Past Events

2024

KICP Colloquium: Kai Schmitz (University of Münster)

3:30–4:30 pm ERC 161

Kai Schmitz (University of Münster) “New Physics at the Pulsar Timing Array Frontier”

Mar 27

2024-QUANT: Quantum Universe Workshop

Through March 28, 2024 ERC 401

This will be a small, focused, and hands-on workshop on quantum aspects of de Sitter space from March 26-28 at the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics (KICP) at the University of Chicago in Chicago.

Mar 26

KICP seminar: Gonzalo Herrera Moreno (Virginia Tech)

11:00 am–12:00 pm ERC 401

Gonzalo Herrera Moreno (Virginia Tech) “Boosted dark matter and attenuated cosmic rays around black holes”

Mar 21

A&A Colloquium: Charlie Conroy (Harvard University)

3:30–4:30 pm ERC 161

Charlie Conroy (Harvard University) “Assembling our Galaxy”

Mar 20

Astro Tuesday: Philipp Windischhofer (UChicago) and Kim Berghaus (Caltech)

12:00–1:00 pm ERC 501

Philipp Windischhofer (UChicago) “Information Engines—When Computers meet Carnot” and Kim Berghaus (Caltech)

Mar 19

PhD Thesis Defense: Wei Quan

2:00–3:00 pm ERC 401

Wei Quan “ANALYSIS OF COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND TEMPERATURE AND E-MODE POLARIZATION ANISOTROPY WITH 2019 AND 2020 DATA FROM THE SOUTH POLE TELESCOPE”

Mar 8

KICP seminar: Abhishek Maniyar (Stanford University)

11:00 am–12:00 pm ERC 401

Abhishek Maniyar (Stanford University) “First detection of the patchy screening of the CMB photons”

Mar 7

KICP Colloquium: Paul Steinhardt (Princeton University)

3:30–4:30 pm ERC 161

Paul Steinhardt (Princeton University) “Cosmology reconsidered”

Mar 6

Astro Tuesday: Huangyu Xiao

12:00–1:00 pm ERC 501

Huangyu Xiao “Detecting Dark Matter Substructures on Small Scales with Fast Radio Bursts”

Mar 5

Astronomy Open House, 2024

8:30 am–8:30 pm ERC 5th Floor

Mar 1