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CAS Wine and Cheese Seminars

2026-04-29T17:43:39Z

Kdkuntz: /* Spring 2026 Schedule */

__NOTOC__
[[Image:Winecheese.jpeg|right|400px]]
The JHU/STScI [[CAS Wine and Cheese Seminars]] take place in Bloomberg 462 every Monday at 3:30 pm Eastern. Each week, there will be either one speaker, giving an hour-long presentation (50+10), or two speakers, each giving a half hour (25+5) presentation. Hour-long speakers will be invited by the committee, and the half-hour speakers will comprise both local researchers and visitors with a wide range of scientific interests.

There will be wine, cheese, and other refreshments to go along with the talks and discussions. Should you have any questions, comments, or speaker suggestions, please contact kkuntz1 at jhu.edu.
 

'''Where''': Bloomberg 462

'''When''': Every Monday at 3:30 pm

'''Who''': Everyone is welcome

'''Format''': Keynote/PPT, PDF, or blackboard format. (Speakers may use their own laptops, and we will check that the display works ahead of time. Please have slides available online or on a portable drive in case we need to use a different computer.)
 

== [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2026|Spring 2026 Schedule]] ==

<h3>This Springs's Wine and Cheese presentations are in person. We are likely to continue running a zoom session as well for viewers that are, by necessity, remote. Zoom invitations will be sent the previous Friday, and again on Monday morning. Note that the Zoom session starts a quarter hour before the start of the talk.</h3>

== [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2026|Spring 2026 Schedule]] ==

{| border="1" style="text-align:left;"
! align="left" |Date
! Speaker
! Title
! Note
|-
|26 Jan || Colin Hamill (AAS) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2026#Speaker|Astronomy on the Hill: Federal Funding and Dark & Quiet Skies Policy]] || delayed due to impending bad weather
|-
|02 Feb || Colin Hamill (AAS) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2026#Speaker|Astronomy on the Hill: Federal Funding and Dark & Quiet Skies Policy]] ||
|-
|09 Feb || Chris Nagele (JHU) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2026#Speaker|Radiation Transfer Simulations of Black Hole Spectra]] ||
|-
| || Stephen Schmidt (JHU) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2026#Speaker|Hot Jupiters are Inflated Primarily by Shallow Heating]] ||
|-
|16 Feb || Jessica Gaskin (GSFC) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2026#Speaker|Preparing for the Next Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey (ASTRO2030)]] ||
|-
|23 Feb || Eileen Meyer (UMBC) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2026#Speaker|Crossing the Radio Divide: Radio Studies of Changing-Look AGN]] ||
|-
|02 Mar || Rajes Ghosh (JHU) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2026#Speaker|Gravitational Waves as Probe of New Physics]] ||
|-
|09 Mar || Michael Eracleous (PSU) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2026#Speaker|The Central Engines of LINERs]] ||
|-
|16 Mar || || Spring Break ||
|-
|23 Mar || Yifan Zhou (UVa) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2026#Speaker|Dynamical Processes in Planetary Atmospheres: A Time-Resolved Perspective]] ||
|-
|30 Mar || F. Scott Porter (GSFC) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2026#Speaker|Lab Astro Challenges in High Resolution X-ray Spectroscopy]] ||
|-
|06 Apr || Songhu Wang (IU) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2026#Speaker|Towards a Unified Picture of the Origin of Hot Jupiters]] ||
|-
|13 Apr || Eliu Huerta (Argonne) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2026#Speaker|Title]] || postponed until Fall
|-
|20 Apr || Sarah Tuttle (UW) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2026#Speaker|Ground & Space-based instruments to Map Cosmic Ecosystems]] ||
|-
|27 Apr || Konstantin Batygin (CalTech) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2026#Speaker|Determination of Jupiter’s Primordial Radius, Accretion Rate, and Magnetic Field]] ||
|-
|04 May || Anwesh Majumder (Waterloo) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2026#Speaker|The Role of Turbulence in Galaxy Clusters: A XRISM Perspective]] ||
|}
----
 

== Past Seminars ==
* [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2024|Spring 2024 Schedule]]
* [[Wine and Cheese Fall 2023|Fall 2023 Schedule]]
* [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2023|Spring 2023 Schedule]]
* [[Wine and Cheese Fall 2022|Fall 2022 Schedule]]
* [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2022|Spring 2022 Schedule]]
* [[Wine and Cheese Fall 2021|Fall 2021 Schedule]]
* [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2021|Spring 2021 Schedule]]
* [[Wine and Cheese Fall 2020|Fall 2020 Schedule]]
* [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2020|Spring 2020 Schedule]]
* [[Wine and Cheese Fall 2019|Fall 2019 Schedule]]
* [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2019|Spring 2019 Schedule]]
* [[Wine and Cheese Fall 2018|Fall 2018 Schedule]]
* [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2018|Spring 2018 Schedule]]
* [[Wine and Cheese Fall 2017|Fall 2017 Schedule]]
* [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2017|Spring 2017 Schedule]]
* [[Wine and Cheese Fall 2016|Fall 2016 Schedule]]
* [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2016|Spring 2016 Schedule]]
* [[Wine and Cheese Fall 2015|Fall 2015 Schedule]]
* [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2015|Spring 2015 Schedule]]
* [[Wine and Cheese Fall 2014|Fall 2014 Schedule]]
* [https://sites.google.com/site/jhustsciastrowinecheese/ JHU/STScI Wine & Cheese Seminar Series (before Fall 2014)]
* [http://www.pha.jhu.edu/~stephan/CAS_seminar/ JHU CAS Seminars (before Fall 2014)]

== See also ==
* [[Astro-ph Coffee]]
* [[People]]
* [[STScI Colloquium]]

Wine and Cheese Spring 2026

2026-04-29T17:43:15Z

Kdkuntz: /* 04 May */

{| align="right"
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This page records the schedule, titles and abstracts of the [[CAS_Wine_and_Cheese_Seminars|JHU/STScI CAS Astrophysics Wine & Cheese Series]] in Spring 2026.

Wine and Cheese sessions with one speaker will have a 50 minute talk with 10 minutes for questions. Sessions with two speakers will have two 25 minute talks, each with 5 minutes for questions.

