The Summer Colloquium Program takes over CfA's normal Thursday colloquium slot during its summer break.
The summer talks are aimed at the REU students (although open to all) and the idea is to expose them
to the range of research done at the CfA.
| Year | Date | Speaker | Topic |
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| 1994 | Jun 16 | Dan Fabricant | Conversion of the MMT |
| | Jun 23 | Somak Raychaudhury | ? |
| | Jun 30 | Alyssa Goodman | Dust in the Corners of the Universe |
| | Jul 7 | Andrea Dupree | Star Light, Star Bright: Stellar Spectroscopy |
| | Jul 14 | Ramesh Narayan | Measuring the Universe with Gravitational Lenses |
| | Jul 21 | John Huchra | So Many Galaxies...So Little Time |
| | Jul 28 | Adair Lane | Astronomy in Antarctica |
| | Aug 4 | Kathy Flanagan | X-ray Satellites: Rocket Scientist Tells All |
| | Aug 11 | Phil Sadler | Misconceptions and their Role in Learning Science |
| 1995 | Jun 15 | Brian Marsden | New Discoveries in the Outer Solar System |
| | Jun 22 | Jim Moran | Searching for Massive Black Holes in the Nuclei of Galaxies |
| | Jun 29 | Kate Kirby | Understanding Global Change: Heating and Cooling in the Earth's Atmosphere |
| | Jul 6 | Bob Kirshner | Taking the Measure of the Universe |
| | Jul 13 | Jonathan McDowell | Quasars |
| | Jul 20 | Ursula Marvin | Antarctic Meteorites: Frozen Samples of Asteroids, the Moon and Mars |
| | Jul 27 | Diana Worrall | Active Galaxies: A Matter of Perspective? |
| | Aug 3 | Paul Ho | The Galactic Center |
| | Aug 10 | Shaddia Habbal | The Solar Wind, Messenger from the Sun |
| 1996 | Jun 13 | Steven Saar | ? |
| | Jun 20 | George Rybicki | ? |
| | Jul 3 | Fred Seward | [Supernova remnants] ? |
| | Jul 11 | Kim McLeod? | [Quasars]? |
| | Jul 18 | Scott Kenyon | ? |
| | Jul 25 | Saku Vrtilek? | [X-ray binaries] ? |
| | Aug 1 | Pepi Fabbiano | [X-ray galaxies] ? |
| | Aug 8 | Emilio Falco | ? |
| 1997 | | | [Schedule unknown] |
| | | Aneta Siemiginowska | Quasars, Supermassive Black Holes and Accretion Disks |
| | | Bob Phillips | [Equivalence principle measurement?] |
| | | Jeremy Drake | [Stars?] |
| | | Brian McLeod? | |
| 1998 | Jun 18 | Charlie Lada | Star and Planet Formation in the Galaxy |
| | Jun 25 | Bob Donahue | Is the Sun Weird? Adventures in the Solar-Stellar Connection |
| | Jul 2 | Alison Coil * | Voyage to the Galactic Center |
| | Jul 9 | Andrea Prestwich | X-ray Astronomy |
| | Jul 16 | Shaddia Habbal | The Dynamic Sun and the Solar Wind |
| | Jul 23 | Peter Challis | From Signal-To-Noise to Measuring the Universe |
| | Jul 30 | Lincoln Greenhill | Maser and Brobdignagian Beasts in AGN |
| | Aug 6 | Eric Hooper | Monsters in the Night: Quasars and their Wily Ways |
| 1999 | Jun 24 | Rene Plume | Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite |
| | Jul 1 | Pete Nisensen | Finding Planets Orbiting Sun-Like Stars |
| | Jul 6/8 | John Huchra | Cosmology, Part I/II |
| | Jul 15 | Pauline Barmby | Globular Clusters in M31 |
| | Jul 22 | Brian Patten | Give Us Back Our Fortnight! |
| | Jul 29 | Leon Golub | The Sun from TRACE |
| | Aug 5 | Christine Jones | The Chandra X-ray Observatory |
| 2000 | Jun 22 | Rosanne Di Stefano | Binaries and What They Can Do For You> |
| | Jun 29 | Amy Winebarger * | Plasma in the Solar Transition Region |
| | Jul 6 | Rupert Croft | Structure in the Early Universe |
| | Jul 20 | Irene Porro | Seeing sharper: Optical interferometry and adaptive optics |
| | Jul 27 | Pat Slane | Chandra looks at Supernova Remnants |
| | Aug 3 | Sam Palmer | Mapping the Galaxy from the Roof of 60 Garden St |
| 2001 | Jun 21 | Martin White | Seeing spots on the sky: the geometry of the universe. |
