Welcome to the Fall 2025 Astrobiology Colloquium Series! Non-local speakers will be remote but regardless of in-person or over zoom, PAB C520 will be open to watch as a community. Colloquiums are Tuesdays at 3:00pm.
UWAB hosts a biannual colloquium series every spring and fall, featuring speakers from both UW and other institutions presenting on a wide range of astrobiology related topics. Here, you can find the schedule for upcoming colloquia and seminars, as well as an archive of abstracts and live recordings of past events.
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| Date | Speaker | Title of Talk |
|---|---|---|
| 10/7/2025 | Baptiste Journaux (UW) | |
| 10/14/2025 | Rotation Talks: Kaitlin Harrison and Gabby Suissa | Kaitlin: Modeling Microbial Ecosystems in Icy Brines Gabby: Constraining the Radius-Albedo Degeneracy for Directly Imaged Exoplanets |
| 10/21/2025 | Amber Young (NASA HQ) (CANCELLED due to government shutdown) | |
| 10/28/2025 | Joachim Moeyens (UW, B612 Institute) | The Discovery of Potentially Hazardous Asteroids in the Era of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory |
| 11/4/2025 | Kaushal Gianchandani (MIT) | |
| 11/11/2025 | Veterans Day -- No seminar | |
| 11/18/2025 | Cecilia Bitz (UW), In person but will be in a different room (NOT PAB C520) | |
| 11/25/2025 | Donald Glaser (NASA GISS) | Climate vs. Geology: The Habitability of Arid Exoplanets |
| 12/2/2025 | Bruce Jakosky (Colorado) | Planetary habitability and the search for life elsewhere |
Live Streaming Presentations:
Beginning in Spring 2020 we have resumed live streaming of the UW Astrobiology Colloquium presentations! To access the live stream each week in the Fall 2025 series, use this link:
https://washington.zoom.us/j/92304420111
Please be aware that the talks in our colloquium series are scientific presentations geared towards the Astrobiology Community. Members of public are welcome to join us, but we will not ask our speakers to go out of their way to make their presentations accessible, or easy to understand, to the non-scientific community.
Archived Presentations:
Missed a video in the last seminar series? See our archive for abstracts and video recordings of past talks from 2003 – 2018, and our YouTube channel for all recorded presentations since then!