<h2>[[CAS_Wine_and_Cheese_Seminars|Back to W&C Schedule]] </h2>

=26 January=
== Colin Hamill (AAS) ==
'''Astronomy on the Hill: Federal Funding and Dark & Quiet Skies Policy''' 
The landscape of federal science policy has shifted dramatically over the past year. As the FY2026 federal funding cycle concludes, this talk will provide a brief overview of the current fiscal situation for the astronomical sciences, as well as an outlook for FY2027 and beyond. We will then examine the Dark & Quiet Skies initiative, a global effort to preserve the night sky from light pollution and radio frequency interference from satellites. We will review recent regulatory developments in the space environment and highlight how the astronomical community works with commercial space operators and the federal government to ensure a sustainable orbital environment. The talk concludes with a discussion of how scientists at all career stages can engage with policymakers to ensure astronomy and science remains a priority on Capitol Hill.

=09 February=
==Chris Nagele (JHU)==
'''Radiation Transfer Simulations of Black Hole Spectra''' 
Spectra from accreting black holes are one of our most powerful tools for understanding these enigmatic objects. These spectra, however, are not well understood. For example, stellar mass black holes and supermassive black holes exhibit different spectral properties, with the stellar mass black holes changing between different spectral states (hard and soft states) while the supermassive black holes have more uniform spectral slopes. We run radiation transfer post-processing of general relativistic magnetohydrodynamical simulations of black hole accretion, in order to generate spectral predictions. We use two radiation transfer codes, Pandurata and PTransX, to solve for thermal balance and ionization balance in different parts of the simulation. Our spectra are remarkably similar to observed trends, with a clear hard/soft dependence on accretion rate at M = 10 Msun and uniformly flat spectra in the supermassive regime. We also compute high resolution spectra in order to simulate emission lines coming from the accretion disk near the black hole. Our spectra contain Fe Kalpha lines with equivalent widths (50-200 eV) and line shapes consistent with observations. We find, however, that the breadth of these lines is due to several factors, and not simply to extreme relativistic motions near the black hole, as is almost always assumed. We discuss how physical quantities from our simulations can be incorporated into models which perform black hole parameter inference, thereby breaking some of the degeneracy associated with these models.

==Stephen Schmidt (JHU)==
'''Hot Jupiters are Inflated Primarily by Shallow Heating''' 
The unexpectedly large radii of transiting hot Jupiters have led to many proposals for the physical mechanisms responsible for heating their interiors. While it has been shown that hot Jupiters reinflate as their host stars brighten due to heating deep in planetary interiors, young hot Jupiters also exhibit signs of delayed cooling possibly related to heating closer to their surfaces. To investigate this tension, we enhance our previously published hot Jupiter thermal evolution model by adding a parameter that allows for both deep heating and delayed cooling. We fit our thermal evolution models to a homogeneous, physically self-consistent catalog of accurate and precise hot Jupiter system properties in a hierarchical Bayesian framework. We find that hot Jupiters' interior cooling rates are reduced on average by 95%--98% compared to simpler anomalous heating models. The most plausible explanation for this inference is substantial shallow heating just below their radiative--convective boundaries that enables reinflation with much less deep heating. Shallow heating by Ohmic dissipation and/or temperature advection are therefore important components of accurate models of hot Jupiter atmospheres, especially in circulation models. If hot Jupiters are inflated primarily by shallow heating as we propose, then we predict that their observed phase curve offsets should increase with temperature in the range T_eq <~ 1500 K, peak in the range 1500 K <~ T_eq <~ 1800 K, and decrease in the range T_eq >~ 1800 K.

=16 February=
==Jessica A. Gaskin (GSFC)==
'''Preparing for the Next Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey (Astro2030)''' 
The Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey, conducted once every ten years, establishes the community’s highest-priority ground- and space-based science goals and provides strategic guidance for future investments. NASA relies heavily on this guidance when shaping its long-term mission portfolio and budget. For the 2020 Decadal Survey, NASA supported a suite of community-led mission concept studies that articulated compelling science cases, assessed technical readiness, defined design reference missions, and developed high-level cost estimates, ensuring that the Decadal Committee was equipped with a robust and well-informed basis for its deliberations. As preparations begin for the next survey, Astro2030, NASA is again engaging the community to inform its planning. This includes soliciting broad feedback and convening two workshops—one in the spring and one in the fall of this year—to incorporate the evolving space environment, emerging technologies, and growing commercial capabilities before initiating any new NASA-sponsored mission concept formulation activities. This talk will provide an overview of the Decadal Survey process and outline NASA’s current plans and rough timeline for preparing for Astro2030.

=23 February=
==Eileen Meyer (UMBC)==
'''Crossing the Radio Divide: Radio Studies of Changing-Look AGN''' 
While astronomers first discovered that super-massive black holes
(SMBH) can launch jets of relativistic plasma over 60 years ago, we
are still searching for the 'trigger' that turns a non-jetted SMBH
into a jetted one. Given typical lifetimes of millions of years (if
not longer), it might seem highly improbable to catch a black hole 'in
the act' of launching a brand-new relativistic jet. Yet that is
exactly what we believed happened in the case of 1ES 1957+654, a
nearby 'changing-look' active galaxy where long-term VLBA monitoring
caught a sudden radio brightening in spring of 2023 which we now
understand to be a new-born jet. Nearly 2 years on, we can now follow
the evolution of the plasma structures as seen in high-resolution
radio imaging, and speculate on the likely cause (and future) of this
unusual jet. I will place these findings in the larger context of
recent discoveries which blur the line between jetted/non-jetted (or
radio-quiet/radio-loud) black holes and show these types are more
changeable than we might have first believed. I will also make
connections between black hole outflows at all scales and in very
different conditions -- from TDEs to X-ray binaries, and speculate on
what may ultimately be the key to a successful jet launch.