| | Jun 28 | Kathy Flanagan | The Chandra X-ray Observatory: Twenty Years to Make a Point! |
| | Jul 9-13 | John Huchra | [Short lecture course on cosmology] |
| | Jul 19 | Jeno Sokoloski | Flicker, Flicker, Little Star: Rapid Optical Varability and Accretion |
| | Jul 26 | Robin McGary | The Black Hole in the Galactic Center |
| | Aug 2 | Dave Charbonneau | Sizing Up Planets Around Sun-Like Stars |
| 2002 | Jun 14 | Matt Holman | Satellites in the Outer Solar System |
| | Jun 27 | Lori Allen | The Space Infrared Telescope Facility> |
| | Jul 11 | Ken Rines * | Galaxy Cluster Suburbs |
| | Jul 18 | Andrea Prestwich | X-ray Galaxies |
| | Jul 24 | Bryan Gaensler | Radio polarization: probing the interstellar medium |
| | Aug 1 | Michel Tognini | [Special astronaut talk] |
| | Aug 8 | Gaitee Hussain | [Solar physics] |
| 2003 | Jun 19 | Travis Metcalfe * | Pulsating white dwarfs and physics |
| | Jul 10 | Alyssa Goodman | Star Formation |
| | Jul 17 | Gabriela Mallen-Ornelas | The EXPLORE Search for Transiting Extrasolar Planets |
| | Jul 24 | Andy Szentgyorgyi | Multi-Object Spectroscopy |
| | Jul 31 | Leonard Strachan | UV Spectroscopic Observations of the Solar Corona |
| | Aug 7 | Aneta Siemiginowska | X-rays from Quasars |
| 2004 | Jul 8 | Dimitar Sasselov | Exoplanets |
| | Jul 15 | Vinay Kashyap | X Marks the Star |
| | Jul 22 | Giovanni Fazio | Results from the Spitzer Space Telescope |
| | Jul 29 | Brant Robertson * | Disk Galaxy Formation in Our Cosmology |
| | Aug 3 | Jenny Grene | Intermediate-mass Black Holes in Active Galactic Nuclei |
| | Aug 12 | Jasmina Lazendic | Mixed-morphology supernova remnants and their disguises |
| 2005 | Jun 23 | Marat Gilfanov | X-ray source pops in galaxies and star formation |
| | Jun 30 | Nitya Kallivayalil | Spitzer sheds light on dark matter |
| | Jul 7 | Lisa Kaltenegger | The search for Earth-like planets around other stars |
| | Jul 14 | Scott Gaudi | Sedna and Beyond: Explorations of the Outer Solar System |
| | Jul 21 | Mark Reid | Micro-arcsecond Radio Astrometry
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| | Jul 28 | Bryan Gaensler | The Brightest Explosion in History:
Amazing Magnetars, and the Giant Flare of 27th December |
| | Aug 4 | Belinda Wilkes | Red AGN with Chandra |
| 2006 | Jun 29 | Charlie Lada | The Origins of Star Formation Research: From Aristotle to Ambartsumian |
| | Jul 6 | Scott Gaudi | Taking the Inventory of Extrasolar Planets with Microlensing |
| | Jul 11 | Charlie Lada | The Nature and Origin of the Stellar IMF |
| | Jul 13 | Mark Gurwell | Taking the Temperature of Pluto (from 4.5 Billion Kilometers Away) |
| | Jul 20 | Jenny Greene | Black Holes and the Galaxies They Live In. |
| | Jul 27 | Joe Hora | An Infrared View of the Helix Planetary Nebula |
| | Aug 3 | Karen Masters | Mapping the Cosmic Web |
| 2007 | Jun 21 | Beth Willman | The Least Luminous Galaxies in the Universe |
| | Jun 28 | Erik Rosolowsky * | The First Steps of Star Formation |
| | Jul 12 | Christine Jones | Reflections from Outbursts of Supermassive Black Holes at the Centers of Galaxies |
| | Jul 19 | Kelly Korreck | Hot Topics on a Cool Star- A Look at the Sun in X-rays using XRT aboard Hinode |
| | Jul 26 | Deborah Woods | Wavefront Sensors and Adaptive Optics |
| | Aug 2 | Dave Latham | The Search for Earth-like Planets and the Kepler Mission |
| 2008 | Jun 19 | Gurtina Besla | The Magellanic Clouds |
| | Jul 10 | Dave Charbonneau | How to find a habitable exoplanet |
| | Jul 17 | Joey Neilsen * | The Superluminal GRS 1915+105 |
| | Jul 24 | Sukanya Chakrabarti | The Lives of Galaxies |
| | Jul 31 | Aneta Siemiginowska | X-ray observations of quasars |
| | Aug 4 | Justin Kasper | Robotic Exploration of the Heliosphere |
