Astrocoffee Talks

Current Research at the IfA

10:30am Fridays
IfA Manoa Library

 Talks are 20 minutes and informal.
Zoom meeting ID 8089568907

All welcome - come and see what is happening at IfA!


Spring 2026 Schedule
(email below to request a slot)

Date
Name
Title
Jan 16
Qinghui Sun
Stellar Chemistry and Planetary Connections: Insights from Lithium and High-Precision Abundance Studies
Jan 23
Dan Huber
The Space-Based Time-Domain Revolution in Astrophysics
Jan 30
Feb 6
Feb 13
Feb 20
Feb 27
Mar 6
Mar 13
Mar 20
Spring Break
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Mar 27
Andrew Hoffman
TBA
Apr 3
Apr 10
Apr 17
Apr 24
May 1
May 8
May 15
May 22
May 29

To volunteer for an Astrocoffee talk, please email Willem Hoogendam (willemh@).


Fall 2025 Schedule
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Date
Name
Title
Aug 5
Keming Zhang
Probing the free-floating planet population with gravitational microlensing
Aug 22
Andy Tzanidakis
A Systematic Search for Main-Sequence Dipper Stars with the Zwicky Transient Facility
Aug 29
Sept 5
Jonathan Williams
Radiative Transfer Modeling of a Shadowed Protoplanetary Disk assisted by a Neural Network
Sept 12
Sept 19
Norio Narita
Instrument Development and Observations for Young Transiting Planets
Sept 26
Maelie Mondelin
Investigating Environmental Effects on Galaxies in the Pisces-Perseus Supercluster with Euclid ERO-Perseus and CFHT-MegaCam
Oct 3
Cameron Pfeffer
Calcium from Core Collapse? Abundance Stratification Modeling of the Peculiar Calcium Strong Transient PTF09dav
Oct 10
Sara Mulas
Solar Flares Forecasting Through High-Frequency Radio Imaging and Spectral Correlation Analysis in Active Regions
Oct 17
Chase Urasaki
Not So Cosmic Chemistry: Coffee 101
Oct 24
Mitchell Dixon
Probing the Local Growth of Structure with Type Ia Supernova Peculiar Velocities from ATLAS
Oct 28
Jason Chu
Behind the Mirror: Life Supporting the Big Telescopes
Oct 31
Mike Liu
TeachAstro: Building a Community of Practice for Astronomy Education in Hawaii
Nov 7
Yapeng Zhang
Exoplanet atmospheres with high-resolution spectroscopy: chemistry, isotopes, and dynamics
Nov 14
Sara Faggi
The HCl cycle in the Martian atmosphere
Nov 21
Mutian Wang
An Adolescent, Near-Resonant Planetary System Near the End of Photoevaporation
Nov 28
(Thanksgiving Break)
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Dec 5
Marc Pinsonneault
The Public Release of YREC
Dec 12
Gene Magnier
Pan-SPEC
Dec 19
Nathalie Jones
It's Not Over 'Til it's Over: Final Analysis of GPIES Candidates Reveals New Exoplanet

To volunteer for an Astrocoffee talk, please email Willem Hoogendam (willemh@).


Spring 2025 Schedule
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Date
Name
Title
Jan 10
Jan 17
Eduardo Polli
Modelling of spacecraft apparent brightness for optimising satellite design to reduce light pollution and activities on Space Sustainability
Jan 24
No Talk
Faculty Search
Jan 31
No Talk
Faculty Search
Feb 7
No Talk
Faculty Search
Feb 14
No Talk
Faculty Search
Feb 21
No Talk
Faculty Search
Feb 28
No Talk
Faculty Search
Mar 7
No Talk
Faculty Search
Mar 14
Luis Quiroga Nunez
Characterizing Galactic stellar populations: A challenge for astrometric measurements
Mar 21
(Spring Break)
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Mar 28
Apr 4
Apr 11
Apr 18
Apr 25
May 2
May 9
May 16
May 23

To volunteer for an Astrocoffee talk, email Jason Hinkle (jhinkle6@) or Sam Walker (swalk@).