=02 March=
==Rajes Ghosh (JHU)==
'''Gravitational Waves as Probe of New Physics''' 
A decade after LIGO’s historic detection of GW150914, gravitational wave astronomy has matured into a powerful tool for uncovering new physics beyond the standard paradigm. In this spirit, I will present a novel approach to testing the Kerr paradigm using the ringdown phase of binary mergers, where the final black hole relaxes by emitting quasi-normal modes. While most existing works assume that deviations from Kerr preserve its defining symmetries, e.g., stationarity, axisymmetry, and circularity, these assumptions can indeed be broken in the presence of environmental effects or dynamical modifications of gravity. I will focus in particular on potential violations of Kerr circularity and demonstrate how quasi-normal mode spectroscopy can be used to probe such departures. Using GW150914 as a case study, we place stringent observational constraints on such deviations. This symmetry-based test also offers a novel avenue for assessing the robustness of various foundational results, like black hole uniqueness and no-hair theorems, in the context of astrophysical black holes.

=09 March=
==Michael Eracleous (PSU)==
'''The Central Engines of LINERs''' 
Low-Ionization Nuclear Emission-line Regions (LINERs) have been a puzzle and the subject of debate since their identification in 1980. They are defined through the strengths of their low-ionization oxygen emission lines and are very common (found in about half o nearby galaxies). Their optical emission-line spectra can be attributed to shocks, or photoionization by a hard continuum from an active nucleus, or photoionization by unusually hot stars. I will discuss, in historical perspective, the work I have been doing with my collaborators and students trying to identify the power source in LINERs and present the emerging picture: LINERs are seemingly feeble active nuclei that can photoionize the circumnuclear gas in their immediate vicinity (within a few tens of parsec) but also produce outflows that shock the interstellar gas at larger distances (within several hundred parsec). As such, they are mechanical feedback machines whose influence on their host galaxies remains to be fully appreciated.

=23 March=
==Yifan Zhou (UVa)==
''' Dynamical Processes in Planetary Atmospheres: A Time-Resolved Perspective''' 
Planetary atmospheres are highly dynamic systems. Atmospheric circulation, cloud formation, and radiative transfer drive persistent variability. The discovery and characterization of exoplanets have dramatically expanded our ability to study these dynamical processes across multiple dimensions. These dimensions include the evolutionary stage, energy budget, and rotation rate. Time-resolved direct spectroscopy provides the most powerful tool for tracing atmospheric dynamics. My group uses this approach to observe planetary and substellar objects across a wide range of evolutionary stages. This allows us to identify and characterize the physical processes that shape these worlds. In this talk, I will present case studies using high-precision monitoring data from HST and JWST. These studies probe accretion processes in forming protoplanets, atmospheric dynamics in mature giant planets and brown dwarfs, and rotation measurements of directly imaged exoplanets. I will also discuss one particularly revealing case: highly irradiated substellar companions to white dwarfs. These objects play a critical role in bridging different regimes of atmospheric physics and offer unique insights into post-main-sequence planetary systems. I aim to initiate new collaborations with experts across these fields to develop a unified framework for understanding atmospheric dynamics throughout planetary evolution.

=30 March=
==F. Scott Porter (GSFC)==
'''Laboratory astrophysics and atomic spectroscopy in the age of XRISM and NewAthena''' 
Laboratory astrophysics has long been important in order to place the spectral synthesis codes, and the underlying atomic physics, on a sound experimental footing. Spectral synthesis codes are used to fit the observational data and extract the physical characteristics of the source. This has recently become even more important with the launch of XRISM and the preparation for NewAthena. The XRISM observatory was launched in 2023 and opened the X-ray midband, including the important K shell emission from Fe, to high-resolution spectroscopy. NewAthena and the high resolution XIFU instrument will follow in the mid to late 2030s and will add higher resolution spectroscopy with significantly higher throughput. However, higher resolution, and higher statistics measurements will place more stress on the precision of the spectral synthesis codes, the underlying atomic databases, and the laboratory measurements that vet them. We will discuss the role and process of X-ray laboratory astrophysics and, in addition, the laboratory measurements that support XRISM and NewAthena observations.

=06 April=
==Soghu Wang (IU)==
'''Towards a Unified Picture of the Origin of Hot Jupiters''' 
While the exoplanetary field is replete with remarkable discoveries, perhaps the most intriguing findings has been the detection of hot Jupiters – giant planets orbiting perilously close to their parent stars. The mere existence of these worlds was wholly unpredicted based on the expectations gleaned from centuries of observations of our own solar system. This talk will examine the demographics and orbital architectures of these exoplanets, and discuss how subtle observational clues have guided us toward a unified framework for hot Jupiter formation.

=13 April=
==TBD==
'''Title''' 
Abstract

=20 April=
==Sarah Tuttle (UW)==
'''Ground & Space-based instruments to Map Cosmic Ecosystems''' 
In this talk I will talk about two instruments - one currently being built for the APO 3.5m, one proposed as a small mission explorer (SMEX). Ocotillo is a fiber-fed three channel optical spectrograph being built for the APO 3.5m. Ocotillo will initially use a single integral field unit (of ~300 fibers over a small field), with a future expansion to robotic fiber positioners with smaller IFUs (~19 fibers per robot) across the full 3.5m field (~10'). DISCO is a far ultraviolet two channel spectrograph designed to map the interactions between nearby star forming galaxies and their circumgalactic medium. We'll discuss the designs of each instrument and talk briefly about the targeted science around galaxy evolution and beyond.

=27 April=
==Konstantin Batygin (CalTech)==
'''Determination of Jupiter’s Primordial Radius, Accretion Rate, and Magnetic Field''' 
The formation and early evolution of Jupiter played a pivotal role in sculpting the large-scale architecture of the solar system, intertwining the narrative of Jovian early years with the broader story of the solar system’s origins. The details and chronology of Jupiter’s formation, however, remain elusive, primarily due to the inherent uncertainties of accretionary models, highlighting the need for independent constraints. In this talk, I will show that by analyzing the dynamics of Jupiter’s satellites concurrently with its angular momentum budget, we can infer Jupiter’s radius and interior state at the time of proto-solar nebula’s dissipation. In particular, our calculations reveal that Jupiter was twice as large as it is today (corresponding to an interior entropy of S ~ 10 kB per baryon), 3.8 million years after the formation of the first solids in the solar system. Our model further indicates that young Jupiter possessed a magnetic field of approximately B ~ 210 Gauss and was accreting material through a circum-Jovian disk at a rate of ~ 1.2 Jupiter masses per million years. These findings are fully consistent with the core-accretion theory of giant planet formation and provide an evolutionary snapshot that pins down properties of the Jovian system at the end of the protosolar nebula’s lifetime. If time allows, I will also give a brief update on where things stand with Planet 9.

