Capturing The Stars: The Untold History Of Women At Yerkes Observatory
1:00–2:00 pm Virtual
Join the UChicago Space Network in conversation with science historian Kris Palmieri and astrophysicist Richard G. Kron about the ways the University is spotlighting women astronomers who contributed to groundbreaking stargazing at the famed Yerkes Observatory during the early twentieth century.
KICP seminar: Thomas Edwards (Johns Hopkins)
11:00 am–12:00 pm ERC 401
Thomas Edwards (Johns Hopkins) “Enhancing Gravitational Wave Science with Differentiable Models and New Physics Searches”
Open Group Seminar: Yuan-Sen Ting (Australian National University)
3:30–4:30 pm ERC 401
Yuan-Sen Ting (Australian National University) “Can Artificial Intelligence Generate Meaningful Scientific Hypotheses?”
Open Group Seminar: Xinyi Chen (Yale University)
10:00–11:00 am ERC 401
Xinyi Chen (Yale University) “Probing primordial non-Gaussianity by reconstructing the initial conditions with machine learning”