science	High Energy Astrophys & Stellar Interactions	Gravitational Waves (TGR & Cosmology)
Lisa Drummond lisadrum	Jose Rafa Fuentes jorafb	Hila Glanz glanz	Kristen Schumacher Aloh ksaloh

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

Summer Term Fall Term Winter Term Spring Term

Summer Term 2026
Date	Speaker (Affiliation)	Title	Organizer
September 11	Lucy McNeill Kyoto University	Some New Ideas in Stellar Explosions	Fuentes
September 18	Hannalore Gerling-Dunsmore Univ Colorado, Boulder	Self-Gravity and In-Situ Object Formation in AGN Disks	Drummond
September 25	Devin Becker MIT	Ringdown from Eccentric Binary Black Hole Coalescences in the Extreme Mass Ratio Regime	Aloh

Fall Term 2026
Date	Speaker (Affiliation)	Title	Organizer
October 2	Zack Gelles Princeton University	Signatures of Black Hole Spin and Plasma Acceleration in Jet Polarimetry	Aloh
October 9	Abhishek Hegade Princeton University	Importance of accretion disk-driven torques on extreme mass ratio inspirals	Aloh
October 16	Aldana Grichener Universitty of Arizona	The Evolution and Fates of Massive Stars and Binaries: From Nuclear Burning to Explosive Outcomes	Glanz
October 23	Joheen Chakraborty MIT	Quasi-periodic eruptions: new transient probes of stars near supermassive black holes	Drummond
October 30	Hengrui Zhu Princeton University	Title to be announced	Drummond
November 6	Dang Pham Univ Colorado, Boulder	Title to be announced	Fuentes
November 13	Valentin Skoutnev Columbia University	Title to be announced	Fuentes
November 20	Daniel Brethauer UC Berkeley	Title to be announced	Glanz
		NO SEMINAR -- Thanksgiving Holiday November 26-27
December 4	Yuri Shprits University of Potsdam	Title to be announced	Glanz
WINTER RECESS: Dec 12 - Jan 4

Winter Term 2027
Date	Speaker (Affiliation)	Title	Organizer
January 8
January 15
January 22
January 29
February 5
February 12
February 19
February 26
March 5
March 12
March 19
SPRING RECESS: March 20 - March 28

Spring Term 2027
Date	Speaker (Affiliation)	Title	Organizer
April 2
April 9
April 16
April 23
April 30
May 7
May 14
May 21
May 28
June 4
June 11		NO SEMINAR -- Caltech Commencement

TAPIR SEMINARS WILL RESUME FALL TERM 2028