=04 May=
==Anwesh Majumder (Waterloo)==
'''The Role of Turbulence in Galaxy Clusters: A XRISM Perspective''' 
The high-resolution X-ray spectral capability of the recently launched XRISM telescope has enabled measurements of gas motions in galaxy clusters, helping address questions such as how much of this motion is turbulent. I will briefly present recent XRISM results on gas motions in objects like the Centaurus cluster, Hydra A, and Cygnus A, and discuss implications for the role of turbulence.

Turbulence in clusters can be driven by AGN-inflated bubbles or large-scale motions such as sloshing due to mergers. Significant AGN turbulence injection requires velocity dispersions rising radially toward the center. However, in many clusters (e.g., Centaurus and Hydra A), XRISM finds no strong evidence of such trends. In Hydra A, dispersions remain nearly constant (140–160 km/s) with radius toward the Northern direction, where giant bubbles exist. The dispersion is furthermore asymmetric (80–260 km/s) when the XRISM field of view is divided, with regions of higher dispersion coincident with expanding cavity structures. These results suggest that unresolved bulk motion in XRISM dispersion measurements may explain the absence of clear radial trends. Even in clusters like Cygnus A, where much higher core dispersions are detected (261 ± 13 km/s), bulk motions may be a primary contributor. The XRISM dispersions are therefore upper limits on turbulence.

Finally, I will present a buoyancy-driven model describing the conditions under which cavities inject turbulence at different scales to balance cooling, and apply it to several clusters observed so far with XRISM.

CAS Wine and Cheese Seminars

2026-04-22T07:13:13Z

Kdkuntz: /* Spring 2026 Schedule */

__NOTOC__
[[Image:Winecheese.jpeg|right|400px]]
The JHU/STScI [[CAS Wine and Cheese Seminars]] take place in Bloomberg 462 every Monday at 3:30 pm Eastern. Each week, there will be either one speaker, giving an hour-long presentation (50+10), or two speakers, each giving a half hour (25+5) presentation. Hour-long speakers will be invited by the committee, and the half-hour speakers will comprise both local researchers and visitors with a wide range of scientific interests.

There will be wine, cheese, and other refreshments to go along with the talks and discussions. Should you have any questions, comments, or speaker suggestions, please contact kkuntz1 at jhu.edu.
 

'''Where''': Bloomberg 462

'''When''': Every Monday at 3:30 pm

'''Who''': Everyone is welcome

'''Format''': Keynote/PPT, PDF, or blackboard format. (Speakers may use their own laptops, and we will check that the display works ahead of time. Please have slides available online or on a portable drive in case we need to use a different computer.)
 

== [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2026|Spring 2026 Schedule]] ==

<h3>This Springs's Wine and Cheese presentations are in person. We are likely to continue running a zoom session as well for viewers that are, by necessity, remote. Zoom invitations will be sent the previous Friday, and again on Monday morning. Note that the Zoom session starts a quarter hour before the start of the talk.</h3>

== [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2026|Spring 2026 Schedule]] ==

{| border="1" style="text-align:left;"
! align="left" |Date
! Speaker
! Title
! Note
|-
|26 Jan || Colin Hamill (AAS) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2026#Speaker|Astronomy on the Hill: Federal Funding and Dark & Quiet Skies Policy]] || delayed due to impending bad weather
|-
|02 Feb || Colin Hamill (AAS) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2026#Speaker|Astronomy on the Hill: Federal Funding and Dark & Quiet Skies Policy]] ||
|-
|09 Feb || Chris Nagele (JHU) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2026#Speaker|Radiation Transfer Simulations of Black Hole Spectra]] ||
|-
| || Stephen Schmidt (JHU) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2026#Speaker|Hot Jupiters are Inflated Primarily by Shallow Heating]] ||
|-
|16 Feb || Jessica Gaskin (GSFC) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2026#Speaker|Preparing for the Next Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey (ASTRO2030)]] ||
|-
|23 Feb || Eileen Meyer (UMBC) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2026#Speaker|Crossing the Radio Divide: Radio Studies of Changing-Look AGN]] ||
|-
|02 Mar || Rajes Ghosh (JHU) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2026#Speaker|Gravitational Waves as Probe of New Physics]] ||
|-
|09 Mar || Michael Eracleous (PSU) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2026#Speaker|The Central Engines of LINERs]] ||
|-
|16 Mar || || Spring Break ||
|-
|23 Mar || Yifan Zhou (UVa) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2026#Speaker|Dynamical Processes in Planetary Atmospheres: A Time-Resolved Perspective]] ||
|-
|30 Mar || F. Scott Porter (GSFC) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2026#Speaker|Lab Astro Challenges in High Resolution X-ray Spectroscopy]] ||
|-
|06 Apr || Songhu Wang (IU) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2026#Speaker|Towards a Unified Picture of the Origin of Hot Jupiters]] ||
|-
|13 Apr || Eliu Huerta (Argonne) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2026#Speaker|Title]] || postponed until Fall
|-
|20 Apr || Sarah Tuttle (UW) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2026#Speaker|Ground & Space-based instruments to Map Cosmic Ecosystems]] ||
|-
|27 Apr || Konstantin Batygin (CalTech) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2026#Speaker|Determination of Jupiter’s Primordial Radius, Accretion Rate, and Magnetic Field]] ||
|-
|04 May || Anwesh Majumder (Waterloo) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2026#Speaker|Title]] ||
|}
----
 

