Joint Institute for Advanced Study / Princeton University Astrophysics Colloquium

Colloquiums are held on Tuesdays at 11:00 am and are organized by The Institute for Advanced Study in the Fall and Princeton University in the Spring. Details on the current colloquiums can be found below. Coffee provided 10:30am to 11:00am before the start of the lecture. The Joint Astrophysics Colloquium is immediately followed by the Bahcall Lunch. 

For questions about a speaker's visit to The Institute for Advanced Study in the Fall, please contact Callum Fairbarin, Gabriela Sato-Polito, or Amanda Cenker.

For questions about a speaker's visit to Princeton University the Spring, please contact:  or Mami Akiyama. Visitors to the Princeton University Campus must follow their visitor policy.

Videos of past talks at the IAS can be found on the IAS video server or on YouTube.

Colloquia Archives

Current Colloquium Schedule

Apr
29
2025

Institute for Advanced Study / Princeton University Joint Astrophysics Colloquium

The Dragonfly Project: From Diffuse Galaxies to the Cosmic Web
Pieter van Dokkum
11:00am|Peyton Hall, Auditorium, Princeton University

The Dragonfly project is developing a new class of telescopes optimized for low surface brightness astronomy. Originally designed to test the ΛCDM prediction that galaxies are embedded in extended tidal debris fields, Dragonfly combines the light...