2023
KICP Cosmology Lunch (Funch)
12:00–1:00 pm ERC 501
Please join us for an informal lunch discussion, led by KICP fellows, of recent news and papers in cosmology. Topics range from experiment and observations to theory in all areas of KICP science.
Astro Tuesday: Dhayaa Anbajagane and Rich Kron
12:00–1:00 pm ERC 501
Dhayaa Anbajagane “Painting baryons onto halos: accessing small-scale astrophysics from large-scale datasets” and Rich Kron “Time-domain Science from Early Photographs”
KICP workshop: "Next-generation gamma-ray searches for dark matter"
Through June 1, 2023 KPTC 106
The goal of the meeting is to discuss the enticing opportunities offered by gamma-ray experiments and how they can best be utilized to discover or constrain dark matter.
PhD Thesis Defense: Rebecca Diesing
1:00–2:00 pm ERC 401
Rebecca Diesing “Unraveling Particle Acceleration and the Nonthermal Universe”
Honors Thesis Presentation - Marcos Tamargo-Arizmendi
11:00–11:30 am ERC 401
Marcos Tamargo-Arizmendi “Constraining Dark Matter Halo Truncation In Cluster Galaxies After Infall Through Strong Lensing Perturbations”
Advisor: Mike Gladders
Honors Thesis Presentation - Grace Wagner
10:30–11:00 am ERC 401
Grace Wagner “JWST NIRCam Calibrations for TEMPLATES-SGAS1723 & SGAS1226 with Extant HST & Spitzer Imaging and Bayesian SED Fitting”
Advisor: Mike Gladders
Honors Thesis Presentation - Nathalie Chicoine
10:00–10:30 am ERC 401
Nathalie Chicoine “Weak Gravitational Lensing of Low-Surface-Brightness Galaxies in DES Y3 Catalog”
Advisors: Chihway Chang and Judit Prat
Honors Thesis Presentation - Simon Mork
4:00–4:30 pm ERC 401
Simon Mork “Harnessing Strong Gravitational Lensing to Constrain Mass and Light in Galaxy Clusters”
Advisor: Mike Gladders
Honors Thesis Presentation - Aidan Cloonan
3:30–4:00 pm ERC 401
Aidan Cloonan “Insights into Co-evolution of Quasars and Their Host Galaxies from Wide-Separation Lensed Quasars”
Advisor: Mike Gladders
KICP seminar: Colin Burke (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
12:00–1:00 pm ERC 401
Colin Burke (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) “Optical variability of intermediate-mass black holes and implications for their identification”