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Lecturers

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Lecturers are Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) scientists who teach Harvard courses and/or advise Harvard graduate students. Below is a list of current lecturers. Sean M. Andrews, Lecturer on Astronomy Steven N. Cranmer, Lecturer on Astronomy...

Sackler Lectures

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The Raymond and Beverly Sackler Distinguished Lecture in Astronomy was established in 1992 to bring an outstanding speaker to the Harvard College Observatory. Follow this link to a complete list of past lectures.

Catherine Zucker delivers Bok Prize Lecture

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Catherine Zucker, SAO Astrophysicist and Lecturer in Astronomy, delivered the Bok Prize Lecture on "Our 3D View of the Milky Way: from Bart Bok to the Present Day," on November 12, where she skillfully intertwined the subject's history and science. Kenzie...

Avi Loeb will deliver a series of four lectures as the recipient of the 2012 Galileo Chair

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Avi Loeb will deliver a series of four lectures as the recipient of the 2012 Galileo Chair ("Cattedra Galileiana") at Scoula Normale Superiore in Pisa, Italy. The lecture titles and times (in Italy) are as follows: Lecture I | Tue Jun 26th - 11.00 a.m...

Jennifer Bergner delivers Bok Prize Lecture

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Jennifer Bergner , Assistant Professor in Chemistry at UC Berkeley, delivered the Bok Prize Lecture on "The icy origins of planetary systems ," on January 27, 2026. Kenzie Bok, the great-granddaughter of Bart J. Bok, represented the Bok family and...

Alumna Sarah Rugheimer awarded the prestigious Rosalind Franklin Award Lecture

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Sarah is a Hugh Price Fellow at Jesus College, Oxford and was awarded the Rosalind Franklin Award Lecture for P hysical S ciences and Mathematics. She was previously awarded the inaugural Caroline Herschel Prize Lectureship for a junior promising female...

Allyson Bieryla Named 2026 Shapley Visiting Lecturer

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The American Astronomical Society has named Allyson Bieryla--Manager of the Astronomy Lab and Clay Telescope, as well as Assistant DUS in Astronomy--a 2026 Shapley Visiting Lecturer. In her role, Alyson will give a series of astronomy-themed lectures to...

Dave Charbonneau gave the Fred Kavli Plenary Lecture to open the 2025 AAS 245th meeting

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Dave Charbonneau gave the Fred Kavli Plenary Lecture to open the 2025 AAS 245th meeting. The AAS Vice Presidents name a special invited lecturer to kick off each AAS meeting with a presentation on recent research of great importance. Dave's featured talk...

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Lectures

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The Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Lecture honors one of the great scientists of the 20th century. With her Ph.D. thesis on the abundance of the elements in stars, Payne-Gaposchkin began to invent observational astrophysics. Over the next five decades, her...

Prizes and Awards

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Department Awards Bok Prize Lecture Trumpler Prize Fireman Fellowship (Graduate) Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize Leo Goldberg Prize Peirce Fellowship Eric Keto Prize Center for Astrophysics Lectures Endowed Lectures Bok Prize Lecture pH Lecture Lecar Prize...

Watch Avi Loeb's lecture on "Black Holes" at the 100 Years Celebration of Einstein's General Theory of Relativity

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Below is the video link just posted for Avi Loeb's lecture on " Black Holes " at the 100 Years Celebration of Einstein's General Theory of Relativity , held at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton on November 6, 2015,

Bekki Dawson (Phd 2013 Harvard) gives Bok Prize Lecture

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Rebekah Dawson received her PhD from Harvard in 2013 and is now Assistant Professor at Penn State, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics. She delivered this year's Bok Prize Lecture, named after Bart Bok and Priscilla Fairfield Bok, both astronomers...