Fall 2024 Schedule
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Date
Name
Title
Aug 30
Sept 6
Sept 13
Sept 20
Sept 27
Oct 4
Oct 11
Oct 18
Oct 25
Nov 1
Jerry Xuan
A modern view of Gliese 229 B: binarity and atmospheric analysis with JWST/MIRI
Nov 8
Nov 15
Nov 19
Taichi Uyama
JWST/NIRCam coronagraphic imaging of the HD 163296 protoplanetary system
Nov 29
(Thanksgiving Break)
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Dec 6
Alina Manthei
Pulsar Radio Emission Origins
Dec 13
Dec 20

To volunteer for an Astrocoffee talk, email Jason Hinkle (jhinkle6@) or Sam Walker (swalk@).


Spring 2024 Schedule
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Date
Name
Title
Jan 5
Jan 12
Jan 19
No Talk
Faculty Search
Jan 26
No Talk
Faculty Search
Feb 2
No Talk
Faculty Search
Feb 9
No Talk
Faculty Search
Feb 16
No Talk
Faculty Search
Feb 23
No Talk
Faculty Search
Mar 1
No Talk
Protograd Visit
Mar 8
Mar 15
Mar 22
(Spring Break)
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Mar 29
Apr 5
Apr 12
Apr 19
David Coria
TBD
Apr 26
May 3
May 10
---
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May 31
Magda Siwek
Signatures of Circumbinary Disks in Massive Black Hole Binary Populations
June 21
Álvaro Ribas
Protoplanetary disks and artificial neural networks

To volunteer for an Astrocoffee talk, email Jason Hinkle (jhinkle6@) or Sam Walker (swalk@).


Fall 2023 Schedule
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Date
Name
Title
Aug 25
Sept 1
Sept 8
Sept 15
Pietro Curone
Multiwavelength analysis of the typical protoplanetary disk CX Tau: highly variable free-free or anomalous microwave emission?
Sept 22
Ann Boesgaard
Three Decades of High Resolution Spectroscopy at Keck Observatory
Sept 29
Brent Tully
Peekaboo: the extremely metal poor dwarf galaxy HIPASS J1131-31
Oct 6
Naja Wiedner
Lunar Minimoons: Small Worlds with Big Mysteries
Oct 13
Oct 20
Oct 27
Nov 3
Nov 10
(Veterans Day)
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Nov 17
Aláine Lee
Galactic activity and sky simulation results in the far-infrared
Nov 24
(Thanksgiving Break)
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Dec 1
Jonathan Williams
Periodic Post Tenure Review or What Have I Done in the Last 5 Years
Dec 8
Dec 15

To volunteer for an Astrocoffee talk, email Jason Hinkle (jhinkle6@) or Sam Walker (swalk@).


Spring 2023 Schedule
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Date
Name
Title
Jan 13
Chris Lindsay
Prospects for Probing the Evolution and Internal Structures of Stars With Asteroseismology
Jan 20
Jan 27
Feb 3
Feb 10
No Talk
Faculty Search
Feb 17
No Talk
Faculty Search
Feb 24
No Talk
Faculty Search
Mar 3
Mar 10
Mar 17
(Spring Break)
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Mar 24
No Talk
Faculty Search
Mar 31
No Talk
Faculty Search
Apr 7
(Good Friday)
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Apr 14
Apr 21
Apr 28
May 5
July 7
Peter Craig
A Map of the Outer Gas Disk of the Galaxy with Direct Distances from Young Stars
July 10
Eduardo Balbinot
Halo substructures seen by Gaia
July 26
Jeroen Audenaert
Artificial Intelligence in Astronomy: unraveling variable stars with machine learning and the NASA Kepler and TESS space missions

To volunteer for an Astrocoffee talk, email Jason Hinkle (jhinkle6@) or Sam Walker (swalk@).


Fall 2022 Schedule
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Date
Name
Title
Aug 26
Sept 2
Sept 9
Alex Polanski
The Keck Abundance Project: An Assay of 15 Chemical Elements in Exoplanet Host Stars
Sept 16
Bryce Bolin
The discovery and characterization of (594913) 'Ayló'chaxnim, a kilometer-scale asteroid inside Venus' orbit
Sept 23
Jimmy Negus
Investigating Coronal Line Emission for Galaxies in MaNGA
Sept 30
Oct 7
Casey Lam
Uncovering the Galactic Black Hole Population with Gravitational Microlensing
Oct 13
Kishalay De
Missed but not forgotten: Uncovering hidden eruptions in the mid-infrared with the WISE Space Telescope
Oct 14
Alessandro Savino
The HST Treasury Survey of the M31 satellite system
Oct 21
Ann Boesgaard
Lithium and Beryllium in One-Solar Mass Stars
Oct 28
Yanlong Shi
Hyper-Eddington Black Hole Growth in Star-Forming Molecular Clouds and Galactic Nuclei
Nov 4
Nov 11
(Veterans Day)
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Nov 18
Nov 25
(Thanksgiving Break)
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Dec 2
Keerthi Vasan G.C.
Spectrally resolved studies of galactic outflows at Cosmic Noon
Dec 9
Dec 16
Daichi Hiramatsu
The Electron-Capture Supernova 2018zd

To volunteer for an Astrocoffee talk, email Jason Hinkle (jhinkle6@).


