Past Events

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.

Jun 2

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”

May 30

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.

May 30

PhD Thesis Defense: Rebecca Diesing

1:00–2:00 pm ERC 401

Rebecca Diesing “Unraveling Particle Acceleration and the Nonthermal Universe”

May 26

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

May 26

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

May 26

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

May 26

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

May 25

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

May 25

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”

May 25