| 2009 | Jun 18 | Tim Spahr | Near-Earth Objects and the Minor Planet Center |
| | Jun 25 | Liz Humphreys | Supermassive Black Holes, Dark Energy & Other Stories |
| | Jul 2 | Edo Berger | GRBs the biggest explosion since the big bang |
| | Jul 9 | Jessie Christiansen | NASA Goes Green: How We Recycled the Deep Impact spacecraft. |
| | Jul 16 | Rosanne Di Stefano | New Frontiers in Gravitational Lensing |
| | Jul 23 | Pat Slane | 10 years of Chandra |
| 2010 | Jun 24 | Bob Penna * | Spinning Black Holes and Accretion Flows
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| | Jul 1 | Anna Frebel | Stellar Archaeology: New Science with Old Stars |
| | Jul 12 | Matt Ashby | Brown Dwarfs to Galaxy Clusters, Deep and Wide with Spitzer |
| | Jul 15 | Kathy Reeves | New Views of the Sun with Hinode and SDO |
| | Jul 22 | Laura Blecha | Recoiling Black Holes in Merging Galaxies |
| | Jul 29 | Andrea Dupree | Kepler and exoplanets |
| | Aug 5 | Paola Testa | Solar and Stellar X-ray activity: The Sun as a star |
| 2011 | Jun 16 | Esra Bulbul | SZ effect and XR obs of galaxy clusters |
| | Jun 23 | Zach Berta | MEarth: The Joy of Planets Transiting Puny Stars |
| | Jun 30 | Nimesh Patel | Exploring Astrochemistry with the SMA |
| | Jul 14 | Doug Finkbeiner | Hubble/s Expanding Unvierse and the CMB |
| | Jul 21 | Katrien Kolenberg | Kepler and the mysteries of RR Lyr stars |
| | Jul 28 | Kelly Korreck | Solar Wind |
| | Aug 4 | Alicia Soderberg * | Supernovae |
| 2012 | Jun 14 | Chanda Prescod-Weinstein | Why GR is Really Cool! |
| | Jun 21 | Ashley Zauderer | Exploring the Energetic Transient Universe |
| | Jul 5 | Volker Tolls | Mysteries of the Inner Galactic Clouds |
| | Jul 12 | Sarah Ballard * | 3 Predictions in Exoplanets Worth $10K or More |
| | Jul 19 | Linda Watson * | Star Formation In Nearby Galaxies |
| | Jul 26 | Moritz Guenther | Accretion, winds and jets: High-energy emission from young stars |
| | Aug 2 | Dan Eisenstein | Dark Energy and Cosmic Sound |
| 2013 | Jun 20 | Francesco Civano | Extragalactic Surveys |
| | Jun 27 | Claudia Cyganowski | Massive Star Formation |
| | Jul 11 | Shane Bussmann | Submillimeter Galaxies and Lensing |
| | Jul 18 | John Kovac | Cosmology with the Cosmic Microwave Background |
| | Aug 1 | Courtney Dressing | Exoplanets |
| | Aug 8 | Giulia Migliori | Jets in Active Galactic Nuclei |
| 2014 | Jun 12 | Cameron McBride | Large-scale structure: addressing the biggest questions with galaxy redshift surveys. |
| | Jun 26 | John Johnson | Hot on the Trail of Warm Planets Orbiting Cool Stars |
| | Jul 3 | Steve Cranmer | Stellar Winds Across the H-R Diagram |
| | Jul 10 | Chun Lin Wong | B-mode polarization in the CMB |
| | Jul 17 | Francesca DeMeo | Solar System Evolution from Compositional Mapping of the Asteroid Belt |
| | Jul 24 | Maria Drout * | Extreme Supernovae: Transient Science in the Era of Wide Field Surveys |
| | Jul 31 | Jonathan McDowell | The Globalization of Earth orbit |
| | Aug 7 | Belinda Wilkes | Chandra's X-ray View of the Universe |
| 2015 | Jun 18 | David Kipping | My Journey Searching for Exomoons |
| | Jun 25 | Sarah Wellons * | Cosmological simulations: Connecting galaxy populations across cosmic time |
| | Jul 2 | Charlie Conroy | The Stars in Galaxies |
| | Jul 9 | Nia Imara | The Environments of Stellar Nurseries |
| | Jul 16 | Laura Lopez | Dissecting the Remnants of Nearby Supernovae |
| | Jul 23 | Laura Brenneman | X-ray puzzles from massive black holes |
| | Jul 30 | Gonzalo Gonzalez Abad | Characterizing atmospheres from Earth to exoplanets |
| 2016 | Jun 16 | John Johnson | Getting More With Less: Big Science, Small Telescopes, Small Stars |