Spring 2022 Schedule
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Date
Name
Title
Jan 21
Zhuo Chen (UCLA)
A new window on star formation history at the Galactic Center
Jan 28
Erik Peterson (Duke)
Improving Cosmological Parameter Measurements with a Revised Local Flow Model and Near-Infrared Supernova Observations
Feb 4
Feb 11
Feb 18
Feb 25
March 4
March 11
March 18
(Spring Recess)
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March 25
(Kuhio Day)
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April 1
April 8
April 15
(Good Friday)
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April 22
Andi Gu
GIGA-Lens: A Fast Differentiable Bayesian Inference Framework for Strong Lensing
April 29
May 6
May 13

To volunteer for an Astrocoffee talk, email Jason Hinkle (jhinkle6@) or Erica Bufanda (ebufanda@).


Fall 2021 Schedule
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Date
Name
Title
Aug 27
Sushant Mahajan (IfA)
Pin-pointing the source of near-surface flow variations on the Sun
Sept 10
Mary Beth Laychak (CFHT)
The Maunakea Scholars Program
Sept 24
Gourav Khullar (UChicago)
Synthesizing Stellar Populations in Galaxy Clusters and High-Redshift Lensed Galaxies
Oct 8
Julie Morikawa (ClimbHi)
ClimbHi: Providing education through exploration of life's opportunities
Oct 15
Luna Zagorac (Yale)
UltraLight Dark Matter Dynamics in the Language of Eigenstates
Oct 29
Alan Tokunaga (IfA)
The Mysterious (Spooky) PAHs
Nov 5
Astro2020 Decadal Survey Discussion
Nov 12
Clémence Fontanive (Univ. Bern)
The Demographics of Giant Exoplanets and Brown Dwarfs in Stellar Binaries
Nov 26
(Thanksgiving break)
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Tuesday, Nov 30
Doug Simons (IfA))
Astro2020 State of the Profession
Dec 3
Weizhe Liu (UMD)
Probing AGN Feedback in Dwarf Galaxies
Dec 10
Jonathan Williams (IfA)
We Built a Radio Telescope!

To volunteer for your Astrocoffee talk, email Zach Claytor (zclaytor@), Erica Bufanda (ebufanda@), or Jason Hinkle (jhinkle6@).


Spring 2021 Schedule
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Date
Name
Title
Jan 22
 Luisa Rebull
How to Use IRSA Tools in Your Research and Classes: a LIVE Demonstration
Mar 5
 Gwen Jacobs and Jason Leigh (HDSI)
The Hawaii Data Science Institute, a UH Systemwide effort to build data science education, collaborative research and partnerships with industry.
Apr 9
 Jan Kleyna
A Subaru Survey for Low-Aphelion Potentially Hazardous NEOs
May 7
 John Weaver
COSMOS2020: A panchromatic view of the Universe to z~10 from two complementary catalogs

To volunteer for your Astrocoffee talk, email Zach Claytor (zclaytor@), Erica Bufanda (ebufanda@), or Jason Hinkle (jhinkle6@).


Fall 2020 Schedule
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Date
Name
Title
July 31
 Elena Dobrica
Staring at the Solar System through a microscope
Aug 14
 Travis Berger
A Fresh Look at the Radius Gap Using Gaia-Derived Ages and Masses for All Kepler Exoplanet Hosts
Aug 28
 James Ou
In Search of Binary Asteroids in Pan-STARRS1
Oct 2
 Kishalay De
The faintest thermonuclear supernovae and the explosive fates of helium accreting white dwarfs
Oct 30
 Erica Sawczynec
Virtual SACNAS 2020 Recap

To volunteer for your Astrocoffee talk, email Zach Claytor (zclaytor@).