== Past Seminars ==
* [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2024|Spring 2024 Schedule]]
* [[Wine and Cheese Fall 2023|Fall 2023 Schedule]]
* [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2023|Spring 2023 Schedule]]
* [[Wine and Cheese Fall 2022|Fall 2022 Schedule]]
* [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2022|Spring 2022 Schedule]]
* [[Wine and Cheese Fall 2021|Fall 2021 Schedule]]
* [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2021|Spring 2021 Schedule]]
* [[Wine and Cheese Fall 2020|Fall 2020 Schedule]]
* [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2020|Spring 2020 Schedule]]
* [[Wine and Cheese Fall 2019|Fall 2019 Schedule]]
* [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2019|Spring 2019 Schedule]]
* [[Wine and Cheese Fall 2018|Fall 2018 Schedule]]
* [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2018|Spring 2018 Schedule]]
* [[Wine and Cheese Fall 2017|Fall 2017 Schedule]]
* [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2017|Spring 2017 Schedule]]
* [[Wine and Cheese Fall 2016|Fall 2016 Schedule]]
* [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2016|Spring 2016 Schedule]]
* [[Wine and Cheese Fall 2015|Fall 2015 Schedule]]
* [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2015|Spring 2015 Schedule]]
* [[Wine and Cheese Fall 2014|Fall 2014 Schedule]]
* [https://sites.google.com/site/jhustsciastrowinecheese/ JHU/STScI Wine & Cheese Seminar Series (before Fall 2014)]
* [http://www.pha.jhu.edu/~stephan/CAS_seminar/ JHU CAS Seminars (before Fall 2014)]

== See also ==
* [[Astro-ph Coffee]]
* [[People]]
* [[STScI Colloquium]]

2026-03-25T19:34:45Z

Kdkuntz: /* 30 March */

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This page records the schedule, titles and abstracts of the [[CAS_Wine_and_Cheese_Seminars|JHU/STScI CAS Astrophysics Wine & Cheese Series]] in Spring 2026.

Wine and Cheese sessions with one speaker will have a 50 minute talk with 10 minutes for questions. Sessions with two speakers will have two 25 minute talks, each with 5 minutes for questions.

<h2>[[CAS_Wine_and_Cheese_Seminars|Back to W&C Schedule]] </h2>

=26 January=
== Colin Hamill (AAS) ==
'''Astronomy on the Hill: Federal Funding and Dark & Quiet Skies Policy''' 
The landscape of federal science policy has shifted dramatically over the past year. As the FY2026 federal funding cycle concludes, this talk will provide a brief overview of the current fiscal situation for the astronomical sciences, as well as an outlook for FY2027 and beyond. We will then examine the Dark & Quiet Skies initiative, a global effort to preserve the night sky from light pollution and radio frequency interference from satellites. We will review recent regulatory developments in the space environment and highlight how the astronomical community works with commercial space operators and the federal government to ensure a sustainable orbital environment. The talk concludes with a discussion of how scientists at all career stages can engage with policymakers to ensure astronomy and science remains a priority on Capitol Hill.

=09 February=
==Chris Nagele (JHU)==
'''Radiation Transfer Simulations of Black Hole Spectra''' 
Spectra from accreting black holes are one of our most powerful tools for understanding these enigmatic objects. These spectra, however, are not well understood. For example, stellar mass black holes and supermassive black holes exhibit different spectral properties, with the stellar mass black holes changing between different spectral states (hard and soft states) while the supermassive black holes have more uniform spectral slopes. We run radiation transfer post-processing of general relativistic magnetohydrodynamical simulations of black hole accretion, in order to generate spectral predictions. We use two radiation transfer codes, Pandurata and PTransX, to solve for thermal balance and ionization balance in different parts of the simulation. Our spectra are remarkably similar to observed trends, with a clear hard/soft dependence on accretion rate at M = 10 Msun and uniformly flat spectra in the supermassive regime. We also compute high resolution spectra in order to simulate emission lines coming from the accretion disk near the black hole. Our spectra contain Fe Kalpha lines with equivalent widths (50-200 eV) and line shapes consistent with observations. We find, however, that the breadth of these lines is due to several factors, and not simply to extreme relativistic motions near the black hole, as is almost always assumed. We discuss how physical quantities from our simulations can be incorporated into models which perform black hole parameter inference, thereby breaking some of the degeneracy associated with these models.

==Stephen Schmidt (JHU)==
'''Hot Jupiters are Inflated Primarily by Shallow Heating''' 
The unexpectedly large radii of transiting hot Jupiters have led to many proposals for the physical mechanisms responsible for heating their interiors. While it has been shown that hot Jupiters reinflate as their host stars brighten due to heating deep in planetary interiors, young hot Jupiters also exhibit signs of delayed cooling possibly related to heating closer to their surfaces. To investigate this tension, we enhance our previously published hot Jupiter thermal evolution model by adding a parameter that allows for both deep heating and delayed cooling. We fit our thermal evolution models to a homogeneous, physically self-consistent catalog of accurate and precise hot Jupiter system properties in a hierarchical Bayesian framework. We find that hot Jupiters' interior cooling rates are reduced on average by 95%--98% compared to simpler anomalous heating models. The most plausible explanation for this inference is substantial shallow heating just below their radiative--convective boundaries that enables reinflation with much less deep heating. Shallow heating by Ohmic dissipation and/or temperature advection are therefore important components of accurate models of hot Jupiter atmospheres, especially in circulation models. If hot Jupiters are inflated primarily by shallow heating as we propose, then we predict that their observed phase curve offsets should increase with temperature in the range T_eq <~ 1500 K, peak in the range 1500 K <~ T_eq <~ 1800 K, and decrease in the range T_eq >~ 1800 K.

=16 February=
==Jessica A. Gaskin (GSFC)==
'''Preparing for the Next Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey (Astro2030)''' 
The Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey, conducted once every ten years, establishes the community’s highest-priority ground- and space-based science goals and provides strategic guidance for future investments. NASA relies heavily on this guidance when shaping its long-term mission portfolio and budget. For the 2020 Decadal Survey, NASA supported a suite of community-led mission concept studies that articulated compelling science cases, assessed technical readiness, defined design reference missions, and developed high-level cost estimates, ensuring that the Decadal Committee was equipped with a robust and well-informed basis for its deliberations. As preparations begin for the next survey, Astro2030, NASA is again engaging the community to inform its planning. This includes soliciting broad feedback and convening two workshops—one in the spring and one in the fall of this year—to incorporate the evolving space environment, emerging technologies, and growing commercial capabilities before initiating any new NASA-sponsored mission concept formulation activities. This talk will provide an overview of the Decadal Survey process and outline NASA’s current plans and rough timeline for preparing for Astro2030.