| | Jun 23 | Anna Barnacka | The High Energy Universe with Strong Gravitational Lensing |
| | Jun 30 | Elaine Winston | Young Stars in Stellar Clusters |
| | Jul 7 | Ben Cook * | Illustris stellar halos: Cosmological simulations of galaxies |
| | Jul 14 | Joe Hora | How a Black Hole Feeds: Observations of Sgr A* |
| | Jul 21 | Ilse Cleeves | Zooming in on physics and chemistry of star formation with ALMA |
| | Jul 28 | Rudy Montez | Planetary Nebulae |
| 2017 | Jun 14 | Ana Bonaca | Renegades in the Solar Neighborhood |
| | Jun 21 | Rafael Martinez Galarza | Star Formation in Interacting Galaxies: A Tale of Compactness |
| | Jun 28 | Chelsea MacLeod | Chasing the Tails of Quasar Variability |
| | Jul 5 | Dan D'Orazio * | The Biggest Black Hole Binaries |
| | Jul 13 | Raphaelle Haywood | Detecting and Characterizing Other Earths |
| | Jul 27 | Dan Castro | Particle Acceleration in the Remnants of Supernova Explosions |
| 2018 | Jun 13 | Cecilia Garraffo | Gone With the Wind: stellar spin to planetary atmospheres |
| | Jun 21 | Sam Quinn | Exoplanets in the TESS Era |
| | Jun 28 | Anastasia Fialkov | Shining Light Into Cosmic Dark Ages |
| | Jul 12 | Atish Kamble | Supernovae |
| | Jul 19 | Jill Naiman | Modeling the Universe: Cosmological Simulations of Elemental Production |
| | Jul 26 | Grant Tremblay | Lynx X-ray Observatory |
| | Aug 2 | Sarah Sadavoy | Molecular Clouds and The Formation of Stars |
| 2019 | Jun 13 | Michael Johnson | Taking the First Picture of a Black Hole with the Event Horizon Telescope |
| | Jun 20 | John Lewis | California: CO and Dust in the Sleeping Giant |
| | Jun 27 | Catherine Zucker * and Josh Speagle | Charting Nearby Molecular Clouds with Gaia: A New Map of our Local Interstellar Medium |
| | Jul 11 | Laura Mayorga | The Exoplanets in our Backyard |
| | Jul 18 | Ashley Villar * | Stellar eruptions, explosions and collisions in the era of big data |
| | Jul 25 | Francesca Fornasini | Black Holes in the Early Universe |
| 2020 | Jun 18 | Michelle Ntampaka | Machine Learning Approach to Galaxy Cluster Mass Estimates |
| | Jun 25 | Maurice Wilson * | First Radial Velocity Results From the MINiature Exoplanet Radial Velocity Array (MINERVA) |
| | Jul 2 | Rebecca Nevin * | Untangling the physical origin of galaxy kinematics with unsupervised learning |
| | Jul 9 | Lindy Blackburn | The Event Horizon Telescope |
| | Jul 23 | Francesca Fornasini | Black Holes in the Early Universe |
| | Jul 30 | Luca Matra | Exocometary science |
| 2021 | Jun 17 | Yvette Cendes | The Cosmic Zoo of Radio Transients |
| | Jun 24 | Anna Rosen | A Massive Star is Born |
| | Jul 1 | Tyler St Germaine | Inflation and BICEP |
| | Jul 15 | Bryan Terrazas * | Black Hole Feedback |
| | Jul 22 | Amber Medina * | Magnetics of Exo Host Stars |
| | Aug 5 | Chima McGruder * | Exoplanet atmospheres |
| 2022 | Jun 16 | Yvette Cendes | The Cosmic Zoo of Radio Transients |
| | Jun 23 | Mila Chadayammuri | Cluster Cosmology |
| | Jul 7 | Diana Powell | Exoplanets |
| | Jul 14 | Mike Foley | Star formation - In Dust We Trust |
| | Jul 21 | Floor Broekgaarden | Gravitational Wave Paleontology to understand Massive Stars. |
| 2023 | Jun 22 | Daniel Castro | High Energy Studies of the Remnants of Supernova Explosions |
| | Jun 29 | Jaya Maithil | Active Galactic Nuclei |
| | Jul 6 | Hannah Rana | Cryogenic instruments for future astrophysics discoveries |
| | Jul 13 | Matt Ashby | The SphereX Mission |
| | Jul 20 | Kaley Brauer * | The Legacy of the First Galaxies |
| | Jul 27 | Mercedes Lopez-Morales | Unveiling the atmospheres of exoplanets with JWST |
| | Aug 3 | Caroline Nowlan | Measuring Air Pollution from Space with the TEMPO Instrument |