Spring 2020 Schedule
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Date
Name
Title
Jan 10
Devin Chu
Observational Constraints on the Origin of the Galactic Center S-stars
Jan 10
Travis Metcalfe
The Evolution of Stellar Dynamos
Jan 17
Chris Sneden
Some Comments on Astronomical Publishing
Jan 24
Jacqueline Keane
topic: JWST proposal planning
Jan 31
Feb 7
Munazza Alam
Characterizing Giant Planet Atmospheres with Hubble
Feb 14
Cathie Clark
Protoplanetary discs and their environs: the synergy between observation and theory in the era of ALMA
Feb 21
Feb 28
Mar 6
Paul Wiegert
Interstellar Asteroids and Comets: What are they and where do they come from?
Mar 13
Richard Downs
The White Terns of Honolulu
Mar 20
(Spring Break)
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Mar 27
Apr 3
Apr 10
(Good Friday)
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Apr 17
Apr 24
May 1
May 8
May 15

To volunteer for your Astrocoffee talk, simply email Zach Claytor (zclaytor@) or Andrew Repp (repp@).


Fall 2019 Schedule
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Date
Name
Title
Monday Aug 29
 Roberto Saito
What Is This? Weird variables in the VVV/VVVX Survey
Monday Aug 29
 Maryum Sayeed
Inference of stellar parameters using data-driven modelling
Sept 6
 Planetary Systems Science group
Various updates
Sept 13
Sept 20
 Duncan Farrah
topic: AGN star-formation quenching
Sept 27
Oct 4
Oct 11
Thursday Oct 17
 Makana Silva
Exoplanet Magnetic Fields
Oct 18
 Ann Boesgaard
The Fate of Lithium and Beryllium: Depleted and Diluted
Oct 25
 Joel Zinn
Accurate red giant distances and radii with Gaia and Kepler
Nov 1
 Rasmus Handberg and Andras Pal
Updates from TESS Asteroseismic workshop
Nov 8
 Aleksandar Cikota
Investigating Progenitors of Type Ia Supernovae using Spectropolarimetry
Nov 15
 Curt Dodds
The Cyber Threat Landscape: What keeps me up at night
Nov 22
 Alberto Accomazzi
topic: overview of new ADS features
Nov 29
 (Thanksgiving break)
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Thursday Dec 5
Jane Huang
The ALMA View of Planet Formation
Dec 6
 Curt Dodds
Fast Inversion Approximation with Deep Learning
Dec 13
 Lauren Weiss
topic: Nobel Prize 2019/Exoplanets

To volunteer for your Astrocoffee talk, simply email Zach Claytor (zclaytor@) or Andrew Repp (repp@).


Spring 2019 Schedule
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Date
Name
Title
Jan 18
 Nienke van der Marel
Protoplanetary Disk Rings and Gaps across Ages and Luminosities
Jan 25
 no talk
faculty search: come to astro-ph to hear additional information about candidates' research
Thursday Jan 31
 Lea Hirsch
Planets in Binary Star Systems
Feb 1
 no talk
faculty search: come to astro-ph to hear additional information about candidates' research
Feb 8
 no talk
faculty search: come to astro-ph to hear additional information about candidates' research
Feb 15
 no talk
faculty search: come to astro-ph to hear additional information about candidates' research
Feb 22
 no talk
faculty search: come to astro-ph to hear additional information about candidates' research
Mar 1
 no talk
faculty search: come to astro-ph to hear additional information about candidates' research
Monday Mar 4
 Larry Bernstein
Three Longstanding Spectral Mysteries—or, What's between Stars?
Mar 8
 Jamie Tayar
Core and Surface Rotation Rates of Evolved Intermediate Mass Stars
Mar 15
 Ben Boe
Coronal Electron Temperatures inferred from 2017 Total Solar Eclipse Observations
Mar 22
 (Spring Break)
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Mar 29
Apr 5
 Ann Boesgaard
Observational Exploration of Stellar Interiors
Apr 12
 Rex Chang
Asteroid Interior Structure--A Study of Asteroid Rotation Period
Apr 19
 (Good Friday)
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Apr 26
May 3
May 10
 Giovanni Picogna
The dispersal of planet-forming discs
May 17
May 24
 Brent Tully
The local void
May 31

To volunteer for your Astrocoffee talk, simply email Heather Flewelling (heather@), Zach Claytor (zclaytor@), or Andrew Repp (repp@).


