Origins Seminar

The Origins Seminar series aims to bring together ISM, star and planet formation people, exoplanets experts, planetary scientists and astrobiologists including topics from molecular clouds through star and planet formation to exoplanets detection and characterization and astrobiology.

The seminar series is organized by Serena Kim (SO), Allison Towner (SO), Griselda Arroyo-Chavez (SO), Zarah Brown (LPL), Dingshan Deng (LPL), and Shuo Kong (SO) from Steward Observatory(SO)/Dept. of Astronomy and Dept. of Planetary Sciences (LPL) at the University of Arizona. The Origins Seminar series is partly supported by the Alien Earths NASA Astrobiology team.

During regular semesters, talks are generally from 12pm – 1:00pm (MST) on Mondays. 12PM Arizona Time (MST) = 12pm PDT = 3pm EDT = 7pm UTC. If you want to receive weekly updates and advertisements for talks, please subscribe to the mailing list (click this link).  If you are interested in presenting your work during one of the open slots (see below), feel free to contactthe organizers: serena00 at arizona.edu, towner at arizona.edu, zbrown at lpl.arizona.edu, dingshandeng at arizona.edu, shuokong at arizona.edu.

The  Origins Seminar meeting is given in Hybrid format (in-person and via zoom). The Zoom information is sent via email, and the Origins seminar talks are recorded. The talk videos can be viewed from the Origins youtube channel.  Please subscribe to the mailing list to receive announcement emails about the Origins seminar talks.  

Visit the Origins Seminars YouTube Channel to watch past talks!

Origins Seminar