2024
PhD Thesis Defense: Elyssa Brooks
3:00–5:00 pm ERC 501
Elyssa Brooks “Developments of Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors”
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.
Open Group Seminar: Nick Choustikov (Oxford University)
2:00–3:00 pm ERC 419
Nick Choustikov (Oxford University) “Inferring the ionizing photon contributions of high-redshift galaxies to reionization”
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.
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
Open Group Seminar: Doyeon Kim (Columbia University)
4:00–5:00 pm ERC 517
Doyeon (Avery) Kim (Columbia University)
Open Group Seminar: Santi Agüí Salcedo (University of Cambridge)
12:30–1:30 pm ERC 401
Santi Agüí Salcedo (University of Cambridge) “The Cosmological Tree Theorem”
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”
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)
Honors Thesis Presentations: Riley Rosener, Rohan Gupta, Kyla Mullaney, Jonah Medoff, Laine Hirn, and Audrey Scott
1:30–4:30 pm ERC 401
Riley Rosener “On the Detectability of Emission from Exoplanet Outflows”;
Rohan Gupta “Wavelength Calibration of the Extreme Precision Radial Velocity Spectrograph MAROON-X using a Laser Frequency Comb and a Fabry-Perot etalon”;
Kyla Mullaney “Simulating the Evolution of Sub-Neptune Planets Including Both Photo-evaporation and Magma-Atmosphere Hydrogen Exchange”;
Jonah Medoff “Searching for Dwarf Galaxy Satellites of NGC 55 with the DELVE-DEEP Survey”;
Laine Hirn “Characterizing the Turbulent Circumgalactic Gas Using Integral Field Spectroscopy”;
Audrey Scott “Characterization of Optical Coupling for polarization-sensitive mm-Wave Line Intensity Mapping Spectrometers”