Fall 2018 Schedule

Date
Name
Title
Oct 12
 Garret Somers
The influence of magnetic activity on the fundamental properties of cool stars
Oct 19
Oct 26
 Lauren Weiss
Spooky Planets
Nov 9
 Jeff Kuhn
Stellar photospheres and Poynting-Robertson
Nov 9
 Dan Huber
First Results from the TESS Mission
Nov 16
 Planetary systems group
Reports from DPS
Nov 23
 post-Thanksgiving
no talk
Nov 30
 Harald Ebeling
Hubble Space Telescope Cycle 26: Gender Bias in Astronomical Peer-Review
Dec 7
 Joan Najita
News from NOAO
Dec 14
 Dennis Stello
TBA

To volunteer for your Astrocoffee talk, simply email Heather Flewelling (heather@), Zach Claytor (zclaytor@), or Andrew Repp (repp@).

Spring 2018 Schedule
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Date
Name
Title
Jan 19
 Robert Beck
Photometric Redshift Estimation: An Active Learning Approach
Jan 26
Feb 2
Feb 9
Feb 16
 S3 Candidate Talks
TBD
Feb 23
 Faculty Candidate Talks
No talk
Mar 2
 Faculty Candidate Talks
No talk
Mar 9
 Faculty Candidate Talks
No talk
Mar 16
 Protograd Visit
No talk
Mar 23
 Sam Grunblatt
Properties of Hot, Giant Planets Orbiting Low Luminosity Red Giant Branch Stars
Mar 30
 Good Friday
No talk
Apr 6
 Aren Heinze
Discovering NEOs with Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam: How to do it, and why it's interesting
Apr 13
 Will Best
A Volume-Limited Sample of Brown Dwarfs Defined by UKIRT Parallaxes
Apr 20
 Christoph Baranec
Robo-AO and Robo-AO-2 at the UH 2.2m
Apr 27
 Adwin Boogert
Frozen Organics in the Galactic Central Molecular Zone
May 4
 no astrocoffee
astroph instead
May 11
 Harald Ebeling
Discovery
May 18

To volunteer for your Astrocoffee talk, simply email Heather Flewelling (heather@), Will Best (wbest@), or Andrew Repp (repp@).


Fall 2017 Schedule
(email us below to request a slot)

Date
Name
Title
Sep 7 (Thurs)
 Eilat Glikman
(Dust Reddened) Quasars - a Primer
Sep 15
 David Trang (HIGP)
title
Sep 22
 Karen Meech
Distant Comet Activity from PanSTARRS, or How to interpret a single data point - with lots of help from PS1 Archival data
Sep 29
no talk
Oct 6
Brent Tully
Dynamics of the Local Supercluster (The movie)
Oct 13
 Ari Heinze
ATLAS: Tuning-up Survey Methodology to Find the Nearest Asteroids
Oct 20 (30mins)
 Ken Chambers & Ben Shappee
GW170817 (title TBD)
Oct 27
 Ann Boesgaard
Light Element Abundances in the Hyades Cluster
Nov 3
Michael Tucker
gPhoton: The GALEX Photon Data Archive
Nov 9 (Thurs)
 Ben Boe
Iron Ions Freezing in the Solar Corona
Nov 17
 Alan Stockton
4C23.56 ER1 Revisited: A Compact High-z Disk Galaxy of Old Stars
Nov 24
 Thanksgiving
no talk
Dec 1
Larry Denneau
title
Dec 8
Jennifer van Saders
Rotation and Magnetism in Sun-like Stars
Dec 15
 Karen Teramura
Science & Art - Looking Good in Print
Dec 22
no talk currently scheduled

To volunteer for your Astrocoffee talk, simply email Heather Flewelling (heather@), Will Best (wbest@), or Andrew Repp (repp@).


