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Astrophysics Seminars

All seminars are held on Thursdays at 11:00 am (unless otherwise noted). They will be held in Bloomberg Lecture Hall. If an event was recorded, you can find it posted at ias.edu/videos under Natural Sciences. 

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Astrophysics Seminar Archives

Mar
12
2026

Institute for Advanced Study Astrophysics Seminar

Which Microphysics Matters? The Case for Dust Dynamics
11:00am|Bloomberg Lecture Hall

Abstract: Numerical simulations of galaxies and the interstellar medium are now reaching resolutions where small-scale physical processes can be resolved directly. This raises a natural question: which pieces of microphysics must be modeled...