CIERA Colloquium: Anna-Christina Eilers: "Supermassive Black Holes across Cosmic History"
When:
Tuesday, February 10, 2026
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CT
Where: 1800 Sherman Avenue, 7th floor, 7-600, Evanston, IL 60201 map it
Contact:
CIERA Astrophysics
(847) 491-8646
CIERA@northwestern.edu
Group: CIERA - CIERA Colloquia
Category: Lectures & Meetings
Description:
The discovery of billion-solar-mass black holes within the first Gigayear of cosmic history presents an intriguing puzzle: how did supermassive black holes (SMBHs) grow so rapidly in such a short amount of cosmic time? In this talk, I will present recent advances in probing the earliest phases of SMBH growth using recent observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). I will show the first measurements of the clustering strength and duty cycle of luminous high-redshift quasars, discuss new insights from the population of "Little Red Dots", highlight time-domain observations that reveal the structure of early quasar accretion disks, and show results from deep spectroscopy of galaxies lying behind a luminous quasar, which allow us to tomographically reconstruct the quasar’s radiative history and ionized bubbles during the Epoch of Reionization.
Speaker: Anna-Christina Eilers, MIT
Host: Claude-André Faucher-Giguére
When:
Tuesday, February 17, 2026
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CT
Where: 1800 Sherman Avenue, 7th floor, 7-600, Evanston, IL 60201 map it
Contact:
CIERA Astrophysics
(847) 491-8646
CIERA@northwestern.edu
Group: CIERA - CIERA Colloquia
Category: Lectures & Meetings
Description:
TBA
Speaker: Rana Ezzedine, University of Florida
Host: Allison Strom
When:
Tuesday, February 24, 2026
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CT
Where: 1800 Sherman Avenue, 7th floor, 7-600, Evanston, IL 60201 map it
Contact:
CIERA Astrophysics
(847) 491-8646
CIERA@northwestern.edu
Group: CIERA - CIERA Colloquia
Category: Lectures & Meetings
Description:
TBA
Speaker: Kristen McQuinn, Space Telescope Science Institute
Host: Allison Strom
When:
Tuesday, March 3, 2026
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CT
Where: 1800 Sherman Avenue, 7th floor, 7-600, Evanston, IL 60201 map it
Contact:
CIERA Astrophysics
(847) 491-8646
CIERA@northwestern.edu
Group: CIERA - CIERA Colloquia
Category: Lectures & Meetings
Description:
TBA
Speaker: Eugene Chiang, University of California, Berkley
Host: TBA
When:
Tuesday, March 10, 2026
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CT
Where: 1800 Sherman Avenue, 7th floor, 7-600, Evanston, IL 60201 map it
Contact:
CIERA Astrophysics
(847) 491-8646
CIERA@northwestern.edu
Group: CIERA - CIERA Colloquia
Category: Lectures & Meetings
Description:
TBA
Speaker: Jon Miller, University of Michigan
Host: Fred Rasio