In support of its projects and the research community, IPAC sponsors and organizes talks, meetings, workshops, and conferences to facilitate community planning for future facilities; the exchange of scientific and technical knowledge; and the development of new ideas.

Upcoming Conferences

• Spirit of Lyot 6
  

  2/2 - 2/6/2026 • Caltech, Pasadena, CA

• RAPID Response: Hot-wiring the Next Generation of Time-Domain Science
  

  3/23 - 3/27/2026 • Hameetman Auditorium, Caltech

• Roman 2026
  

  7/14 - 7/17/2026 • Pasadena, CA

Past Conferences

• Infrared Spectroscopy from Space: New Frontiers from Exoplanets to the Early Universe
  

  10/6 - 10/8/2025
  Pasadena, CA

• GISS 2025
  

  8/21 - 8/22/2025
  Pasadena, CA

• PRIMA and the Future of Far-Infrared Science
  

  5/19 - 5/21/2025
  Caltech-IPAC

• Know Thy Star, Know Thy Planet 2 Conference
  

  2/3 - 2/7/2025
  Ramo Hall on the Caltech Campus

• Roman Coronagraph Instrument Test Results Info Session
  

  8/26 - 8/27/2024
  Caltech/IPAC Pasadena CA

• Challenging Theory with Roman: From Planet Formation to Cosmology
  

  7/9 - 7/12/2024
  Caltech campus and online

• Kavli-IAU Workshop on Global Coordination
  

  3/26 - 3/28/2024
  Hameetman Auditorium, Caltech, Pasadena, CA

• Surveying the Milky Way: The Universe in Our Own Backyard
  

  10/23 - 10/27/2023
  Pasadena, CA

• US Euclid Consortium
  

  5/1 - 5/3/2023
  Caltech, Keith Spalding Building, 4th floor

• EPRV 5
  

  3/27 - 3/30/2023
  Hilton Santa Barbara Beachfront Resort

• First UVEX Community Workshop: Synergies and New Opportunities
  

  3/13 - 3/15/2023
  Hameetman Auditorium, Caltech

• PRIMA Community Workshop
  

  3/22 - 3/22/2022
  Virtual

• Exploring the Transient Universe with the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
  

  2/8 - 2/10/2022
  Online

• Celebrating the Legacy of the Spitzer Space Telescope
  

  2/11 - 2/13/2020
  Caltech

• TMT Science Forum 2019
  

  11/4 - 11/6/2019
  Xiamen, China

• Science in Our Own Backyard
  

  6/18 - 6/20/2019
  Caltech's Hameetman Auditorium

• Collaboration Meeting 2019
  

  2/5 - 2/8/2019
  UNLV Barrick Museum

• TMT Science Forum 2018
  

  12/10 - 12/12/2018
  Pasadena, CA

• AstroData2020s
  

  12/4 - 12/7/2018
  Pasadena, CA

• AstroViz 2018
  

  6/13 - 6/15/2018
  Pasadena, CA

• TMT Science Forum 2017
  

  11/7 - 11/9/2017
  

• Making the Case 2017
  

  4/11 - 4/13/2017
  Pasadena, California, The United States

• WFIRST Stanford Meeting 11
  

  3/23 - 3/24/2017
  

• WFIRST Stanford Meeting 10
  

  12/7 - 12/7/2016
  Keith Spalding Bldg, Room 410, Caltech

• Euclid Photometric Redshift and Weak Lensing Working Groups
  

  11/28 - 12/3/2016
  Conference Location

• NuSTAR Science Meeting 2016
  

  11/15 - 11/17/2016
  Conference Location

• Enabling Cosmological Resonances Between WFIRST and LSST
  

  9/13 - 9/15/2016
  KISS Center

• WFIRST Formulation Science Working Group Meeting #2
  

  6/13 - 6/15/2016
  Arcadia Embassy Suites

• TMT Science Forum
  

  5/24 - 5/26/2016
  

• General Astrophysics with WFIRST: Archival and Guest Observer Science
  

  2/29 - 3/3/2016
  

• Thirty Meter Telescope Science Forum
  

  6/23 - 6/25/2015
  

• Far IR Surveyor Workshop
  

  6/3 - 6/5/2015
  

• Wide-field InfraRed Surveys: Science and Techniques
  

  11/17 - 11/20/2014
  

• Thirty Meter Telescope Science Forum
  

  7/17 - 7/19/2014
  

• Thirty Meter Telescope Science Forum
  

  7/22 - 7/23/2013