=23 February=
==Eileen Meyer (UMBC)==
'''Crossing the Radio Divide: Radio Studies of Changing-Look AGN''' 
While astronomers first discovered that super-massive black holes
(SMBH) can launch jets of relativistic plasma over 60 years ago, we
are still searching for the 'trigger' that turns a non-jetted SMBH
into a jetted one. Given typical lifetimes of millions of years (if
not longer), it might seem highly improbable to catch a black hole 'in
the act' of launching a brand-new relativistic jet. Yet that is
exactly what we believed happened in the case of 1ES 1957+654, a
nearby 'changing-look' active galaxy where long-term VLBA monitoring
caught a sudden radio brightening in spring of 2023 which we now
understand to be a new-born jet. Nearly 2 years on, we can now follow
the evolution of the plasma structures as seen in high-resolution
radio imaging, and speculate on the likely cause (and future) of this
unusual jet. I will place these findings in the larger context of
recent discoveries which blur the line between jetted/non-jetted (or
radio-quiet/radio-loud) black holes and show these types are more
changeable than we might have first believed. I will also make
connections between black hole outflows at all scales and in very
different conditions -- from TDEs to X-ray binaries, and speculate on
what may ultimately be the key to a successful jet launch.

=02 March=
==Rajes Ghosh (JHU)==
'''Gravitational Waves as Probe of New Physics''' 
A decade after LIGO’s historic detection of GW150914, gravitational wave astronomy has matured into a powerful tool for uncovering new physics beyond the standard paradigm. In this spirit, I will present a novel approach to testing the Kerr paradigm using the ringdown phase of binary mergers, where the final black hole relaxes by emitting quasi-normal modes. While most existing works assume that deviations from Kerr preserve its defining symmetries, e.g., stationarity, axisymmetry, and circularity, these assumptions can indeed be broken in the presence of environmental effects or dynamical modifications of gravity. I will focus in particular on potential violations of Kerr circularity and demonstrate how quasi-normal mode spectroscopy can be used to probe such departures. Using GW150914 as a case study, we place stringent observational constraints on such deviations. This symmetry-based test also offers a novel avenue for assessing the robustness of various foundational results, like black hole uniqueness and no-hair theorems, in the context of astrophysical black holes.

=09 March=
==Michael Eracleous (PSU)==
'''The Central Engines of LINERs''' 
Low-Ionization Nuclear Emission-line Regions (LINERs) have been a puzzle and the subject of debate since their identification in 1980. They are defined through the strengths of their low-ionization oxygen emission lines and are very common (found in about half o nearby galaxies). Their optical emission-line spectra can be attributed to shocks, or photoionization by a hard continuum from an active nucleus, or photoionization by unusually hot stars. I will discuss, in historical perspective, the work I have been doing with my collaborators and students trying to identify the power source in LINERs and present the emerging picture: LINERs are seemingly feeble active nuclei that can photoionize the circumnuclear gas in their immediate vicinity (within a few tens of parsec) but also produce outflows that shock the interstellar gas at larger distances (within several hundred parsec). As such, they are mechanical feedback machines whose influence on their host galaxies remains to be fully appreciated.

=23 March=
==Yifan Zhou (UVa)==
''' Dynamical Processes in Planetary Atmospheres: A Time-Resolved Perspective''' 
Planetary atmospheres are highly dynamic systems. Atmospheric circulation, cloud formation, and radiative transfer drive persistent variability. The discovery and characterization of exoplanets have dramatically expanded our ability to study these dynamical processes across multiple dimensions. These dimensions include the evolutionary stage, energy budget, and rotation rate. Time-resolved direct spectroscopy provides the most powerful tool for tracing atmospheric dynamics. My group uses this approach to observe planetary and substellar objects across a wide range of evolutionary stages. This allows us to identify and characterize the physical processes that shape these worlds. In this talk, I will present case studies using high-precision monitoring data from HST and JWST. These studies probe accretion processes in forming protoplanets, atmospheric dynamics in mature giant planets and brown dwarfs, and rotation measurements of directly imaged exoplanets. I will also discuss one particularly revealing case: highly irradiated substellar companions to white dwarfs. These objects play a critical role in bridging different regimes of atmospheric physics and offer unique insights into post-main-sequence planetary systems. I aim to initiate new collaborations with experts across these fields to develop a unified framework for understanding atmospheric dynamics throughout planetary evolution.

=30 March=
==F. Scott Porter (GSFC)==
'''Laboratory astrophysics and atomic spectroscopy in the age of XRISM and NewAthena''' 
Laboratory astrophysics has long been important in order to place the spectral synthesis codes, and the underlying atomic physics, on a sound experimental footing. Spectral synthesis codes are used to fit the observational data and extract the physical characteristics of the source. This has recently become even more important with the launch of XRISM and the preparation for NewAthena. The XRISM observatory was launched in 2023 and opened the X-ray midband, including the important K shell emission from Fe, to high-resolution spectroscopy. NewAthena and the high resolution XIFU instrument will follow in the mid to late 2030s and will add higher resolution spectroscopy with significantly higher throughput. However, higher resolution, and higher statistics measurements will place more stress on the precision of the spectral synthesis codes, the underlying atomic databases, and the laboratory measurements that vet them. We will discuss the role and process of X-ray laboratory astrophysics and, in addition, the laboratory measurements that support XRISM and NewAthena observations.

=06 April=
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'''Title''' 
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=13 April=
==TBD==
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=20 April=
==TBD==
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=27 April=
==TBD==
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=04 May=
==TBD==
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Wine and Cheese Spring 2026

2026-03-18T22:29:05Z

Kdkuntz: /* 23 March */

CAS Wine and Cheese Seminars

2026-03-18T22:27:59Z

Kdkuntz: /* Spring 2026 Schedule */

__NOTOC__
[[Image:Winecheese.jpeg|right|400px]]
The JHU/STScI [[CAS Wine and Cheese Seminars]] take place in Bloomberg 462 every Monday at 3:30 pm Eastern. Each week, there will be either one speaker, giving an hour-long presentation (50+10), or two speakers, each giving a half hour (25+5) presentation. Hour-long speakers will be invited by the committee, and the half-hour speakers will comprise both local researchers and visitors with a wide range of scientific interests.

There will be wine, cheese, and other refreshments to go along with the talks and discussions. Should you have any questions, comments, or speaker suggestions, please contact kkuntz1 at jhu.edu.
 

