Past Events

2025

KICP Seminar - James Cheshire

11:00 am–12:00 pm ERC 501

James Cheshire (Caltech) will give the KICP seminar on 10/9 at 11am in ERC 501 and via Zoom.

Oct 9

KICP Colloquium - Rachel Rosen

3:30–5:00 pm ERC 161

Rachel Rosen (Carnegie Mellon) will give the KICP colloquium on 10/8 at 3:30pm in ERC 161 and via Zoom.

Oct 8

KICP Seminar - Sunao Sugiyama

11:00 am–12:00 pm ERC 161

Sunao Sugiyama (UPenn) will give the KICP seminar on 10/2 at 11am in ERC 401 and via Zoom.

Oct 2

A&A Colloquium - Andre Izidoro

3:30–5:00 pm ERC 161

Andre Izidoro (Rice University) will give the A&A colloquium on 10/1 at 3:30pm in ERC 161 and via Zoom.

Oct 1

Open SkAI 2025 Conference

Through September 5, 2025 SkAI Hub, 875 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago

We are happy to announce the inaugural conference, “Open SkAI 2025,” of the NSF-Simons AI Institute for the Sky (SkAI Institute), which will take place from Tuesday, September 2 through Friday, September 5, 2025. The Open SkAI Conference is an annual four-day event to enhance and stimulate new Astro-AI research directions. This conference will facilitate new collaborative activities between the AI industry, astronomers, and AI researchers, and stimulate new directions in community software and Astro-AI research.

Sep 2

Fundamental Physics Across the Gravitational-Wave Spectrum Workshop

Through August 22, 2025 ERC 401

The goal of the workshop is to foster interdisciplinary ideas and new collaborations by bringing together experts from across gravitational wave subfields to discuss the state of the field and what we can learn using gravitational waves as a tool, now and in the coming years. Topics will include primordial backgrounds, compact binaries, pulsar timing arrays, and next generation experiments.

Registration required.

Aug 20

Mm Universe 2025

Through June 27, 2025 ERC 161

Mm Universe 2025 payment portals.

Jun 23

Honors Thesis Presentation: Emory Murff

11:30 am–12:00 pm ERC 401

The Abundance and Character of Massive Strong Lensing Clusters at z~1, Observed and Simulated

May 30

Honors Thesis Presentation: Daniel Babnigg

11:00–11:30 am ERC 401

Processing Pipeline for IFU Observations of Extreme Strongly Lensed Galaxies

May 30

Honors Thesis Presentation: Sarah Grannis

10:30–11:00 am ERC 401

Thirteen Strongly Lensed, Highly Star-forming Galaxies in the Distant Cosmos

May 30