Events

Open Group Seminar: Jaco de Swart (MIT)

1:30–2:30 pm ERC 401

Jaco de Swart (MIT) “How Dark Matter Came to Matter: a History of Missing Mass,1930-1974”

Apr 23

PhD Thesis Defense: Mandy Chen

3:00–4:00 pm ERC 501

Mandy Chen “Toward a Physical Understanding of the Dynamic Circumgalactic Medium”

Apr 23

KICP Colloquium: Paul Martini (Ohio State University)

3:30–4:30 pm ERC 161

Paul Martini (Ohio State University) “Cosmology with Large Spectroscopic Surveys”

Apr 24

Open Group Seminar: Scott Carlsten (Princeton University)

3:30–4:30 pm ERC 545

Scott Carlsten (Princeton University) “Dwarf Satellite Systems beyond the Milky Way with the ELVES Survey”

Apr 25

PhD Thesis Defense: Zhuowen (Ben) Zhang

10:00–11:00 am ERC 501

Zhuowen (Ben) Zhang “Forward modeling of cluster systematics for cluster cosmology”

Apr 26

KICP seminar: Annika Peter (Ohio State University)

11:00 am–12:00 pm ERC 401

Annika Peter (Ohio State University) “Big news about dark matter from the centers of small galaxies”

Apr 26

Compton Lecture: Christoph Welling (KICP)

11:00 am–12:00 pm KPTC 106

Christoph Welling (KICP) “How Astrophysicists See the Universe”

Apr 27

A&A Colloquium: Alyson Brooks (Rutgers University)

3:30–4:30 pm ERC 161

Alyson Brooks (Rutgers University) “Darkness on the Edge of Town: Interpreting Newly Discovered Dwarf Galaxies”

May 1

KICP Colloquium: Jo Dunkley (Princeton University)

3:30–4:30 pm ERC 161

Jo Dunkley (Princeton University) “Looking for cracks in the cosmological model”

May 8

KICP seminar: Dongwoo Chung (University of Toronto)

11:00 am–12:00 pm ERC 401

Dongwoo Chung (University of Toronto) “Millimetre-wave line-intensity mapping: multiple lines of enquiry into astrophysics and cosmology”

May 9

A&A Colloquium: Irina Zhuravleva (University of Chicago)

3:30–4:30 pm ERC 161

Irina Zhuravleva (University of Chicago)

May 15

KICP Colloquium: Katerina Chatziioannou (Caltech)

3:30–4:30 pm ERC 161

Katerina Chatziioannou (Caltech)

May 22

Brinson Lecture 2023-2024: Gerry Gilmore (University of Cambridge)

6:00–7:30 pm Venue SIX10, 610 South Michigan Avenue Chicago, IL 60605

Gerard Gilmore (University of Cambridge)

May 28

A&A Colloquium: Gerry Gilmore and Gudrun Tausch-Pebody

3:30–4:30 pm

Gerry Gilmore and Gudrun Tausch-Pebody “Early light-bending tests of General Relativity”

May 29

KICP-20 "Cosmology past, present, and future"

Through June 8, 2024 ERC 161 and Atrium

A conference to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the KICP

Jun 6

2024-ARENA | 10th International Workshop on Acoustic and Radio EeV Neutrino Detection Activities

Through June 14, 2024 ERC 161

The 10th International Workshop on Acoustic and Radio EeV Neutrino Detection Activities (ARENA 2024) will be held at the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics (KICP) of the University of Chicago June 11-14, 2024.

Jun 11

DGSCS 2024: "Dwarf Galaxies, Star Clusters, and Streams in the LSST Era" Workshop

Through July 11, 2024

This workshop aims to convene a small group of researchers interested in dwarf galaxies, star clusters, and streams.

Jul 8

TeVPA-2024: International conference "TeV Particle Astrophysics"

Through August 30, 2024 ERC 161

TeV Particle Astrophysics (TeVPA) is an international conference that covers the most recent advances in the field of Particle Astrophysics. This year, TeVPA returns to Chicago for the first time since its inaugural edition in 2005 (at Fermilab).

Aug 26