Pizza Lunch Fall 2026

Pizza Lunch is our the weekly gathering of the Astronomy Department to make announcements, learn about visitors for the week, and talk to each other about the science we're interested in. The talks are chalkboard-style for ~10 mins, and the majority of the speakers should be local faculty, research scientists, postdocs, grads and undergrads. Please contact the organizer for a particular day in the table below if you are interested in speaking, or if you want to suggest someone else as a speaker.

Pizza will be served at 11:45 and discussion will start with announcements at 12:05.

Date	Organizer	Speaker1	Speaker2	Speaker3
Sep 8	Kishalay	Nazar Budaiev (University of Florida)	Rajorshi Bhattacharjee	Philippe Yao
Sep 15	Mary Putman	Nathan Schweer	Andrew Sullivan	Deb Pathak (OSU)
Sep 22	Max Isi	Amanda Lue	Miranda McCarthy (CUNY)	Asad Hussain (CCA)
Sep 29	Amanda Quirk	Ayanna Mann	Jared Goldberg	Jea Adams Redai (Harvard)
Oct 6	Lorenzo Sironi	Max Lee	Stan deLaurentiis	Yael Alush
Oct 13	David Schiminovich	Natasha A (UCB)	Dacheng Xu	Emmanuel Greenfield (Imperial College London)
Oct 20		1st & 2nd	year grad	projects
Oct 27		1st & 2nd	year grad	projects
Nov 3	Election Day	no speaker	no speaker	no speaker
Nov 10	David Helfand	Austen Gabrielpillai (2nd yr project)
Nov 17	Jane Huang	Elias Oakes (UConn)	Bayron Portilla Revelo
Nov 24	Frits Paerels
Dec 1	Kathryn Johnston	Emma Tasso (CUNY)
Dec 8	Marcel Agüeros
Dec 15	Amanda Quirk	Astronomy trivia	Astronomy trivia	Astronomy trivia