Meetings

The Astronomy Department congratulates the 2024 PhD students! Ana Maria Delgado defended her thesis on “Analyzing cosmological-hydrodynamical simulations in light of future optical surveys.” Her advisor was Lars Hernquist. Michael Foley defended his...

A joint presentation of the Hebrew University Alumni Association and the Black Hole Initiative at Harvard University. Professors Harvey Gutfreund (Hebrew University) and Avi Loeb (Harvard) to speak. Free, but registration is required. https://www.afhu.org...

"About a hundred astronomers and visiting scholars gathered in the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics’s Phillips Auditorium to hear about the latest advancements in astrophysics at a Thursday luncheon hosted by the Harvard-based Institute for...

Astronomy Department Chair Avi Loeb is included along with 6 other speakers and performers. He will offer a talk on Cosmic Modesty. http://www.tedxharvard.org/speakers/ When: October 14, 2017 at 2 PM Location: Sanders Theater

In the last two decades, knowledge about our universe has exploded. Thanks to sophisticated instruments and space-traveling telescopes, we’ve gleaned astonishing new information about dark energy, dark matter, black holes, exoplanets and the nature of the...

Thursday February 18, 2014 there were four short presentations celebrating the 50 years anniversary for the discovery of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) as evidence for the Big Bang. The event took place at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for...

A group of graduate students, including six from the Harvard Department of Astronomy, developed and organized Communicating Science 2013, or “ ComSciCon 2013”, a first-of-its kind workshop on science communication specifically for grad students in the...

Kris Snibbe/Harvard Staff Photographer Stars align at astronomy reunion: Event draws researchers from around the world. Left: Ruth Murray-Clay (from left), David Latham, Sara Seager, David Charbonneau, and moderator Charles Alcock were some of the faculty...

For more information and registration: http://www.gsas.harvard.edu/alumni_events/a-celebration-of-harvard-astr…

Registration is now open for the Seventh Harvard-Smithsonian Conference on Theoretical Astrophysics: Testing General Relativity (GR) with Astrophysical Systems, to be held May 14th through 17th, 2012 in Cambridge, MA. For the scientific program, list of...