Spring 2017 Schedule
(email us below to request a slot)

Date
Name
Title
Jan 20
Will Best, Heather Flewelling, Kelly Lockhart
IfA research presented at AAS229 (Jan 2017), Part I PS1 DR1 catalog info sheet
Jan 27
faculty job talk today
no talk
Feb 3
faculty job talk today
no talk
Feb 10
faculty job talk today
no talk
Feb 17
Shaig Nabiyev (Shamakhy Astrophysical Observatory/Qafqaz University)
The analysis of TNO's color diversity
Feb 24
Dan Foreman-Mackey (UW)
Probabilistic data analysis in astronomy
Mar 3
Brent Tully
Cold Spot Repeller
Mar 10
Nienke van der Marel
Radio Interferometry for Dummies: Why Everyone Can Use ALMA
Mar 17
Rolf Kudritzki
The Chemical Evolution Carousel of Spiral Galaxies
Mar 20
Chien-De Lee and Po-Chieh Huang (National Central University, Taiwan)
Evolutionary Status of Isolated B(e) Stars; Cyclic Occultation Events of the UXOR Type Young Star GM Cephei
Mar 24
Savita Mathur (Space Science Institute)
Studying Rotation and Magnetic Activity of Solar-like Stars with Kepler Data
Mar 31
Nathaniel Kaneshige (undergrad at UH)
Apr 7
Apr 14
Good Friday
no talk
Apr 21
Apr 28
May 5
Shaw Newsom
College of Natural Science Trip to Mauna Kea
May 12
Achilles Beros (UH Math)
Machine Learning Tools and the Problems They Can Solve
May 19
Jeffrey Gillis-Davis(UH HIGP)
TBD
May 26
Paul Coleman
Hawaiian Astronomy
Jun 9
Sam Grunblatt
TBD

To volunteer for your Astrocoffee talk, simply email Heather Flewelling (heather@) Kelly Lockhart (kel@) or Will Best (wbest@).


Fall 2016 Schedule
(email us below to request a slot)

Date
Name
Title
Sep 2
Natalia Primak
Behind the Scenes of Pan-STARRS
Sep 9
Rachel Bowens-Rubin
The BICEP/Keck Array: Measuring the CMB from the South Pole and Beyond!
Videos: PhD Comics BICEP South Pole Crew South Pole History
Sep 16
Christoph Baranec
Robo-AO for the UH 2.2-m telescope
Sep 22 (Thu)
Thayne Currie
Thirty Meter Telescope
Sep 30
Oct 7
Brent Tully
The Great Repeller
Oct 14
Shadia Habbal
Changes in the temperature of the solar corona: Who is the culprit?
Oct 20
Robert Holmberg (Athabasca Univeristy)
The Wondrous World of Spiders
Oct 21
Rachel Bowens-Rubin
The Logistics of Polar Science, Your Questions Answered
Oct 28
Ari Heinze
ATLAS: Tales from the First Year
Nov 4
Sam Grunblatt
K2-97b: The First Re-Inflated Planet?
Nov 11
no talk
[Veteran's Day holiday]
Nov 18
Paolo Cazzoletti (MPE Garching)
The dust ring in the protoplanetary disk around the GG Tauri A binary star
Nov 25
no talk
[Thanksgiving break]
Dec 2
Eva Lilly
Tracking the Sleeping Giant: The Story of Planet X
Dec 9
Makana Silva
Construction of TMT: Ethical Issues
Dec 16
Nick Kaiser
Precision Cosmology from Galaxy Clusters with the Euclid Satellite

To volunteer for your Astrocoffee talk, simply email Heather Flewelling (heather@) Kelly Lockhart (kel@) or Will Best (wbest@).


Spring 2016 Schedule

Date
Name
Title
Jan 15
Jan 22
Adalbert Ding
Doppler Spectroscopy of Coronal Mass Ejections
Jan 29
no talk
faculty candidate talks
Feb 5
no talk
faculty candidate talks
Feb 12
Ken Chambers
Pan-STARRS and PESSTO Search for the Optical Counterpart
to the LIGO Gravitational Wave Source GW150914
Feb 19
no talk
Feb 26
Zhoujian Zhang
Distributions of Quasar Hosts on the Galaxy Main-sequence Plane
Mar 4
Bill Unruh
Giants Among Us - Humpback Whales
Mar 11
Mar 18
Mar 25
no talk
spring break
Apr 1
Ben Boe
Gerhana Matahari Total - Solar Eclipse Expedition to Indonesia, March 2016
Apr 8
Jabran Zahid
The Prehistoric Transition to Agriculture Did Not Accelerate Population Growth
Apr 15
Maissa Salama
Optimizing Robo-AO at Kitt Peak and Installing a New IR Camera
Apr 22
Brent Tully
The Cosmic V-Web
Apr 29
Roberto Mendez
The Two Central Stars of NGC 1514
May 6
Rolf Kudritzki
How I Make the Universe Smaller