'''Where''': Bloomberg 462

'''When''': Every Monday at 3:30 pm

'''Who''': Everyone is welcome

'''Format''': Keynote/PPT, PDF, or blackboard format. (Speakers may use their own laptops, and we will check that the display works ahead of time. Please have slides available online or on a portable drive in case we need to use a different computer.)
 

== [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2026|Spring 2026 Schedule]] ==

<h3>This Springs's Wine and Cheese presentations are in person. We are likely to continue running a zoom session as well for viewers that are, by necessity, remote. Zoom invitations will be sent the previous Friday, and again on Monday morning. Note that the Zoom session starts a quarter hour before the start of the talk.</h3>

== [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2026|Spring 2026 Schedule]] ==

{| border="1" style="text-align:left;"
! align="left" |Date
! Speaker
! Title
! Note
|-
|26 Jan || Colin Hamill (AAS) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2026#Speaker|Astronomy on the Hill: Federal Funding and Dark & Quiet Skies Policy]] || delayed due to impending bad weather
|-
|02 Feb || Colin Hamill (AAS) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2026#Speaker|Astronomy on the Hill: Federal Funding and Dark & Quiet Skies Policy]] ||
|-
|09 Feb || Chris Nagele (JHU) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2026#Speaker|Radiation Transfer Simulations of Black Hole Spectra]] ||
|-
| || Stephen Schmidt (JHU) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2026#Speaker|Hot Jupiters are Inflated Primarily by Shallow Heating]] ||
|-
|16 Feb || Jessica Gaskin (GSFC) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2026#Speaker|Preparing for the Next Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey (ASTRO2030)]] ||
|-
|23 Feb || Eileen Meyer (UMBC) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2026#Speaker|Crossing the Radio Divide: Radio Studies of Changing-Look AGN]] ||
|-
|02 Mar || Rajes Ghosh (JHU) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2026#Speaker|Gravitational Waves as Probe of New Physics]] ||
|-
|09 Mar || Michael Eracleous (PSU) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2026#Speaker|The Central Engines of LINERs]] ||
|-
|16 Mar || || Spring Break ||
|-
|23 Mar || Yifan Zhou (UVa) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2026#Speaker|Dynamical Processes in Planetary Atmospheres: A Time-Resolved Perspective]] ||
|-
|30 Mar || F. Scott Porter (GSFC) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2026#Speaker|Lab Astro Challenges in High Resolution X-ray Spectroscopy]] ||
|-
|06 Apr || Songhu Wang (IU) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2026#Speaker|Title]] ||
|-
|13 Apr || Eliu Huerta (Argonne) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2026#Speaker|Title]] ||
|-
|20 Apr || Sarah Tuttle (UW) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2026#Speaker|Title]] ||
|-
|27 Apr || Konstantin Batygin (CalTech) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2026#Speaker|Title]] ||
|-
|04 May || Anwesh Majumder (Waterloo) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2026#Speaker|Title]] ||
|}
----
 

== Past Seminars ==
* [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2024|Spring 2024 Schedule]]
* [[Wine and Cheese Fall 2023|Fall 2023 Schedule]]
* [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2023|Spring 2023 Schedule]]
* [[Wine and Cheese Fall 2022|Fall 2022 Schedule]]
* [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2022|Spring 2022 Schedule]]
* [[Wine and Cheese Fall 2021|Fall 2021 Schedule]]
* [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2021|Spring 2021 Schedule]]
* [[Wine and Cheese Fall 2020|Fall 2020 Schedule]]
* [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2020|Spring 2020 Schedule]]
* [[Wine and Cheese Fall 2019|Fall 2019 Schedule]]
* [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2019|Spring 2019 Schedule]]
* [[Wine and Cheese Fall 2018|Fall 2018 Schedule]]
* [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2018|Spring 2018 Schedule]]
* [[Wine and Cheese Fall 2017|Fall 2017 Schedule]]
* [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2017|Spring 2017 Schedule]]
* [[Wine and Cheese Fall 2016|Fall 2016 Schedule]]
* [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2016|Spring 2016 Schedule]]
* [[Wine and Cheese Fall 2015|Fall 2015 Schedule]]
* [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2015|Spring 2015 Schedule]]
* [[Wine and Cheese Fall 2014|Fall 2014 Schedule]]
* [https://sites.google.com/site/jhustsciastrowinecheese/ JHU/STScI Wine & Cheese Seminar Series (before Fall 2014)]
* [http://www.pha.jhu.edu/~stephan/CAS_seminar/ JHU CAS Seminars (before Fall 2014)]

== See also ==
* [[Astro-ph Coffee]]
* [[People]]
* [[STScI Colloquium]]

CAS Wine and Cheese Seminars

2025-11-12T17:39:20Z

Kdkuntz:

__NOTOC__
[[Image:Winecheese.jpeg|right|400px]]
The JHU/STScI [[CAS Wine and Cheese Seminars]] take place in Bloomberg 462 every Monday at 3:30 pm Eastern. Each week, there will be either one speaker, giving an hour-long presentation (50+10), or two speakers, each giving a half hour (25+5) presentation. Hour-long speakers will be invited by the committee, and the half-hour speakers will comprise both local researchers and visitors with a wide range of scientific interests.

There will be wine, cheese, and other refreshments to go along with the talks and discussions. Should you have any questions, comments, or speaker suggestions, please contact kkuntz1 at jhu.edu.
 

'''Where''': Bloomberg 462

'''When''': Every Monday at 3:30 pm

'''Who''': Everyone is welcome

'''Format''': Keynote/PPT, PDF, or blackboard format. (Speakers may use their own laptops, and we will check that the display works ahead of time. Please have slides available online or on a portable drive in case we need to use a different computer.)
 

