Roman Virtual Lecture Series

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope monthly virtual lecture series is run jointly by JPL, IPAC, Goddard, and STScI. These talks are open to the entire astronomy community and cover science, engineering, and technology related to the Roman mission. All are welcome and encouraged to attend. Talks are ~20 minutes with ~10 minutes for Q/A, and are scheduled for the 3rd Thursday of each month from 1-1:30 pm Pacific / 4-4:30 pm Eastern.

Please contact Rob Zellem at JPL (Robert.T.Zellem@jpl.nasa.gov) and/or Marie Ygouf (marie.ygouf@jpl.nasa.gov) if you are interested in giving a talk on work related to the Roman Space Telescope.

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Upcoming

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Apr. 18, 2024

Zachary Claytor

(U. Florida)

Stellar Spin and Spots with Roman

Abs

Past

Date	Speaker (Affiliation)	Title (Recording)	Abstract
Mar. 21, 2024	Andreea Petric (STScl)	Obscured AGN – Hiding High Growth at the Cosmic Noon	Abs
Feb. 15, 2024	John Wu (STScl)	Astronomy Re-envisioned: Investigating the Physics of Galaxy Evolution with Machine Learning	Abs
Jan. 18, 2024	Ramya Manjunath Anche (U. Arizona)	Simulation of High-contrast Polarimetric Observations of Debris Disks with the Roman Coronagraph Instrument	Abs
Nov. 16, 2023	Robby Wilson (Goddard)	Transits in the Roman galactic EXoplanet Survey (TRExS): Potential Breakthroughs in Exoplanet Demographics Enabled by Roman's Unprecedented Survey Depth and Volume	Abs
Oct. 19, 2023	Benne Holwerda (University of Louisville)	The Detection of M-L-T-Y dwarfs belonging to our Milky Way Disks and Stellar Halo with the Roman Space Telescope	Abs
Sep. 21, 2023	David Content (Goddard)	History of the Roman observatory design, and current build status	Abs
May 18, 2023	Caleb Baker (JPL)	Roman Coronagraph Deformable Mirror Overview	Abs
Apr. 20, 2023	Sean Terry (Berkeley)	Measuring the Masses of Exoplanets and Compact Objects with the Roman Galactic Bulge Time Domain Survey	Abs
Feb. 16, 2023	Evan Bray (GSFC)	Spectral Characterization of the Roman Space Telescope Grism and Prism Slitless Spectrometers	Abs
Jan. 19, 2023	Casey Lam (Berkeley)	Uncovering the Galactic Black Hole Population with Gravitational Microlensing	Abs
Nov. 17, 2022	Jeff Cooke (Swinburne)	The Keck Wide-Field Imager: Optical partner to Roman	Abs
Oct. 20, 2022	Etienne Bachelet (Institut Astrophysique de Paris)	Promises and challenges of the Roman microlensing survey	Abs
Sep. 15, 2022	Belinda Shreckengost (JPL)	Mechanical and Thermal Design of the Coronagraph Instrument	Abs
Aug. 18, 2022	Margaret Dominguez (GSFC)	Alignment, metrology techniques and testing of the Roman Space Telescope WFI Grism	Abs
Jul. 21, 2022	Aaron Yung (GSFC)	Paving the way for Roman with Theory and Simulations – an early assessment for future wide-field, high-z surveys	Abs
May 19, 2022	Sukanya Chakrabarti (RIT)	Towards precision measurements of dark matter	Abs
Apr 21, 2022	Isak Wold (GSFC)	Lyman-alpha at Cosmic Dawn with a Simulated Roman Grism Deep Field	Abs
Mar 17, 2022	Vandana Desai (Caltech/IPAC)	Public Access to Multi-Survey Simulated Data Sets	Abs
Feb 17, 2022	Andre P. Hearin (Argonne National Laboratory)	Synthetic Cosmological Data for Multi-Survey Analysis in the 2020s	Abs
Jan 20, 2022	Michael Troxel (Duke University)	A Joint Roman-Rubin Simulated Imaging Survey	Abs
Dec. 09, 2021	Charlotte Olsen (Rutgers)	Star Formation Histories from Spectral Energy Distributions and Color Magnitude Diagrams Show Synchronized Star Formation in Local Volume Dwarf Galaxies	Abs
Oct. 21, 2021	Samson Johnson (OSU)	Science Enabled by the Roman Galactic Exoplanet Survey	Abs
Sep. 16, 2021	Nicole Drakos (UCSC)	Using the DREaM Synthetic Galaxy Catalog to Study the Science Returns of a Roman Ultra Deep Field	Abs
Aug. 19, 2021	D'Arcy Kenworthy (JHU), David Jones (UCSC)	SALT3: An Improved Type Ia Supernova Model for Measuring Cosmic Distances	Abs
Jul. 15, 2021	Kailash Sahu (STScI)	Detecting Stellar-Mass Black Holes through Astrometric Microlensing and Transits	Abs
Jun. 17, 2021	Ewan Douglas (U. Arizona - Steward), Bertrand Mennesson (JPL)	Prospects for polarimetry, exozodiacal, and debris disk observations with the Roman Space Telescope coronagraph instrument	Abs
May 20, 2021	Dan Scolnic (Duke)	Image Simulations of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope for Studies of the Roman Supernova Survey	Abs
Apr. 15, 2021	Russell Ryan (STScI)	Galactic Archaeology with Brown Dwarfs with the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope	Abs
Mar. 18, 2021	Kris Pardo (JPL)	Detecting Gravitational Waves with the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope	Abs
Feb. 18, 2021	Zhongxu Zhai (Caltech/IPAC)	Probing cosmology with the weak lensing effect of Type Ia Supernovae: A new perspective	Abs
Jan. 21, 2021	Aparna Bhattacharya (U. Maryland)	Mass Measurement of Cold Exoplanets with Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope	Abs
Dec. 17, 2020	Prabal Saxena (GSFC)	Simulating Roman/Coronagraph Instrument Observations of the reflected light exoplanet spectra of the bright, nearby exoplanet ups And d	Abs
Nov. 19, 2020	Dominic Benford (NASA HQ)	Is Nancy Grace Roman the Most Influential Person You’ve Never Heard Of?	Abs
Oct. 15, 2020	Marie Ygouf (JPL)	Post-Processing of Roman Space Telescope Coronagraph Instrument Data	Abs
Sep. 17, 2020	Harry Ferguson (STScI)	Sort of Near-Field Cosmology with Semi-Resolved Dwarf Galaxies	Abs
Aug. 20, 2020	Scott Gaudi (OSU)	Ancillary Science with the WFIRST Microlensing Survey	Abs
Jul. 16, 2020	Julien Girard (STScI)	Roman Exoplanet Imaging Data Challenge	Abs
Jun. 18, 2020	Nathan Bush (JPL)	Electron Multiplying CCD (EMCCDs) as detectors for the WFIRST Coronagraph instrument	Abs
May 21, 2020	Sebastiano Calchi Novati (IPAC)	The WFIRST Microlensing Survey for Exoplanets	Abs
Apr. 16, 2020	Raja Guhathakurta (UCSC)	Three WFIRST Science Cases for Local Volume Galaxies: Milky Way Halo Star Proper Motions, the Edge of M31's Stellar Halo, and Globular Clusters in the Virgo Cluster	Abs
Mar. 19, 2020	James Rhoades (GSFC)	The WFIRST Wide Field Instrument: Overview of Capabilities and Science Drivers	Abs
Feb. 20, 2020	Vanessa Bailey (JPL)	Coronagraph Instrument	Abs

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Roman Virtual Lecture Series

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