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)
Sep 15	Mary Putman	Nathan Schweer
Sep 22	Max Isi	Amanda Lue (Shy)	Miranda McCarthy (CUNY)	Asad Hussain (CCA)
Sep 29	Amanda Quirk	Ayanna Mann
Oct 6	Lorenzo Sironi
Oct 13	Kathryn Johnston	Natasha A (UCB)
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
Nov 17	Jane Huang	Elias Oakes (UConn)
Nov 24	Frits Paerels
Dec 1	David Schiminovich
Dec 8	Marcel Agüeros
Dec 15