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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. Several times in each semester the Wine & Cheese Seminar will be devoted to the work of JHU graduate students. These sessions will contain three talks each 15 minutes long, with 5 minutes for questions.
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.
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.
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'''Where''':  Bloomberg 462 (Directions can be found here: [[Visitor Parking | How to get here]])
'''Where''':  Bloomberg 462


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


'''Who''':  Everyone is welcome
'''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.)
'''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.)
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== [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2026|Spring 2026 Schedule]] ==


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<h3><font color="red">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.</font></h3>
== [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2021|Spring 2021 Schedule]] ==


<h3><font color="red">As may be obvious, the in-person Wine and Cheese Seminar series is suspended until travel restrictions are lifted and social activities resume at the University. Until then, all talks will be virtual. Zoom invitations are sent the previous Friday, and again on Monday morning. </font></h3>
== [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2026|Spring 2026 Schedule]] ==


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! Title
! Note
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|25 Jan || First Day of Classes ||
|26 Jan || <font color="red">Colin Hamill (AAS)</font> || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2026#Speaker|Astronomy on the Hill: Federal Funding and Dark & Quiet Skies Policy]] || <font color="red">delayed due to impending bad weather</font>
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|01 Feb || Vadim Burwitz (MPE) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2021#Speaker|eROSITA]]
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|08 Feb || Xinfeng Xu (JHU) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2021#Speaker|Extreme Outflows in Quasars]]
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|       || Renata Cumbee (UMCP/GSFC) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2021#Speaker|Astrophysical Charge eXchange: From the Laboratory to the Cosmos]]
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|15 Feb || Cicero Lu (JHU) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2021#Speaker|Constraining the Role of Collisions in the beta Pictoris Debris Disk]]
|02 Feb || Colin Hamill (AAS) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2026#Speaker|Astronomy on the Hill: Federal Funding and Dark & Quiet Skies Policy]] ||
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|       || Carrie Fillion (JHU) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2021#Speaker|Constraining the Low-Mass Stellar Initial Mass Function of the Boötes I Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxy]]
|09 Feb || Chris Nagele (JHU) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2026#Speaker|Radiation Transfer Simulations of Black Hole Spectra]] ||
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|      || Mario Andres Aguilar Faúndez (JHU) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2021#Speaker|Does H0LiCOW’s Hubble Constant Correlation with Lens Redshift Offer a Clue to the Hubble Tension?]]
|      || Stephen Schmidt (JHU) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2026#Speaker|Hot Jupiters are Inflated Primarily by Shallow Heating]] ||
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|22 Feb || Sarah Millholland (Princeton) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2021#Speaker|Tidal Sculpting of Short-Period Exoplanets]]
|16 Feb || Jessica Gaskin (GSFC) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2026#Speaker|Preparing for the Next Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey (ASTRO2030)]] ||
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|01 Mar || Kirk Barrow (KIPAC) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2021#Speaker|Using High-Cadence Synthetic Observations to Unlock a New Era in Astrophysics]]
|23 Feb || Eileen Meyer (UMBC) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2026#Speaker|Crossing the Radio Divide: Radio Studies of Changing-Look AGN]] ||
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|08 Mar || Jennifer Marshall (Texas A&M || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2021#Speaker|The Future of Massively Multiplexed Spectroscopy: the Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer]]
|02 Mar || Rajes Ghosh (JHU) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2026#Speaker|Gravitational Waves as Probe of New Physics]] ||
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|15 Mar || || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2021#Speaker|Title]]
|09 Mar || Michael Eracleous (PSU) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2026#Speaker|The Central Engines of LINERs]] ||
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|22 Mar || Spring Break ||  
|16 Mar || || <font color="red">Spring Break</font> ||  
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|29 Mar|| Ani Thakar (JHU) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2021#Speaker|Title]]
|23 Mar || Yifan Zhou (UVa) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2026#Speaker|Dynamical Processes in Planetary Atmospheres: A Time-Resolved Perspective]] ||
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|       || Jordan Raddick (JHU) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2021#Speaker|Title]]
|30 Mar || F. Scott Porter (GSFC) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2026#Speaker|Lab Astro Challenges in High Resolution X-ray Spectroscopy]] ||  
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|05 Apr || Dan Zucker (MacQuarie) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2021#Speaker|The Southern Stellar Stream Spectroscopic Survey (S5)]]
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|12 Apr || Ryan Trainor (F&M) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2021#Speaker|Galaxy Formation in Lyman-alpha or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Scattered Light]]
|06 Apr || Songhu Wang (IU) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2026#Speaker|Towards a Unified Picture of the Origin of Hot Jupiters]] ||
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|19 Apr || STScI Spring Symposium ||  
|13 Apr || Eliu Huerta (Argonne) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2026#Speaker|Title]] || <font color="red">postponed until Fall</font>
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|<p style="color:#ff0000;">26 Apr</p> || Roberto Cotesta (JHU) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2021#Speaker|Title]]
|20 Apr || Sarah Tuttle (UW) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2026#Speaker|Ground & Space-based instruments to Map Cosmic Ecosystems]] ||
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|       || Ayan Acharyya (JHU/STScI) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2021#Speaker|Title]]
|27 Apr || Konstantin Batygin (CalTech) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2026#Speaker|Determination of Jupiter’s Primordial Radius, Accretion Rate, and Magnetic Field]] ||
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|03 May || Elena Muchikova (IAS)|| [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2021#Speaker|Title]]
|04 May || Anwesh Majumder (Waterloo) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2026#Speaker|The Role of Turbulence in Galaxy Clusters: A XRISM Perspective]] ||
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== Past Seminars ==
== 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 Fall 2020|Fall 2020 Schedule]]
* [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2020|Spring 2020 Schedule]]
* [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2020|Spring 2020 Schedule]]

Latest revision as of 17:43, 29 April 2026

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.)

Spring 2026 Schedule

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.

Spring 2026 Schedule

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


Past Seminars

See also