Fall 2015 Schedule

Date
Name
Title
Sep 4
Aren Heinze
Boulders in the Main Belt: Finding the Faintest Asteroids
Sep 11
Guenther Hasinger
Modern History of Astronomy in Hawaii
Sep 18
Po-Feng Wu
On the Mass-Metallicity Relation of Galaxies: from collaborations in IfA
Sep 25
Tucker Jones
Direct Calibration of Metallicity Diagnostics at High Redshift
Oct 2
Curt Dodds
Hawaiian Homebrewing Howto, How to Brew Beer at Home Using a Wine Refrigerator
Oct 9
Christian Flores
Azimuthal Variations in the Gas/Dust Ratio of a Planet Forming Disk
Oct 16
Jason Chu
The Hawaiian Heavens: Photography and Time Lapse on Maunakea
Oct 23
Brent Tully
Virgo Infall
Oct 30
Naty Alzate
The Not-So-Stealthy Sun
Nov 6
Morgan Bonnet
Project Management in Astro
Nov 13
Yao-Lun Yang
The Structure of Class 0 protostars: BHR71 in Herschel View
Nov 20
Joe Hutton
A New Method for the Automated Detection of Coronal Mass Ejections in 3D
Nov 27
Thanksgiving
Dec 4
Nienke van der Marel
Mind the Gap: Gas and Dust in Planet-Forming Disks
Dec 15
Geoffrey Mathews
15-minute Overview of the PDP Inquiry-Based Teaching Workshops
Dec 18
Eva Lilly
Personal Space Invaders: Close Encounters of the Asteroid Kind


Spring 2015 Schedule

Date
Name
Title
Jan 16
Heather Flewelling
Astronomy Allies
Jan 23
Rolf Kudritzki
Keep it simple - metallicity gradients of spirals and their chemical evolution
Jan 30
?
?
Feb 6
Gareth Wynn-Williams
Fire & Sky - another AstroPechaKucha
Feb 13
Bob McLaren
New Leases for Maunakea
Feb 20
Sam Grunblatt
Measuring the Mass of Kepler-78b Using a Gaussian Process Model
Feb 27
Norbert Schorghofer
Ice on Ceres
Mar 6
Larry Denneau
Spin me up, spin me down: the dizzying life of small asteroids
Mar 13
Will Best
Pan-STARRS Goes Ultracool: Brown Dwarf Evolution Within 25 parsecs
Mar 20
Rob Weryk
Meteoroid Ablation
Mar 27
Nick Kaiser
What Is the Area of the Cosmic Photosphere (or a Golf Ball)?
Apr 3
Good Friday
[No Talk]
Apr 10
Brent Tully
The Arrowhead Mini-Supercluster
Apr 17
Ann Boesgaard
A Case Study of a Pathological Star Cluster
Apr 24
Rami Rekola (visitor)
?
May 1
John Lindner (Wooster)
?
May 8
Alan Tokunaga
The NASA Infrared Telescope Facility: How to Survive in the Era of Extremely Large Telescopes
May 15
[no talk]
May 22
[no talk]
May 29
Roy Gal
What's ahead at the IAU meeting this summer?
July 17
McConnell/Flewelling
TBD
July 31
Karen Morenz (U Toronto)
TBD


Fall 2014 Schedule

Date
Name
Title
Sept 12
Kathleen Robertson
easy e-Research
Sept 19
Shadia Habbal
Unveiling the Beauty of the Sun
Sept 26
Bryce Bolin
Gravitational Instability in Planetesimal Disks
Oct 3
Norbert Schorghofer
Mobile Water on the Moon
Oct 10
John Tonry
ATLAS status
Oct 17
Geoff Mathews
Preparing Undergraduates for Research: Backwards Designing the Curriculum
Oct 24
Karen Meech
The Manx Comet . . . First Surface Observations of an Oort Cloud Object
Oct 31
Special 699 (no astrocoffee)
History of Modern Astronomy in Hawaii
Nov 7
Matt Hosek
The Tidal Radius of the Arches Cluster
Nov 14
Nov 21
Nov 28
Thanksgiving
no talk
Dec 5
Katey Alatalo (IPAC)
Compact Groups: where galaxies go to transition
Dec 12
Mike Ireland (ANU)
Wide-Field Spectroscopy Down Under: HERMES/GALAH and TAIPAN/FunnelWeb
Dec 19
Jessica Lu
TBD
Dec 26
Xmas
no talk