== [[Wine and Cheese Fall 2025|Fall 2025 Schedule]] ==

<h3>This Fall's Wine and Cheese presentations are in person. We are likely to continue running a zoom session as well for viewers that are, by necessity, remote. Zoom invitations will be sent the previous Friday, and again on Monday morning. Note that the Zoom session starts a quarter hour before the start of the talk.</h3>

{| border="1" style="text-align:left;"
! align="left" |Date
! Speaker
! Title
! Note
|-
|25 Aug || John Silverman (K-IPMU) || [[Wine and Cheese Fall 2025#Speaker|Evolution of Supermassive Black Holes and their Host Galaxies at z > 6 with JWST]] ||
|-
|01 Sep || || Labor Day ||
|-
|08 Sep || Valerio de Luca (JHU) || [[Wine and Cheese Fall 2025#Speaker|Primordial Black Holes: a Gravitational Wave Quest]] ||
|-
| || David Stark (JHU/STScI) || [[Wine and Cheese Fall 2025#Speaker|21cm Follow-up for the MaNGA Survey: Past Results and Future Directions]] ||
|-
|15 Sep || Natalie Myers (JHU) || [[Wine and Cheese Fall 2025#Speaker|Tracing the Chemical Enrichment of the Milky Way using Star Clusters: Measurement and Analysis of Neutron Capture Elemental Abundances]] ||
|-
| || Mesut Çalışkan (JHU) || [[Wine and Cheese Fall 2025#Speaker|Title]] ||
|-
|22 Sep || || [[Wine and Cheese Fall 2025#Speaker|Title]] ||
|-
|29 Sep || Sangeeta Malhotra (GSFC) || [[Wine and Cheese Fall 2025#Speaker|Cosmic Dawn: Gaps in Our Understanding]] ||
|-
|06 Oct || Joshua Hibbard (UC Boulder) || [[Wine and Cheese Fall 2025#Speaker|Forward to the Moon: Lunar radio telescopes and 21-cm Cosmology]] ||
|-
|13 Oct || Sanskriti Das (Stanford) || [[Wine and Cheese Fall 2025#Speaker|Where the Hot Universe Meets the Energetic Universe]] || Hubble Symp. Week
|-
|20 Oct || Raphael Errani (CMU) || [[Wine and Cheese Fall 2025#Speaker|How Micro Galaxies Could Help Constrain the Properties of Dark Matter]] ||
|-
|27 Oct || Emily Witt (JHU) || [[Wine and Cheese Fall 2025#Speaker|The Juniper CubeSat Concept: A Mission to Observe CGM Kinematics in Nearby Galaxies]] ||
|-
| || Leah Jenks (JHU) || [[Wine and Cheese Fall 2025#Speaker|Inflation as a Particle Factory]] ||
|-
|03 Nov || Robert Coyne (URI) || [[Wine and Cheese Fall 2025#Speaker|Title: A Decade of Discovery: Gravitational Wave Astronomy and the Search for Elusive Multi-Messenger Signals]] ||
|-
|10 Nov || Roman Gerasimov (ND) || [[Wine and Cheese Fall 2025#Speaker|Medium-resolution Galactic Archaeology: Sharp Insights in Blurry Data]] ||
|-
|17 Nov || F. Scott Porter (GSFC) || [[Wine and Cheese Fall 2025#Speaker|XRISM Performance and Results]] postponed||
|-
|24 Nov || || Thanksgiving Break ||
|-
|01 Dec || TBD (TBD) || [[Wine and Cheese Fall 2025#Speaker|Title]] ||
|-
|08 Dec || Ho Sang (Leon) Chan (Colorado) || [[Wine and Cheese Fall 2025#Speaker|Title]] ||
|-
| || TBD (TBD) || [[Wine and Cheese Fall 2025#Speaker|Title]] ||
|}
----
 

== [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2026|Spring 2026 Schedule]] ==

{| border="1" style="text-align:left;"
! align="left" |Date
! Speaker
! Title
! Note
|-
|26 Jan || TBD (TBD) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2026#Speaker|Title]] ||
|-
|02 Feb || TBD (TBD) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2026#Speaker|Title]] ||
|-
|09 Feb || TBD (TBD) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2026#Speaker|Title]] ||
|-
|16 Feb || TBD (TBD) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2026#Speaker|Title]] ||
|-
|23 Feb || TBD (TBD) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2026#Speaker|Title]] ||
|-
|02 Mar || TBD (TBD) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2026#Speaker|Title]] ||
|-
|09 Mar || TBD (TBD) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2026#Speaker|Title]] ||
|-
|16 Mar || || Spring Break ||
|-
|23 Mar || TBD (TBD) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2026#Speaker|Title]] ||
|-
|30 Mar || TBD (TBD) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2026#Speaker|Title]] ||
|-
|06 Apr || TBD (TBD) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2026#Speaker|Title]] ||
|-
|13 Apr || TBD (TBD) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2026#Speaker|Title]] ||
|-
|20 Apr || TBD (TBD) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2026#Speaker|Title]] ||
|-
|27 Apr || TBD (TBD) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2026#Speaker|Title]] ||
|-
|}
----
 
== Past Seminars ==
* [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2024|Spring 2024 Schedule]]
* [[Wine and Cheese Fall 2023|Fall 2023 Schedule]]
* [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2023|Spring 2023 Schedule]]
* [[Wine and Cheese Fall 2022|Fall 2022 Schedule]]
* [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2022|Spring 2022 Schedule]]
* [[Wine and Cheese Fall 2021|Fall 2021 Schedule]]
* [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2021|Spring 2021 Schedule]]
* [[Wine and Cheese Fall 2020|Fall 2020 Schedule]]
* [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2020|Spring 2020 Schedule]]
* [[Wine and Cheese Fall 2019|Fall 2019 Schedule]]
* [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2019|Spring 2019 Schedule]]
* [[Wine and Cheese Fall 2018|Fall 2018 Schedule]]
* [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2018|Spring 2018 Schedule]]
* [[Wine and Cheese Fall 2017|Fall 2017 Schedule]]
* [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2017|Spring 2017 Schedule]]
* [[Wine and Cheese Fall 2016|Fall 2016 Schedule]]
* [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2016|Spring 2016 Schedule]]
* [[Wine and Cheese Fall 2015|Fall 2015 Schedule]]
* [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2015|Spring 2015 Schedule]]
* [[Wine and Cheese Fall 2014|Fall 2014 Schedule]]
* [https://sites.google.com/site/jhustsciastrowinecheese/ JHU/STScI Wine & Cheese Seminar Series (before Fall 2014)]
* [http://www.pha.jhu.edu/~stephan/CAS_seminar/ JHU CAS Seminars (before Fall 2014)]

== See also ==
* [[Astro-ph Coffee]]
* [[People]]
* [[STScI Colloquium]]