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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
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'''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 2022|Spring 2022 Schedule]] ==


<h3><font color="red">This Spring's Wine(less) and Cheese(less) will be a combination of Zoomed and in person presentations as the (ever-changing) rules permit, and at the discretion of the speaker. Zoom invitations are sent the previous Friday, and again on Monday morning. Note that the Zoom session starts a quarter hour before the start of the talk. As we still have not solved the problem of distributing wine and cheese electronically, the sessions are officially wineless and cheeseless. Of course, if you are Zooming in, we encourage you to lift a non-virtual glass in honour of our speakers.</font></h3>  
== [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2026|Spring 2026 Schedule]] ==
 
<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 2026|Spring 2026 Schedule]] ==


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! Note
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|24 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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|31 Jan || TBD () || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 202#Speaker|Title]] ||
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|07 Feb || Ari Cukierman (Stanford) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2022#Speaker|The Oscillating Sky: BICEP as an axion direct-detection experiment]] || Zoom
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|14 Feb || Andrea Antonelli (JHU) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2022#Speaker|Title]] || in person?
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| || Lara Cullinane (JHU) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2022#Speaker|The Magellanic Edges Survey (MagES)]] || in person?
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|21 Feb || Kedron Silsbee (MPE) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2022#Speaker|Cosmic Rays in the Context of Star Formation: Effects and Propagation]] || <font color="red">Postponed</font>
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|28 Feb || GSS ||  || in person
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| || Gabriela Sato-Polito (JHU) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2022#Speaker|Combining Voxel Intensity Distributions and Intensity Mapping Power Spectra]] ||
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| || Danielle Sponseller (JHU) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2022#Speaker|Modeling CMB Foregrounds Using the Moment Method]] ||
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|07 Mar || Avi Shporer (MIT) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2022#Speaker|Exoplanet Atmospheres with Orbital Phase Curves in the Space Age]] ||
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|14 Mar || Shmuel Bialy (UMd) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2022#Speaker|The Interaction of Cosmic Rays with Interstellar Gas, Across Scales and Cosmic Time]] || in person
|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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|21 Mar ||  || Spring Break - STScI Workshop||
|09 Feb ||  Chris Nagele (JHU) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2026#Speaker|Radiation Transfer Simulations of Black Hole Spectra]] ||  
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|28 Mar || GSS || || in person
|       || Stephen Schmidt (JHU) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2026#Speaker|Hot Jupiters are Inflated Primarily by Shallow Heating]] ||  
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| || Fatma Kuzey Edes Huyal (ITU & JHU) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2022#Speaker|Attempts at Dealing with Sparsity in the Classification of PLAsTiCC Light Curves]] ||
|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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| || Weichen Wang (JHU) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2022#Speaker|Studying the Galactic Winds at z~1 and Beyond with Keck and JWST]] ||
|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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| || Josh Kable (JHU) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2022#Speaker|An Exploration of an Early Gravity Transition in Light of Cosmological Tensions. ]] ||
|02 Mar || Rajes Ghosh (JHU) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2026#Speaker|Gravitational Waves as Probe of New Physics]] ||  
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|04 Apr || Joan Najita (NOIRLab) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2022#Speaker|Two Quick Tales: How Protoplanetary Disks Accrete and Their Evolution into Debris Disks]] || <font color="red">in person, special time</font>
|09 Mar || Michael Eracleous (PSU) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2026#Speaker|The Central Engines of LINERs]] ||  
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|       || Arjun Dey (NOIRLab) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2022#Speaker|The DESI Survey and Galaxy Evolution: Lyman Alpha Emitters and the Andromeda Galaxy]] || <font color="red">in person, special time</font>
|16 Mar || || <font color="red">Spring Break</font> ||
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|11 Apr || Rachel Osten (STScI) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2022#Speaker|Perspectives on Pathways to Discovery in Astronomy and Astrophysics for the 2020s]] || in person
|23 Mar || Yifan Zhou (UVa) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2026#Speaker|Dynamical Processes in Planetary Atmospheres: A Time-Resolved Perspective]] ||  
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|18 Apr || Kedron Silsbee (MPE) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2022#Speaker|Cosmic Rays in the Context of Star Formation: Effects and Propagation]] || Zoom
|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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|25 Apr || GSS || || in person
|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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| || Joseph Cleary (JHU) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2022#Speaker|Long-Timescale Stability in CMB Observations at Multiple Frequencies using Front-End Polarization Modulation]] ||
|13 Apr || Eliu Huerta (Argonne) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2026#Speaker|Title]] || <font color="red">postponed until Fall</font>
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| || Jacob Hamer (JHU) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2022#Speaker|Relative Stellar Ages Reveal the Origins of Hot Jupiters and Departures from Commensurability in Kepler Multiple-planet Systems]] ||
|20 Apr || Sarah Tuttle (UW) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2026#Speaker|Ground & Space-based instruments to Map Cosmic Ecosystems]] ||  
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| || Alexander de la Vega (JHU) || [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2022#Speaker|The Effects of Different SED-fitting Assumptions on Our Understanding of Star-Formation in Galaxies at Intermediate Redshift]] ||
|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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|02 May || TBD () || Reading Period ||
|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 Fall 2020|Fall 2021 Schedule]]
* [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2024|Spring 2024 Schedule]]
* [[Wine and Cheese Spring 2020|Spring 2021 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

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