Joint IAS Princeton University Astrophysics Colloquium

Planetary systems for in the disks of gas and dust that orbit young stars. In the past few years, very high angular resolution observations of disks in nearby star-forming regions have started to uncover some key signatures of the planet formation...

Supermassive black holes are found in the centers of all massive galaxies, and they are believed to play a major role in regulating the evolution of massive early-type galaxies. The relationships between black hole mass and host galaxy properties...

Understanding cosmic reionization requires the identification and characterization of early sources of hydrogen-ionizing photons. Through a series of intense observational campaigns with Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) aboard Hubble Space Telescope (HST)...

Observations of exoplanets over the past quarter century have shown that the demographics and architectures of planetary systems display a remarkable diversity spanning over four orders of magnitude in mass, separation, and age. Direct imaging has...

Our current view of the interstellar medium (ISM) is as a multiphase environment where magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence affects many key processes that govern the evolution of galactic disks include star formation. In this talk, I shall present...

In past years, large and deep photometric and spectroscopic surveys have significantly advanced our understanding of galaxy growth, from the most active time in the universe (z~2) to the present day. In particular, the evolution in stellar mass...

The Milky Way is thought to be dynamically young with a fairly smooth potential dominated by a nearly spherical dark matter halo that has evolved little in the last several billion years. This talk outlines our evolving view of our home galaxy...

On August 17th, 2017, merger of binary neutron stars was observed for the first time by gravitational-wave and electromagnetic telescopes. Optical and infrared observations in particular agree broadly with the prediction by numerical relativity...